Charities including Food from the Heart and the Singapore Red Cross Society now have through late November to distribute beverage containers that lack the official scheme mark. The national framework attaches a refundable 10-cent deposit to metal and plastic beverage containers holding between 150ml and 3,000ml. While the grace period for commercial businesses has ended, smaller merchants with unsold stock can still apply BCRS stickers, return products to suppliers, export the goods, or coordinate with authorities to donate them to charity. Extensive machine networks have been deployed in residential hubs to ensure public access to container redemption.
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Non-profit groups that previously applied for grace periods have until Nov 30 to clear un…: Non-profit groups that previously applied for grace periods have until Nov 30 to clear unlabelled beverage stock.
Commercial retailers with remaining non-compliant stock must either re-export, sticker, r…: Commercial retailers with remaining non-compliant stock must either re-export, sticker, return, or donate their eligible drink inventory.
Return vending machines are positioned at or near all public housing hawker centres and c…: Return vending machines are positioned at or near all public housing hawker centres and coffeeshops to support widespread consumer adoption.
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This extension past the original Oct 31 deadline applies to non-profit organisations that had previously applied for a grace period to clear non-Beverage Container Return Scheme-labelled stock.
SINGAPORE: A total of 29 non-profit organisations have been granted until Nov 30 to receive and distribute drinks without the Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS) deposit mark, as the one-month grace period for smaller retailers ended on Oct 31.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Tuesday (Nov 10) in response to CNA's queries that the final extension applies to non-profit organisations that had previously applied for a grace period.
Under the BCRS, eligible plastic bottles and metal cans with volumes between 150ml and 3,000ml carry a refundable 10-cent (US$0.08) deposit. These containers carry a deposit mark.
The deposit is refunded when consumers return the empty containers at Return Right reverse vending machines.
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