The Fridge Buyback Scheme in New South Wales is celebrating a highly successful year of freezing out unnecessary waste, with 10,825 fridges collected during the last financial year.
This represents a great year for Fridge Buyback with $2,680,000 estimated bill savings across the state (figures supplied by Fridge Buyback).
Residents in the Sydney Hills have contributed towards these great results with 640 fridges collected in the last financial year, and a total of estimated bill saving of $473,555.
The Fridge Buyback scheme is a great way of not only saving energy, but freeing up space in your house by getting rid of old upright freezers and second fridges that you may have lying around and taking up unwanted room.
Getting rid of the old fridge or freezer in the garage is one of the easiest steps households can take to cut their power bills, and as it is now funded through the Energy Savings Scheme, there is no cost to the ratepayer.
Second fridges or upright freezers must be in regular use, built before 1996 and 200 litres or greater in size. A $35 rebate is paid for collection from homes with six steps or less. Collection is free, but no rebate is paid where collection involves between 7–20 steps.
