VISY - For a Better World

A family with 1 years worth of recyclable materialA week's worth of magazines, papers and letters. A bin full of bottles, jars and tins. Sound familiar? It should.

Kiwi's are great recyclers and Visy's goal is to make recycling easy. Every week more than 2.5 million households across the South Pacific put out recyclable materials for collection or processing by Visy Recycling.

Visy Recycling works with Local Councils to make this process as smooth and simple as possible for householders. And it is working. Visy collects and processes about 500,000 tonnes of recyclables from these households, that otherwise would have been sent straight to landfill.

Household recyclables are delivered to a Visy Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to be sorted and baled into groups: paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, steel, aluminium and cartons.

Once sorted, the materials are ready to be processed for remanufacture into new products.

You can play your part in the recycling process by ensuring everything you put out is both recyclable, and ready to recycle. Also, think about what you can do to minimise your use of non-recyclable products, or how you can reuse them so they don't end up in landfill.

What Can and cant be recycled

Recycling Hints:

  1. Do not place recyclables in plastic bags. Use a tub or basket to transport recyclables from your kitchen to your recycling bin to ensure your recycling efforts are not wasted
  2. In order to conserve water, it is not necessary to rinse out containers but please ensure they are clean of food scraps
  3. It is not necessary to peel labels off containers as they are taken out during the recycling process

The Recycling Process

1 Material CollectionVisy Recycling delivers your recyclable materials to a Visy sorting facility which is called a Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF. Here technology has transformed the sorting process.
2 SortingStep one in the sorting process is a journey from a storage pad and along a primary conveyor belt to a pre sort station. Here, things that clearly shouldn't be there such as food waste are removed by hand.
kerbside 3Steel is removed next using a magnet to sort them from other materials.

kerbside 4Materials continue along a conveyor and through a trommel. This is a large rotating cylinder that sorts by size. The bulk of the containers (glass, plastic and aluminium) fall through the trommel holes whereas the bulk of the paper travels through the trommel.

kerbside 5Materials that fall though the trommel holes will pass over a vibrating screen. This works like a sieve, removing fine pieces of glass.

kerbside 6The remaining materials move over an air classifier, that separates the lightweight materials like aluminium cans and plastic bottles from the heavier glass materials.

kerbside 7Glass passes through an automatic ceramic detector that removes any small pieces of ceramic that might contaminate the recycling process.

kerbside 8Glass bottles are left behind and conveyed into storage hoppers for transportation.

kerbside 9Plastic bottles, cartons and aluminium are then sorted into separate streams and conveyed into storage bays or baled ready for delivery to processing plants.

What Happens to Your Recyclables

Have you ever wondered what happens to your recyclables after you put your recycling bin out? Click on this link to see the journey that each of the materials take! view this link.

 To see what happens to your paper and cardboard when it is recycled please view this link

 paper and carcboard

 To see what happens to your plastics when they are recycled please view this link.

 recyclable plastics

 To see what happens to your glass when it is recycled please view this link.

 glass bottles

 


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