Macarthur recycling facility reaches quarter of a million tonnes

Sydney recycler WSN Environmental Solutions has processed a quarter of a million tonnes of resources in its materials recycling facility (MRF) at Macarthur Resource Recovery Park at Narellan.

The resources recovered in the MRF include plastic, aluminium, cardboard and glass — all valuable commodities that are sold to the manufacturing sector to make new products.

WSN Environmental Solutions CEO Ken Kanofski said resources recovered from waste are helping the manufacturing sector in its quest to become more sustainable.

“Re-using resources like plastic, metal and glass recovered from the waste stream helps to reduce reliance on raw materials,” Kanofski said.

“This also avoids greenhouse gas emissions by recovering embodied energy from these resources.

“The resource recovery process, when combined with the green electricity production at our network of sites, significantly reduces our carbon footprint on the local area.”

Kanofski said if residents had large volumes of recyclables they couldn’t fit inside their recycling bin, they could drop them off at the Macarthur Resource Recovery Park free of charge, provided they were separated.

The Park will also accept untreated timber, garden organics, household junk, furniture, mixed paper, plastic, glass metal, timber, office partitioning and other dry waste that does not contain organic material.

For a full list of acceptable materials, visit www.wsn.com.au.