Plastic Containers

Bring in your soft drink, fruit juice and fruit drink containers. Make sure you remove the lids, though. It’s important to keep deposit containers separate to the non-deposit containers for easy payment.

Aluminium Cans

All aluminium cans are recyclable. , but Scouts recycling will only pay a deposit for cans purchased in SA with the appropriate label.

According to Planet Ark, in Australia almost two out of three cans is recycled. Aluminum can be recycled over and over again and recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than the production of a can using new materials. This means every time a can is made from recycled materials, the energy saved is enough to power a TV for three hours.

Please do NOT crush the cans as they will not be able to be processed through our automatic machines.

Glass Bottles

Glass can be recycled indefinitely and all glass is recyclable. To make processing much quicker and save you time, keep the deposit bottles separate from the rest and remove lids from the bottles. Labels don’t need to be removed and you don’t need to wash the jars, just make sure they are empty.

Flavoured Milk Cartons and Containers

Milk cartons involve a large content of renewable materials. Because it is made up of recyclable materials it should be kept out of landfill as much as possible.

Drain your milk containers and make sure the deposit containers are separate from the others, so we can pay you quickly.