nice video I work for Tomra cleaning sites fixing machines its popular it's hard to keep up With the demand, also there are more and more sites poping up I speak to so many customers they love it one guy I met made $6000 in 4 months , one kid has saved $400 for his go kart a lady I know from a sitepaid of her 2000 dollar holiday, there is lot of nay sayers but from what I've seen people love it
I'm glad more and more sites are popping up that's great. aw wow that's awesome news !!! its good people are recycling and earning some money doing it. I've noticed around the river and and intown less and less rubbish too so its always good. Yer some people don't have nice things to say about the recycling machine but i'm sure they actually haven't given it a go and tried it out.
The annoying thing is having people rummaging through the recline bin on the nature strip at 12 o'clock on a work night with their torch hats on. I'll have to make a sign to tell people not to bother looking in my bin because I return my recycling for cash myself. Sheesh
@@OFFGRIDGEORGE Nice educational #Video George. *THAT* Whiskey bottle should have been rinsed out before putting in the machine , and bottle caps should be loosened on the bottles. 👨🦱🛍🥫 👨🎓🕵️♂️🚘🏪
As someone who has to stay away from poker machines lest I get carried away, I found that putting the bottles in the machine kinda gave me a "pokie" feeling, but in a good way, because I'm recycling, and I get a little win at the end
In norway you have 2 options, either recieve a paper you give to the people in the counter, or you can gamble it in the red cross lottery. each ticket cost 0,5kr and you can win up to 1 million
My partner and 7yo son do this every 3 months. The most they have gotten back is $950 in the one load . The other returns they get averages around $800
@@silentdeath7847 Well good for you guys most most of us in North America know you are world leaders when it comes to recycling Keep up the good work much respect
@@FSEVENMAN most of my childhood i thought machines like this and the recycling system was the same everywhere 😂 I was really suprised when i found out it's just normal here. Makes me think about the videos filmed in India, rivers overflowing whit plastic bottles to the point it's just a river of empty bottles. It is going to cost to get a system like this up, but deffinently worth it. Could provide so manny new work places aswell.
More cost effective if you collect a lot, bring them along with you in a car when you drive to run errands , buy groceries , work or meet someone. The money probably will help pay for the car fuel.
Here in Norway i can go one run around my place of tuition and get anywhere from 10-30+ containers. Rinse em out, load em up and off to the Tomras. I have quite a lot of knowledge about how the machines work from RU-vid and deciphering error receipts- which i have a heap of. I also get all the household’s containers, a neighbor gives me her containers and i loot reject piles for anything salvageable. Occasionally other people give me their containers too.
Finland, unfortunately our youth is so afluent they will make sure to trash whatever bottles they leave behind. Theres a stigma of bottle gathering being something only the hobos and grandmas do.
Even in one of ten USA states where there is a per can instead of cents per pound redemption system some folks jjust do not care to get the 5 (6 states, CA CRV is for those less than 24 ounce) or 10 cents back (two states plus CA CRV for 24+ ounces) per applicable labeled container. As long as someone is collecting/scrapping/canning said redeemable containers even if its a person living on the streets and not on drugs the system is working. As long as nothing recycable is winding up in the landfill or ocean.
Glad to see other countries adopting this system! We've had it for over thirty years here in Norway, and it's something everyone takes for granted and do regularly! We don't have the paypal option here yet (as far as I know) so I'm excited to see if that becomes an option here as well. By the way, Tomra is the company who operates the return machines here as well.
Drivitt That's really good ! Sucks NSW AUSTRALIA has taken so long to get on board. Is it a popular ? It's sorta getting mixed feeling here from reading my comments and taking to people.
It is as big a part of culture/society as recycling is. Everyone does it, though we have a much easier time returning them, as any place that sells bottled drinks are required to take them back and give you the money in return.
In the USA ten states nine of whicch I understand and one I live in also run by TOMRA in most part for machine supply ad service, have this per can instead of the per pound as most states still go by or applicable containers, water and juice containers are redeemable in just a few states but most folks do use the recycling bin collection system that garbage companies offer now as single stream collection that gets sorted at a centralized MRF center.
@@skhamisa Not that I know of, but you can chose to use the money you collect to try to win in the Red Cross lottery. Which can win you more money. And if you don't win, the money goes to the Red Cross.
In Finland pretty much all supermarkets have had one for as long as I can remember (at least 20 years). It's not that difficult, write to your policymakers to make it work. For businesses, there's lot's of environmentally sound money to be made here!
i think thats a smart idea having the pay pal account be the ability of your recycling bottles.Instead of you having to get cash.I wish america and my state new york would do this kind of amazing thing.Here in america in new york we only get .5 cents per bottle.But it does add up i recycle alot of water bottles.get about 17 to 20 bucks every time i do it in a month.so yeah the pay pal thing is a great great idea.
$20 divided by 5 cents = 400 bottles, a bottle of water in new york is how much? say its only $2, that means you spend about $800 a month on water to drink haha
a bottle of water is 5 cent for a return .and most of the time a case of 40 bottles is 5 bucks for the whole pack plus 2 buck for the return.But u get that back when u bring them back.and i dont spend 800 per month on water .thats nuts.and most of the time i dont buy water ever week a 40 back can last me 2 weeks at best.because i always dont drink water from the bottle sometimes its from the sink.so it depends.
In Germany we have these machines from the exact same company and you will find them in every supermarket. Germany has it's own deposit system in which you get 25ct for every plastic bottle with a certain indication sign above the barcode. Only these bottles get accepted and bottles from other countries therefore not. Also you only have the opportunity to get a voucher for the supermarket you threw the bottle in. You have to pay that deposit when you buy the bottle tho.
Recycling was my way to earn money as a kid growing up. I remember going out with my cousin to the camping grounds and in town and pic up bottles and cans al night at midsummers eve. When were done we hade about 200kr (20 usd) each! Remember this was in the 80s. I guess its a cultural thing as I live in Sweden and it’s rather common in the Nordic countries.
It's been in South Australia since 1974...the first state to have a deposit, we can crush them here (but I don't, too much extra work) pick them up off the road if they've been flattened by cars & still get the 10c deposit & the deposit is on everything, e.g. - milk bottles, little fruit boxes, cans, bottles, EVERY DRINK CONTAINER!!! - We don't have machines, we have drive in depots, where about 4 blokes count, or you can do your own count (once they get to know you) It's a hell of a lot easier than your machines, here you get your cash in your hand, it's gone Australia wide, except for Victoria & Tasmania, Cheers, keep recycling, Cheers from Adelaide 😂
This is what we need in the U.S because what our tomra machines do is you cant return bottles of any brand in the machine. in connecticut walmart branded items and some brands but not other supermarket brands are excepted then you go to a different store such as Stop and shop or what prob is known in england is tesco the machine excepts cocacola pepsi etc and stop and shop branded bottles but not walmart /Sams choice.. glad to see that this type of machine does any branded .very awesome EDIT: nevermind they do have in the US in select places i seen in new york they have one its on youtube video of it sorry .
In the US one problem is it’s not State wide implementation often. Så every supermarket is a closed system. The Aus/NSW system is government scheme state wide. therefore doesn’t matter where bottles are bought and where it’s returned.
It's a good idea, pity you can't just throw the entire contents in in one go. One suggestion is that if a Cola costs 50c, sell it for $1 and get a 50c refund on the can/plastic when recycled.
LOL we have these even at gas stations and every stores you walk into in finland but i don't know why they have them in finland so much but in other countries not so much.
@@tuijapiiroinen8613 In Germany you can find them in the stations also, in the places where people can have bottles, and bottles have riuse symbol, so then there are other ways for them, so for these things there are a lot of things to change
Did you know that you should rinse bottles before recycling? The recycling plant may rinse the bottles for you, but it saves time and money if you rinse it. Recyclable items that are contaminated with food or drink, can no longer be recycled. Contaminants can also ruin the WHOLE batch of recycling.
Liquid paperboard? That's a new one. The TOMRA machines are very smart to recognize eligible bottles. I haven't found how to cheat them. But at €0.10 most people don't bother to return. Consider that a drink costs maybe €2.00. The bottles are collected by the homeless and cleaning crews. I saw someone pull up in a van with a big bag of muddy bottles from garbage bins. So from the goverments perspective everything works great, 85% returned.
It seems so weird to me that this is such a novel idea to so many people that you would actually make a RU-vid video out of it! Michigan has had a $0.10 USD deposit on all cans and bottles used for carbonated beverages for as long as I can remember. I’m nearly 36, and the earliest I remember returning pop bottles was in 1990 before I started kindergarten. It’s just been a normal part of life for everyone here for decades. It is weird that our state’s deposit law only covers containers that are used for carbonated beverages, but I don’t think that the current facilities could handle the sheer volume of customers and bottles and cans if they expanded the law to cover all beverage containers. Michigan had the best deposit law for many years (in the US), but over the last couple decades a few other states surpassed us in deposit amount and covered types of containers.
In Norway we've had deposit on cans bottles since 1902, and the return machines since 1972. The company, Tomra, that invented the return machine and has 70% of the world market is actually Norwegian.
A return and earn van comes to pick cans up get cash or put on a credit pre paid mastercard? Would be nice, in suggestion only, i have limited questions, thats it for now, back to metime now? Quiet time period maybe comments april-august 2023+-2024+ that's all?
Great job, but you should be leaving the caps off all the plastic bottles. It means the bottles can actually be compressed and crushed, and thus take up less space in the trucks, meaning more efficient trips from there to the recyclers.
When I was a kid in Western Sydney in the early 1960s the corner shops (and most probably the supermarkets ??) used to refund you a penny or two (I can’t remember the exact sum) for returning empty glass coca-cola bottles. I used to know all the surrounding places where people used to illegally dump their rubbish and along the sides of the roads where bottles were thrown out the car windows. I collected them and bought whatever I wanted with the cash, well … the coins, I got from the refunds. Does anybody remember this? Or am I the last survivor from that era ?? My suburb was Blacktown NSW.
I used to live in Houghton, Michigan and they had these machine back in 1998. Now live in Brisbane Australia and they only just started with these machines yesterday, 01/11/2018
Just remember that they put the price up for every bottle / can etc in NSW by 10 cents (many places even more). not everybody returns all of them. So far 'earn and return' has paid out something like 120 million dollars. but the government has taken 400+ million. where does the rest end up?
Honestly I have no idea mate. Maybe I can try contacting tomora and ask some questions because I think everyone is pretty interested about where's the money going and if prices are increasing on anything in a can and bottle.
I’m about to do my first return tomorrow, when returning bottles do they have to have the 10c mark to be eligible or do they only need the recycling symbol. Great video mate!
In the advertisement they still had HDPE lids on the PET plastic bottles, this is a big no no as the lids are obviously a different material, and they pressurize the bottle making it a pain in the ass to recycle
i am saving up for a phone at the moment and i am in need of money, me and my family are saving all the bottles with the little 10c symbol and recycling them!
What about return and earn trucks comeing to your house for people immobilized and for disability rather take your cans to return and earn? With kind regards Brandon Howarth? Single use Plastic 1st nov 2022 tuesday what about plastic will they still be recycling them?
And home delivery pick up, drop off return and earn cans rvm mobile vans reverse vending machine vans, thought only as a idea not actual thing? Maybe comments later if i get to it april-august 2023+-or 2024? Thats all laters?
Here in Oregon we recently went to 10 cents a can refund. But here in Tillamook the 2 stores here have closed their can returns at 6:00 in the evening. And if you go anytime in the daytime you will have 5 or 6 people standing in line to return their bottles. Also if they have 4 machines, 2 of them are not working. I think a new rule should be added. If you sell pop, beer or water, say from 8:00 to 10:00 at night, all of the return machines should be working and open for those hours too. Or if you shut the machines off at 6:00 in the evening, then you should not be able to sell pop, beer or water bottles after 6:00. We all know then they would make sure to have all the machines working and open for as long as the store is open. But right now it would be easier to just go down at night and dump all these cans in their parking lots, and then they would half to pick them up. But right now it is a joke to return your cans even at 10 cents a can in Oregon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Victor Ramos Even 5c is alright. It all adds up :) . I noticed there is no cans or bottles scattered around in the park or on the ground. So people or kids must be cleaning up and getting the money for them.
I found this video very helpful and interesting but I don't understand well one thing of the refund system: Costumer has to pay a surplus (e.g: more or less 0.15€) for a water bottle and when he/she returns the bottle, the supermarket give back this surplus (so, the costumer no earn) or the cost for a bottle remain the same and the costumer earn money when returns back the bottle? Thank you very much!
It’s not a scheme to earn money, you don’t get more cash you are given back the surplus charge you paid for the bottle in store. It’s a scheme called deposit return system look it up on RU-vid many good explanations here.
In Manitoba, Canada they charge us .03 cents levey on cans or bottles,and want it for free,our Manitoba Government is not fair...other provinces give money for there bottles..
How can a overseas company be the only contractor for all the CDS in NSW unbelievable what was the government thinking should have gone to small business operations
A refund voucher can be spent or exchanged for cash at participating retailers. These vary depending on where the machine is located but generally include Woolworths, Coles and IGA. Hope that helps 😊
MrSozcumber I think the idea is to reduce litter in public places. So things that would be consumed at home are not eligible. Wine and spirits bottles, 2 litre milk bottles, plain milk cartons, cordial and large juice bottles.
