Elgas Cooma are responsible for the provision of the swap and go gas bottles that are commonly used with barbeques, and they have set up an affiliation with Cooma Challenge Ltd to arrange for the cleaning and maintenance of these bottles.
Each Monday, workers from Challenge head out to Polo Flat to carry out the cleaning of the gas bottles.
“[The gas cylinders] are used with barbeques and they are quite often covered with fat. We pick them up and Challenge clean the cylinders, put new stickers and covers on them and get them ready to be refilled,” Snowy Mountains Elgas manager Tim Corkill said.
The workers establish a production line, and by reports always come in to work with a smile. Over the years that Challenge and Elgas have been working together, 8.5thousand cylinders have been made ready for refilling.
“It’s helpful for us, it’s fairly labour intensive,” Mr Corkill said.
“They’re [Cooma Challenge] earning some money and they’re becoming valuable members of the community.”