Moree residents warned against rummaging through kerbside bins for containers for Return and Earn

While Moree Plains Shire Council is thrilled to see Moree residents help reduce litter through the scheme, there has been reported instances of people going through residents' kerbside wheelie bins in search of refundable containers.

Council's waste manager Tahra Sayers said council reminds 'bin rummagers' to be respectful of other residents' privacy and private property.

"It is encouraging that so many people are participating in the scheme but it is 'technically' wrong for people to go through others' bins, especially if they enter another person's yard - it's trespassing," she said in a statement.

"Many people perhaps don't realise that the contents of the kerbside bin are the legal possession of the property owner when on private land.

"When the bins are placed on the kerbside for collection, they are council property."

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Mrs Sayers also warned of the dangers of rummaging through kerbside waste.

"You don't know what has been placed in the kerbside rubbish," she said.

Return and Earn has been a great success with 1.8 billion containers collected at return points across NSW and eligible container litter volume reduced by 57 per cent.

Moree has contributed to this success with 8,423,837 million containers returned at the reverse vending machine in the Woolworths carpark since December 2017.

For more information about the Return and Earn Scheme in Moree visit, https://returnandearn.org.au/return_point/woolworths-moree/