1. Recycling System in Australia
By
Agileswaran

2. Outline
∗ Introduction
∗ Recycling system and how does it work?
 eCycle
 Grey water recycling
 Newsprint recycling
 Plastics recycling
∗ What are the best/worst parts of the system?
 Best parts of the system
 Bad/worst parts of the system

3. Introduction
∗ What is recycling?
∗ Why is recycling important?
 Recycling saves the Earth
 Recycling saves energy
 Recycling reduces waste products in landfills
 Recycling helps you save money
 Resources are limited
 Electronics contain toxic chemicals like lead, cadmium, beryllium and
other dangerous heavy metals.
∗ History of Australian recycling
 The first Australian paper mill to use recycled material was built in
1815

4. Recycling system and how does it work?
∗ What are the stages of the recycling process?
 The first stage is the collecting and sorting.
 The second stage is the manufacturing.
 Final stage is the selling of the recycled products to
consumers.

5. Recycling system and how does it
work?
∗ eCycle
∗ ECO Design Greywater Recycling System(GRS)
∗ Newsprint recycling
∗ Plastics recycling

6. eCycle
∗ When you take your electronics to the certified
recycler, you can easily be hit with a $25 to $50
disposal fee.
∗ However, these specialized garbage companies
ensure that anything of value within the electronic
device is recycled and reused.
∗ Some popular retail stores will also have recycle
specialists who will process your e-waste.

7. eCycle
∗ Click to edit Master text styles
∗ Second level
∗ Third level
∗ Fourth level
∗ Fifth level

8. ECO Design Greywater Recycling System (GRS)
∗ Our use of water
 The average Australian's household uses many liters of water
every day, including in the:
 Bathroom – 50 per cent
 Laundry – 22 per cent
 Garden – 19 per cent
 Kitchen – 8 per cent.
∗ (GRS) is a low cost and low maintenance greywater
treatment and distribution system for irrigating the
vegetation in your garden.
∗ The GRS can be installed to reuse the water from just the
bathroom or from the bathroom and the laundry or the
entire greywater output from your house.

9. Newsprint recycling
∗ The waste paper undergoes a process in which it is
made into new paper products.
∗ Australians used 685,000 tons of newsprint in 2002
and recycled 500,000 tons.
∗ The picture to the right represents pencils made from
recycled newspapers.

10. Plastics recycling
∗ The recycling process for a plastic product begins by
individuals separating them from their regular trash.
∗ Afterwards, the plastics get split into various pieces before
shredding them into some even sized smaller flakes.
∗ This process is implemented by a machine known as bale
breaker.
∗ Some of the more well known recycled plastics are juice
and milk containers as well as water bottles.
∗ Interestingly, the plastic bottles do not normally get
remanufactured as plastic bottles.

11. What are the best parts of the system?
∗ Today, members of The Australian Council of Recyclers annually
reprocess more than 11 million tones of recyclable material.
∗ And they directly employ over 5,000 Australians in resource
recovery activities.
∗ Over the past decade, there have been some very good results for
newspaper and aluminum can recycling.
∗ Australians are now the best newspaper recycler in the world.
∗ Australia keeps the second place in recycling rates around the
world.

12. What are the worst parts of the
system?
∗ Nearly half of Australians are confused about what
can and cannot be recycled.
∗ As a result, people are throwing out material that can
easily be recycled. But worse still, people are putting
rubbish in their recycling bins that can stop material
from being recycled.
∗ Just 15 grams of oven proof glass can stop a whole
tons of normal glass from being recycled.
∗ 18 million printer cartridges are still being thrown into
landfill every year.

13. What are the worst parts of the
system?
∗ Too few mobile phones are being recycled.
∗ Australia is still in a position where we cannot
calculate a proper national recycling rate because
none of the states use a standard way of measuring
recycling and waste minimization efforts around
Australia.
∗ How can we reduce our levels of waste if we cannot
properly measure how much we are recycling or not?

14. Thank you