Minister for the Hunter, Yasmin Catley said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe Newcastle region including Newcastle, Maitland and Lake Macquarie are enthusiastic users of Return and Earn and have collectively returned 904.4 million drink containers through local return points since the scheme began in December 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to see how Newcastle continues to contribute to Return and Earn\u2019s success, and we thank everyone for their ongoing participation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member for Maitland Jenny Aitchison said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe Maitland community are enthusiastic recyclers, having returned more than 145.7 million containers through local return points since the scheme first launched in NSW six years ago, and 3.9 million in the last month alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot only can locals make Return and Earn a part of their recycling routine and keep eligible drink bottles, cans and cartons out of landfill, but in this cost-of-living crisis these extra funds come in very handy for many including local charities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
State Member for Newcastle, Tim Crakanthorp said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cNovocastrians are enthusiastic users of Return and Earn and are very environmentally conscious. Since the scheme began, our community has returned an incredible 317.4 million drink containers through local return points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to see Newcastle continue to contribute to Return and Earn\u2019s success and thank everyone for their ongoing participation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Newcastle community members have shown fantastic support for Return an Earn this summer, collectively helping the State hit a record-breaking year and reach a milestone of 13 billion drink containers recycled through the network since the scheme began. On 23 December 2024 NSW achieved the biggest single day ever with 10.3 million containers returned. Last … Continue reading “Newcastle region helps \u2018Return and Earn\u2019 break record with 13 billion drink containers recycled\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31233,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232\/revisions\/31233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}