Who owns the bottles and cans in your bin?

Glen Humphries
Updated March 12 2018 - 3:20pm, first published 3:19pm
Bin business: When the recycling bin goes out to kerb for collection, those bottles and cans inside are legally owned by someone - so technically, they are not free for the taking. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
Bin business: When the recycling bin goes out to kerb for collection, those bottles and cans inside are legally owned by someone - so technically, they are not free for the taking. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

Despite what some people may think, bottles and cans in kerbside recycling bins are not free for the taking.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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