Exciting! What I want to know is how clean do the containers need to be? Like should we rinse them?
They just need to be empty. You’d probably be wasting water by rinsing them.
And you can’t crush them.
That means that you can only carry a limited quantity to the recycling depot at a time (unless you have a very large truck). It would probably cost more in fuel and resources to transport than you would get paid for them.
I really hope this is not just another case of greenwashing, but I have a feeling that this program was designed to fail.
I’m kicking myself for not saving the cans from when I used to drink soft drink every day!
I did some (very) rough calculations on how much money you could have made. If you could have filled an entire box trailer with a cage on it with cans, you would have made around $274. For an awful lot of effort collecting, storing and transporting them.
(assumptions are that the trailer holds 2 cubic meters, and that the dead space around each can is equal to its volume)
yah, but me biking up with a collection of household stuff once a week is turning my bin night into pocket money
It’s definitely worth returning them. But collecting them on mass is a bit more marginal - it will be worth it for some people, but it’s definitely not at the level that anyone should be kicking themselves for not keeping things in the past.
Even if you did keep them in the past, useless endeavour. Only ones the past month or so onwards would be acceptes anyway
For those who want to know the most important information, which was way out of the article;
https://www.returnit.com.au/vic/recycling-locations-return-it-vic/
I presume it’ll be only recent containers will be accepted, not older ones.
Officially only me ones, unfortunately they have no way of knowing if the cans are new or old. The scanners aren’t that smart. So knock yourself out!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Victorians can now turn what previously went into their household recycling bins into cash with the state’s container deposit scheme officially starting.
Tracey Cheshire was the first recycler through the door at the new Wodonga exchange this morning, dropping off two bags full of cans and bottles from her workplace social club.
Processing sites will have staffed high-speed counting machines ready for community members to deposit their bottles and cans.
“It’s a really simple process, which allows every container made from aluminium, plastic, glass, or high-density polyethylene (HDPE) that comes through this scheme to be recycled and turned back into another product,” he said.
Alternatively, recyclers can sign up for a Scheme ID to put their money straight into a bank account or donate it to charities and community groups.
Victorian Environment Minister Steve Dimopolous said Victoria had learnt lessons from other states in how best to run the scheme.
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I wonder if they’re using the (Dutch?) Tomra recycling machines that are in use in Europe or rolled their own solution
‘Please touch on your Myki before and after using the recycling machine’…
…“Ffffffffffffffuuuuu-”
Fingers crossed they didn’t roll out their own solution is what I’m trying to say.
Anyone else thinks 10 cents is way too low of an incentive especially considering how expensive everything is these days? I feel like the real tipping point is somewhere between 30 to 40 cents if you want to really incentivise recycling.
