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The National Packaging Covenant (NPC) has provided funding to Australia’s largest waste management company, Transpacific Industries to provide a new recycling service to businesses nationally, to encourage them to recycle.
Called Harvest, the new program is worth a combined total of $23m and the NPC says it will revolutionise the way businesses dispose of their waste.
Ed Cordner CEO of the covenant says Transpacific’s new service offering is the biggest transformational change for recycling since Councils introduced kerbside recycling.
Cordner says, “Through offering businesses specially marked bins – landfill, recycle (for bulk packaging) and comix (for beverage and food containers) – a much greater amount of recyclables such as bulk packaging (cardboard, plastic film and expanded polystyrene) and food and beverage containers can be captured from the commercial and industrial waste stream – one of the largest waste streams in Australia.”
Dick Gross, chair of the Covenant says the new service would divert around 80,000 tonnes of packaging waste from landfill over the next 22 months.
Gross says, “It will also provide important data we can use to analyse the C & I waste stream. But we expect those tonnes recycled to continue to increase as more businesses reap the rewards of a simpler, more complete and cost effective recycling service while knowing they are helping the environment.”
Cordner concludes, “Transpacific’s new service is a good example of business and government working together to stop packaging waste ending up in landfill, thereby saving our natural resources, greenhouse gas reductions and the environment.”
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