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Earn & Return Scheme As part of the State Government's Earn and Return scheme for deposit credits for beverage containers, the Reverse Vending Machines are proving to be popular. When the former local Liberal state member for Coogee Bruce Notley-Smith helped launch the program at Coogee Beach in 2017, a beverage container reverse vending machine was installed on the beach promenade for the occasion. Those of us who witnessed the dignitaries feeding containers into the machine on the day were cheered with the idea that it would be so handily located at Coogee. Alas, at the end of the ceremony, the machine was loaded onto the back of a truck and taken away, never to reappear in Coogee again! Machines are located much further away, so to make using the machines worthwhile, you need to deliver containers in bulk, unless you want to burn up your profits in petrol. Local Locations Eighteen months into the scheme's operation, a number of the reverse vending are located in the eastern suburbs: Howe Street, Malabar (in the Randwick Golf Club parking lot) 61 Mentone Avenue, Rosebery (in the Wholefoods The Cannery parking Lot) University of New South Wales (at Physics Road with access from Barker Street) Enviro-Pak Eastgardens, 128 Bunnerong Road, Pagewood Bondi Beach, on Queen Elizabeth Drive behind the Pavilion Westfields, Bondi Junction - Level P2 with access for vehicles entrance from Edgecliff Road Earn and Return Station at Howe Street, Malabar University of New South Wales Site Inoperative for a Time The University of New South Wales site (originally the end of the laneway at Gate 7 - High Street) was made inoperative for a time apparently because of complaints from students living in residences about the noise it made. The Earn and Return machine was relocated to the other side of the University at Physics Road with access from Barker Street. Environment & Extra Cash If I am out walking or jogging, I take a plastic bag with me and pick up any stray containers I find in parks or bushland, and if I am passing a machine, open up the Earn and Return app on my smartphone and then send any refund to my PayPal account. Doing my bit for the environment and earning some extra cash. All types of people line up to return containers including the retired, joggers, men, women, housewives, teenagers, children earning extra pocket money, men in suits and Ties, and students. The success of the scheme is indicated by my growing PayPal balance and the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find discarded bottles and cans. The single use coffee cups and clear plastic thick shake cups, however, are everywhere and point to just how irresponsible coffee and thick-shake drinkers can be discarding the containers by the path in a National Park. Earn and Return Station at Howe Street, Malabar

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