Town Council says workers recycling bottles under BCRS in viral video were off-duty: 'They may participate like everyone'
Marine Parade-Braddell Town Council has clarified that two of its workers seen returning bottles and cans to a recycling machine did so after work, after a video of the incident sparked online discussion.A video of the incident, shared on Thursday (Oct 29), shows two workers dressed in uniforms bearing the town council's name depositing the containers into a machine under the Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS) in exchange for a refund.A large bag of beverage containers can also be seen beside them. In a Facebook post on Monday (Nov 1), the town council said the containers returned by the workers were either from their own purchases or had been given to them by residents, adding that the workers were participating in the activity outside working hours."Our workers are not permitted to rummage through refuse or recycling bins to retrieve such items. We emphasised this requirement to all conservancy workers since the scheme began," it wrote.