Make a return
CDS Vic provides a 10 cent refund for every eligible drink container returned. Each bottle, can and carton that you return helps to divert valuable containers from landfill.
There are hundreds of refund points across Victoria, so look out for your local. The network has more than 600 refund points.
Get involved
CDS Vic is proud to partner with Australian Open (AO) 2025 to make recycling a smash hit on and off the court.
CDS Vic is proud to announce its groundbreaking partnership with Tennis Victoria. This exciting initiative aims to reduce waste, promote recycling, and support grassroots tennis communities across the state to raise funds.
AFL Victoria and CDS Vic have teamed up to support local football clubs across the state in raising funds and promoting sustainability. Through this exciting partnership, CDS Vic is now the Official Recycling Partner of AFL Victoria until 2027.
To celebrate the first anniversary of the scheme's launch, CDS Vic launched an interactive installation at Scienceworks to educate young Victorians about recycling.
We’re excited to announce a partnership between Scouts Victoria and CDS Vic, designed to reward Scouts and Scout Groups for their commitment to container recycling.
About us
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Keep an eye (and ear!) out for our advertising campaign called Feel Like a Million Bucks.
Recycling ads are often rather serious and focus on the negative environmental consequences of not recycling. Our new campaign, developed by creative agency TBWA, flips that idea on its head by showing the positive feeling you get from recycling with CDS Vic.
Featuring a brand-new catchy track from Luke McKay and Melbourne rapper, Mkada, the campaign is aimed at encouraging people who have thought about taking part in CDS Vic but haven’t yet done so, to give it a go.
Remember that when you return eligible containers to one of our refund points, you’re not just helping the environment, but you’re also doing a community service by helping to keep your local streets, parks and waterways clear of litter. And you get a refund that you can keep or donate to a cause that you care about. That’s a lot to feel good about!
At the end of the day, we all know that recycling your drink containers through CDS Vic isn’t going to make you millions… but you’ll Feel Like a Million Bucks knowing that you are helping to change the world one drink container at a time!
Advertising concept and creative by TBWA
Media agency: OMG United
Video production by Goodoil
Music: Alright OK UHuh - GIMME GIMME w MKADA
Photography by Photoplay Photography
