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South Australians return 470 million containers for recycling

Each year, there are approximately 540 million refundable containers sold in South Australia. South Australians return 470 million containers for recycling.

More than 69% of recyclable waste destined for landfill is diverted for recycling in this state. Materials to be recycled are taken to recovery facilities or recycling centres where they are sorted.

They are then compacted, baled or binned for transport to reprocessing factories. Manufacturers use these materials to make new products. While 82% of materials are processed in SA, most paper and steel is sent interstate or to overseas processing facilities. Making products from recycled materials generally produces less pollution, including greenhouse gases, and consumes less energy than manufacture from virgin materials. Recycling reduces the need for new waste disposal facilities. This has both economic and social benefits and recycling creates jobs in collection, sorting and reprocessing.

What can you recycle?

Containers for flavoured milk and fruit juice, soft drinks, vitamin drinks, sport drinks, iced teas, beer, alcoholic sodas, spirit-based mixers and some wine-based beverages.

YP Recycling in Kadina is a regional depot for the “Super Collectors” and, as such, collects and processes product from Clare, Port Broughton, Stansbury, Warooka and Minlaton.

These yards are independently-owned, and YP Recycling’s role is in transport, and processing product into cost-effective sized bales of 200 kilograms, holding as many as 14,000 containers in a 1200 x 800 x 800 block.

According to Neil and Sue Drogemuller of YP Recycling, a busy week would see the Kadina yard purchase upwards of 250,000 items and send off 25 tonnes of glass cullet (broken bottles) to Adelaide in a semi-tipper. The glass is sorted into three colours — white, green and amber.

“Regular audits reveal about five stubbies to a kilo and between 65-70 aluminium cans to the kilo,” they explained. “This means 14,000 cans are compressed into a metre cube block and we handle 120 blocks each month. A million units of recyclable items a month is a lot of counting — although some customers even have them counted for us!