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Premium Content Subscriber only Gatton could soon be home to another Containers For Change Refund Point, if the community gets behind the company s expressions of interest call. Container Exchange is calling for expressions of interest from individuals, community groups and businesses who are interested in operating a Containers for Change refund point. The not-for-profit organisation delivers the scheme across Queensland, and the new service point would cater to all Lockyer Valley residents. Currently, Anuha Services operates the scheme from both the Laidley and Gatton refuse sites. CEO Ken Noye recognised the success of the scheme to date, and the importance of building upon its growth by continuing to provide Queenslanders with greater accessibility to the scheme. ....
The Containers for Change scheme exchanges 10 cents for every eligible beverage container returned to a registered Container Refund Point (CRP) in Queensland. This has translated into $4 million for Gympie area residents, charities, community groups and businesses since the scheme began in November 2018. Ken Noye is the chief executive of Containers Exchange, the not for profit organisation that administers the scheme. He said the elimination of 40 million containers from the Gympie environment was a worthy milestone, but also a recycling effort everyone needed to continue to build on. “It is an impressive amount of containers that have been returned in Gympie and those efforts have now injected $4 million into the community,” said Mr Noye. ....
Eco Barge Clean Seas founder Libby Edge said Containers for Change had helped reduce the number of containers seen in Whitsunday waters. “I founded Eco Barge Clean Seas to go out there and clean our beaches and protect our marine life from the threat of marine debris,” she said. “We have now removed over 206,000kg of debris from our islands. “Thanks to the Containers for Change scheme, we have seen a dramatic reduction in empty beverage containers actually going out to sea. That’s helping us protect our marine life. “When you see a vulnerable sea turtle come into our care and it is so sick and so touch and go, to be able to release that beautiful turtle back into the ocean – well that’s our job done right.” ....
Premium Content Subscriber only MORE than 150 million containers have been returned in Ipswich through the Containers for Change scheme in a little over two years. That’s $15 million back in the pockets of local residents, community groups and businesses. The scheme launched at the end of 2018, with three billion containers accepted across Queensland since then. Ipswich in particular has played a significant part and its participation has grown markedly in the past two years. After 59 million containers were returned in Ipswich in 2019, that figure rose to 85 million last year. The scheme is administered by not-for-profit organisation Containers Exchange. Chief executive Ken Noye said the scheme had resulted in a 54 per cent drop in beverage containers littering the environment. ....