Here is a list of where all the locations are on day one, so you can find your closest facility. Signage The signage at 281 Montague Road is poor. You will drive past it before you find it. Even CoEX's acting chairman Alby Taylor agreed. Change seems inevitable. Signage needs to be improved at West End. It is poor and the centre is hard to find. CoEX acting chairman Alby Taylor agrees. Credit:Tony Moore

But there is good parking outside and it is easy to pull in, take out your bag of bottles, cans and stubbies and go inside. With West End State School 400 metres away, you can drop in as you walk. Inside the West End container exchange On the left hand wall is a line of wall-mounted machines with a single hole to place your can, plastic container or bottle. They are linked through the wall to small conveyor belts that take your container along, dropping it in the right big plastic bucket. There is an express lane if you have 50 or fewer containers to recycle.

At West End, two machines collect plastics and lightweight containers and one machine collects glass containers. Each operates several lanes. "So here overall we have three glass and six lightweight (plastics, cardboard and aluminium) lanes," said Alina Riggs, one of 55 new employees of recycling company TOMRA for its part in Queensland's Containers for Exchange scheme. There are 10 more of these elaborate collection centres in Brisbane. How it works First up. Don't crush the cans or containers you want to exchange.

It will work but it works far more easily if you just leave them. Take the lid off and place the container on the conveyor belt inside the hole in the machine. Queensland's Containers for Exchange scheme launches with 251 sites around the state on November 1. Credit:Tony Moore You do not need to put your hand into the machine. Just place your can or plastic container or glass bottle on the conveyor belt, Ms Riggs said. "You can leave the lid on but it's best to take it off."

It is very easy. Just don't push your hand too far into the hole because it blocks the sensor, which scans the bar code to identify the type of container. In less than three seconds, a 10¢ credit will appear on the screen. Repeat for every bottle and you'll get a receipt at the end. "Everything is sorted by glass, by metal cans, by plastics. There are eight different types of classifications and eight different bins," Ms Riggs said. At this particular collection point, you can choose to either donate your credit or redeem your voucher from Woolworths for a cash refund or shopping credit.

Two major recycling companies are operating collection points in Queensland: Envirobank and TOMRA, which could cause headaches. TOMRA sites are linked to Woolworths and Envirobank locations are linked to Coles. You can choose to either donate your 10 cents or claim a shopping voucher at TOMRA sites. Credit:Tony Moore "When you hit 'donate', it will straight away donate that money to either our main charity, the state charity Buy a Bale, or to a local charity, which here is the (Queensland) Children's Hospital," Ms Riggs said. I gave 20¢ to the hospital and with two water bottles down the recycling tube I also built up a 20¢ voucher with Woolies. Using the app

You download the TOMRA app if you are at a TOMRA-run collection site or the Envirobank app if you are at an Envirobank-run collection site. You scan your app on the scanner at the wall machine on the right-hand side near where it says PayPal. "That will register your account," Ms Riggs said. "You will get an e-voucher - it will look the same as the paper vouchers, but it is on your phone. You take your e-voucher in to Woolies and do the same thing. "Or you can link it up with your PayPal account. You can link PayPal to your bank account directly."

Bagged and 'drop-off' deposits On the opposite wall is a bag return, where you can bring a bag (which can be supplied) full of containers, bottles and stubbies, drop them off and leave them to be counted. They will then be added to your CoEX account. CoEX bag return depots, where workers deposit the recycling for you, will be the most option outside Queensland's big cities. The aim

Queenslanders are lazy recyclers. We recycle only 44 per cent of our recyclable plastic and cardboard containers. Mr Taylor, CoEx's acting chairman, said the target was to increase that recycling rate to 85 per cent in four years, by linking it to community groups who could receive money by collecting cans and containers. TOMRA was one of the major partners when the container recycling scheme began in New South Wales. After an embarrassing start when companies had to be bailed out, it has made a major difference in recycling rates in NSW, TOMRA Australian president Ryan Buzzell said. TOMRA's Australian president Ryan Buzzell believes if the scheme is easy to work, recycling rates will increase. Credit:Tony Moore

"In NSW, when you compare first quarter 2017 with first quarter 2018, the beverage container recycling rate increased by 34 per cent (points)," he said. "It went from 33 per cent in 2017, to 67 per cent in 2018. Today we are sitting at over 800 million beverage containers collected through the scheme in NSW." Mr Buzzell said consumers would use the scheme - and improve recycling - if it was easy to use. "As long as there are easy, accessible collection points for consumers it will be a good experience for Queensland." The breakdown