Return-It Blog

• The positive environmental impact from recycling your beverage containers

  You’ve probably heard of Return-It, the extended producer responsibility program run by Encorp Pacific that manages the collection...
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• Meet the grade 7 class that gave back in a big way

  Here at Return-It, we just love hearing about good news stories, especially when it’s about a group of Grade 7 students...
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• How one young man went out of his way to make his community a better place

  Every once in a while, you hear a story about someone going out of their way to make their community a better place and you can’t...
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• The Return-It Collection Network

  Encorp’s collection network consists of 172 privately owned Return-It depots. Over the past several years, this network has...
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• B.C. Program Celebrates 10 Years of Electronics Recycling

  This year marks the 10th anniversary of responsibly recycling end-of- life electronics through the province’s government-approved...
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• PNE and Return-It Partnership

  Over the past 15 years, research conducted by Encorp has consistently shown that “heavy discarders” of beverage containers...
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• Millions of small acts

  The success of our system for recycling beverage containers proves that millions of small acts can add up to a big win for the environment....
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• Help us get habitual trashers

  WHO’S NOT RECYCLING? In order to better understand how we can reach our target of 100% container recovery, we’ve conducted...
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• Follow the money

  The deposit system for cans, bottles and drink boxes seems simple, doesn't it?  Yet, like many things, it's more complex than...
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• The principles for product stewardship

  Producer-user responsibility – Costs are covered by consumers and producers of products and not downloaded to local governments...
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• The Return-It collection network is a key to our success

  BC has one of the highest beverage container recycling rates in North America – last year almost 80 percent of all beverage...
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• A new life for old electronics

  Progress is being made towards reducing and in some cases eliminating waste when electronic products approach the end of their lives....
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