After coming from humble beginnings and just one shipping container, Walla Walla and Holbrook Return and Earn have opened a dedicated facility in Lavington.

Owner Heather Goesch said they are now taking in about 60,000 items a week and have processed 1.2 million since starting the business in January.

Mrs Goesch said that running the Return and Earn helps them give back to the community by facilitating fundraising activities with free collections for charities and community groups.

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"The Albury Cans for Cancer group do an average of 12,000 cans a week through us," she said.

"We're lucky, we've kind of got exclusive rights to it because no one else wants to do it.

"We love it because we're helping the area and that helps us.

"A lot of the cans we're picking up have just been sitting in sheds because the people didn't have time to bring them into the machines.

"One place we collected 9820 items from."

Mrs Goesch said the Return and Earn machines have been a massive success, reducing litter across NSW by 50 per cent, but that sometimes people need to be provided an alternative option.

"You have to make it easy, otherwise people just can't hand in their cans because of their lifestyle," she said.

"If you have two children, or a sick family member that you can't leave alone you need to be given an alternative and if that isn't there it goes to waste.

"The machines are great, but we just give people that alternative that might better suit a busy lifestyle."

The business collects can from all across the NSW side of the border, going as far as Lockhart for collections.

Mrs Goesch said they've also made a conscious effort of hiring people who may not necessarily get the chance they deserve in the job market.

"We partnered with a personnel group and we'll always do that," she said.

"The people that we employ are the ones that others have passed over..

"They still have a lot to contribute to society and we've never found better workers."