WHAT ARE EMPTY DRINK CONTAINERS GOOD FOR?

Aluminum cans They can be recycled and back on the shelf within six weeks, taking 95 per cent less energy to make from recycled aluminum than from brand new material.

Plastic bottles Become new bottles and buckets using about a third less energy than manufacturing new plastic.

Glass Made into materials such as fibreglass insulation and sandblasting material.

Non-aluminium cans Usually steel, they can be made into hundreds of products such as rebar and car parts.

Drink boxes/cartons Polycoat containers are hydra-pulped and become tissue paper and cardboard boxes.

Refillable glass bottles Beer bottles are reused an average of 15 times. At the end of the bottle’s life cycle, it is crushed and recycled into new glass bottles.