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Visy Recycling Claire Bull National Accounts Development Manager Visy Recycling – Overview Collects and/or processes paper, glass, plastics, aluminum and steel from over 2.3 million households nationally. Visy Recycling processes each year : • In excess of 1.6 million tonnes of paper and cardboard • More than 470,000 tonnes of glass • Over 50,000 tonnes of plastics • Over 25,000 tonnes of metal More than 6,100,000 m³ landfill saved each year* *Fact derived from Dep. Environment & Climate Change NSW May 2008. Based on figures from 2008 Visy Report Recycling Operations Development & Expansion In the beginning 1980s - Collection and sorting of paper and cardboard packaging 1990s – First kerbside contract established crate based system First super MRF launched Fully commingled recycling 2000s – Kerbside operations expand (old crate system 5kg per week, new system up to 12kg) 1970’s 1980’s 1990’s 2000 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Development & Expansion – Today Today 2005 – Glass recycling plant, Laverton VIC $15m 2006 – Super MRF, Smithfield NSW $30m 2006 - Springvale automated plastics sort VIC $4m 2008 – Visy Recycling Victoria currently services 19 metropolitan council contracts TODAY 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 National Kerbside Tonnes Did you know…? Visy Recycling is Australia’s largest recycler Did you know…? We are also the largest packaging manufacturer Visy are ‘closing the loop’ Items accepted in the kerbside recycling bin Plastic Bottles & Containers Soft Drink, Juice & Water Bottles Milk Bottles Detergent & Cordial Bottles Margarine, & Ice Cream Containers Take-away Food Containers Cartons Milk & Juice Cartons Paper & Cardboard Newspapers, Magazines & Telephone books School and Office Paper Cardboard, Cereal & Food Boxes Envelopes, Junk Mail & Flyers Aluminium & Steel Cans All Aluminium Cans All Steel Cans Clean Aluminium Foil Aluminium Pie Trays Empty Aerosol Cans Glass Bottles & Jars Glass Bottles Jars Items not acceptable in the kerbside bin Plastic bags Nappies Polystyrene Cups Light Ceramic Plates & Bulbs Cups Drinking Glasses Household & Car Batteries & Cartons Pyrex Dishes Paint Cans Gas Cylinder How your recycling gets sorted Your recycling is delivered to our Material Recovery Facility by the trucks. It is placed on a conveyer and our pickers take out all the non-recyclable items. ..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\3.mpg How your recycling gets sorted A large trommel with holes in it lets all the bottles fall through to be collected. Then a bounce conveyer takes all the light items like paper to the top while allowing heavy items like glass to drop to the bottom. ..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\4.mpg ..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\6.mpg How your recycling gets sorted Next a magnet collects the cans and takes them away to a separate baler. And an eddy current collects the aluminium cans. A blast of air pushes the light plastic items away to a separate conveyor where a laser sorts them by their plastic type ready to be baled. ..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\EddyCurrent.wmv ..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\plasticsortnew_01.mpg How your recycling gets sorted The glass that is left is collected in a large container to be taken to our Automated Glass Sorting Facility. It is then further sorted according to colour. What happens after sorting? Example Recycling Paper New from old Recycled paper baled and taken to a Visy Recycled Paper Mill New from old Recycled paper bales broken open and conveyed into paper mill New from old Recycled paper mixed with hot water in the hydropulper New from old Taking the ink out with soap New from old Pressing and drying Recycled Paper New from old Recycled paper products Environmental Facts Environmental Facts One households recycling for a year saves over 5,000L of water Source: NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May 2008, based on industry av. Of 6.1kg/hh/pw Environmental Facts One tonne of household recycling saves 502kg of CO2 Source: NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May 2008 Environmental Facts Replacing the 6 most-oftenused lights in your home with CFL’s would save about 400kg of CO2 Source: NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May 2008 Environmental Facts One years worth of household recycling 3 saves 874m of landfill space Source: NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May 2008, based on industry av. Of 6.1kg/hh/pw Environmental Facts Landfill causes about 5% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas impact Environmental Facts Sending recyclable material to landfill results in wasted energy used to harvest new resources Environmental Facts Recycling aluminium instead of mining new bauxite uses only 5% of the energy Source: International Aluminium Institute Environmental Facts Recycling plastics instead of processing crude oil and gas uses only 12% of the energy Source: Envirobank.com.au Environmental Facts Re-processing recycled glass uses 50% of the energy vs. using virgin glass Source: centre for Ecological Technology Environmental Facts Recycling cardboard and paper instead of logging forests uses only 40% of the energy Source: centre for Ecological Technology Challenges Challenges What does it take to bring about behavioural change? Challenges Understanding the whole recycling picture Thank you