Materials Recycling and Consolidation
Our company objective is to align ourselves with achieving a reduction of waste that ends up in landfill by implementing a program of resource reduction and recovery. Our focus is on the redirection of waste away from landfill to alternative uses. Since there are so many ways to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, only a small amount of waste needs to end up as landfill. Waste disposal should be the last option. We sort and then take a number of recoverable resources to companies that turn this into energy and new products. All collected dry waste material is sorted and separated into reusable materials. The materials pass through an initial sorting process that reclaims and recycles materials such as timber, concrete, metals, green waste etc. This primary process removes and recovers approximately 60% of the materials received. The recovered ‘products’ are then transported to companies and businesses that convert the recovered materials into recycled reusable products. The table below shows how different materials can be sorted and recycled into new products. |
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| Recyclable Material | What it's made into |
| Scrap Metal | Scrap metal is shredded and processed to remove any impurities such as dirt or paint. The clean steel is then remanufactured into building products such as steel beams, plates and tubing. |
| Timber & Green Waste | We recover a large amount of timber and green waste which goes to energy technologies which creates electricity for industrial use and supply into the electricity grid. |
| Concrete | We sort concrete and then send this to companies that crush this into various products such as drainage gravel, paving bedding etc |
| Car Batteries | Batteries are transported to companies that recover the plastic and lead. The plastic is recycled into new plastic products and the lead is melted into ingots and used to make building materials such as weatherproof roof flashing. |
| Cardboard & Paper | Cardboard and paper is pulped and processed into new cardboard packaging. |
Whilst not all our waste can be handled through our own facility we extensively use businesses and other waste disposal facilities that accept waste and continue to apply greater levels of extraction and resource recovery than are possible in our own facility. In this regard 100% of the waste that is transported by our business goes through some form of reduction or recycling.
If you would like to know more about, the current changes and policy in Queensland check out the following sites.
Waste Management Association of Australia
Queensland Waste Strategy - Public Discussion Paper (PDF)
Queensland Waste Strategy - Consultation Summary Report (PDF)
What's Up With Rubbish - WCRAQ