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3.Return and Earn recycling champions recognised at Keep Australia Beautiful Awards

The Keep Australia Beautiful Litter Prevention Award Category is supported by Return and Earn, the NSW container deposit scheme. The winners of the aw...

4.Ryde school teacher encourages students to help clean up Australia

At Ryde Secondary College, students are engaged in a range of sustainability activities, partly thanks to teacher Christopher Yates.

5.Kellyville Rural Fire Service finds a new way to fundraise with container returns

A volunteer fire fighter for more than three decades, David Mynard has seen a lot of changes over time to NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) fundraising ini...

6.High school leader shares his passion for recycling and social justice

Seventeen year-old Christian Maait’s passion for sustainability has seen the Year 12 student spearhead a container recycling initiative at Marian Ca...

7.Golf and recycling in Nambucca Heads brings community together

Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club has come back from the brink, thanks to volunteers who formed a dedicated team to secure much needed funds through con...

8.Recycling, composting and gardening: primary school kids see environmental benefits firsthand

Teacher and passionate environmentalist Rose Everingham is leading the next generation of recycling heroes at Regentville Public School and has introd...

9.Petra Richter, Jindabyne local reducing landfill

Jindabyne local Petra Richter started picking up litter from the side of the road during her regular runs, which began under COVID-19 restrictions.

10.Glenmore Park High School – Returning, Earning and Learning

The Return and Earn school’s category of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Sustainable Cities Awards went to Glenmore Park High School fundraising fo...

11.Zero Heroes recycle and reduce litter in Eurobodalla

Towns on the NSW south coast are becoming more sustainable thanks to the Eurobodalla Shire Council and Return and Earn.

12.Sharing the dignity through recycling

Wendy Pluckrose has supported Share the Dignity for years, so when she discovered Return and Earn it seemed an obvious way to raise some extra funds....

13.Normanhurst Boys High School making a sustainable impact

Normanhurst Boys High School, located in Sydney’s northwest, have embraced NSW container deposit scheme Return and Earn. The school is committed to ...

14.Whip-smart siblings embrace recycling

Christie Jervis from Conargo is the proud mother of three champion whip crackers - Brooke, 17, Jesse, 15 and Beau, 9 - who all compete at a state leve...

15.Return and Earn makes Year 12 formal fabulous at Beverley Park School

Return and Earn is helping make the end-of-year formal even more exciting for Year 12 students at Beverley Park School.

16.Mick’s-Crates a hit for recyclers on the Northern Beaches

NSW Police Officer Mick De Ceglie has been putting his artistic skills to use for the last few years, making 'Mick's-Crates' milk crate chairs for caf...

17.Cobargo Folk Festival brings the community together for a sustainable celebration

At this year's folk festival in Cobargo, organisers adopted a zero landfill approach, and managed to keep the amount of waste going to landfill for a ...

18.Behind the scenes: What does it take to keep Return and Earn running?

Behind the scenes of Return and Earn hundreds of people are hard at work to keep the container deposit scheme running smoothly.

20.Picking up litter all good clean fun for Sanitarium staff

Sanitarium staff on the NSW Central Coast recently had some good clean fun at the Return and Earn Business Clean Up Day.

21.Zig Zag students recycle for their buddies

Zig Zag Public School in Lithgow has expanded its recycling programs by integrating the Return and Earn container deposit scheme and putting the money...

22.Caddie Creek students learn – and teach – sustainability

When Return and Earn was launched in NSW, teachers Jenny Henson and Carol Van De Maele at Caddie Creek Public School in Blacktown saw the NSW containe...

23.Gerringong RVM helps Lions Club to raise funds for locals in need

Lions Club of Gerringong works with local business and clubs to collect and return their empties for a 10c refund apiece, so they can put the money ba...

24.A nod to the small gestures that inspire whole communities

The NSW Young Environmental Citizen of the Year award joins the NSW Environmental Citizen of the Year award, as part of the NSW Australia Day Council...

25.Winners of Keep Australia Beautiful Return and Earn Litter Prevention Awards

The Keep Australia Beautiful NSW 2020 Sustainable Communities Tidy Towns Awards recognise, celebrate and reward the sustainability achievements of ...

26.Accessibility

Prior to visiting a reverse vending machine location, also known as an RVM, make sure you have separated glass bottles from other containers you wish ...

27.Students learn about the environment and develop life skills with Return and Earn

At Budawang School in Ulladulla students have been recycling with Return and Earn to raise money while learning about sustainability and developing a ...

28.Resourceful Rotarians recycle nearly 100,000 containers in Cowra

Cowra Rotary Club is on its way to raising $10,000 through container to support local charities and community programs.

29.Vinnies Unanderra depot collects 30 million containers

The Vinnies Unanderra Return and Earn depot has reached the incredible milestone of 30 million container returns in November this year.

30.Return and Earn a win-win for students at Tweed Heads Public School

At Tweed Heads Public School teacher Marilyn Coverdale leads an environmental committee which has implemented recycling through Return and Earn.

31.Childcare centre teaching tiny tots to recycle

At Bountiful Early Childhood Education Centre in Old Toongabbie, Director Evgenia Ousta works hard to ensure the children - aged from 18 months to 5 y...

32.NSW recyclers donate over $70,000 to drought-stricken farmers

New South Wales residents have rallied behind drought-stricken farmers by donating more than $70,000 through Return and Earn refunds to drought-relief...

33.Gerringong Lions celebrate 1 million drink containers recycled

The Gerringong Lions Club has recycled 1 million drink containers through Return and Earn, raising $100,000 for the community in the process. The club...

34.Special Education Unit helps make Bourke High School more sustainable

At Bourke High School, students in Support Class 2 are working to make their school more sustainable with a bit of help from teacher Haylee-Jane Smith...

36.St Augustine’s SRC plans ways to engage their peers in container returns

At St Augustine’s College in Brookvale the Student Representative Council (SRC) is leading the way in container recycling.

37.A billion reasons to celebrate

Return and Earn achieves one billion containers returned through the scheme in the first year. This is a huge achievement for NSW who chose to Return...

39.Container returns are helping Can Assist support rural cancer patients

For several years, Can Assist branches across NSW have used Return and Earn to fundraise for people in rural and regional areas who are affected by ca...