Challenge

McKeno Blocks and Pavers, based in Broome, WA, has a patented system that includes rubber crumb in their blocks and pavers. They needed a tyre recycling system to fit their output requirements and budget.

Owen from Waste Initiatives investigated and trialled the product through a four-shaft shredder leading into a granulator with a heavy-duty ladder rotor to produce the minus 8mm particles required by Mckeno Blocks and Pavers. He reasoned that if the granulator had the rotating cutters set at least 3mm from the static cutters, the rubber would tend to strip away from the metal rather than cut through, reducing cutter wear. In addition, the over belt magnet would be suitable for removing the ferrous metal, which is liberated by the shredding and granulating action.

Challenge

4×4 Concepts, based in Albury NSW, manufacture custom-designed vehicle accessories that contain high volumes of (ABS) plastic parts. To avoid trim waste going to landfill and reducing waste disposal costs, Adrian Keighran contacted Waste Initiatives to find alternative recycling solutions.

Adrian realised that by buying his own recycling plant, he could also offer to process products from other industries, including councils in the surrounding areas.

His challenge was processing ABS offcuts up to one meter in size down to fine flakes, and if large pieces of plastic had to go straight into a granulator, it would cause heating issues.

Challenge

An Australia Post parcel facility receiving bulk PP mail bags from international deliveries to the site was experiencing rising costs of waste disposal and loss of efficiency in managing high volumes of this waste type at a busy facility.

The challenging factor was finding the right solution for effectively handling and baling their bulky waste material to increase their sustainability.

Challenge

OzTyre Recyclers approached Waste Initiatives with an ambitious target to be one of the first in the sector in Australia to recycle 100 per cent of used tyres and have an Australian market for the end-product.

Before the export ban, tyres were baled and exported. They had to shift their strategy to processing rubber to chip suitable for export and reuse as Tyre-Derived Fuel (TDF) and for further processing.

Tyre Stewardship Australia in conjunction with Waste Initiatives helped and advised them on local and overseas requirements. As a result, a further interest arose in taking rubber all the way down to rubber crumb & powder.

Challenge

Over 1 million mattresses are landfilled in Australia each year, despite the fact that most of their materials are recoverable. – “Planet Ark”

TIC Group, a well-established reverse logistics company headquartered in Melbourne, has addressed a long-standing environmental issue and the bane of local governments around Australia in illegal dumping of mattresses thanks to implementing a complete mattress recycling facility.

Challenge

Ninety nine percent of Masterfoods Australia products are manufactured at their site in Berkeley Vale, with many of their ingredients sourced from Australian suppliers and local Australian farmers. Masterfoods are passionate about finding more sustainable long-term solutions and they have taken steps to reduce their footprint by recycling water, reducing their waste to landfill, using recycled packaging materials and in the co-generation of their own electricity.

In 2016 Masterfoods approached Waste Initiatives looking for a solution to reduce the volume of waste at their site as they had an excess of packaged food product which was going to landfill.

Challenge

Lion is one of Australasia’s largest food and beverage companies, employing over 7,000 people across Australia and New Zealand.

Their milk processing division in Queensland contacted Waste Initiatives to discuss options for a system to separate expired milk products from the recyclable containers enabling them to sell the milk to livestock producers and sell the recyclable plastic to a recycler.

The plastic containers would need to have the uncontaminated liquid extracted, whilst washing the containers and packaging them for collection by the recycler.

Their current production needed to continue while this process was in action.

Challenge

Tru Blu Beverages is the largest manufacturer of contract-packed beverages sold through Australian supermarkets.

In 2019 an Australian beverage manufacturing and distribution company in Sydney were looking for a way to recycle their rejected bottles which still contained the beverage inside the plastic bottle.

The extraction of the liquid and compacting the plastic bottles to be ready for recycling collection was the companies main focus for their inquiry.

Challenge

Green Technology Recycling. G.T.R started up in December 2016 and is a trusted electronics recycling partner for a variety of Australian companies, both local and nationally, including government departments, telecommunication companies and electronics manufacturers.

To effectively process the E-Waste for recycling, Green Technology Recycling needed a shredding solution that could handle the volume of E-waste at their facility and produce quality shredded product.

They contacted Waste Initiatives to discuss options to suit their specific requirements.