Visy Recycling Claire Bull National Accounts Development Manager

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 Based on figures from 2008 Visy Report Visy Recycling – Overview

Recycling Operations Development & Expansion 1970’s ’s1990’s2000 In the beginning1980s - 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)

Development & Expansion – Today TODAY Today2005 – Glass recycling plant, Laverton VIC $15m 2006 – Super MRF, Smithfield NSW $30m Springvale automated plastics sort VIC $4m 2008 – Visy Recycling Victoria currently services 19 metropolitan council contracts

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’

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 Cartons Milk & Juice Cartons Glass Bottles & Jars Glass Bottles Jars Items accepted in the kerbside recycling bin Paper & Cardboard Newspapers, Magazines & Telephone books School and Office Paper Cardboard, Cereal & Food Boxes Envelopes, Junk Mail & Flyers

Items not acceptable in the kerbside bin  Plastic bags  Nappies  Ceramic Plates & Cups  Drinking Glasses  Light Bulbs  Polystyrene Cups & Cartons  Household & Car Batteries  Gas Cylinder  Paint Cans  Pyrex Dishes

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. How your recycling gets sorted..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\3.mpg

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. How your recycling gets sorted..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\4.mpg..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\6.mpg

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. How your recycling gets sorted..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\plasticsortnew_01.mpg..\My Documents\My Pictures\videos\EddyCurrent.wmv

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. How your recycling gets sorted

Example Recycling Paper What happens after sorting?

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 hydro- pulper

New from old Taking the ink out with soap

New from old Pressing and drying Recycled Paper

Recycled paper products New from old

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-often- used 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 saves 874m 3 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

What does it take to bring about behavioural change?

Challenges Understanding the whole recycling picture

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