Remanufacture NSW grants
A New South Wales waste recovery programme is providing co-funding for waste and recycling infrastructure to support the resource recovery sectors response to Australia's waste export ban.
The Environmental Trust awarded 22 grants totalling Aus$24,154,082 in the Remanufacture NSW 2021 round with glass receiving a significant proportion for infrastructure projects.
Visy will receive Aus$2,546,758 to increase the capacity of their Penrith facility to process an additional 50,000 tonnes of glass a year, up to a total of 200,000 tonnes, enough to process the majority of New South Wales' recyclable glass. Upon completion, this glass recovery maximisation project will increase the current recovery of kerbside recycled glass from 53% to 60%, keeping an additional 4500 tonnes/year of furnace ready cullet in the circular economy.
Glass, plastic and textile remanufacturing MICROfactorie, Aus$500,000: Shoalhaven City Council, in partnership with the University of NSW Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT) Centre, will establish a MICROfactorie which re-manufactures glass and mattresses into green ceramics used as kitchen benches, table tops, tiles, furnishings and other applications and re-manufactures plastics into filament for 3D printing purposes.
NSW Glass Recycling delivers critical glass reprocessing capacity to the region, enabling recovery of glass materials that would otherwise be landfilled.
NSW Glass Recycling produces and sells high-grade glass products for water filtration, abrasive blasting, clay additives, fibreglass insulation, glue as strength additive, white ant barrier and anti-slip paint additive.
This Aus$228,265 project will increase annual glass crushing capacity from the current 11,000 tonnes per year to 16,000 tonnes per year of glass fines from municipal kerbside services and commercial plate and laminate glass from businesses in the Mid Coast region.
