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Recycling made easy – drop off at our depot or let us come to you!
Rockdale Return and Earn provides a convenient and friendly way for households, businesses, schools, sporting clubs and community organisations to recycle their eligible 10c bottles and cans and receive their Return and Earn refund.
Walk-In Depot
Bring your eligible bottles and cans directly to our Rockdale Return and Earn depot. Our friendly team will process your containers for you, making it a quick and easy alternative to feeding containers into a reverse vending machine yourself.
Whether you have a few bags or a larger quantity, simply bring them in and we do the counting and sorting for you.
Collection Service – We Come to You
Short on time or have too many containers to transport yourself? Our convenient collection service comes directly to you.
We provide collection options for homes, businesses, schools, sporting clubs, hospitality venues and community organisations throughout our collection area.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Alpha
Alpha's artistic connections reach from nineteenth-century watercolours to contemporary photography and performance. The town and the surrounding station country appear within the work itself.
🎨 Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
British artist Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe travelled to Australia in 1883 to join family at Alpha Station. Over two years she painted daily life in watercolour, sending pictures back to England. Her subjects included station activities and Aboriginal people, preserving a particular visitor's view of the district during the colonial period. In 1964 her son donated 87 of these works to the Queensland Art Gallery. That collection gives a short stay a much longer life in the historical record.
🎨 Luke Roberts
Born in Alpha in 1952, Luke Roberts has worked across photography, performance, painting and installation. His art examines identity, religion and Australian history, sometimes placing his hometown directly in the frame. In the two-part photographic work The Spearing, one image shows Roberts in Alpha and the other features artist Richard Bell. The State Library of Queensland also holds his archive, including drawings for a local Alpha–Jericho logo: a practical civic commission alongside the more provocative gallery work.
