Who gets the money in your recycling bin?

Glen Humphries
December 1 2017 - 1:00pm
The cans and bottles that end up in your kerbside recycling bin can equal cash for the company that collects it. Picture: Dominic O'Brien
The cans and bottles that end up in your kerbside recycling bin can equal cash for the company that collects it. Picture: Dominic O'Brien

The cans and bottles in your recycling bin are worth money under the government’s new deposit scheme – but someone else will get that.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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