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PBC Recycling Program

 

Waste not....

...want not!

 

 

PBC before its recycling program.

All glass and plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, paper, and cans, etc. went to landfill. The waste was collected weekly (sometimes twice weekly)

PBC after its recycling program (2008-2009)

Visy Recycling now collects:

:: Glass bottles and jars

:: Plastic Bottles

:: Aluminium and steel cans

:: Milk and juice cartons

:: Paper and cardboard

Waste Trade Removalist - Remondis

Grease to accredited Sydney Water

 Cooking Oil to Sydney Recycling

 50% grass clippings to community for compost

Free Fine Grass Clippings for your compost available on lower green.

"Almost 60% of landfill is organic matter and could be composted" ..."If we leave it in landfills it can create harmful gases such as methane and contribute to global warming. If we were able to divert all organic material away from landfill, if we can recycle all food and garden trimmings, we can help reduce the effects of climate change." (Christopher Rochfort, Centre for Organic and Resource Enterprises)

CORE website: http://corebusinessnet.com/

PBC also recycles:

Flow chart cycle

:: Corks to Marrickville Council > Taronga Zoo > Reprocessing plant > made into floor tiles, notice boards, cricket balls and boat decking.

:: Printer cartridges to Office Works > Planet Ark > All of the printer cartridges that we collect are returned to Close the Loop® where they are sorted and processed.>

:: Over 50% of the laser toner cartridges are sent back to the original equipment manufacturers for their respective remanufacturing or component recovery programs. >

All inkjet cartridges, toner bottles and drum units are processed to recycle their component materials into new products. >

The steel in a fridge, the eWood in a park bench, the plastic in a ruler and the ink in a roller ball pen could have all been a printer cartridge in a previous life.

http://cartridges.planetark.org/

:: 20-30% of unwanted top soil goes to greenkeeper and community.