'Game-changer': NSW scheme collects 2 billion containers in 19 months

the latest tally for the Return and Earn schemeAbout four days' worth of returned bottles and cans at the Tomra Cleanaway recycling site at Eastern Creek in Sydney's west.The 10-cent collection scheme took a year to reach 1 billion containers and just seven months to add another. Instead of bringing in 1.2-1.3 billion units in 2019 alone, the figure is likely to be closer to 1.8 billion containers, according to David Clancy, general manager for solid waste at Cleanaway.

"It's great because it's reducing litter out of the streets and it’s also going back into the economy to produce new goods,” Mr Kean said. "It's the single biggest litter reduction initiative in the state's history." Matt Kean, the Energy and Environment Minister, stands in front of bales of aluminium cans - about 10,000 in each - that will be recycled.All up, the scheme has generated about 500 jobs in the recycling industry - although more could be generated if the aluminium cans were recycled in the country rather than exported to Asia and Europe.

This is a corporate environmental issue not consumers!!! Supermarkets sold us a convinient lie, so we would consume not reuse... Tax corporate wastage, and pass tax credits to environmental inventive and initiatives!!!

Great collection but now what happens to all of that plastic? Recycling not yet up to dealing with this quantity?

How many of those would have been collected anyway in kerbside collection schemes etc.?

Just ban plastic for god's sake, it will save so much money

and then export the recycles to other countries.

They can always enforce no plastic be sold. from 1 January 2020.

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