These major supermarkets are refusing to join Cash for Containers by not providing space within their carparks to allow for consumer refunds. Just when we thought the fight was finally over!
Last year NSW Premier Mike Baird promised a ‘World’s Best Practice’ Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) featuring at least 800 reverse vending machines across the state to make redemption quick and convenient. But because of Coles and Woolworths opposition, the proposed scheme designed by the NSW EPA is way too vague - rather than deploying collection points in every major shopping centre across the state, the EPA has not come up with a concrete plan and the 800 promised RVMs number has disappeared.
