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Following two months of collection, a man has claimed to have received over $1,000 from recycling bottles and cans under the Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS).<\/p>\n
The BCRS was launched in April this year<\/a> and sees consumers paying 10 cents more for each drink with the BCRS label.<\/p>\n This amount is considered a deposit and will be refunded when the beverage container is returned at a Return Right machine.<\/p>\n The 53-year-old shared that he works near Amoy Street Food Centre and would ride his bicycle around the area to collect empty cans and bottles after work, reported 8world on Sunday (Aug 30).<\/p>\n He would also expand his search to the Geylang and Tanjong Pagar area, where many people would go drinking at night and leave their containers next to trash cans.<\/p>\n The man also shared with 8world that he had collected around 100 containers that day and earns an average of $10 to $20 each weekday, with the funds credited directly to his SimplyGo ez-link card.<\/p>\n On weekends when he doesn’t need to work, he goes out to collect containers about thrice each day.<\/p>\n Having collected containers for about two months, he’s managed to receive over $1,000 so far, the man told the Chinese publication.<\/p>\n Aside from the 53-year-old, 8world also spoke with a younger man who shared that he was helping an elderly woman return about 60 containers.<\/p>\n “Because seniors sometimes don’t have PayLah! so I’ll help them return these containers and then give them the amount in cash,” he said.<\/p>\n A separate video uploaded to the Singapore Incidents Facebook page on Aug 31 also shows a young woman with three large garbage bags filled with containers, depositing them into the machine.<\/p>\n “My part time job,” the post also quips.<\/p>\n Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Janil Puthucheary said in Parliament on Aug 5 that around 5.5 million bottles and cans have been recycled via BCRS<\/a> since April.<\/p>\n “We expect this number to grow as more BCRS-labelled products enter the market,” Dr Janil said.<\/p>\n He also stated that most transactions and returns at the Return Right machines have been successful, and that any issues that arise from the transactions are quickly resolved by operators.<\/p>\n [[nid:742481]]<\/p>\n khooyihang@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Following two months of collection, a man has claimed to have received over $1,000 from recycling bottles and cans under the Beverage Container Return Scheme…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Around 5.5 million bottles and cans recycled<\/h2>\n
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