I thought this initiative was a nice idea (not sure it will work in practice?)
to stop such people needing to dive into red bins in public.. and less cost/effort for council to collect yellow bins
always amazes me the number of people driving quite nice, not old, cars (various German marques) going through peoples household recyc bins of an evening..
There were a few organised crew that came round in the early mornings and emptied peoples 'black' recycling tubs but now they are bins and mixed with other recyclables. If people even throw 10c containers out.
We have 4 bins here, waste, recycling, green garden waste and waste food (compostible) which also takes grass clippings.
We also have a 5th brown bin that I fill with beer cans, then the missus drops them at the recycling depot near her work.
Plenty of recyclers here and also can drop centres. All they do is throw and count
roughly They dont give a shit where they are from and even if they have a 10c money back tag.
In the city, its people down on their luck or homeless that risk syringes poking through bins with their bare hands collecting the money back containers. Some have a bike with a trailer with 2 of those 750mm-1m square mega bags filled with containers they have harvested during the night.
I can say since I've been here, the sight of a can or a bottle littered is rare, even if you do see one, it wont be there a day or two later.
Cant believe other states took so long to get on the wagon.
A mate told me that years ago, they used to come from Melbourne with a van full of crushed cans and cash them in when they got to Adelaide, paying for the fuel there and back.