Recycle Rewards program is now 11 months old

Having opened on 1 May 2025, there are now Recycle Rewards reverse vending machines all over Tasmania, including two in the Huon Valley, one at the car wash Main Road Huonville, and one at Dover at the community workshop. There is also one at the Baretta waste transfer station in Kingborough.

Tasmania has reached a major environmental milestone, with 100 million eligible drink containers returned through Recycle Rewards in just eleven months since the scheme launched in May 2025.

This achievement highlights the strong participation of communities right across the state, and the growing awareness of how everyday actions can make a real difference to the environment.

To celebrate the milestone, Recycle Rewards has launched an impact calculator and dashboard to help Tasmanians understand the environmental benefits of their recycling efforts, including savings in carbon emissions, energy and water.

The impact so far

Recycling 100 million drink containers has already delivered significant environmental benefits, including:

• Carbon emission savings equivalent to taking 7500 cars off the road for a year 

• Energy savings equivalent to powering 1700 homes for a year

• Water savings equivalent to 250 Olympic-sized swimming pools. 

Under Recycle Rewards, Tasmanians can choose to either receive a refund of 10 cents for every container they deposit or donate the proceeds to one of over 120 official Donation Partners.

Circular Economy Huon is now a Recycle Rewards Donation Partner, so it is easy to direct your recycle rewards to CEH, which will make a tremendous difference to our budget, so we can continue to bring talks and presentations to residents of the Huon Valley on the important matters that confront us and to help us become more aware, more resilient and more prepared as a community.

You can donate your eligible drink containers quickly and easily at your local refund point. All refund points have options to donate to your chosen charity or community group.

To find and donate to a specific Donation Partner you can also use the Recycle Rewards app at any time.