O-I’s Lean+Green wine bottles win design award
09 June, 2010O-I’s Lean+Green lightweight wine bottle range secured its fifth national award after taking out a prestigious Australian International Design Award in Sydney.
BASF Ecovio plastic
31 May, 2010The latest release of the Ecovio range can be used to make 100% compostable and biodegradable plastic bags which meet European standard EN 13432 and Australian standard AS 4736.
Recycling in a carbon constrained environment
26 March, 2010Gerard van Rijswijk presents his opinions on how the planned Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) may impact the recycling industry. It is a summary of one of his presentations from the recent EcoForum conference in Sydney.
HSM ProfiPack 400 machine to convert cardboard to packaging
25 March, 2010The HSM ProfiPack 400 is a compact tabletop machine designed to convert cardboard waste into a packaging material for re-use. The waste cardboard is fed into the device which instantly converts it into an interlaced weave pattern. The packaging material produced is non slip, easy to bend and provides a good replacement for other types of packaging such as bubble wrap and foam beads.
HSM ProfiPack 400 cardboard waste converter
23 March, 2010 byThe HSM ProfiPack 400 is a compact tabletop machine designed to convert cardboard waste into a packaging material for re-use. The waste cardboard is fed into the device which then instantly converts it into an interlaced weave pattern. The packaging material produced is non-slip, easy to bend and provides a good replacement for other types of packaging such as bubble wrap and foam beads.
Festo MHJ valve series
23 March, 2010 byThe MHJ valve series has the ability to output very short pulses of air, which can result in energy savings and makes it suitable for various applications. It features a long service life and high precision with direct actuation for the shortest switching times of \<1 ms, flow rates of 50, 100 and 150 L/min and good repetition accuracy of \<0.1 ms.
Wet’n’Wild rides the recycling wave
05 March, 2010Wet’n’Wild Water World has announced the rollout of a public recycling initiative that will see more than 1000 bottles diverted from landfill each day.
Recycling service onboard ships
01 February, 2010TT-Line’s Spirit of Tasmania twin ships are ahead of the fleet when it comes to glass recycling, with both vessels recycling 400 kg of glass a week - equivalent to more than 117,000 stubbies diverted from landfill and recycled each year.
Lamp recycling program
18 January, 2010 byFertiliser and housing insulation are but two of the by-products produced through Sylvania Lighting Australasia’s SYLrecycle lamp recycling program.
C&D recycling facility
14 January, 2010 byThe $45 million Western Metropolitan Recycling Facility, owned and operated by the Alex Fraser Group, has been opened in Melbourne.
Closing the loop
08 January, 2010A commercial plastic milk bottle wash and recycling facility serving communities across the whole of the South Island of New Zealand was officially opened last November. The plant was commissioned in August and is now processing 600 kg of milk bottles per hour or 100,000 bottles per day.
E-waste stewardship in Australia
02 January, 2010Australia’s electronic waste is a growing problem, with only a small fraction of it being recycled and the rest ending up in landfill. A new announcement from the EPHC is set to change all that, however, as Andrew Collins reports.
Major producers join NZ silage wrap recovery program
01 December, 2009More silage wrap is set to be recovered off New Zealand farms following the announcement that two leading producers have joined the Agrecovery Wrap Recycling program.
SITA signs with anaerobic digestion technology provider
30 November, 2009SITA Environmental Solutions (SITA) has entered into an exclusive agreement with Organic Waste Systems (OWS) in order to deliver anaerobic digestion solutions in Australia as an add-on option to its composting and recycling facilities.
Carpet tile recycling initiative
12 November, 2009A carpet tile recycling centre that separates PVC from nylon and reintroduces it as a raw material is now operating at Ontera Modular Carpets’ Northmead plant in NSW. The initiative is expected to save approximately 200 tonnes of waste from landfill each year. As well as the environmental benefits, it’s also providing cost savings for the company in terms of reducing the raw material consumption of PVC for its carpet manufacturing process.
