Regardless of whether the main tag should be changed or not, on second thought,
I think the following tags should be used:
brand= To indicate how the service is branded, for example, a recycling/bottle
return company or the name of the super market where the machine is located
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_Vending_Machine_-_Fresh_Plus_-_Pod_šiancom_-_Kosice.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_Vending_Machine_-_Fresh_Plus_-_Pod_%C5%A1iancom_-_Kosice.jpg>
Located inside and branded as Fresh (a supermarket), the
receipt can only be exchanged in Fresh.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_vending_machine_for_the_NSW_Container_Deposit_Scheme_at_the_Kooringal_Mall_2.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_vending_machine_for_the_NSW_Container_Deposit_Scheme_at_the_Kooringal_Mall_2.jpg>
Located outside and branded as Return and Earn (a government
scheme), retail vouchers, PayPal an e-vouchers are available.
operator= To indicate who maintains/services the machine, possibly the same as
the brand, maybe hard to find out.
breweries= To indicate the brands of containers that the machine accepts
> On 5 Jan 2020, at 21:43, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> On 2020-01-05 21:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 5. Jan 2020, at 16:46, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> The term vending machine is misrepresenting these machines and should not
>>> be used.
>>>
>>> They are frequently called "reverse vending" machines - instead of the
>>> customer trading money for goods, they trade goods for money.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_vending_machine
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_vending_machine>
>>
>> clearly „reverse vending machine" is a completely different term/concept
>> than „vending machine", although it plays with the idea of using the same
>> words and change the meaning by adding „reverse" to it
>>
> It is also a clearly related concept. I hereby propose:
> amenity=reverse_vending_machine
> reverse_vending=bottle_return
> Problem solved.
>
>
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