Guest Speaker Darren Lomman.
Photo: Doug Worthington
‘Recycling Plastics in WA'
Guest Speaker Darren Lomman with the GreenBatch Team and President Warwick.
Photo: Doug Worthington
There has been a lot of media coverage on the damage that plastic in the ocean and the rivers is doing to marine life.
Humans started using plastic in the 1950s and now we are using 350 million tonnes of plastics. Only 7.3 million tonnes, 2.6 per cent, of plastic is recycled. In WA zero plastic is reprocessed. To burnt plastic is 30 times more pollution than coal.
95 per cent of the plastic that is destroying marine life comes from 10 rivers, most from the few rivers in China. So the solution is not to send our plastic south east asia. No processing here in WA means that we are equal last in the world.
Hence this project drive to have the first recycling plant in WA starting with plastic beverage bottles with a machine that already exists that processes 300 kg hour of plastic, 131,000,000 a year for $150k funded through crowd funding.
The plant will use Solar power for electrical energy required and recycled water for washing the plastic beverage bottles as it turns these bottles into 3D printer filament. These printers can now be purchased from as little as $49.
These printers are producing running shoes, machinery parts, orthopaedics, toys, running shoes, pavements and roads.
All Photos: Doug Worthington
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