The Containers for Change scheme exchanges 10 cents for every eligible beverage container returned to a registered Container Refund Point (CRP) in Queensland.
This has translated into $4 million for Gympie area residents, charities, community groups and businesses since the scheme began in November 2018.
Ken Noye is the chief executive of Containers Exchange, the not for profit organisation that administers the scheme.
He said the elimination of 40 million containers from the Gympie environment was a worthy milestone, but also a recycling effort everyone needed to continue to build on.
“It is an impressive amount of containers that have been returned in Gympie and those efforts have now injected $4 million into the community,” said Mr Noye.