Visy Recycling
recycles paper, plastic, glass, aluminium and steel cans together with many other
materials generated through kerbside recycling. The company has operations throughout
Australia and New Zealand.
Visy Recycling recycles annually in excess of 850,000 tonnes of waste
paper, 20,000 tonnes of plastics and 40,000 tonnes of glass, in addition to aluminium
steel and liquid paperboard. The company’s Material Recovery Facilities process in
excess of 330,000 tonnes of kerbside materials each year. Visy’s mini-Material
Recovery Facilities are integrated with state-of-the-art and highly capital intensive
reprocessing facilities.
Visy Recycling’s glass operations now include in Victoria a multi
million dollar high technology recycling system that will lead to higher glass recovery
rates and higher quality recycled products. This opto-electronic sorting machinery
automatically sorts glass into component colours and removes contaminants such as
ceramics, porcelain and metals.
Visy Recycling’s $20 million plastics plant is a world leading
facility which uses various technologies to automatically sort plastic bottles collected
from kerbside into their various polymers and colours. These plastics are then converted
to produce resins for manufacturing processes as an alternative to virgin raw materials.
Visy can now produce recycled PET of food grade quality and has an extensive Research
& Development program to develop in conjunction with manufacturers new and innovative
uses for recycled plastics.
Visy Industries has 8 recycled paper mills in Australia and the USA
producing paper and cardboard using 100% recycled paper. It is now commissioning a pulp
and paper mill at Tumut in New South Wales which is due for completion by the end of 2001.
The total project cost will be approximately $400 million and will produce about 240,000
tonnes of unbleached brown packaging paper each year utilising a significant component of
recycled material.
In addition the company established the Visy Technical Centre in 1998
for on-going research and development of more efficient and effective packaging and
production methods. More than $10 million is invested in the Centre’s work each year.
For more information on Visy Recycling click here: www.visy.com.au
