Waste export banWith the Council of Australian Governments ( COAG ) announcing awaste export banon waste plastic , paper , glass and tyres to be implemented over the next five year , APCO is now working heavily to assist various industry sectors move to a orbitual economy . extremity of the greenlife industry are already lead the fashion , namely by closing the loop on polypropylene .
The greenlife industry is a large user of polypropene product , namely pots , label , interest , trays , and bath . Garden City Plastics ( GCP ) presently habituate over 7 million kilo of recycled polypropene per year to manufacture pots and containers for these customers . Matthew Mills , GCP ’s National Sales & Marketing Manager , say they aim to increase that amount to 10 or 11 million kilograms by the ending of 2021 . However , Matthew read that ripe collection and sorting of polypropene ‘ waste ’ is being establish to serve meet this goal .
Closing the loopMatthew explained that improve sorting and appeal processes now means that GCP will be able to make coloured plant wad for the first time from amply post - consumer recycle polypropene , e.g. yogurt lids , takeaway container , rather than virgin material .
antecedently polypropene collected through household kerbside recycling organization is not separated out at MRFs ( Materials Recycling Facilities ) . It ends up in miscellaneous plastic Basel for downgraded U.S. such as road base or wastefulness to free energy applications . Black polypropylene packaging is sent directly to landfill as a MRF ’s infrared applied science that can not presently recognize carbon black , ‘ seeing ’ that shape as a void and get off it to landfill .
GCP is providing a commitment to its recycled material provider who take in , sort and wash out both post - industrial and post - consumer polypropene at consecrate facility that they will bribe it and reuse it , thus closing the loop on that textile . Within the greenlife industry , GCP is help to set up specific solicitation orbit at wholesale and retail nurseries to facilitate them sort their tidy sum more expeditiously and with less contamination .
exercise with recycling partner Astron Sustainability and Polymer Processors , GCP is set up trial run website across 32 locations in all states boot out ACT and the Northern Territory . Flower Power , Plant Mark , Andreasen ’s , Westland , Waratah and Daltons are some of those on board . GCP has also shape a partnership with Norwood Industries to educate the all-inclusive community of interests about the benefit of capturing polypropylene in a closed closed circuit and how our Green Life Industries are assume their part . Stay tuned for the launching of their Modern websitewww.pp5.com.au(currently under construction ) .
Where to from here?Jayne and Matthew are produce an ongoing working radical with a panorama to develop a voluntary framework for standardize the use of sustainable and recyclable credit card in the greenlife industry . start with polypropylene , Jayne intends that the scope of this group will expand to address other packaging materials , e.g. exposit polystyrene ( EPS ) , sonant plastics and compostable promotion . The first meeting of this working grouping will be held in June .
For more data about this working group , please contact Jayne on ( 02 ) 8381 3700 or[email protect ] .
For more info : Greenlife Industry AustraliaT : ( 02 ) 8861 5100F : ( 02 ) 9659 3446[email protected]www.greenlifeindustry.com.au
