The Container Recycling Fee (CRF) is the fee Return-It charges to cover the net cost of recycling a beverage container. CRFs have been in place for beverage containers in British Columbia for more than 18 years. The CRF varies for each beverage container category. As a not-for-profit, product stewardship agency, we only charge the net cost for recovering and recycling beverage containers after any unredeemed deposits and commodity revenues for that container type have been used.