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Across multiple Saturday mornings, Vaughn and Barbara (with the help of a few friends and a local builder donating their vehicles and their time) took ten boot loads and five Ute trays worth of the community’s recycling to Return and Earn points.
Over the course of four months, Vaughn was able to collect an astonishing 3,000 containers for ten cents apiece, and raised $500 for his animal shelter - with the extra funds coming from donations from local businesses and sports clubs.
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Sunrise. He was stopped on the street by a few people who had seen him on TV, and they would say ‘I dropped some of those cans off to your house’, Barbara fondly recalls.