In Ireland, we all love to kick off the New Year with the right intentions, even if we can sometimes be overly ambitious.

Promising ourselves that we will run a sub-20-minute 5 km within a week. Saying we will start saving, then booking a last-minute sun trip away to help beat the January blues Promising to go to sleep earlier only to doomscroll instead. 

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

Why not start small by Re-turning your plastic bottles and cans?

This is a resolution you’re guaranteed to keep up. While it’s only small, it is massively impactful. 

Start 2026 off with a small habit that makes a big impact by disposing  of your plastic bottles and cans through Re-turn. This is a super simple habit you are sure to stick with throughout the year. 

Re-turning is the right way to kickstart 2026 for so many reasons. When you put plastic bottles and cans in your mixed recycling bin, they get mixed together with dirty containers, bits of wrapping paper and other non-recyclable materials which inevitably slip in. This leads to cross-contamination, which affects the quality of the material that can be recycled.

The right way to recycle your plastic bottles and aluminium cans is to bring them to your local Re-turn machine. By Re-turning as opposed to using your recycling bin there is less contamination, so more containers can be recycled again and again.

When you Re-turn using a RVM, your plastic bottles and cans are automatically separated. So the plastic bottles stay with the plastic bottles, and the aluminium cans stay with the aluminium cans. Separating these containers ensures cleaner material for recycling, meaning a much higher quality of recycled material is produced and therefore more can
be recycled again and again.

Putting your bottles and cans in the mixed recycling bin just isn’t as good as Re-turning which is why Re-turning is a great resolution to pick up for 2026.

With almost 2,800 reverse vending machines, 1,000 manual return points, and over 4,500 clubs and communities collecting cans and plastic bottles for fundraising, Re-turning these bad boys has never been easier. 

Re-turning is a quick and easy resolution you can start doing to kickstart your New Year. This super actionable habit will also help Ireland reach its recycling goals.

So start 2026 by setting a small, simple habit that can make a big difference – Re-turn it Right.

Find your nearest location here.