Ms Clarke is one of the residents in an apartment block next-door to the Woolworths car park.

That car park has a Return and Earn reverse vending machine in it, and Ms Clarke said she and other residents have been daily woken by trucks collecting bottles and cans from the machine since it was installed nine months ago.

“At 7.30, around midday and four in the afternoon they’ll come and collect the bottles,” Ms Clarke said.

“It’s the level of the noise of the bottle collection – it’s this ear-piercing, really uncomfortable kind of noise. It changes your life.”

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That and the almost-constant noise of people dropping bottles into the machine led the residents to complain.

And, with the help of Wollongong MP Paul Scully, a new machine will be located behind the Fraternity Club and the one at Woolworths removed.

The changeover starts on August 31, with the Woolworths machine switched off and the one at the Frat turned on.

It’s good news for Ms Clarke.

“We’ll get to sleep in,” she said.

“It’s our first weekend in nine months – literally. I have not had a sleep-in in nine months.”

Mr Scully was pleased contractor Tomra Cleanaway worked to find a solution.

“They’ve been really quite good in trying to find a new location,” Mr Scully said.

“Fairy Meadow is a difficult spot because there are so many  people around close to possible locations.

“They have explored a number of options.”

Mr Scully said a new machine will be installed at the Fraternity Club before the Woolworths machine was removed and taken to a new location elsewhere in the state.

Fraternity Club general manager Greg Field said Tomra Cleanaway contacted the club about locating a new machine there.

“We’re happy to help out the community and find a spot for it,” Mr Field said.

People will not be able to cash in their vouchers at the Fraternity Club, though the option of using them at Woolworths will remain.

Mr Field said the new machine could help the club deal with its recyclable waste.

“There may be some crossover with our bottled waste and we might do a charity thing, where one of the charities we support can put their bottles in and get the money for it,” Mr Field said.