Communities across Queensland and New South Wales have donated 119,001 containers to support charity Little Wings provide children living in rural and regional areas with access to specialist medical care.
The containers were donated as part of the 2025 Little Wings Recycling Challenge, which saw the two states go head-to-head in a state of origin container donation race.
Queensland took an early lead in Game 1 with more than 22,000 containers donated but NSW claimed Game 2 with more than 17,000 donated containers.
NSW took the challenge in the deciding round, donating more than 26,000 containers in Game 3.
The ultimate winners of the challenge are the Little Wings families who are provided free, professional safe flight and ground transport services to help seriously ill children in rural and regional NSW, ACT and Queensland access specialised medical care.
With 20 containers ($2) able to purchase 1 litre of aviation fuel, the recycling challenge will keep Little Wings in the air and support at eight missions transporting families.
Little Wings is the official 2025 charity partner for Containers for Change depot Browns Plains Bottles & Cans in Logan.
Depot operators Andrew Lambert and Julie Farrelly were inspired to raise funds for Little Wings after learning about them at the 2024 Change Maker Awards.
The depot helped launch the 2025 Little Wings Recycling Challenge and Andrew and Julie’s granddaughter Scarlett featured in the State v State campaign.
Andrew and Julie say they are extremely lucky to have raised four children and have four healthy grandchildren, including Scarlett, none of whom have ever had serious health issues or required hospitalisation.
With the support of their community and commercial partners, Browns Plains Bottles & Cans aims to raise $10,000 for Little Wings by the end of 2025.
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