SINGAPORE: Singapore residents who want to find their nearest beverage container return machine can do so from Wednesday (Mar 18) with the launch of a search function on the website for the upcoming new national recycling scheme.
Ahead of the Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS) which is set to launch on Apr 1, residents can find locations of the Return Right machines and their operating hours via returnright.sg. It will also include the locations of about 160 upcoming machines that will be deployed progressively in the coming months.
A total of 1,070 machines will be deployed across Singapore during the launch, with over 90 per cent of Housing and Development Board (HDB) households within a five-minute walk of a machine. The number of return points is expected to double to 2,000 within the first year of implementation.
In addition to housing estates, more than 430 supermarkets and retail outlets will have Return Right machines in their premises, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Beverage Container Return Scheme Limited (BCRS Ltd), the consortium appointed to operate the scheme, said in a joint media factsheet on Wednesday.
The machines will also be deployed at more than 610 Town Council-managed areas, as well as at 17 hawker centres that see high footfall, the agency and operator added.
Within the next few months, all hawker centres will have either an on-site machine or have access to a machine nearby.
