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FEATURES REPORTS Plastics recycler Envorinex’s unique enterprise National Waste and Recycling Industry Council’s plan Transfer station revamp prioritises customer Infrastructure sustainability group looks to waste South Australia’s educational C&D solution E-commerce could put pressure on recycling Housing development avoids landfill pile-up The key to unlocking a circular economy Experience the Progress.
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Cleanaway’s Mark Globan explains how the company’s new South East Melbourne Transfer Station aligns with the Victorian Government’s Statewide Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan.
“FROM AN OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE I MAKE SURE WE’RE RUNNING EFFICIENTLY IN OUR RESOURCE RECOVERY, BUILDING THAT CAPACITY AND INCREASING OUR RECOVERY RATES.” Mark Globan, Cleanaway Regional Manager Post 38 Collections Victoria/Tasmania In this issue Features
NEW INDUSTRY SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S CEMENT RECYCLING 20 COUNCIL FORMED 34 C&D SOLUTION 48 Reduced fuel consumption We spoke to CEO Max Spedding KESAB environmental solutions was a major selling point for on the waste industry’s new explains how education could EcoGroup when it purchased national council. be the key to improving Liebherr’s L 550 Wheel Loader. resource recovery in SA. PLASTICS RECYCLER REGULATION REVIEW 24 RESHAPES INDUSTRY SORTING WASTE 52 Australian Packaging Covenant Envorinex is in the unique 38 ASSET TRASH CEO Trish Hyde explains the position of collecting, recycling The Infrastructure Sustainability industry side of co-regulation. and re-manufacturing waste. Council of Australia’s IS rating system will be revamped to COLLABORATION KEY include waste. 28 TO SUCCESS Regulars Copper Rock Investments’ new HOUSING BoB MB 8 TAL skiplift has 40 DEVELOPMENT 6 NEWS helped transform the company. Instant Waste has prevented 14 COVER STORY the local council’s landfill from TRANSFER STATION reaching capacity. 40 SITE IN FOCUS 30 PRIORITISES 50 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT CUSTOMER INTERNATIONAL Western Australia’s City of 46 The e-commerce market is likely 56 DIARY Busselton has developed a cost- to put new challenges on the 58 LAST WORD effective waste transfer station. waste management industry.
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MANAGING EDITOR Sebastian Grote From the new Editor [email protected] EDITOR Toli Papadopoulos New pathways [email protected] ART DIRECTOR Michelle Weston [email protected] CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A HOLIDAY, which is why I’m delighted to take over as DESIGN Editor of a magazine covering the rapidly growing waste management industry. Blake Storey, Sarah Doyle, James Finlay IBISWorld’s 2017 Waste Treatment and Disposal Services market research report shows BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER the industry grew at an annual rate of 2.2 per cent from 2012-17. Chelsea Daniel-Young Against this backdrop, we’ve seen public concerns over environmental issues fuel state [email protected] government legislation. p: +61 425 699 878 As governments set targets to divert waste from landfill, we will continue to see CLIENT SUCCESS MANAGER higher volumes of recyclable waste, further assisting growth through increased resource Justine Nardone [email protected] recovery. COVER PHOTOGRAPHER To that end, we will continue to provide you with not-to-be-missed information, Blake Storey speaking to industry to find out how it responds to these changes in 2017. HEAD OFFICE Our cover story reflects industry’s response to change, as we spoke to one of Prime Creative Pty Ltd 11-15 Buckhurst Street Australia’s largest waste management companies – Cleanaway, who explained how its South Melbourne VIC 3205 Australia modern transfer station ties in with the Victorian Government’s expectation of increased p: +61 3 9690 8766 f: +61 3 9682 0044 [email protected] waste transfer stations, supported by fewer, but larger, landfills. www.wastemanagementreview.com.au In line with this theme, turn to page 30 and you’ll find out how Western Australia’s SUBSCRIPTIONS City of Busselton incorporated recycled materials into its freshly built waste transfer +61 3 9690 8766 station. [email protected] Waste Management Review is available by Elsewhere in the state, the coastal community of the Catalina Estate grappled with subscription from the publisher. The rights of refusal an influx of construction and demolition waste, managing not only to prevent its local are reserved by the publisher landfill from reaching capacity, but supplying some of the recycled materials to state ARTICLES All articles submitted for publication become the infrastructure projects. property of the publisher. The Editor reserves the Construction and demolition waste is a significant problem is South Australia, as right to adjust any article to conform with the magazine format. government figures show about 1000 homes are demolished each year. On page 34, we chat to the City of Charles Sturt’s Community Safety Officer Building Site Mark Reid. COPYRIGHT Waste Management Review is owned by Prime The unique position sees Mark enforce recycling initiatives on council building sites. Creative Media and published by John Murphy. We include news of the latest developments on these issues and more on our website All material in Waste Management Review is copyright and no part may be reproduced or copied – www.wastemanagementreview.com.au – with a weekly round-up available in our free in any form or by any means (graphic, electronic or mechanical including information and retrieval e-Update newsletter, which you can sign up for via the website. systems) without written permission of the publisher. For general enquiries or article ideas, you can contact me directly by email at The Editor welcomes contributions but reserves the right to accept or reject any material. While every [email protected] or phone (03) 9690 8766. effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of I look forward to following the industry on this exciting journey in 2017. information, Prime Creative Media will not accept responsibility for errors or omissions or for any consequences arising from reliance on information published. The opinions expressed in Waste Management Review are not necessarily the opinions of, or endorsed by the publisher unless otherwise stated.
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Cleanaway sells tip sites in Melbourne
Melbourne-based waste management for the company told Fairfax Media. heritage former ETA peanut butter company Cleanaway has sold two Pelligra is focused on developing factory in Braybrook. landfill sites in Melbourne’s west for up industrial and contaminated sites, Cleanaway said the sale was to $22 million. having previously redeveloped the expected to be done by early March. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Cleanaway reported the sales were of two dormant landfill sites in Brooklyn, sold to specialist developers Pelligra Group. “These transactions are forecast to generate a pre-tax profit ... of approximately $20 to $22 million,” it said. Pelligra will assume responsibility for remediating and monitoring the sites in Market Road and Old Geelong Road, and has undertaken to cap the sites in line with environmental regulations. “Based on forecasts, the sales of these closed landfills will reduce spending on landfill rectification and remediation by approximately $20 million over the next six years,” Cleanaway said. The former tip sites have been dormant for years and had undergone initial remediation works, a spokesman Victorian Waste Management Association elects new president Weigh by the BIN or TRUCKLOAD
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Recycling Industry Association of South Australia (WRISA) has been formed consisting of representatives from Solo Resource Recovery, Peats Soil, Veolia, Mastec, Suez, Scout Recycling, ResourceCo and Bettatrans. “Through WRISA, the waste management and recycling industry operators in South Australia will have the opportunity as a single voice to promote the industry, and optimise engagement of government, business and the community,” said Peter Wadewitz, president of WRISA and managing director of Peats Soil. “Our objective is to influence change in the interest of the industry.” The association is aiming to canvasses the views of The focus of WRISA will be to all players large and small. engage those with an investment in the industry and to promote solutions to the legislative and regulatory A new waste and recycling industry investment in the state’s waste challenges facing the sector. representative body was formed in management, recycling and resource WRISA said the association’s Adelaide in February, after a meeting recovery industry. activities will be ensuring consultation attended by representatives from An inaugural management goes right across the local industry, a range of companies with direct committee of the Waste and including all players large and small.
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Nedlands braced to minimise waste with latest strategy
The City of Nedlands is on track to • Combinations of waste bins and ground on waste management, divert 65 per cent of all waste from collection processes wherever practical,” he said. landfill by 2020, after its latest Waste • Recycling construction and “The City has already hit the ground Minimisation Strategy was approved demolition waste running with a 91 per cent recovery by Council. • Working with schools through from verge collections under its latest It follows a 10-week community education and information contract, compared to the previous consultation period that found people • Reducing the amount of the illegal best of 51 per cent. were mainly supportive of the strategy dumping “For the strategy to succeed, it with only very minor amendments • Researching new technologies that will be important for the City and suggested. could produce energy from waste community to work together to ensure The Waste Minimisation Strategy • Enhancing the management of waste materials are thought of in 2017-20 will guide the City, with the commercial waste terms of a resource to be recovered, support of the community, in its efforts City of Nedlands Mayor Max Hipkins reused and recycled wherever improve the diversion of waste over the said the strategy would help to provide possible.” next four years. an integrated approach to waste Mayor Hipkins thanked the Methods of improving waste prevention. community for their responses and diversion will focus on: “We will be working with the said they would be included as part • Exploring the practicality of co-mingling community, industry and other local of the implementation of the Council’s food scraps with green waste governments to develop common minimisation strategy.
City of Nedlands Mayor Max Hipkins, with Year 6 Dalkeith Primary School students Eloise O’Clery, Max Yee and Sophie Laurance at Nedlands foreshore for Clean Up Australia Day activities.
8 / WMR / April-May 2017 ZenRobotics delivers new waste sorting system
Finnish robotic technology developer The facility has been used by the told Waste Management World the ZenRobotics will deliver a new robotic Melbourne company to better identify Australian market looks very promising waste sorting system to Melbourne resources from the 120,000-tonnes-per- for the technology. waste management firm Sunshine annum waste stream to be repurposed “It is exciting for Robots in Waste Groupe. and reused for other materials. to have the Sunshine Groupe project Waste Management World reported Once the waste is sorted, it will be finally close to completion as there the three-armed ZenRobotics Recycler transferred to the robotic material sorting are many companies that are aware of units (ZRR3) would be the first of its plant. this significant development and are kind in Australia, and fully operational by ZenRobotics explained that the ZRR3 watching with interest,” he said. spring 2017. will use precision sensors and artificial “Because of the sheer size of our Sunshine Groupe told the publication intelligence (AI) to sort specific material country we will have people flying across it had been investing its funds in a bid types from the waste stream. the continent to see the ZRR3 in action. to become one of Melbourne’s primary Robots in Waste’s Jim Duncan Such is the interest in the system.” waste processors. “We believe that through changed thinking and innovative technology, wastes can be transformed into valuable resources. We will achieve this by challenging conventional waste practices and by looking for new and innovative technologies to recycle waste,” explained Tom Buxton, Director at Sunshine Groupe. Sunshine Groupe installed a material recycling facility (MRF) at its Brooklyn landfill and recovery site through a partnership with Sustainability Victoria.
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Central Australian salt mine to op- erate as waste facility
A proposed salt mine in Central electronic archives and paper copies. tonnes of waste per annum, the draft Australia will also be used as a deep “It’s just like one of your commercial indicates. storage facility for archival material and above-ground storage facilities, but is ABC News reported the company hazardous waste. well suited in a dry environment.” expects to start with 30,000 tonnes for In February, developer Tellus Holdings The proposed Chandler site salt mine the first year and an average 340,000 noted the facility’s potential in a is 120 kilometres south of Alice Springs. tonnes per annum after that. statement, after the draft environmental Mr van der Merwe said various Mr van der Merwe said underground impact statement was released. waste types could be stored in the salt mines were ideal for storing these Managing director Duncan van der rock salt mines, such as those from waste products. Merwe told ABC News the concept was the agriculture, construction, health However, he said they will not take nothing new. care and manufacturing sectors, as nuclear and uranium waste. “The voids leftover from mining well as chemical, industry, mining and “We’re emphatically saying that we effectively creates an underground technology. will not take uranium waste and nuclear warehouse business,” Mr van der Merwe “Oil, gas and waste from utilities like waste. In the event that we even get said. electricity, water, gas supply [can also approached down the road we will “This is popular in Europe and be stored],” he said. decline that. North America where the banks and The facility would be able to store “We are not interested in using our governments store equipment and or permanently isolate up to 400,000 facility for these services.”
Developer Tellus Holdings released a draft statement for the proposed facility earlier this year.
10 / WMR / April-May 2017 Victorian Government launches waste to energy fund
The Victorian Government has launched 2014-15, but only 22 per cent of that proposals for new or upgraded projects a new $2 million program to support was recycled. that can be commissioned by 31 the development of waste to energy Diverting commercial and industrial December 2019. technologies, including anaerobic food waste from landfills means methane Minister for Energy, Environment digestion and thermal treatment of produced during decomposition is not and Climate Change Lily D’Ambrosio waste. released to the atmosphere where it is a said waste to energy projects helped The Waste to Energy Infrastructure major greenhouse gas. to reduce business costs, generating Fund will boost sustainable energy Methane released to the atmosphere sustainable energy and reducing production using organic and other is 25 times more potent than carbon pressure on landfill. materials and divert more waste from dioxide, trapping heat and contributing “This program supports investment landfill. to climate change. in renewable energy technologies that As a major food producing and The Waste to Energy Infrastructure will help Victoria become a low carbon processing state, Victoria’s commercial Fund is designed for the waste economy and reach our target of zero and industrial sector produced more management sector, councils, water net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,” ACC 1050bthan BinWeigh 300,000 half tonnes page ad of 135 food x 200.qxp_Layoutwaste in authorities 1 13/09/2016 and 8:12businesses am Page with 1 Ms D’Ambrosio said.
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Global industrial shredder market projected to decline
The global industrial shredder of electrical vehicles will be a key development that is expected to market is projected to drop from growth driver for the segment, the boost the demand for shredding US$840 million (A$1.1 billion) to company found. machines, driving market growth. US$810 million (A$1.06 billion) by “The adoption of electric vehicles The reported noted that sales will 2021, according to London-based has increased due to advances also be driven by the mining and research company Technavio. in technology and government nuclear waste sectors. The company released its market incentives on these vehicles,” The top three emerging trends outlook for 2017-21 earlier this year. explained Lead Analyst Gaurav driving the global industrial shredder The report provides a detailed Mohindru. machine market according to industry analysis based on products, “Western Europe is witnessing Technavio heavy industry research including iron and steel and an explosive growth of the electric analysts are: aluminium, copper and non-ferrous vehicle market, with manufacturers • The growing sales of electric metals. expanding their factory floors to meet vehicles It covers products based in the the increasing demand.” • The evolution of waste management Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Mr Mohindru added many electric techniques to suit low-grade ores Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. vehicle manufacturers are thus heavily • Stringent nuclear reactor Despite challenging economic investing in expanding and improving regulations following the Fukushima conditions ahead, growing sales their manufacturing capabilities – a Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.
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Cleanaway’s long-term strategy for Victoria’s waste CLEANAWAY’S MARK GLOBAN EXPLAINS HOW THE COMPANY’S NEW SOUTH EAST MELBOURNE TRANSFER STATION ALIGNS WITH THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT’S STATEWIDE WASTE AND RESOURCE RECOVERY INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN.
14 / WMR / April-May 2017 he Victorian Government has a consolidation and sorting of waste and Post Collections Victoria/Tasmania, vision to achieve an integrated material streams. explains that Cleanaway’s new state- T system of waste management This will ultimately bring Victoria’s of-the-art transfer station supports the and resource recovery infrastructure, waste management and resource Government’s plan – as the company’s and Cleanaway believes its new recovery activities, together in a landfills in Melbourne’s south-east transfer station, due to open in May network of “hubs and spokes”. Hubs begin entering the phase of post- 2017, supports the model well. are defined as a facility or group of closure management. Strategic planning is now being facilities managing waste and material “Our Clayton landfills will be closed undertaken by industry across the state streams (such as a landfill), while by the end of June this year. However, to support the plan. spokes are the sequence of activities by May, our transfer station in Statutory authority Sustainability that move materials from waste Dandenong will be operational. That Victoria, who released its Statewide generators to and from hubs, including will act as a consolidation point for Waste and Resource Recovery collection, transport and sorting. waste, and our vehicles will transfer Infrastructure Plan (SWRRIP) plan “In the long term, the role of the material from Dandenong to our in 2015, also expects the number of landfills will be to manage waste Melbourne Regional Landfill (MRL) at transfer stations to increase over the streams that cannot be viably Deer Park, for disposal,” Mark says. next 30 years, as landfills, particularly recovered,” the plan goes on to say. Mark is responsible for the in Melbourne’s south-east, reach According to the SWRRIP, total management of Cleanaway’s capacity. This will work in favour waste generation in Victoria is Melbourne’s landfills (active and of a model increasingly focused on projected to almost double from 12.2 rehabilitated), transfer station resource recovery, supported by fewer million tonnes in 2011 to 20.6 million network, resource recovery and but larger and more modern landfills tonnes in 2043-44. organics businesses. around the state, allowing ongoing Mark Globan, Regional Manager “From an operational perspective
Shane Waye, Cleanaway Program Manager, says his experience has aided him in managing the design, construction and commissioning of the new transfer station.
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Mark Globan, Regional Manager Post Collections Victoria/Tasmania is in charge of managing Cleanaway’s Melbourne’s landfills, transfer station networks, resource recovery and organics business.
I make sure we’re running efficiently technology needs.” in our resource recovery, building Mark says part of the new transfer that capacity and increasing our station involves the closure of the recovery rates. I am also responsible landfill and the rehabilitation of the The new facility will be able to manage for a network of Transfer Stations company’s Victory Road landfill in 450,000 tonnes of waste per annum. which support Sustainability Victoria’s Melbourne’s south-east. He says SWRRIP and the hub and spoke model Cleanaway has in principal approval it outlines. from council to turn it into a park. He says the average amount of “Our new facility absolutely “It’s all work to be completed under waste processed at transfer stations supports that model as it will become a EPA auditing and approval processes. across Victoria is approximately half consolidation point for waste.” We will comply with EPA guidance this figure. Mark says Cleanaway’s new transfer around capping. We go through a “The capacity is unique when facility will be used by commercial rigorous design, based on the pre- compared to our other sites. Nine customers and councils to transfer approved contours, and then we go trucks are able to tip at a time. There’s their kerbside collections. through a construction process where automation that allows trucks to move He says as the population increases, it’s capped, and grasses and plants through the site safely and efficiently.” Cleanaway is positioning itself to placed over the top. He says the modern transfer provide the critical infrastructure “Once the landfills have reached station features a fully automated required in order to manage capacity, we have to manage them for traffic control system and high speed Melbourne’s waste well into 30 years. We’ve got a rehab program loadout doors, improving wait times the future. running through to 2022, where we for customers. “One of our goals is to provide will be rehabilitating five landfills.” “The automated traffic control efficient buffers and protection Mark explains that the South East system will change the way vehicles overlays through the government’s Melbourne Transfer Station will have move through the site. Customers planning mechanisms, and make the capacity to manage 450,000 tonnes will be able to dispose of their sure they’re engineered to handle of waste per annum – the largest waste more efficiently, saving both the increase in volumes and future amount processed in Melbourne. time and money. And through
16 / WMR / April-May 2017 to loadout walls up to 750mm thick, located on the west side. “A Caterpillar 962M wheel loader picks up the waste, loads over a 1.8m push wall, and empties the waste into the new 30m A-Doubles vehicles. That’s why it’s called a loadout/push wall because the waste is pushed up against the wall and then lifted over the top of that wall and into the truck.” He says a 20mm thick/2m-high-steel plate attached to the pit wall guides the waste into the trailer. Shane says the Caterpillar 962M was chosen due to its loading capacity. “You want to get a larger machine so you’re not running it at its capacity all the time.” “We’re using A-double trailers to transfer the material out to MRL and the unique thing about these are they’re not a walking floor or dump style, they’re what they call a tipper trailer. This allows us to increase pay loads, improving transport economy. There is a maximum weight you can load onto a truck, so rather than having hydraulic material management increased automation, we will have and construction of waste facilities within the trailer which would less personnel moving around the and has been commissioned on many consume some of that weight, we site, which greatly increases safety,” of the largest transfer stations in the don’t have any of that, so we can fit Mark explains. US for the some of the world’s largest more waste on the truck,” Shane says. Mark says the location is waste companies. Shane says 26m crossovers were positioned more centrally in south- Shane says the company was built at the entrance of the site to cater east Melbourne than Cleanaway’s hired to help develop a generic for the 30m purpose-built A-Double competitors, and is being designed and design blueprint, identifying specific trailer configuration. He says a built to maximise efficiency. construction standards and building Columbian Tipper will operate at “Driving on a concrete hardstand requirements pertinent to a purpose- MRL to unload the A-Double trailers is less intrusive to vehicles – for our built waste transfer station. Cleanaway that pick up the waste from the new customers it’s all about efficiency.” is now using these standards in the transfer station. It will then lift the Shane Waye, Cleanaway Program future design and construction of loaded trailer to a height where the Manager, explains the transfer station similar facilities around Australia. waste will empty from the trailer onto was designed by a local team that The research has informed the use of the operating face. leveraged information from previous push walls on the east, south and north Construction is well underway on projects. This was combined with the sides of the transfer station, which are the site, with the new transfer station experience of a company from the US, up to 4.2m high, and used to create an on schedule. Cambridge Constructions. Cambridge efficient loading of the waste arriving “After work commenced, Melbourne Constructions specialises in the design at the facility for transfer, in addition had one of the wettest winters for
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National Waste and Recycling Industry Council to advocate for industry
A NEW BODY WORKING TO CREATE A COHESIVE NATIONAL VISION FOR AUSTRALIA’S WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY HAS OFFICIALLY FORMED. WE SPOKE TO THE ORGANISATION’S CEO MAX SPEDDING ABOUT HIS PLANS.
20 / WMR / April-May 2017 Tell us a bit about your past role as Working with industry stakeholders, What are some of the major challenges the chief executive of the Australian we intend to develop industry position for the industry going forward and Landfill Owners Association (ALOA) papers, which will become policy road how does the NWRIC intend to - how do you think your past maps to take the industry forward. advocate for change? experiences will help you as CEO of We’ll then promote, both The NWRIC is a broad based policy the National Waste and Recycling directly and through our affiliates, body which will create, promote Industry Council (NWRIC)? these consensus policy papers to and advocate for industry-driven Having both industry CEO experience key state and Commonwealth policy. We want to bring to the (BFI then SITA from 1994 to 2001) – regulators and decision makers. In Government’s attention regulations and the last three years with Australian this way, the Council is Australia’s and administrative burdens which Landfill Owners Association – I have first national advocacy group create a cost to business but don’t a great basis to take on the role. As linked to an affiliate branch in benefit communities, businesses or the the NWRIC will, in time, address each state. environment. all sectors of the waste and recycling Poor policing of standards is a industry I expect my first-hand How will you work with some of the simple example. State EPAs need to knowledge will help give the Council national members such as Alex Fraser be equipped to find, prosecute and focus, and an industry approach. Group, Cleanaway and Solo Resource close down operators who operate Recovery? illegally or dump waste. These groups How will the NWRIC work in the Just as the waste industry is broad, undermine the investments made best interests of Australia’s waste the activities and services of our by quality providers, and harm the management industry? How does members are broad. However, there environment and communities. this collaboration similarly fit in with are many issues they can agree upon. Similarly, the great variation state-level industry-based associations? For example, regulations covering in landfill levies across Australia The Council works to represent the the Australian waste and recycling is creating unnecessary waste interests of Australia’s waste and industry vary greatly from state to transportation. We want to ensure that recycling industry through the creation state, and this variation can create regulation doesn’t create unintended of industry-driven policy. increased costs. Likewise, the need consequences. This policy aims to create an industry for waste management infrastructure which is fair, safe, sustainable and to be protected from encroachment What level of progress has the prosperous for all waste management and creating fair markets is association made since commencing companies. also important. in February, and what are your goals for 2017? We’re in active consultation with our members, our affiliates and key industry stakeholders. Right now we’re working to identify key industry issues and then build consensus around new policy positions. When these positions have been ratified by industry, we’ll share them on our website and with the industry more broadly. We’re seeing a lot more collaboration between industry and local, state and federal government. NWRIC has received support from Where do you see this heading now some of Australia’s largest companies. and into the future?
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The Council is aiming to advocate for cohesive and national waste policies.
Collaboration is improving – but there environmental and economic outcomes lifespan of the infrastructure. is still a lot of work to do. Nationally, are achieved. Communities will have If funding is to come from the harmonisation of regulations and to accept the siting of these facilities, private sector, laws and regulations standards have, in the view of industry, and be willing to enter into long term need to be durable over the long term. gone backwards in the last five years. contracts for secure funding. For example, in 2013 Queensland What are some of the challenges introduced a landfill levy, then rolled it Meeting government targets to reduce surrounding greenhouse gas emissions? back less than one year later. waste to landfill is certainly going The Australian waste and recycling Likewise, a carbon pricing scheme to be difficult for local and state industry is only responsible for around was put in place in 2012, applied governments across the nation. What 1.5 per cent of Australia’s greenhouse selectively to landfills, and then do you think governments are doing emissions – so relatively speaking it’s a repealed 24 months later. well in terms of planning and what very small greenhouse emitter. The NWRIC will be asking regulators can they do better to ensure industry is Greenhouse emissions from the to put in place simple, effective better equipped to handle this? waste industry have fallen of the regulations which last. Further, the Landfill diversion targets in Australia last decade, mostly due to the work Council will advocate for regulations may be achievable – but without of landfill gas operators, with all which don’t create market distortions. supporting infrastructure for recycling, of Australia’s large landfills now composting and anaerobic digestion, capturing gas. There’s been quite a bit of movement they may be difficult to achieve. As Between 1990 and 2008, net in areas such as waste to energy, a result the Council believes state emissions from the waste sector with Victoria recently launching a $2 and Commonwealth regulators need declined by 20 per cent, despite huge million program. What potential do to focus on planning to support growth in waste volumes. you see for this space? infrastructure development and the Broadly speaking, waste and Australia has very little energy creation of markets for diverted recycling was an early respondent recovery infrastructure, and no products. on greenhouse emissions, and this operating large scale energy recovery Historically, encroachment by is expected to continue in future plants today. Using large scale urban development has closed down through the diversion of organics energy recovery infrastructure as an waste management facilities. We need from landfill and the introduction alternative to landfill is not far away. State Government to put aside clearly of ‘micro’ flares on smaller landfills. Our members work consultatively in marked zones for waste management, The Commonwealth Government has each community where they operate and once these zones are established, recognised this by allowing access to in to ensure the maximum social, they must be protected for the the Emissions Reduction Fund.
22 / WMR / April-May 2017 What do you think are the key processes shouldn’t take years when supports a “circular economy” concerns of small and medium waste there is a genuine need for a facility. approach to resource recovery and management enterprises? What are The Council will work to develop will strive in the future to develop manufacturers, distributors and policies that will shorten these policies to reduce stockpiling and collection companies saying needs waiting times without compromising improve resource recovery rates. changing? environmental standards. Smaller waste and recycling enterprises face high regulatory burdens, and the What waste streams pose the most Council wants to address this problem. issues? Construction and demolition The waste and recycling industry is waste is one area that is piling up in heavily regulated – and reporting states such as South Australia. requirements are unnecessarily high All waste streams are important, but in some cases – particularly for waste the complexity of their treatment and transporters. Regulations need to be the development of end markets vary simple, effective and statewide. from product to product and from Small waste enterprises need to location to location. know that if they play by the rules, Some waste streams have resource they won’t face competition from recovery rates which are lower than illegal or substandard operators. others due to disposal pricing, the Max Spedding, NWRIC CEO, has Finally, the licensing of waste facilities value of recovered materials and previously worked for ALOA. takes too long. Administrative available infrastructure. The Council
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Breaking the mould ENVORINEX MANAGING DIRECTOR JENNY BROWN IS IN THE UNIQUE POSITION OF COLLECTING WASTE, RECYCLING AND RE-MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS FROM TASMANIA’S FARMING, AQUACULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND OTHER INDUSTRY SECTORS. SHE EXPLAINS HOW THE PRODUCTS CAN BE RECYCLED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS.
24 / WMR / April-May 2017 hen Jenny Brown purchased plastic into second life products. we’ve got the logistics to take into a plant and equipment “When the previous company closed consideration. It’s best for us to recycle Wfrom Tasmania-based we bought their machinery and started the waste here instead of baling the SVP Industries in 2009, she saw an up again. Since then we’ve focused waste and sending it to the mainland opportunity. more on the recycling, though we still or overseas recyclers. We can collect, The state’s booming aquaculture manufacture and export our products.” recycle and re-manufacture it into industry created thousands of tonnes The company has been recycling another product within Tasmania which of plastic from salmon pens, which plastics since 2009, but in 2015 can then be exported out of the state, Jenny identified could be used in Envorinex installed its first complete sold within Tasmania, and any excess manufacturing infrastructure products recycling line to process high density recycled pellets sold to Melbourne if recycled. polyethylene and polypropylene manufacturers.” After extensive market research, she plastics, used in salmon farming. She says as a result of her work the discovered that exporting waste across Jenny explains that the company, company now manufactures products Tasmania’s Bass Strait to the mainland based in Tasmania’s north east, is in a from 65 per cent recycled materials. came at a hefty cost for businesses. unique position of being a collector, She estimates up to 12 different But she found that recycling the recycler and re-manufacturer of streams of waste are collected, including materials into products could help waste plastics with those finished plastics from the salmon industry. reduce costs for her business and others products being exported to countries As part of her setup, Jenny says she in Tasmania. such as Papua New Guinea, Vietnam travels to salmon farms across the state, To help change the focus of the and Scotland. collecting the plastic from salmon pens company, Jenny renamed it to “Because we are based in Tasmania and feed pipe. Envorinex, with a goal of helping improve Australia’s environmental footprint through collecting, recycling and remanufacturing
Demand for additional sites has seen Jenny explore options overseas.
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Jenny says Tasmania’s Bass Strait has substantial transportation costs.
Jenny says once collected, the waste which is then pelletised to be sold or volume of material. It’s not really is brought back to the factory and used in the manufacturing process. the weight that’s the issue, it is the stored on site until it is time to process “Shredding basically reduces the size size. Some of these pipes are up to the material. of the material, the granulating takes 800mm in diameter, so they’re large The plastic pellets, which are made it down to a very small, about a 5mm volumes that we’re processing through from high density polyethylene plastic piece, before it’s melted in an extruder the factory.” (HDPE), are converted into a range and then it goes through what is like a Polyethylene pipes used for water of infrastructure products, including “spaghetti” die head, and then it’s sliced irrigation lines and mining sites also a grid, named the EnvoHexGrid, for into small pieces, known as pellets form part of Envorinex’s collection. permeable paving. The grid is sold to within the industry. “Pivot and Impact (Tasmanian agents who supply the materials to “It’s a valuable resource to us, fertiliser companies) have about councils, gardeners and landscapers there’s no reason why it can’t be 48,000 bags per annum, which we across Australia as a replacement for reused. Previously all this material collect and are turned back into a concrete or asphalt. was going to landfill and it’s a huge polypropylene pellet.” Jenny explains that salmon pens in Tasmania produce the bulk of the facility’s recycling materials. “We’ve had a contract with salmon farmers Tassal for quite some time Envorinex’s operation aims to improve the nation’s environmental footprint. and we’re about to enter into another contract with them in a couple of months, which will focus on recycling fishing nets using a similar process. “Their pens also have stanchions, which are upright mouldings that sit around the salmon pen, also made from HDPE.” The HDPE is shredded using a Genox shredder in order to reduce the volume of the plastic before it is granulated. The Plasmac recycling line then granulates and extrudes the material,
26 / WMR / April-May 2017 OVER 150 AUSTRALIAN Stanchions are used to fabricate the COMPANIES salmon pens. Tassal brings in the items. HAVE GENOX RECYCLING EQUIPMENT INSTALLED. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM YET?
Waste polypropylene is used to make baseplates used on council roads, Jenny says. Silage wrap will also be used in a $1.5 million processing line, to be installed in the next six months. While the company is spending millions of dollars upgrading its Tasmanian site, Jenny says demand exists for additional sites that would follow a similar process. “We’ve just finished two years of research to recycle rope and fishing nets and at this stage we will begin recycling these products late this year. At the moment we are Ideal for companies looking to achieve zero landfill stockpiling the rope, netting, bulker bags and silage wrap Reliable, cost effective, environmentally friendly until we get that line in place. Australia’s favourite solution for all kinds of waste/materials reduction applications “Port Lincoln we’re doing a feasibility study on and Extensive range available: also in East Gippsland with the option to replicate our – Vision Series – high quality, cost effective shredders operation.” – Gran-Calibur series granulator - defined size reduction of But recycling is not without its challenges, she says, as various materials in a single pass contamination poses a huge risk to their products. – High performance plastic washing and drying plants, “The biggest challenge is contamination. With the waste complete tyre recycling plants, made-to-order solution we bring in, this machinery is very expensive so we don’t for practically all recycling applications. want metal or timber or any foreign objects getting through our production line. We have magnets that can pick up For more information: metal but there’s some things such as timber and tyres they Call: 03 9706 8066 Email: [email protected] don’t pick up.” Visit: www.appliedmachinery.com.au She says contamination is best avoided by finding it before it reaches the extruder. “This is why we don’t pick up public waste – it’s only commercial and industrial waste.”
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Collaboration the key to success COPPER ROCK INVESTMENTS MANAGING DIRECTOR JOHN MASTROAPAOLO SAYS PRODUCTIVITY AT HIS WASTE AND RECYCLING DEPOT HAS INCREASED 20 PER CENT AS A RESULT OF PURCHASING A BOB MB 8 TAL SKIPLIFT.
skiplift and MB 12 TAL, and John Mastroapaolo purchased the former in February of this year. Skiplifts are predominately used for waste collection and recycling in Australia. The main difference between the two is the BoB MB 8TAL skiplift has a lifting capacity of eight tonnes, compared to the MB 12 TAL which can lift 12. John, of Copper Rock, runs a waste and recycling depot which also offers bin hire and garden supply, operating out of Melbourne’s south-east. The pair have been working together for almost 10 years, and John says the company has always delivered a consistent product on time. With more than 10 vehicles travelling through the city, John says Vaclift has previously provided a reliable and infallible hooklift. strong relationship between market, family-owned Australian “The advantage of a skiplifter over contractors and manufacturers manufacturing, importing and the other technologies that are out Ain the waste collection distributing company Vaclift has there is that they pick the container industry is paramount to improving continued to maintain its robust up and it remains parallel with the productivity. relationship with Copper Rock. ground,” Jon adds. That is according to Vaclift Jon Pamment says he is ecstatic to “So if you have anything that’s likely Managing Director Jon Pamment have entered the skiplift market with to slide around or move, compared to and his client – Copper Rock BoB Skiplifts which uses telescopic a cable lift or a hooklift machine, it Investments Managing Director John arms to load multiple bins at once. picks it up parallel and puts it on the Mastroapaolo. Vaclift has two models of skiplifts, back of a truck.” By bringing new products into the including the BoB MB 8 TAL Since getting the skiplift onto the
28 / WMR / April-May 2017 road, John of Copper Rock believes one bin up to 4600mm in length. cable lift machine, making it more the recycling company’s productivity Both models come with long manoeuvrable. has gone up by about 20 per cent. telescopic arms, which allows two bins But the pair say they wouldn’t have John also boasts a quicker loading of up to 2300 millimetres long to be been able to achieve their desired time and enhanced stability. loaded one behind the other. outcomes without a strong working “It was hard to pick up 6m bins full Jon says the old fixed arms on relationship. of soil, so we went a bit bigger and it previous machines were able to “We go hand in hand. We have paid off,” John says. squeeze one container inside another, to get along with each other to try “You can pick up more, it’s actually but the new technology has greatly and move things forward,” Jon says. faster from start to finish and the bin improved on this benchmark. “There’s no point buying alternate on the truck is a lot faster.” “With a telescopic arm we can get equipment that’s going to let them The speedier process brings the four or five containers and then put down.” trucks back quicker to the depot. two stacks of them up of a back of a By the same token he argues it’s With almost 30 years’ experience machine if they need to.” important to offer an affordable distributing hooklifts and 50 years in He says the current machines product. the waste industry, Jon explains that improve metals recycling by picking The strong client to supplier the family owned business entered the the materials up parallel, ensuring the relationship has allowed John to call skiplift business after identifying a gap metal remains in the vehicle. upon Vaclift for valuable product in the market. BoB’s cylinder guards protect the information. “We saw an opportunity for us to be cylinder rod regardless of it being “We’ve bought hooklifts and trailers a player in that market. I think there retracted or extended. off them and at the end of the day was some space for a well-priced good Jon explains that another advantage they’ve given us exactly what the specs quality European machine. of BoB’s skiplifts is the wheel base is should be,” John says. “We began installing skiplifts in typically shorter than a hooklift or “They’re always around to help.” November of last year. We’ve got well over 550 hooklifts installed around Australia.” He says European machinery allows for higher weights on axels, so changes were made to the imported product to bring it in line with Australian standards. Jon explains that the company has also fixed a common problem in the industry of companies having to wait three to four months before they can gain access to a machine. “We’ve solved that problem by having them here in stock. If people need them quick we can have them on the truck in a week and a half,” Jon says. “We order them to specification, and have them sitting here. We did our research first to see what the market needed, and then we’ve ordered the machines and we have five of them currently out there awaiting delivery.” The MB 8TAL is designed to load
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Transfer station prioritises customer experience WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S CITY OF BUSSELTON HAS DEVELOPED A NEW AND COST-EFFECTIVE WASTE TRANSFER STATION, INCORPORATING STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGIES AND THE UNIQUE USE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS.
ow do you bring waste transfer process from April to October, 2016. new system of dropping off their waste into the 21st century? With more than 10 years’ experience to a designated area. H In a once-in-a-generation in the waste industry, Vitor Martins, Rather than construct a transfer opportunity, the City of Busselton, City of Busselton’s Manager Waste and station at a previously undeveloped site, which lies in the south west of Western Fleet Services, says the new facility the Busselton Waste Transfer Station has Australia, has torn down its tip and operates with greater efficiency and puts been built on top of the former transfer started from scratch. the customer first. station and old landfill. The regional coastal city It’s a concept that’s involved a Ertech provided a competitive incorporated the use of recycled regimented community education tender, Vitor says, offering an materials in a six-month construction program, as customers transition to a alternative design for the retaining wall
Vitor Martins, Manager Waste and Fleet Services, with Mayor Grant Henley.
30 / WMR / April-May 2017 correct area, while guarantying security of the site at all times. Commencing in May 2016, Vitor says the project involved demolishing the existing structures at the site, constructing new roads and a gatehouse building, the installation of a new drop-off area and electrical and communication conduits, as well as appropriate drainage and disposal of potentially contaminated stormwater. He explains that in developing the retaining wall structure, Ertech supplied Lomwest proprietary prefabricated concrete walls, which included whole recycled tyres within their structure of the domestic drop-off area, a major With an eye for the customer used as fill materials. component of the facility’s new layout. experience, the new facility was based “This has allowed substantial savings He says the tender was most on other state of the art transfer stations in terms of additional concrete that competitive due to Ertech’s offer in Europe, including the UK, Ireland, we’d have to pour otherwise.” to use recycled materials available Portugal, and in metropolitan areas in Vitor says the process involved on site, including recycled tyres and Australia. bundling and tying the tyres together, bricks and concrete. It comes with CCTV cameras, then hanging them in position over “The concrete structure of the designated areas for waste disposal, a casting bed. One side of the wall retaining wall at the general waste fully sealed roads and enthusiastic staff was then poured, casting the tyres drop-off area, included the recycling ready to explain the seamless process to into that slab. When cured, the slab of used tyres, so over 200-250 tyres their customers. and tyres were turned over and the were included in the retaining wall Vitor says CCTV cameras ensure second slab was poured, again casting structure,” Vitor says. customers dispose of their waste in the the tyres into it. After curing, the The original waste disposal cell had been decommissioned since 2012, with The transfer station in its completed form. the site operating as a Waste Transfer Station only. Non-recyclable waste was transported to the Dunsborough Waste Facility for disposal. However, after stricter environmental regulations were introduced by the Department of Environment Regulation, burial at the site was no longer permitted. As a result, the new waste transfer station was built on top of the former tip site.
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wall was transported to site and lifted Tyres are placed within the into position. retaining wall for recycling. The retaining wall structure included a 6,000 m2 surfacing of road base materials comprising of recycled bricks and concrete, Vitor says, which formed much of the asphalted surface. The structure also incorporated recycled construction and demolition materials stockpiled over a four-year period, including crushed bricks and concrete, produced by feeding sorted and cleaned construction debris into a jaw crusher and screeners. “As we were building it, we had the final users in mind. There was a lot of calibration and trialling as we went along and some minor improvements we had to do to the original design, but no major challenges.” Vitor says the process of switching customers to the new transfer station involves an ongoing community education process. This was due to the fact that staff at system of directly into bin does require the waste transfer station used to sort some additional effort to overcome the through and transfer each customers’ existing railings at the general waste waste after they dropped it off, whereas drop-off area.” now customers have to place their The Council even changed the name items in a designated area, either at the of its new waste transfer station to align various recycling stations or directly with contemporary practice. into a hooklift bin at a multi-tiered “Although the transfer station itself drop-off area for general waste. is transferring waste, we renamed the Vitor says local media conveyed facility to the Busselton Waste Transfer Did you know... these messages effectively, along with and Recycling Centre, because we Equipment used on the project: a recycling education officer who wanted to convey the message that it Caterpillar 950 Front End Loader developed material distributed at the is no longer the tip that people used to gatehouse. think about back in the day.” Caterpillar 12 H Grader “We provide some useful tips how The facility includes an additional Caterpillar 330 Excavator (30 tonne) to make it easier for them, and also to space for bulkier items. Hitachi 8 Tonne Excavator indicate the various recycling areas, in Operating a seven-day facility instead Dynapac Pad Foot Roller (15 tonne) addition to signage on site, so it’s clear of a weekend facility allows the Council where they have to go for specific items, to better plan its operations, he says, Dynapac Smooth Drum Roller (15 tonne) including e-waste, green waste and balancing the workload over the whole scrap metal. week and reducing peak periods for Tadano Crane (200 tonne) “Senior residents – we still give them staff and plant. Caterpillar Skid Steer Loader the possibility of disposing of their “We used to have very limited Hino 15000 Litre Water truck waste as they used to because the new operation on site.
32 / WMR / April-May 2017 “We were receiving general waste “We now have an area specifically transfer out of there to the new site from the public only during weekends, with low bins where people can drop when it comes into operation.” when we had a plant available on site. their scrap metal directly into.” The City of Busselton is growing its Now it’s open seven days a week.” The Council is seeking interest from population by roughly four per cent per Asphalted areas reduced dust local community groups to develop a year, Vitor says, impacting its recycling emissions in a location once comprising re-use shop within the facility, which and general waste capacity. bare soil, Vitor says, as well as will allow re-used items to be sold, But the modern pressures of stricter providing an impermeable cap to the reducing the amount of goods sent to environmental standards have led former landfill, reducing the impact of landfill. to a landfill levy being imposed in legacy contamination from the previous The new facility also prevents metropolitan WA, which Vitor believes tipping site. illegal dumping through its seven-day will likely reach Busselton. “In some areas we did have to remove operations. “This further increases the cost of the existing waste because it was He says the site was also developed residents disposing of their waste, but unsuitable in terms of compaction rates to cater for future growth of the city, that’s a potential driver when you’re for what we were building on top. But and the Council was working with local planning for the future, because it is overall, what we basically did was we governments in the south-west on a new likely that as marginal opportunities to capped the underlying waste. waste facility. recycle are reduced in the metropolitan “People drive into the site, and “The transfer station has been areas, obviously state government looks dispose of their recyclables, prior to designed to cater for that long distance at regional areas to follow suit.” even getting in the general waste area. travel, where we have to transfer the He says he is proud to note that “Also a key component is improved waste to regional, remote sites. Busselton is the first local government safety, we used to have large “After an appropriate compactor in regional WA to build a properly stockpiles of scrap metal which was a has been installed, our own kerbside lined landfill in accordance with concern, because it created a hazard. collection will have the possibility to environmental standards.
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South Australia’s C&D waste solution
GOVERNMENT FIGURES SHOW CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE IS ON THE RISE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WITH ABOUT 1000 HOMES DEMOLISHED IN ADELAIDE EACH YEAR. DICK OLESINSKI FROM KESAB ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS EXPLAINS HOW EDUCATION COULD BE THE KEY TO IMPROVING RESOURCE RECOVERY.
onstruction and demolition (C&D) waste has long been an KESAB delivers recycling training to Cissue in South Australia, but approximately 800 students statewide. one organisation continues to change the way builders think about how they dispose their waste. Through its Clean Site program, KESAB is aiming to increase recycling and resource recovery rates from construction sites through its training programs provided to emerging builders, contractors and students in the Construction Industry Training Board’s Doorways2Construction program across the state. The organisation has partnered with groups such as the Master Builders South Australia and the Construction Industry Training Board to create awareness, engagement and industry participation. Coordinator Dick Olesinski said the Clean Site program was established by KESAB about 18 years ago, in line with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) goal to reduce stormwater pollution and C&D waste.
34 / WMR / April-May 2017 Figures show C&D waste contributes to about 40 per cent of SA’s landfill waste.
The not-for-profit program assists the state’s bid to improve diversion “There’s a network of about 800 and control stockpiles of C&D waste, identified as a major problem by the students throughout the state, and South Australian Government. A fact sheet from government we deliver training to all of them.” Dick Olesinski Coordinator, KESAB agency Green Industries SA (formerly known as Zero Waste SA) showed approximately 1000 houses are 800 students throughout the state, already going on there. Domestic demolished in Adelaide each year, and and we deliver training to all of them. builders have not fully begun to the level of urban decay means this is Recycling and resource recovery is a comply with environmental standards. likely to increase. key element of the training delivery If you and your partner want to build Construction and demolition waste and the strategy is trying to capture a house, you want the cheapest house. contributes to about 40 per cent of all students and engender some sort of “Here in South Australia, the landfill waste, with valuable recyclable environmental ethic.” waste levy is $80 to a tonne. So if items such as timber, bricks, and Dick says elective subjects also you generate eight to 10 tonnes on fittings still being thrown in the dump. include focusing on working a two-story build, that’s going to “Because of this, Zero Waste SA effectively and sustainably in the cost you $640 to $800 to get rid of came on board to assist us with the construction industry. your waste.” education process and funded the However, he notes resource He cites Badge Constructions as program for a number of years which recovery is less of an issue within a good example of compliance on assisted with resource development. the commercial sector as it is for the building sites. “Currently we’re delivering domestic sector. “They’re compliant with training in conjunction with the “On major construction projects, ISO14001, which is an international Construction Industry Training you find there’s half a dozen bins. environmental standard. They have Board. There’s a network of about So there’s a lot of resource recovery their different bins, including bins for
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steel, paper and cardboard. On major “Over time, through education and Mark explains that from about construction projects, it’s about health, enforcement, people have improved 2013 onwards, the industry started to safety and environment. practices greatly,” Mark says. take note and become largely self- “If you’re tendering for projects Reporting directly to council, Mark regulatory, as environmental standards these days, you’ve got to have quality initially began inspecting a number set by the EPA became better known assurance. You’ve got to have health of major building sites, including within the industry. and safety accreditation and now Adelaide’s Bowden Urban Village, He says he worked collaboratively you need to have environmental Woodville West, Gateway Estate with the Council’s Illegal Dumping management systems in place. If you and West Lakes, taking photographs Officer Derrick Simpson to ensure don’t have all those three, don’t even of each allotment and noting waste builders separated their waste correctly. worry about tendering.” or litter incorrectly disposed of or “Derrick and I monitor waste and Dick says compliance on council coming offsite. illegal dumping issues at both major building sites is another issue in South “We started by delivering education building sites and suburban public Australia, though the City of Charles programs to the Housing Industry space. We continue to investigate issues Sturt in Adelaide is a shining example Association for about three to four via doorknocks and inform residents of how it can be enforced. months, which provided advice to of the procedures for collection via As one of the largest councils in those working within the building our contractor. EXPANDING Adelaide, the City of Charles Sturt industry,” Mark explains. “These days it’s just a telephone call decided to develop a compliance “We then visited major building if somebody is doing the wrong thing, officer role on council building sites. companies, sitting down with and it is usually resolved through TO INCLUDE AN ALL-NEW Mark Reid commenced his role in supervisors and managers to discuss negotiations. January 2011 as Community Safety what the councils were looking for in “The challenges going forward Officer Building Site. terms of compliance.” mean that there has to be a consistent CONFERENCE IN 2017 Mark says the position focuses on He says the contractors would then approach with council initiatives to inspecting damage to infrastructure take most of the waste to the Adelaide gain compliance for each generation of and reporting back to Council, Resource Recovery. builders and residents.” including footpaths, verges and parklands. “It’s not a common position. Many of the smaller councils just don’t have the resources to appoint someone in that role. They generally have an inspector of compliance who also deals with a range of other areas,” says Mark. He says part of his role is also to deal with litter on public road verge footpaths and measuring standards in accordance with those set by the EPA. He says that he would visit building sites on a daily basis. “Initially there was a great amount of litter on those sites. Now they are generally kept clean and only need a phone call to rectify the problem.” He says plastic waste is a problem, as it has begun to flow into water Bruce Harris from Bruce Harris Project Management, For more information visit: catchments from building sites with Mark Reid, Community Safety Officer Building blocking them. Site from the City of Charles Sturt. www.womeninindustry.com.au
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ISCA sorts waste asset trash from treasure THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA’S IS RATING SYSTEM HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN USED TO MEASURE SUSTAINABILITY OUTCOMES IN ROADS AND TRANSPORT. AS TRACTION CONTINUES TO INCREASE, DISCUSSIONS WITH THE WASTE INDUSTRY HAVE OPENED.
ince 2012, infrastructure as governance, the economy and WA have since mandated the voluntary leaders across the nation have the environment. The methodology scheme for projects over $100 million, Smeasured their performance in covers different infrastructure types, finding sustainable ways to build sustainability through a comprehensive including transport, water, energy, road infrastructure. rating system. communication, open space assets Ainsley says Main Roads WA The Infrastructure Sustainability and waste. engaged their supply chain to achieve Council of Australia’s (ISCA) IS ISCA Manager Business & sustainable outcomes in the delivery rating scheme evaluates sustainability Technical Services Ainsley Simpson of the Gateway WA Perth Airport across the design, construction says ISCA was formed in 2008 by a and Freight Access Project which was and operation of committed and represented group completed ahead of schedule and under infrastructure. The IS from the infrastructure industry, that budget in 2016. rating scheme measures affirmed the need for an independent “The use of recycled material in sustainability across sustainability assurance body preference to virgin material was a a range of for infrastructure. key focus at Gateway WA. The project areas, such “It’s always been member-based, team investigated all opportunities in industry-led and industry compiled,” order to source recycled material for Ainsley says. By 2010, ISCA received funding from the federal government and various state authorities for the development of v1.0 of its IS rating scheme. Statutory authorities such as Main Roads
38 / WMR / April-May 2017 the works. Not only were suppliers of underway with several waste facilities, Australia. All forms of waste assets crushed construction and demolition including a landfill and materials would apply the IS rating tools, and the material contacted, but so were other recovery centre. She says ISCA is opportunities range from landfills and construction sites around Perth. Some also considering incorporating the materials recovery centres to waste to 20 per cent of fill and road base benchmark of a circular economy, energy facilities. material was from recycled sources, which is defined as an industrial “Waste asset owners and operators Ainsley says. economy promoting greater are interested in using the IS rating “The lifecycle environmental impact resource recovery, by reducing waste scheme to quantify performance from materials was reduced by 58 and avoiding pollution by design gaps and material sustainability per cent through negotiated airport or intention. aspects to enhance asset and portfolio requirements to allow an altered design “A waste facility in its own right is management,” Ainsley says. that reduced the depth of excavation an infrastructure asset. A waste-related “They are also able to measure for some sections of the road, the use facility is able to measure its own and rate their assets through design, of C600 binders which reduced the sustainability performance, in addition construction and operations utilising quantity of asphalt by 10 per cent, to being involved in sustainable a common framework. Industry and updated pavements specifications outcomes in the construction sector. also benefits from increasing and work with the Public Health “For infrastructure, this would efficiency in the delivery of unified Advisory Committee to allow use of promote a continuous positive industry expectations of beyond crushed recycled rock and waste quarry development cycle that optimises compliance practices.” materials as a sand replacement.” resource efficiency, enhances natural Ainsley says the benefits of the IS She says ISCA is exploring capital, and provides a more effective rating scheme range from efficiency opportunities to benchmark waste and integrated approach to risk and gains, to reduced consumption sector assets in the same way. opportunity management.” and emissions. ISCA is speaking with council asset She adds ISCA is actively encouraging “It enhances stakeholder managers, sustainability officers and the waste sector to provide input relationships, because there’s more general managers to adopt the scheme into the development of IS v2.0, participation, collaboration about into their operations. through peak bodies such as the either the development of an asset, or “We are in discussions with various Waste Management Association of operation of an asset.” segments of the waste sector, with some assets at the design stage while ISCA is a member-based, not-for-profit others are fully operational facilities,” industry (public and private) council. Ainsley notes. “The waste sector hasn’t been as engaged as the transport sector with us over the past five years. In May 2016, we launched IS v1.2 which included special provisions for smaller assets, which could be anything less than $20 million. Since then, we’ve started working more with local councils, and obviously they’re at the forefront of waste management. There is some interest in getting local councils and waste operators in the mix, so that they can make a more transparent commitment to sustainability.” She says conversations are already
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Housing development’s sustainable solution
INSTANT WASTE HAS PROCESSED 3,500 TONNES OF CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE AT A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PREVENTING THE LOCAL COUNCIL’S LANDFILL FROM REACHING CAPACITY.
pproximately 35 minutes estimations by the Urban Development Instant Waste predicted that the large north of Perth’s CBD lies the Institute of Australia. volumes of C&D waste would have Aurban development of the The construction and demolition affected the council’s capacity to handle Catalina Estate. (C&D) waste created could have filled the municipal solid waste created by The coastal community, which the local council’s landfill five years households over 10 years. remains partly in development, features before the expected 2025 capping and Jake Hickey, Instant Waste’s more than four hectares of cycle paths, rehabilitation dates. Resource Development Manager, says walkways and landscaped parks. That’s according to waste the double brick construction leads Since the development began in transporters Inside Waste, who provided to heavier waste streams of around 2013, it’s expected more than 2,600 a successful tender for their recycling 30 tonnes per home site, with around homes will be built over a 10-year project in 2014, working with Tamala 78,000 tonnes over the life of the period, housing around Park Council to recycle 95 per cent of project. 8,000 people, according to the development’s waste. “The Catalina is actually right next
40 / WMR / April-May 2017 door to Mindarie Landfill, and it’s these systems up brand new on the “Multiple source separation runs estimated to be finished by 2025,” Mindarie site. Which means there’s no better when the same builder runs the Jake says. infrastructure set up costs it’s already whole estate and we effectively had to “One of the key concerns was if we established, already tried, tested and engage a wide range of builders.” filled the landfill with loads of inert working, with no commissioning Jake says the bins were placed construction waste, we eventually risks.” on garage crossovers, verges and wouldn’t have anywhere to put the Tamala Park Regional Council sometimes adjoining lots. municipal waste from the homes predicted the increase in landfill An initial letter was sent to builders, being built.” levy would lead to greater incidence introducing the waste management The development is a project of illegal dumping, and decided to plan for the estate and the process between the owner of the land, Tamala give builders on the Catalina site an of Instant Waste’s Material Recovery Park Regional Council, and developer incentive. Facility. Satterley Property Group. They offered to provide builders a He says as builders took over site The Council proposed to establish $900 rebate to load their C&D waste lots on the development, Instant a recycling facility on site, but Inside into Instant Waste’s skip bins, with 75 Waste would be notified by the land Waste had its own idea. per cent of builders opting in. developer. It proposed builders load the C&D Jake says had the landfill become From there, Instant Waste’s sales staff waste into commingled (blended) full, the council would have had to general manager and state resource skip bins. travel an hour and a half to a waste development managers would contact From there, the waste would be management facility in Red Hill, the building company to discuss the transported offsite to Instant Waste’s managed by Perth’s six major councils. project with site managers. site at Bayswater, where the material “With Catalina Estate there was a would be separated and recycled. lot of small apartment units, medium “We submitted a tender. We’re only density lots and small cottage lots. 40 minutes away via skip trucks and we So the frontages were quite narrow can create a lot of efficiencies through and there wasn’t enough space to put our facility out of Bayswater. multiple source separation bins outside “You would have needed to set all the front of these sites,” he says.
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“Our GM and the property company would be better off separating Catalina Estate includes a number of development director would meet with the C&D waste at its material recovery small apartment units. the owners or directors of the building facility. companies in joint meetings to help get “Prior to 2012 we would have been the program up and running.” using screen decks, excavators and even He says the $900 rebate was offered some hand pickers on a conveyor line to for each land lot, which meant builders remove contaminates. working on multiple lots received the “Now we have $15 million worth of same offer for each block of land. equipment set up, including floatation Since 2013, approximately 3500 tanks, magnets – the whole process has tonnes of C&D waste has been been pretty much automated with the processed from the site, achieving a remaining pickers placed in a secure recycling rate of 96 per cent. raised area.” He says the Catalina housing estate Jake says the mixed waste comes project had easily diverted more than in various forms, including raft 90 per cent of its C&D waste from foundations, which are large concrete landfill. slabs, as well as timber, lights, finishes The system, based on loads of and metals. mixed waste, does not require source “Timber, lights and finishes represent separation on site, and was proposed next to nothing compared with prior to the increase in the landfill levy. heavy gauged materials like brick and The increase in the landfill levy concrete,” Jake says. builders in a bin on site. budgeted in the Western Australian “They’re easy for us to recycle “We don’t use magnets for lead and Government’s May 2014 budget as long as we grab out the concrete copper. For example, electricians on projected it would increase from $8 per reinforcement bars that hold the site won’t be putting copper wiring out tonne to $70 per tonne by 2019. concrete together under load.” because they have value – they’ll send it Instant Waste estimated through its Jake says that floatation tanks load to scrap themselves.” education programs that 30 per cent of out the timber while magnets grab the The recycled materials are then sold source separation by builders on their ferrous metals, and screens and crushers at a reduced price for construction own would incorrectly place waste in handle sand and crushed concrete. projects and civil projects in the form of the wrong bins, prompting additional Jake explains that basic raw materials, road base. disposal and sorting costs. which include sand, limestone clay, hard Increased supply of recycled fill The program demonstrated the rock and gravel aggregate, are placed by materials to market will also allow other civil infrastructure projects such as the GateWay Perth Airport and Freight Access Project to access recycled materials, supplementing their demand for basic raw materials. “The cost of quarried limestone could be as high as $25 a tonne, whereas our recycled road base made of predominately concrete mixture can sell for a third of that price.” He says over the past three months, Western Australia’s City of Swan has purchased 25,000 tonnes alone of Instant Waste Management works with a sand off Instant Waste for fill material wide range of private sector companies. to change ground levels on its new
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TODAY’S WASTE TOMORROW’S THE SOLUTION ASSETS
CDEnviro specialist road Recovered materials can sweepings recycling systems be used in a wide range of ensure: potential applications: - Guaranteed repeatability Sand & Stone of results - reduced – High Quality contamination levels in Recycled Concrete outputs regardless of feed – Road Fill contamination levels. – Landscaping recycling facility in Bullsbrook and Resource Recovery – Pipe Bedding Solutions’ road base for the permanent roads on the site. - Washed grit suitable as a non-structural fill secondary Organics Jake says the project was also assisted by Tamala Park aggregate. – Anaerobic Digestion Regional Council’s lead in putting the project out to formal – Incineration - Mobile system option offers – Low Grade Composting tender, which prompted a dispensation by the Australian processing at a number of Competition and Consumer Commission to rule in favour sites. Fine Clay – Capping and of the initiative. Restoration Material “It was deemed within the public’s best interest to have a recycling initiative on the project,” Luke says. “We had a strong relationship with the project builders that were mainly building within Catalina Estate, which has cdenviro.com small apartment units and high density lots and quite a small cottage lot,” Jake adds. Recycled fill materials and recycled road base can be returned to the Catalina site for potential use on the estate’s temporary car parks and hardstand areas. Jake explains that recycled fill or crushed road base runs through crushers, with around 800 tonnes of crushed and screen material processed at Bayswater daily. “Recycled materials are used elsewhere in the state and this means there’s the ability to process inert materials at a cheap price.” C&D waste has historically been problematic in Western Australia, as the state government body Waste Authority’s 2012 Creating the Right Environment document showed. The document showed that in 2009-10, a total of 5.4 million tonnes of waste was sent to landfill, comprising
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of roughly 3.1 million tonnes of only becomes a local government affects the reuse, recovery, recycling or C&D waste. responsibility if the material is on reprocessing of waste and demonstrate But illegal dumping still remains a council verges. alternative uses for waste. huge problem at the Catalina site and When the dumped material is on the The working group found that other sites across the state. building block, removal is undertaken approximately 15 per cent of sites According to Instant Waste, 50 per by the builder, he notes, adding visited during the survey period cent of illegal dumping on building significantly to the project cost. between December and January 2012- sites is carried out by rogue waste In 2012, Instant Waste provided the 13 were the victims of illegal dumping. management suppliers, bobcats and/or chairman for a working group to reduce It showed half of the dumping other companies and sub-contractors. illegal dumping. occurred on vacant land. “It wouldn’t be uncommon for The mission of the Dob in a Dumper Jake says an independent review subcontractor builders, civil builders working group was to reduce the conducted by the Dob in a Dumper and the other trades to illegally dump amount of rubbish dumped on and private investigators in 2014-15 stated on each other rather than paying the around building sites and on land the Catalina Estate was one of the costs of disposing the waste stream,” developments in WA. cleanest building projects they’d come says Jake. “Private investigators from the across. The Housing Industry Association HIA across the state have taken He says in August 2016, Tamala (HIA) estimates this costs WA on board major projects to deter Park Regional Council sold 786 lots, construction industry builders $8 illegal dumping,” Jake says. “For with 595 homes built and 129 under million each year. example, they’d go to the site, and construction. Of the 5.4 million tonnes of if there was clay tiles in the pile Instant Waste is being recommended waste, about 1.3 million tonnes was outside of a house with a tin roof, for the 2018 tender for the next municipal solid waste and 967,000 was they’d know that site was a victim of stage of the project, Jake says, having commercial and industrial. illegal dumping.” processed about 3,500 tonnes of C&D Jake says that on building sites, the Its objectives included to identify waste as indicated in January 2017 removal of illegally dumped material the main types of waste dumped that statistics.
The Catalina Estate remains an ongoing 10-year project, having begun in 2013.
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The waste challenge behind e-commerce
THE BOOMING E-COMMERCE MARKET IS LIKELY TO PUT NEW CHALLENGES ON THE WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY, ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PACKAGING AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
-commerce is one of the fastest online sales, which require more touch- significantly affects the future of expanding retail channels globally. points for a product throughout the packaging,” says a new AMIREPEN EIn Australia alone, the online delivery process. report authored by Kyla Fisher of Three retail market is estimated to reach One key point of difference to the Peaks Sustainability and Bob Lilienfeld, some $10.5 billion in revenue in 2017* old model is packaging. According to Senior Director Communications at – making for a momentous logistical AMIREPEN, e-commerce packaging the Institute. “[But,] as e-commerce challenge along the entire length of has to be bulkier than usual to packaging changes, consideration must the supply chain, from warehousing protect the product throughout the be given to the end of life management through to waste management. journey, in turn causing a “paradigm of those materials.” In light of the task ahead, the shift” in the packaging and packing While a paradigm shift in the American Institute for Packaging recycling space. packing industry will likely create and the Environment (AMIREPEN) “As e-commerce is beginning to be new opportunities in the field of has now found that the traditional viewed as an independent distribution sustainability and supply chain distribution model developed for paradigm, the related challenges and optimisation, the duo points out “bricks and mortar” stores might not benefits will provide an opportunity that the resulting waste problem might to be able to sufficiently fulfil to design a new logistics system that may offset some of the achievements
46 / WMR / April-May 2017 made in paper recycling over the past decade. “As corrugate rises in curb “In a 2014 study, over 50 per side collection, it replaces a flagging paper stream lost from the decline cent of consumers noted that of legacy newspaper circulations and home delivery,” Fisher and Lilienfeld their biggest frustration with note. “It also creates more challenges e-commerce was related to the in terms of transportation logistics, as it takes up more space but weighs less ease of, and access to, disposal of in transport.” The emergence of new materials, packaging. ” which may offer strong protective Kyla Fisher Three Peaks Sustainability qualities at a lighter weight when compared to traditional protective for these and future shifts expected by was related to the ease of, and access packaging, also challenges existing continued e-commerce growth.” to, disposal of packaging. One third waste streams that are not yet scaled Consumers are also part of the of respondents noted they disliked to sort, process or commoditise these e-commerce equation, though. packaging that was hard to dispose of – materials. “[As such] consideration “Consumers expect easy disposal e.g. takes up too much space in the bin, and collaboration across the supply of packaging materials,” the pair requires breakdown – and an additional chain will be required so that all emphasise. “In a 2014 study, over 50 quarter were annoyed with packaging players in the e-commerce packaging per cent of consumers noted that their material that was difficult to recycle or waste stream can anticipate and plan biggest frustration with e-commerce unrecyclable.” In the same study, they wrote over 77 per cent of consumers noted that the packaging a company uses for e-commerce was viewed as being reflective of its environmental values. “To the consumer, packaging that is recyclable is the best option for the environment, but recycling must be made easy for them.” “As companies continue to develop packaging for e-commerce, striking the balance between ease of recycling and packaging efficiency may prove to be a challenge. An increase in corrugated for added protection will demand more space in the bin, for example. Flexible films frequently used with meal-kit deliveries may not be recyclable.” As a result, Fisher and Lilienfeld urge both the packaging and waste management industries to commit to “open dialogue and education, along with innovations in packaging and recovery” to be able to jointly respond to the challenges of the global e-commerce boom. *Statista
www.wastemanagementreview.com.au / WMR / 47 PRODUCT SHOWCASE Reliable equipment cements recycler’s reputation REDUCED FUEL CONSUMPTION AND A PERSONALISED SERVICE WERE THE MAJOR SELLING POINTS FOR ECOGROUP WHEN IT PURCHASED ITS LATEST PLANT EQUIPMENT – THE LIEBHERR L 550 WHEEL LOADER.
elbourne-based demolition and 550 Wheel Loader to aid his unique efficient,” Toby explains. recycling specialists EcoGroup enterprise, after bauma, the world’s He says increased fuel efficiency Mrequired an efficient wheel largest construction industry trade fair. allows for more materials to be loader to manage their unique service – Toby says he attended the conference moved during each hour of operation, brick recycling and crushed bricks used in Germany in April of last year, improving the company’s productivity. for landscape toppings and sporting purchasing the wheel loader in August The amount of traction the loader venues. and seeing immediate results. generates can be adjusted continuously, EcoGroup Founder Toby Sail says He says Liebherr’s 18-tonne wheel stopping wheel spins and reducing tyre the company is proud to note it is loader provides increased performance, wear significantly. Australia’s largest supplier of recycled reliability and cost savings through “The bricks come in a raw form from bricks and red porous crushed brick. reduced fuel consumption. a demolition site which is bulk loaded Otherwise known as red brick dust, “We had another machine which into trucks then delivered to our site in the material is used in tennis court and was a very good loader, but Liebherr’s Clayton for processing,” Toby says. baseball diamond surfacing. loader uses half the fuel than the Once the bricks are separated from Toby says he looked to Liebherr’s L leading brands and they are not as fuel the other construction and demolition
Liebherr is the fifth largest construction company, international rankings show.
48 / WMR / April-May 2017 waste materials, the wheel loader competing brands, the hydrostatic at low operating weight. This leads is used to feed the bricks into a 10 driveline with Liebherr Power to significantly higher productivity, m³ hopper. Efficiency achieves a reduction in fuel because there is no need for After the bricks are sorted and graded consumption for wheel loaders of up unnecessary counterweight. as face or paver bricks, they are stacked to 25 per cent. Liebherr wheel loaders The reduction in fuel also lowers on pallets and sold to the construction are unbeatable for economy,” Liebherr emissions, as one litre of fuel produces and landscaping industries. Bricks explains. up to 3 kilograms of carbon dioxide. which are not suitable for reuse as a The Liebherr driveline includes a By saving up to 5 litres per operating whole are crushed to create the red self-locking hydraulic brake, which hour, up to 15,000 kilograms less brick dust. means the additional multi wet disc carbon dioxide is produced over 1,000 “Our point of difference is a brick brake are effectively wear-free. Tractive operating hours. This leads to lower separating plant, technology which we force and speed are automatically operating costs and a reduced carbon introduced from Denmark, in 2007. adjusted to the requirements of the footprint. There are only two of these plants in operator without shifting. There is Toby says the increased productivity the world,” he adds. no need for a mechanical reverse gear was not the only reason for his “We have about three or four because the travel direction is changed purchase, as Liebherr also provides competitors in Melbourne, so it’s hydraulically. a reliable service in which he can important we get our equipment right.” The cooling system is mounted call upon should he encounter any With more than 20 years’ experience between the diesel engine and the technical faults. in the demolition and construction cab on the rear carriage, where it can “We found Liebherr very easy to recycling industry, Toby says Liebherr’s draw clean air. The speed of the fan deal with – we could do things on product has allowed him to cement his is dependent on the cooling capacity, a handshake deal, we bought some reputation in the market. with thermosensors ensuring optimum machines off another company and According to international rankings, fan speed. they still won’t provide us with the Liebherr is the fifth largest construction The company says the combination product before they’re fully paid – equipment manufacturer in the world. of the Liebherr driveline and the whereas with Liebherr you just do it “Compared to conventional unique position of the Liebherr diesel on a handshake deal. We make sure we transmission systems of other engine allows higher tipping loads honour our agreements and pay our bills regardless. It’s a more user-friendly service,” Toby says. “If all goes well we will be looking to purchase more Liebherr products. We also recently bought a 30-tonne excavator, the Liebherr R936 Excavator from them, which we are using in our sorting and recycling facility.” Liebherr noted an important part of maintaining relationships with recyclers is understanding the unique needs of every customer. “We’re accommodating not just towards the customer but the actual company. Even from a financial perspective or a payment terms perspective. We look after our clients because we are a family-owned company and we can tailor make a solution based on the customer. Liebherr’s L 550 Wheel Loader was Not everyone is painted with the designed with a hydrostatic driveline. same brush,” Liebherr said.
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In each edition, we feature a selection of the latest products or updated models to be launched to waste management businesses.
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Co-regulation as a driver for sustainability AUSTRALIAN PACKAGING COVENANT CEO TRISH HYDE EXPLAINS THE INDUSTRY SIDE OF CO-REGULATION, AND HOW THIS FRAMEWORK, THROUGH OPEN DISCUSSION AND COLLABORATION, MAKES AN EFFECTIVE REGULATORY MODEL TO DELIVER REAL AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES.
id way between voluntary actions to deliver on the agreed schemes, in co-regulation there is an industry schemes and outcome. In the case of the alternative regulatory mechanism to Mfull regulation sits the Australian Packaging Covenant encourage industry participation and interesting world of co-regulation. (APC), we are working toward an discourage free-riders. As the name suggests, co-regulation Australia where packaging resources From an industry perspective, requires something from both are used and disposed of wisely co-regulation enables businesses to industry and government. This to minimise our environmental take ownership of their decisions includes certain self-regulation impact. However, unlike voluntary and demonstrate their leadership.
52 / WMR / April-May 2017 At the APC, we see our role not The New Plastics Economy report as a policeman, but as the enabler released in January 2017 by the of innovation, the influencer of World Economic Forum and the behaviour and the ignition for Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 30 per inspiration. Delivering member value cent of plastics packaging will never is key. be recycled or reused if we do not One of the primary ways the APC fundamentally redesign the packaging does this is through the exchange of or find innovative ways to recover knowledge across members, sectors the materials. This staggering figure and the supply chain. demands immediate action. However, finding solutions for those specific From theory into action: the tides problem materials needs consultation of plastic with industry to understand how to To understand how this co-regulatory bring about environmental, economic framework operates, take the issue and social sustainability. of plastic packaging. According to At the recent APC think tank in
About the APC The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) is a sustainable packaging initiative that aims to change the culture of business. Our purpose is to champion and lead packaging sustainability in Australia, creating industry-wide collaboration and inspiring change. The APC is co-regulatory, underpinned by the National Environmental Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure 2011 (NEPM UPM 2011). Organisations sign the Covenant to signal their commitment to design packaging that is more resource efficient and recyclable, and increase the recovery and recycling of used packaging from businesses, households and away from home The APC has opened discussion of sources. Almost 1,000 organisations redesigning plastics. are currently members of the Australian Packaging Covenant.
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Industry comment Han Michel, General Manager of E-Three & Associates Pty Ltd (Management Consultants to the Plastics Industry), comments on the APC’s initiative. The APC has an excellent opportunity to get the industry on board with regard to the circular economy and make real changes to the supply chain. The think tank organised by the APC has been a first step in the right direction with the aim to focus on outcomes. It was an honour for me to be asked to bring together a small group of experts from the plastics industry to support the APC efforts. The industry involved in the plastics supply chain in Australia needs to recover more plastic products from the existing waste streams and is in need of finding local solutions for the resulting recyclates from these streams. The area of soft plastics packaging requires special attention. The current collection systems for soft plastics are fragmented (with exceptions) and new ways of collection and recovery need to be established. A beginning could be made by creating uniformity and The APC believes a circular ecnomy can only happen national standards for existing systems. A with collaboration from industry and government. next step could be adding post-consumer soft plastics packaging to the “yellow” bin in kerbside collection systems and by Sydney, industry, academics and of recyclate – this would not only improving existing recycling infrastructure governments openly collaborated support the recycling of soft plastics, through the installation of modern technology process steps. The resulting and proposed solutions to common but also deliver valuable end-products OPAL COVE RESORT recyclates could be used in existing or barriers to packaging sustainability, making its recycling sustainable. Coffs Harbour new value-added solutions. including the creation of self- One of the simplest findings Such changes cannot happen without sustaining circular economies. One of from the think tank about circular 2-4 May 2017 investment in the supply chain. It will also the goals of the think tank was to tap economies for soft plastics was its not happen without cooperation between the different supply chain partners. There into the combined expertise of the poor definition. From a consumers is a need for the quantification of the participants and facilitate a dialogue perspective it is easy – is it plastic Waste 2017 Conference and Exhibition – Register Today! different options so broader support can about the barriers and opportunities and is it scrunchable? But this simple Due to popular demand, the well-known Coffs Harbour Waste Conference has been Register today to ensure you don’t miss this industry event which will extended to 2 ½ days, with an earlier commencement on Tuesday 2nd May. The draft be found for the envisaged outcomes. for management of soft plastics in consumer-facing definition takes no feature: The APC is a good medium to assist with program is now available, featuring expert keynote addresses, inspiring case studies, • 550+ delegates • 80+ sponsors and exhibitors bringing these changes about. Australia. account of the polymers involved, interactive workshops and panel discussions. Visit the conference website for all the • 90+ presenters • 3 social events Closing the loop requires the the size/value of end markets, and the details. I am sure that the participants of the think If it is important in your role to keep abreast of the latest industry developments View the draft program and register online at retention of value in materials and scalability of any recovery systems tank look forward to working together whilst networking with national and international industry leaders, then Waste 2017 www.coffswasteconference.com.au/2017/waste with the APC in making a contribution to one example discussed was embracing that are sustainable. is for you. Email: [email protected] Phone: 02 6583 8118 the circular economy in Australia. innovative ways to improve the value The think tank did not just identify
SUPPORTED BY: MAJOR SPONSORS: HOSTED BY: ORGANISED BY: 54 / WMR / April-May 2017 the issues, but came up with practical Focusing on these priority areas will measures to implement solutions. enable the APC to take leadership as Unfortunately, this is a complex a co-regulator, facilitating strategic issue and there are many outstanding partnerships and addressing the areas questions. By continuing this work where industry can make the biggest and creating a space for dialogue, the impact. APC can prove the value of the co- In order to maximise this regulatory framework. opportunity for industry, we must rethink the fundamentals of packaging Becoming an adult and embrace opportunities to The APC’s inception was through a innovate and collaborate. This would cooperative arrangement between not be possible without an open industry sectors and all spheres of dialogue between governments, brand government. Over the years, the owners, reprocessing facilities and Covenant increased its signatory waste management bodies. base to cover major brand owners The shift towards a circular across the packaging value chain. economy will only happen when there With the Covenant now in its fourth is a convergence. We must plan for iteration, industry has stepped up to the future today, and leverage our take a leadership role and embrace position to make this shift happen. the opportunity to create systemic Two white papers with outcomes change. from the APC think tank are currently The APC’s new five-year strategic being developed – one on sustainable plan came into effect in January design and the other on soft plastics. 2017 and centres on three strategic These papers are in circulation for pillars – resource efficiency, landfill feedback and will be published mid- minimisation and leadership. March.
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/ 57 / DIARY LAST WORD The key to unlocking an effective circular bioeconomy ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BERNADETTE MCCABE, PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST WITH THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING IN AGRICULTURE, REFLECTS ON THE ROLE OF BIOENERGY WITHIN A CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA.
he role of bioenergy within a understanding of our current baseline Australia is a big country. The circular bioeconomy is starting to in order to identify opportunities. We dispersed location and availability of T generate interest in Australia but also need to understand how they differ wastes, together with the necessary we need effective waste management from region to region. processing industries and supply strategies to support this. logistics are a limiting factor. Therefore, The underpinning premise of a From theory to practice there needs to be a greater connection circular economy, where resources are We need to assess the technologies between organisations, industries and kept within the economy for as long deployed in our current management sections of the supply chain to enable as possible and waste is eliminated, of waste, including landfilling, thermal resource and infrastructure sharing. is not new. But, there are a number conversion and biochemical conversion. of challenges faced by the global This includes the level of deployment Strategies for a bioeconomy bioenergy sector as it transitions from and how efficient and effective they The various strategies in place across a linear economy to a circular one. The are at converting waste in order that Australia are a good sign that things complexity is even greater when you it remains in the economy as long as are moving in the right direction. consider the array of wastes which can possible. But we need to ensure that there are be categorised as: The leap from theoretical and applied clearly defined objectives and guiding • Primary residues – such as agricultural research to commercial operation can principles in order to guide policy. or forestry residues be a major obstacle for any developing From an international perspective, a • Secondary residues from industrial technology or industry. Countries range of measures exist which can be processing with dedicated bioeconomy research used to help businesses to innovate, to • Tertiary residues including post- activities often have mechanisms to utilise waste resources efficiently and consumer residues like food waste enable the transition from research to to capitalise on closed loop systems practice. already in place in Australia. Australia faces some unique Elements in the policy mix challenges in this area but with these Knowledge sharing and supply could include the development come opportunities. While international chain connection of dedicated infrastructure and strategies differ, there are a few Knowledge exchange and capacity planning mechanisms, setting and recurring themes. So what steps are building is critical. The bioeconomy implementation of policy targets required to go from a waste-oriented is complex – therefore we need to promoting the use of waste and, where society to a circular economy that engage our existing networks and appropriate production of bio-based includes bioeconomy and biorefining? integrate them to build new ones. The products, provision of targeted financial Firstly, we need an analysis of exchange of knowledge of different incentives, for instance in the form of, the type (primary, secondary and kinds and from different forums is one investment aid, tax breaks or start- tertiary), scale and dynamics of wastes way of doing this. A good start could up business loans, or other market to understand what feedstocks are be to team up bioenergy and waste enabling mechanisms, such as product available. We need to get a good management. certification or labelling.
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