Container Return Scheme
As part of the Seagull Centre 2024 strategic plan we decided to move into a national advocacy role and joined with the Zero Waste Network to establish a Container Return Scheme in Aotearoa.
You may remember, or have heard of a time back in the 1970’s where bottles were collected and exchanged for money, well this is the same idea. A deposit (20cents) is placed on every bottle, can and carton and on return, you get the deposit (20cents) back.
In Aotearoa over TWO BILLION single-use containers are drunk each year and only half are recycled, research shows that a country with a CRS is able to collect and recycle up to 90% of these each year. And over 50 countries already have this is place including Australia.