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09/10/2023
Plasrefine Recycling is proposing to build a new plastics recycling and reprocessing facility to use innovative separation, sorting and cleaning technologies to keep waste plastics out of landfill.
Located at 74 – 76 Beaconsfield Road in Moss Vale on 77,000 square metres of industrial zoned land, the facility will recover and sort plastics into different types and convert them into valuable products, reducing the amount of plastics in landfill and fill the gap in local processing capacity for mixed plastics.
In particular, the facility will comprise 2 x main buildings for waste receival, recycling, reprocessing and finished product storage, as well as a new wastewater treatment plant. This will allow processing capacity of 120,000 tonnes per year of mixed plastics, including mixed soft plastics and used PVC pipes. In addition, a new access road will be built on part of Braddon Road (currently unformed) and a new connection to Lackey Road.
Strategically, the new facility is within the Moss Vale Enterprise Corridor, a significant area of land greater than 1000 hectares between Moss Vale and New Berrima, set aside for industrial and employment generating uses under the Wingecarribee Shire LEP.
Concept plastics recycling and reprocessing facility layout
Plastics play an important role in our society. It is cheap, light and durable and is an essential component to so many of the items we rely on today – from life-saving medical supplies to consumer goods like clothing and electronics. While plastic is versatile, it’s also increasingly threatening our natural environment through littering and nearly every piece of plastic produced also emits greenhouse gases at every stage of its lifecycle, contributing to carbon emissions and climate change.
About 760,000 tonnes of plastic entered the waste management system in NSW between 2018 – 2019. Of that, only 19% was recycled into new plastic products or recovered as refuse derived fuel. Over 424,000 tonnes of potentially recyclable plastics was disposed in NSW landfills in 2018 – 2019.
In March 2020, the former Council of Australian Governments announced a ban on the expert of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres. By mid-2024 when the full waste export ban comes into effect, Australia must recycle around 645,000 additional tonnes of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres each year.
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