Download InsideWaste - Issue 26, Sep-Oct 2008 (6.36Mb)
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THE WA Shire of Augusta,encompassing 100 Margaret River wineries, has ordered a Glass AGG GM-2 glass crushing facility to save the region’s glass being either landfilled or transported to SA, via Perth, for processing.
The shire is putting up some $90,000 of its own funds to buy the crushing plant, with $126,000 in funding kicked in through the WA Department of Environment
and Conservation and the National Packaging Covenant.
Accepting glass from surrounding councils, the plant will become the glass recycling hub for south-west WA, aiming to process 800-900 tonnes in the first 12 months of operation.
In Sydney, meanwhile, WSN Environmental Solutions and its JV partner Australian Glass Technologies have reached a milestone, with the Chullora MRF having processed 5,000 tonnes of glass fines.
The facility was commissioned in January, also through an NPC grant, to process a stockpile of 120,000 tonnes of glass fragments of less than 25mm. The fines come from council kerbside recycling collections and the material – which is notoriously difficult to recover – is being crushed down and made into “high quality, market-ready
glass granules”.
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