Return and Earn encouraging Roosters fans to flock together,
cash in their containers and kick a goal for the environment
Tri-colours fans cheering on the Sydney Roosters in the ‘big dance’ against the Canberra Raiders this Sunday are encouraged to get off the pine and help score a golden point for the environment.
This NRL Grand Final Day, thousands of drinks in cans and bottles will be consumed across NSW as eager fans tune in to see if the defending champs can make history as the first back-to-back premiers in the NRL era.
Return and Earn is asking Roosters supporters not to offload their drinks rubbish into the (sin) bin after the final showdown this Sunday. Rather make it a blinder for the environment, the community and yourselves by returning eligible drink containers at your local Return and Earn return point and earn a 10c refund for each can or bottle recycled.
Aluminium cans take 200 to 500 years to break down, and glass can take up to 1 million years. But both are easy to recycle. Once dropped off for recycling, they are processed, melted and used to make new bottles and cans as well as polar fleece, road base and even aeroplane wings!
Most glass and plastic drink bottles and cans are eligible for recycling and it’s easy to get involved. Just collect your eligible used drink containers and drop them off at one of the 641 convenient return points across NSW.
And if you really want to score a try for your community and the environment this weekend, consider donating your refund to a good cause with CareFlight, the RSPCA and Hello Sunday the main donation partners of the scheme.
So don’t chicken out NSW! Get white line fever this Sunday and be a playmaker for the environment.
About the Return and Earn NSW container deposit scheme:
Since launching on 1 December 2017, more than 2.4 billion drink containers have been returned for recycling through the NSW Return and Earn scheme.
