Soft plastics trial to solve a hard problem
The Albury Waste Management Centre already recycles thousands of tonnes of hard plastics but until now, most soft plastic has had to go into landfill. But that could largely be a thing of the past, [...]
Plastic Forests is winner of the ‘Excellence in Innovation’ Business Awards 2021 for the Murray-Riverina and State Finalist for NSW Business Awards 2021
As a rural business, Plastic Forests sought to provide a sustainable alternative for farmers to landfilling their silage wrap. After much R&D, they developed the world’s first fence post made from 100% recycled soft plastics. [...]
Hunter Water – Leading the way in soft plastic recycling with Plastic Police and Plastic Forests
Hunter Water is set to become the first business partnering with a community-driven initiative to completely offset its soft plastic use. Over the past three years, we have collected and diverted more than three tonnes [...]
NSW Energy & Environment Matt Kean at Plastic Forests
"The NSW Government is just about to release its 20-year waste strategy and creating circular economies like what Plastic Forests is doing is going to be a key part" NSW Energy & Environment Matt Kean [...]
Plastic Forests – NSW Circulate grant
The Circulate grant program supports the recovery and reuse of commercial and industrial (C&I) and construction and demolition (C&D) waste from organisations across NSW. Recipients work with other industries to identify industrial ecology opportunities, increase [...]
Innovative recycling operation Plastic Forests has a new product, now producing plastic fence posts made from used silage film
Innovative recycling operation Plastic Forests has a new product, now producing plastic fence posts made from used silage film, with the first 500 posts being shipped off to fire-damaged farms in Tumbarumba NSW. The steel-reinforced recycled [...]
Coles 2020 Sustainability Report mentions Plastic Forests
National Farmers Federation CEO Tony Mahar welcomed Coles’ support for innovative farmers. “It’s inspiring to see that from the challenges of drought and bushfires has come such ingenuity – like the development of fence posts [...]
SUSSAN LEY, Minister for the Environment, mentions Plastic Forests in an address to Parliament
"Industry and communities have supported this waste export ban, which they view as a positive catalyst for change. They're joining with us: trolleys are being made from recycled milk bottles, toner cartridges are going into [...]
Perisher soft plastics recycling! -NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
Larger waste-producing outlets in Perisher and Charlotte Pass resorts will now be recycling soft plastics. NPWS Perisher has purchased a soft plastics baler, with help from the EPA Bin Trim Funding Program. At times such [...]
Morrison Government to pump $190million into recycling sector
Plastic polymers for better, longer-lasting roads and plastic fence posts for Aussie farmers. They're just two of the innovative solutions being developed by the recycling industry to help solve Australia's plastic waste crisis. Yesterday, the [...]