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Title: Recycling of Timber Used in the Plastics Packaging Industry


1
Recycling of Timber Used in the Plastics
Packaging Industry
  • Presenter Robert Dvorak
  • EcoRecycle Victorias
  • Timberlinks Network Business Breakfast
  • 26th of March, 2003

2
Types of Timber Waste
  • Broken and damaged wooden pallets.
  • Timber packaging such as top frames and to some
    extent masonite boards
  • Solid wooden platforms plywood boards from
    imported machinery.
  • Wooden boxes
  • Other wooden pieces

3
Used Timber Packaging
4
Cost Analysis of Timber Recycling
  • Analysis of 2002 annual disposal costs discovered
    to be approximately
  • 70,000 (at one site only)
  • Hidden costs due to loss of resources.
  • Approximate Cost of disposal of all timber to the
    landfill was approximated to be
  • 8,000
  • However..
  • Recycling of all the timber was NOT FREE
  • ? Total Removal Fees Labour Costs added up
    to 2,000.
  • Careful planning, advice and key contacts from
    Ecorecycle Vic has saved ACI 6,000.

5
How was it achieved ?
  • Focus at management level on the environmental
    responsibility a business has to the wider
    community.
  • Awareness of EcoRecycle Vic direction, knowledge
    and experience
  • (i) Government focus on reducing waste to
    landfill (e.g. higher landfill fees)(ii) Help
    from EcoRecycle for ACI to link-up with
    recycling business provide advice on how to
    best recycle other materials.

6
How was it achieved who benefited?
  • A strategy was put in place on the most cost
    effective and environmentally beneficial way to
    clean-up scrap at ACI and ensure that long term
    waste generation is minimised and eliminated.
  • Staff morale had increased and other ACI
    personnel became interested in what was being
    done.
  • Other ACI sites have now approached the Executive
    Team to fully develop a strategy for all sites.

7
What has been achieved overall ?
  • Site has been cleaned up with minimal amount
    going to landfill.
  • Land area free of scrap has increased by over
    2,000m2.
  • 2 full skips of steel removed free of charge.

8
What has been achieved overall ?
  • Council, safety, fire risks minimised or
    eliminated.
  • 5 Semi-trailers worth of timber removed for
    recycling
  • (75 cost saving by recycling it vs. landfill
    option).
  • Management focus on a company wide recycling
    strategy and waste generation.

9
Conclusions
  • Company management need to develop fully
    support a recycling strategy best tailored to
    their business.
  • Important to find the right recycling partners.
  • Loss of material resources to waste and landfill
    is a good indicator of manufacturing
    inefficiency.
  • Important to value the benefits of recycling by
    (i) Financial Analysis (ii) Safety
    Analysis (iii) Environmental Social Analysis
  • All of the above are equally important.

10
Acknowledgements
  • EcoRecycle Victoria
  • (Kevin Mooney/David Rako)
  • Waste Converters Recycling
  • (Ward Petherbridge)
  • ACI
  • (Andrew Ebert, Executive Team,
  • Factory Personnel)
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