Supermarket owner Bob Mathews has told the unit's operator Tomra Cleanaway that he is ending his contract to host the machine at his Springdale Heights grocery.

"I wish to give 30 days notification to cancel the RVM contract at the Springdale Heights IGA Supermarket," Mr Mathews wrote in an email to a Tomra Cleanaway engineer late Wednesday afternoon.

"I will advise our customers of this impending removal by the end of October."

The machine was the first to be set up in Albury to take cans and bottles when the container deposit scheme began in December 2017.

Mr Mathews has long had frustrations with its operations on various grounds.

They include it not generating the expected revenue for his store, creating litter and anti-social behaviour.

Mr Mathews said he had decided to act now because he had been told verbally by TOMRA Cleanaway that a machine would be installed at Lavington Square.

"I was always going to get rid of it but I felt I had a moral obligation to keep it there until there was another one," Mr Mathews said.

He said the machine "takes up space and it's dirty".

"It's just a giant ATM, we don't make any money out of it," Mr Mathews said.

"We had 62 people there yesterday and of them six people bought a packet of cigarettes, so the purchases were negligible."

TOMRA Cleanway did not comment on the matter after being contacted by The Border Mail on Thursday.

A Norris Park recycler, using the unit on Thursday, who declined to be named, was unfussed about the closure but expected others would be disappointed.

"As long as I can get to one I don't really mind," she said.

"We probably need more of them, if anything, but I suppose for people in this area it will be tragic, it's a pretty busy one."

Meanwhile, the Victorian Small Business Minister Adem Somyurek is yet to respond to a letter from his NSW counterpart Damien Tudehope requesting a meeting to discuss a container deposit scheme being introduced in the Garden State.

Mr Tudehope wrote the letter on September 2 following a visit to Albury in August where he heard from retailers about the problems created by Victoria not having a scheme when NSW does have 10-cent returns.

"I would be interested to meet both with yourself and the Victorian Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Lily D'Ambrosio, to discuss ways in which both states might come to a mutually beneficial, cooperative relationship that works to protect the environment, and sets up small businesses on both sides of the border for success," Mr Tudehope wrote.