N.B. news: Encorp Atlantic presents for high school students [Video]

Earth Day highlights the things one person can do to help the globe, including things as simple as picking up a piece of litter while out for a walk or opting for shorter showers to help reduce water waste.

Another thing people can do is recycle.

To celebrate the important day, Encorp Atlantic visited students at Rothesay High School in New Brunswick to showcase its new and improved Beverage Containers Program.

On April 1, the province began giving full refunds on deposits through its revamped Beverage Containers Program. For more than 30 years of the program’s existence, New Brunswickers only received half back when recycling.

“Now when consumers go to their local redemption, they get either their full 10 cents or full 20 cents, which is double what they got before,” says Encorp Atlantic president Pierre Landry. “It’s great news in the sense we need to modernize the program.”

Landry says the move was not only made to help encourage residents to recycle more, …