Claim: The Beijing Subway allows passengers to pay with plastic bottles.
Is this claim true, and what is the source of this information?
It’s true.
As you can see in the news report below, Beijing customers can insert a plastic bottle and have the redemption value of the bottle placed on their subway card.
Ironically, a paper receipt is printed out at the end of the transaction, which offsets the “green” nature of this idea to some degree.