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Recyclable plastics are recovered from kerbside collections for many years, and it has been profitable to export mixed plastics to China and other countries. With the advent of the China National Sword policy, as well as issues with contaminated loads of recyclables being sent to China and other countries, opportunities to send mixed plastics overseas for processing have diminished. In March 2020, the former Council of Australian Governments (COAG) decided to ban exports of recyclable waste from Australia from July 2021.

Despite these difficulties, export markets still exist for clean, separated, pelletised or flaked plastics and resins. However, there is very little local capacity in New South Wales (NSW) and within Australia to sort mixed recovered plastics into different types and convert them into valuable products.

To help address this issue, Plasrefine can provide the solution for mixed plastic waste recycling and reprocessing.

We would sort the plastics into different types and convert the various plastics to flakes and pellets (in the first stage) and produce more advanced products (in the second stage). The combined outputs of both stages would help fill the gap in local processing capacity for mixed plastics.

Plasrefine Recycling will recover and sort plastics into different types, convert them into valuable products, reducing the amount of plastics in landfill to increase the capacity and resilience of the recycling network in Australia.

This is a necessary waste management infrastructure to meet Sydney’s future waste management requirements, contributing to NSW achieving its resource recovery targets under the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 (Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) 2021a) and NSW Plastics Action Plan (DPIE 2021b) through the recovery and recycling of plastics.

Recycle plastics has significant economic, environmental and sustainability benefits:

Reduced landfill use.

The diversion of significant quantities of plastics waste from landfills.

Energy conservation.

Recycling a tonne of plastic saves energy equal to 5.774 kWh,equivalent to the amount of energy consumed by two people for a year.

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Every tonne of mixed plastics that can be recycled is estimated to lead to a net avoidance of 320 kilograms of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions, 1.2 kilograms of nonmethane volatile organic compounds (i.e., smog) and 26 kilolitres of water.

Circular economy.

Plasrefine Recycling would not only recycle mixed plastics, but it would also reprocess the plastics into advanced products, which is consistent with a move towards a circular economy.

Driving innovation:

Our R&D center conducts recycling research and product development to further drive innovation in plastics recycling.