A study in Western Canada finds a chance to win $1,000 by recycling a bottle may yield higher returns compared with 10-cent ...

To increase recycling rates, many countries have adopted deposit refund systems, where you pay a small deposit, say 10 cents, when you buy an eligible beverage container and get this deposit back when ...

When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles.

As Massachusetts public health leaders address gambling addiction, one Scandinavian country offers solutions that put more ...

Several thousand lottery players in Norway were mistakenly told they won more money than they actually did due to a ...

Thousands of Norwegian lottery players experienced an emotional rollercoaster after being told they’d won substantial prizes ...

The national lottery operator in Norway apologized after at least 47,000 people who won small amounts were mistakenly told ...

(Gray News) – Thousands of people in Norway thought they had won large lottery prizes, only to be told it was a mistake. In ...

Virtually everyone who plays the lottery does so clinging to the hope they'll be one of the lucky people who end up winning a ...

The incident stemmed from a manual coding error during the conversion of lottery winnings from euros to Norwegian kroner.

Players had made "plans for holidays, buying an apartment or renovating before they realized that the amount was wrong." ...

Norway’s national lottery apologizes after players were mistakenly told that they had won life-changing sums due to coding ...