Have you ever been curious about what happens to your recycling after you place it in your yellow lidded bin? Take this online tour of VISY’s material recovery facility and discover how those materials are sorted.
Below is a virtual tour of VISY’s material recovery facility showing how materials are sorted into dedicated streams through;
By recycling right, you can help us turn your recycling into new products and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it.
More than three years after China banned the import of the world's recycling and waste, Australia is finally getting its act together. A new multi-million dollar Recycling Modernisation fund and National Waste Management Plan is helping the sector develop and invest in new technologies.
A short, simplified cartoon explainer on what happens inside a material recovery centre to sort mixed recycling into separate, recyclable elements.
A mechanical biological treatment system is a waste processing facility that combines a waste sorting facility with biological treatment methods e.g. anaerobic digestion and/or composting.
The way we manage waste in Australia is changing.
We all throw items in the bin or recycling bin – often without a second thought. What we throw away impacts our environment and economy.
Cleanaway’s 2024 Recycling Behaviours Report revealed that 2 in 5 Australians don’t trust that their waste will be properly recycled and 18 per cent incorrectly believe that everything just goes to landfill (and therefore nothing is recycled).