The initiative offers people a 10 cent refund for each acceptable bottle or can in an effort to reduce litter across NSW.

Following reports that the Orange site had become a dumping ground, the Central Western Daily visited on Thursday afternoon and discovered the single all use bin that was in place on Tuesday, had been joined by two recycling bins, although not all items in them were recyclable and all three were overflowing. 

Knight Frank Asset Management Services facilities manager Paul French who has been managing the Return and Earn reverse vending machine site in Orange, said extra bins and more cleaners have been required to tidy up the site.

The facility reached capacity in one day and was emptied for the first time by Cleanaway out of Bathurst on Wednesday morning.

“It’s well and truly out performing our expectations,” Mr French said.

“People are making significant amounts of money from it, I’ve heard of a couple of people who have made between $40 and $80, it’s significant if you are proactive.

“When the unit fills, it sends out a signal across the internet to be emptied.”

However he said the extra popularity has led to rubbish being left behind.

Mr French, who also set up the Dubbo site, said he has had a complaint from a shopping centre tenant and received comments from shoppers about rubbish being left at the Orange site.

“Today was a mess, we had to [bring in] extra cleaners, we are putting out extra bins,” he said.

“What we are finding is people are bringing bottles to recycle and whatever they are bringing them in they are leaving at the facility.”

Rejected bottles such as those that don’t have bar-codes, juice bottles and wine and spirit bottles are also being discarded.

The issue of rubbish being left at Return and Earn recycling facilities has had bigger issues in other areas where the reverse vending machines were already up and running.

At the Bathurst site on the corner of Rocket and Torch Streets, residents have complained of noise pollution from trucks and glass bottles being emptied from the site early in the morning.

The residents also said the site had become a dumping ground for shopping trolleys, rubbish and items not accepted by the machine, as well as creating traffic concerns, as a result larger bins were to be brought to the site.

At the Victoria Park facility at Dubbo there has also been a plea for people to stop dumping at the site due to people leaving containers that were not allowed at the site.