17 April 2009

Leading Sydney recycler WSN Environmental Solutions has reached a major milestone, processing a quarter of a million tonnes of resources in its Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) at Macarthur Resource Recovery Park at Narellan.

The resources recovered in the MRF include plastic, aluminium, cardboard and glass – all valuable commodities that are sold to the manufacturing sector to make new products.

WSN Environmental Solutions CEO Ken Kanofski said resources recovered from waste are helping the manufacturing sector in its quest to become more sustainable.

"Re-using resources like plastic, metal and glass recovered from the waste stream helps to reduce reliance on raw materials," Mr Kanofski said.

"This also avoids greenhouse gas emissions by recovering embodied energy from these resources.

"The resource recovery process, when combined with the green electricity production at our network of sites, significantly reduces our carbon footprint on the local area."

Mr Kanofski said if residents had large volumes of recyclables they couldn't fit inside their recycling bin, they could drop them off at the Macarthur Resource Recovery Park free of charge, provided they were separated.

The Park will also accept untreated timber, garden organics, household junk, furniture, mixed paper, plastic, glass, metal, timber, office partitioning and other dry waste that does not contain organic material. For a full list of acceptable materials, you can download our Pricing Guide, or contact WSN's Customer Service Centre on 1300 651 116.

The recovered resources are re-used where possible, with glass being sorted by colour and made into new bottles and cardboard re-processed into new boxes and packaging, while plastic from containers and milk bottles is exported to China to manufacture a range of new products.

Steel and aluminium is sold to scrap metal recyclers and used by the manufacturing sector to make new products.

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