Little Entrepreneurs in the Making

AS of last week the Scone earn and return recycling program has received 611,890 containers and is averaging 9,500 returns a day.

The machine is often full, but is electronically monitored by TOMRA when it nears capacity and is currently being emptied twice a day.

More children recycling: Adele and Iris Flaherty with Amelia Hartmann depositing their cans for pocket money.

Cr Lee Watts said it was great to see so many school children using the recycling.

“It is great that so many people in the community are using the machines and it is teaching our children about recycling,” said Cr Watts.

“There are also school children who are organising to collect recycling from the dam, which is fantastic, they are learning about becoming little entrepreneurs,” she laughed.

“We are seeing a decrease in the recycling going into Council’s general waste which is good to see, but we won’t have the figures on that until the next report,” she said.

“At the moment the machines are often full and there are stories of people coming from other Shires to use the machines, but hopefully as theirs go into operation, there will be more room for local residents to return their bottles and cans,” Lee Watts said.