Discussion | Beverage Container Return Scheme BCRS

[Joseph12]

They took over 2 months to manually refund my 10c.

Took about 1 month to acknowledge my email, then reply after a couple more weeks asking for payment details.

From there almost another full month before the 10c drop into my bank account.

Currently have another 70c refund claim... Card reader sleeping so SimplyGo cannot work, PayLah having some random error, select Print Ticket >> Printer not available???

And the company isn't strictly run by civil service
Ha

Haha

 

[Hello_Kitty]

Yes thats right

You said can't see any littering
Thats untrue
Walking same route days or weeks later I can see the same litter

since u see already, u can pick up to get 10 cents refund

 

[Joseph12]

since u see already, u can pick up to get 10 cents refund

Nah
Firstly those aren't eligible for 10 cents
Or situated so far or difficult
Need to climb somewhere then walk long way to get it. So no

 

[Mecisteus]

It is a great success, now cannot see any cans littering, we have a new group of cleaners very hardworking.

Definitely.

Try making plastic bags more expensive and cash refundable.

You will see less plastic bags disposed in the drains, parks, industrial area, etc

 

[Asphodeli]

S'pore man, 53, spends 2 to 3 hours a day looking for bottles & cans, collects close to S$2,000 in refunds since April​

https://mothership.sg/2026/09/man-collects-2000-bcrs/

Same guy but more details, looks like it?

 

[LWZ]

Cigarett butts

Will be epic if someone takes public transport while lugging a bag full of ciggie butts

 

[LWZ]

S'pore man, 53, spends 2 to 3 hours a day looking for bottles & cans, collects close to S$2,000 in refunds since April​

https://mothership.sg/2026/09/man-collects-2000-bcrs/

Same guy but more details, looks like it?

Saw an uncle doing similar in Eunos but is a pakcik of much bigger build

 

[Hello_Kitty]

S'pore man, 53, spends 2 to 3 hours a day looking for bottles & cans, collects close to S$2,000 in refunds since April​

https://mothership.sg/2026/09/man-collects-2000-bcrs/

Same guy but more details, looks like it?

Oh well, it's mothership article

 

[Amaterasu]

Do you think its misleading, pushing for a certain narrative or basically gaslighting ? Or probably all of the above.

I find it jin outright disgusting corresponding to my previous rant.

this kind of stupid lumbar news to push for mass adoption can only lead to stupid gullible lao lang and boomer going around scalping for plastic bottles, possibly fighting over it. Basically its collecting cardboard boxes in another form. Got notice this is the 2nd such news since the $1k news ? Want to find justification for their stupid machine tio boh ?

Keep on emphasizing on how much earnings

Man claims he cashed in over $1,000 from recycling bottles and cans at BCRS machines

S'pore man, 53, spends 2 to 3 hours a day looking for bottles & cans, collects close to S$2,000 in refunds since April

'A sense of achievement': S'pore boy with autism, 8, collects over 170 bottles & S$17 in refunds from BCRS machines

Man has earned S$80 returning bottles & cans collected from dormitories to BCRS machine

Boy makes own model BCRS machine, becomes neighbourhood 'recycling ambassador'

每天骑车找饮料瓶罐 53岁清洁工“赚”2000元

 

[icezombie]

Times are bad. Every single cent counts …

unless u manage to become a mayor or u have capability to come up with brilliant schemes such as this BRCS and bulky IU scheme … then these $0.10 mean nothing compared to the millions u can look forward to for coming up with such clever appeal to the masses schemes!

 

[eggie011]

Third world.

 

[Monstruo^]

Seeing all these stupid news make me sick.


$2000? That’s 20,000 bottles.
Every month confirm got 20,000 bottles for that person to collect to earn a stable salary?

SG media wanna dua pao sian do fake news also not like that mah. Bluff the general public, bluff to elderly and young adults and chewren. Machiam wanna angle the news as if this BCRS programme can create jobs for people. Just everyday go around collect and recycle bottles can liao.

So what are they trying to tell the public by publishing all these “stories”? IYKYK.

 

[Amaterasu]

Times are bad. Every single cent counts …

unless u manage to become a mayor or u have capability to come up with brilliant schemes such as this BRCS and bulky IU scheme … then these $0.10 mean nothing compared to the millions u can look forward to for coming up with such clever appeal to the masses schemes!

Not that cents doesnt count but at the expense of whats ?

Running these machines 24/7 no need electricity ?

Folks strong armed into paying 10ct up front ?

Retails scrambling to clear stock at a loss to align with this ?

Passing on the inconvenience of technical failure to the retailers to jump thru email hoops just to refund 10cts ?

Brilliant scheme kee lan understand ?

 

[Amaterasu]

Seeing all these stupid news make me sick.


$2000? That’s 20000 bottles. Every month confirm got 20000 bottles for that person to collect?

SG media wanna dua pao sian do fake news also not like that mah. Bluff the general public, bluff to elderly and adults and chewren, machiam wanna angle the news as if this BCRS programme can create jobs for people.

Maybe also turn abled bodied young people into scavengers since they paint it so lucratively

 

[Monstruo^]

Maybe also turn abled bodied young people into scavengers since they paint it so lucratively

Updated my post.
First is grab lah, delivery lah, then BCRS lah. Really all the rj stuff.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

Updated my post.
First is grab lah, delivery lah, then BCRS lah. Really all the rj stuff.

That's how the elites really see citizens as jin xiasuay, Bro Monstruo.

 

[Heriophant]

Return it. Give it a NEW LIFE

JSKM. BCRS wansui

 

[minuteez]

in b4 compulsory cpf contribution for BCRS $$$

 

[icezombie]

Not that cents doesnt count but at the expense of whats ?

Running these machines 24/7 no need electricity ?

Folks strong armed into paying 10ct up front ?

Retails scrambling to clear stock at a loss to align with this ?

Passing on the inconvenience of technical failure to the retailers to jump thru email hoops just to refund 10cts ?

Brilliant scheme kee lan understand ?

yah we normal peasants wun understand their brilliant schemes one …

that’s why they can ownself monitor ownself and get away with all these brilliant schemes and still give ownself pay raise when others can’t even find jod

 

[Joseph12]

S'pore man, 53, spends 2 to 3 hours a day looking for bottles & cans, collects close to S$2,000 in refunds since April​

https://mothership.sg/2026/09/man-collects-2000-bcrs/

Same guy but more details, looks like it?

If he's telling the truth , 100 cans a day is phenomenal . Much less 300

Sometimes its not the time spent
He can dig through 10 dustbins and won't hit his targets

And.now there's definitely more competition