It’s estimated that more than 160 million drink containers litter our streets, beaches, waterways, and parks every year. Help clean up the bottles, cans, and cartons in your neighbourhood and raise money for wildlife. WIRES volunteers work on the front line every day rescuing wildlife who are found choking on, ingesting, or entangled in rubbish.
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WIRES wildlife rescue is currently listed on the Return and Earn app.
Anyone returning an eligible drink container at their local Return and Earn collection point will receive a 10-cent refund. You can choose to donate some of your refund(s) to WIRES, thus supporting our work saving sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife.
You can now donate your eligible bottles and cans directly to us from ANY machines or depots located near you using the Return and Earn app.
Simply: · Open the app (http://onelink.to/returnandearn)
· Look us up under “Charities”
· Press “Set as Payout” to set up donation as your active payout method
· Scan the app and start returning containers at your local Return and Earn collection point
· Press "TRANSFER" on the RVM screen when finished
Pop in your bottles or cans & start raising funds for Australia’s sick, injured and orphaned wildlife!
The overall kerbside recycling rate for beverage containers in NSW prior to the introduction of Return and Earn in NSW was 33 per cent. We’ve seen a 73% reduction in drink container litter since pre-scheme levels
As people start to see the real impact the scheme is having on litter reduction and landfill, it is expected that more and more people will embrace it from an environmental perspective, in addition to the 10-cent refund opportunity.
A CLEANER STREAM
You may not know that the design of the Return and Earn scheme in NSW ensures high quality recyclable material with low levels of contamination are captured for recycling.
Return and Earn uses an internationally acclaimed collection and sorting system and waste management logistics to ensure a continual stream of high quality recyclables.
What’s more, most of the plastic, glass and aluminum containers collected are re-processed in NSW and Australia, with the remaining balance sold into the export market.
The containers returned via Return and Earn are much cleaner and less contaminated, compared to those generally returned through other recycling channels, this leads to the material recovered being of a higher quality for on-sale and reuse.
Many of the drink containers recovered end up as bottles and cans again in a closed loop recycling process.
Most 150ml to three litre beverage containers are eligible for a 10 cent refund provided they are made from glass, plastic, aluminium, steel or liquid paperboard.
Containers should be empty, uncrushed, unbroken, and have the original label intact.
