Rewards for 679,000 Containers 😲
Published on 22 July 2025
It has been 11 weeks since the Recycle Rewards Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) opened in Wivenhoe, and you have already recycled over 679,000 containers!!
For every drink container recycled, you are helping to save water, energy and carbon emissions by reducing the need for raw materials to produce new drink containers.
So what impact does recycling 679,000 containers look like??
Water savings of 1.59 Olympic size swimming pools
Carbon emissions avoided to the equivalent to 49.34 cars off the road
Energy savings equivalent to 9.27 years of household energy use
$67,900.00 dollars earnt!
Whether you’re recycling 50 or 50,000 drink containers through Return and Earn, your recycling is having an impact. You can calculate your very own impact by using the
impact calculator.
What a fantastic result! Let's keep making Burnie beautiful
