Cleanaway’s Sustainable Recycling is Making a Difference

Every time you recycle with Cleanaway you are helping keep metal and plastic out of the environment and putting the materials back into new bikes, barbecues, and wheelie bins. Cleanaway is a leader in sustainable recycling and offers environmentally friendly solutions for your business and home.

Cleanaway Executive General Manager Sales and Marketing Dave Aardsma says recycling in Australia has matured to a point where it is becoming the first instinct when we are looking to throw things away.

“We work with businesses all over the country to minimise landfill costs by maximising their recoverable and recyclable waste,” Mr. Aardsma said. “That means the waste you recycle with Cleanaway ends up creating new products without harming the environment.”

”Steel tins, for instance, are baled and sold to recyclers to be remade into steel products and packaging,” Mr. Aardsma said. “Steel is 100 per cent recyclable so these recycled steel ingots can be used to make new car bodies, cans, aerosols, bikes, barbecues, furniture and whitegoods. We recycle aluminium too - it’s just as good quality as aluminium made straight from bauxite and is more environmentally friendly.”

Recycled plastic is used to make new containers, wheelie bins, guideposts, fence pickets, irrigation pipes and fleece jumpers, while paper and cardboard is turned into pulp, and then back into paper and cardboard again.

Cleanaway offers commingled recycling (single bin for your recyclables) as a simple, ideal solution for small businesses who want to recycle without the time and space burden of multiple bins.

“We also have packaging recycling, which is a bespoke option for businesses that create a lot of packaging waste,” Mr. Aardsma says. “Place cardboard, paper, plastic film, pallet shrink and stretch wrap, and polystyrene in the one bin, confident in the knowledge it will be separated and recycled at our bespoke facility.”

If your business uses a lot of paper and cardboard, a dedicated bin can open up a range of recycling rebates that are not available on commingled bins.

Cleanaway also turns organic waste into compost, mulch, and, in some cases, nutrient intensive liquid fertiliser.

”It’s a great result for your waste costs and the environment"

Cleanaway is an Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) licensed service and can provide you with associated EPA documentation, so talk to the professionals about your waste collection, storage and transport needs.

Cleanaway is an ASX listed company (ASX:CWY), employing more than 4,000 people across Australia, with more than 2,500 trucks on road.

Cleanaway provides leading total waste management solutions with over 200 sites and depots, more than 45 major processing facilities, providing hundreds of speciality services across Australia.

To understand more about how Cleanaway can help your business with sustainable waste management and recycling, visit www.cleanaway.com.au.

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Melissa McColl

Communication and Engagement Manager

Cleanaway

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