New roads mixed with recycled plastics at 10 sites across Victoria will demonstrate a viable circular-economy solution to the nation, experts say.
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Cardiff University looks at breaking down plastic waste cheaply
Researchers at Cardiff University in the UK are looking at greener, faster and more effective way of recycling plastics.
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$9 million investment in plastic recycling
More plastic will be recycled and turned into new products in New South Wales thanks to $9 million funding to support businesses transform their operations and access the latest plastic recycling technology.
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New recycling plant in Vic aims to alleviate issues from China National Sword
A plastics recycling plant, with the capability of processing 70,000 tonnes of materials per year, aims to take some strain off Australia’s growing waste problem.
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NZ government’s product stewardship and kerbside recycling plans gain support from hundreds of companies
The Packaging Forum has given its support to the New Zealand government’s plans to improve plastic recycling and waste reduction efforts, which was recently announced by New Zealand’s Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage.
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LyondellBasell and SUEZ closing the loop on plastics
To help address the issue of even more stringent recycling targets on the way in the EU, Dutch plastics and chemical firm LyondellBasell has teamed up with French environmental services agent SUEZ to develop
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Processing highly contaminated post-consumer plastic? No problem.
The Austrian company manufactures a range of machines, from stationary and mobile shredders to complete systems for plastics recycling and the production of SRF/RDF fuels. In Australia, Lindner distributes
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Plastic Neutral certification pilot set to begin in Vanuatu
Adapted from Dave Hakken’s Precious Plastic modular machine, the mobile Shruder was specifically designed for remote areas and islets to shred and remould discarded plastics, removing them from the
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China’s ‘National Sword’ strikes recycling blow?
For Australia, a reasonable proportion of the recovered paper and plastic (ABS estimated 40% and 50% respectively in 2011) is exported. China is our main export market for recovered materials with ABS
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MWRRG shares flexible plastic kerbside collection learnings
The ‘Introduction of flexible plastics packaging into kerbside recycling services’ project was aimed at recovering flexible plastic packaging through existing kerbside collections from four partner
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