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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Yarra's top 12 actions for a waste wise home

Where does your recycling go?

The steps to recycling..

1. Visy Recycling delivers your recyclable materials to a Visy sorting facility which is called a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).

2. 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.

3. Steel is removed next using a magnet to sort them from other materials.

4. Materials 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 trammel holes whereas the bulk of the paper travels through the trommel.

5. Materials that fall through the trommel holes will pass over a vibrating screen.

This works like a sieve, removing fine pieces of glass.

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

7. Glass passes through an automatic ceramic detector that removes any small pieces of cups and saucers or stones; these are not recyclable and contaminate the recycling process.

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

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

For more information go to the Visy Recycling Website

Shopping and Waste

Waste Wise shopping guide - find products that are made with recycled materials

Other related information

• Compost/ Worm Farm Information
• Waste and recycling information sheets
• Builder's Code of Practice and Waste Management Guidelines - checklist
• Commercial Waste Guidelines
• Recycling.
• Recycling drop-off point

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