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New Australian factory to make construction material from recycled goods
A company making construction products entirely from used drink cartons, soft plastics, disposable coffee cops and similar products will launch its first Australian manufacturing plant at Warragamba next month.
It’s basically like making a big cheese toasty. You heat it up and cool it down a couple of times and the plastic melts between the gaps in the fibre.
It’s a straightforward process, but it’s focused on reducing problematic waste ... materials which, until we came along, had been completely un-recyclable and collected by container deposit schemes.
In Australia alone, we could unlock a massive $2tn worth of potential savings across two decades.
Those potential savings could come, for example, through reusing valuable resources currently going to waste in landfill, such as plastics, glass, masonry and metals.
For far too long healthcare in western Sydney has been an afterthought.
The thousands of people moving into the area every year deserve world class healthcare.
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