Visy Recycling Claire Bull National Accounts Development Manager

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Visy RecyclingClaire BullNational Accounts
Development Manager
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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

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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)

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1980s
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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
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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
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National Kerbside Tonnes
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Did you know?

• Visy Recycling is Australias largest recycler

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Did you know?

• We are also the largest packaging manufacturer

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Visy are closing the loop
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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

• Aluminium Steel Cans
• All Aluminium Cans
• All Steel Cans
• Clean Aluminium Foil
• Aluminium Pie Trays
• Empty Aerosol Cans

• Paper Cardboard
• Newspapers, Magazines
  
• Telephone books
• School and Office Paper
• Cardboard, Cereal Food
• Boxes
• Envelopes, Junk Mail
• Flyers

• Cartons
• Milk Juice Cartons

• Glass Bottles Jars
• Glass Bottles
• Jars

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Items not acceptable in the kerbside bin

• Plastic bags

• Nappies

• Ceramic Plates Cups
• Drinking Glasses

• Light Bulbs

• Household
• Car Batteries

• Polystyrene Cups
• Cartons

• Gas Cylinder

• Paint Cans

• Pyrex Dishes

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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 pickerstake
out all the non-recyclable items.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What happens after sorting?
Example Recycling Paper
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New from old
Recycled paper baled and taken to a Visy Recycled
Paper Mill
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New from old
Recycled paper bales broken open and conveyed
into paper mill
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New from old
Recycled paper mixed with hot water in the
hydro-pulper
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New from old
Taking the ink out with soap
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New from old
Pressing and drying Recycled Paper
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New from old
Recycled paper products
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Environmental Facts
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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
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Environmental Facts

• One tonne of household recycling saves 502kg of
  CO2

Source NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May
2008
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Environmental Facts

• Replacing the 6 most-often-used lights in your
  home with CFLs would save about 400kg of CO2

Source NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May
2008
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Environmental Facts

• One years worth of household recycling saves
  874m3 of landfill space

Source NSW DECC Enviro Benefits Calculator May
2008, based on industry av. Of 6.1kg/hh/pw
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Environmental Facts

• Landfill causes about 5 of Australias total
  greenhouse gas impact

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Environmental Facts

Sending recyclable material to landfill results
in wasted energy used to harvest new resources
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Environmental Facts

• Recycling aluminium instead of mining new bauxite
  uses only 5 of the energy

Source International Aluminium Institute
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Environmental Facts

• Recycling plastics instead of processing crude
  oil and gas uses only 12 of the energy

Source Envirobank.com.au
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Environmental Facts
Re-processing recycled glass uses 50 of the
energy vs. using virgin glass
Source centre for Ecological Technology
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Environmental Facts

• Recycling cardboard and paper instead of logging
  forests uses only 40 of the energy

Source centre for Ecological Technology
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Challenges
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Challenges

• What does it take to bring about behavioural
  change?

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Challenges
Understanding the whole recycling picture
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Thank you