Victoria finally introducing can/bottle recycling

[BigWave]

This is great to see
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...iner-deposit-scheme-bottles-and-cans/11993460

 

[golddiggerart]

Good :Y:

 

[goody2shoes]

About time ha :Y:

Goody

 

[limpalot]

Look at the time frame; 2023, May happen.

 

[Manpa]

I dont believe government can continue to preach the green line without introducing can and bottle recycling, it has been a success in SA for over 30 years.

 

[RM Outback]

Think I'll hang onto my recycle bins instead of taking them to the dump got a few spare acers up the back :Y: build a lean to for the empty stubbies :lol:

 

[reynard]

After the next election?

Jim.

 

[Swinging & digging]

An article online last year stated pensioners & unemployed in South Australia where netting up to $2,000 per week collecting cans and bottles.
Thats more than i earn working and much more than what can be made prospecting.

A smart person is going to make a UTube video on bottle and can collecting, happy days for some. :idea:

 

[Feral]

That must of been written by the same person who wrote that road traffic controllers in Qld are earning $120 000 plus a year. That's what I do for a living, I must be getting underpaid big time.

I've seen peeps down on the Narde pulling Council bins out of their cabinets dumping the contents on the ground to get the bottles and cans :awful:

 

[Swinging & digging]

Around 25 years ago a place i worked at one of the other employees put in a contract to empty the kerbside recycle bins, he got outbid by another person.
He used to wake up at 3:30 and go around collecting all the Aluminium cans just to get back at the person that one the contract. :lol: O

 

[sand surfer]

Hang onto them RM,we did ,3 mates and i had been collecting our beer cans from 4 years of fishing and drinking trips or was that drinking and fishing trips, anyway 4 woolpacks of crushed cans =$2,100 we are lucky up here that they take crushed and non crushed cans.We always took them to the scrappy's but the price of aluminium dropped to bugger all, so we kept them waiting for the price to go up our win there loss :lol:

 

[mudgee hunter]

Awoken the other morning at 4am by the sound of some idiot tipping a rubbish bin upside, then another...
Ok, time to put sum trackies on and hand out a hiding...
I see a headlamp... A push bike towing an Ibc on wheels....
WTF!
All the dogs in street going off the rockers... as well as mine...
He was actually tipping each bin out on the footpath, noisy as.
Before I got to him, two other neighbors had. Ha.
Give him credit for making some coin but.

But beleive me, the state government must be making LOT of money out it from unclaimed tipped containers.
I will guess 30% are reclaimed.
That would mean the state government are pocketing 70% of all revenue raised by the 10c deposit paid.

 

[LONEWOLF]

When I take mine in(monthly) I always see Pensioners cashing in... One pay-out I saw was $670... Not bad...

LW.....

 

[Goldtarget]

Awoken the other morning at 4am by the sound of some idiot tipping a rubbish bin upside, then another...
Ok, time to put sum trackies on and hand out a hiding...
I see a headlamp... A push bike towing an Ibc on wheels....
WTF!
All the dogs in street going off the rockers... as well as mine...
He was actually tipping each bin out on the footpath, noisy as.
Before I got to him, two other neighbors had. Ha.
Give him credit for making some coin but.

But beleive me, the state government must be making LOT of money out it from unclaimed tipped containers.
I will guess 30% are reclaimed.
That would mean the state government are pocketing 70% of all revenue raised by the 10c deposit paid.

The stated expected figures for Vic recycling is expected to be the other way round, 30% unclaimed.
Can only assume they based that on current programs?

 

[BigWave]

On my last trip through Qld, I saw two old folk collecting cans from camp-grounds, and gave them mine.
They both said they greatly supplemented their pensions that way.
I'm so glad they can.

 

[limpalot]

Have to make sure the bar code is readable by the machine, or it spits it back out.

 

[LONEWOLF]

No need for Barcodes up here... The Machines can read the item with or with-out Barcodes.... Just No plastic lids.. That's a different type of plastic and is not accepted by 'Cash for Containers' scheme...

LW...

 

[Ded Driver]

The scheme starts here in WA too, on 2nd June this year.
https://dwer.wa.gov.au/cds

 

[condor22]

S.A. has had this since 1977, 43 years ago and they say we are behind the rest of the country, lol. Single use plastic bags for over a decade as well.

I believe that this year legislation will be introduced banning plastic drinking straws. I think things like single use plastic cutlery etc will also get a look.

 

[Martin]

I dont believe government can continue to preach the green line without introducing can and bottle recycling, it has been a success in SA for over 30 years.

Yep, my relatives in SA do it and the money they get back pays for a lunch out etc. Doesn't take them long to have heaps of cans and bottles again.