Did you know that every year, close to 500 million litres of lubricating oil is sold in Australia? Lubricating oil is the oil employed in engines, and though some engines (such as two-stroke lawnmower engines) burn oil totally, other individuals like machinery and motor automobile engines make massive volumes of employed oil that can be reclaimed and reused. At CopperRock Recycling centre, we accept this employed oil for recycling for a compact charge.
Similarly, cooking oil demands to be disposed of appropriately. However, we can not accept cooking oil for recycling at CopperRock. On the other hand, there are a lot of nearby providers that can gather your cooking oil waste – such as Your Oil Man, and Cookers.
If disposed of incorrectly, employed oil has the prospective to pollute land, water and infrastructure. It requires only one particular litre of oil to contaminate one particular million litres of water and a single automotive oil adjust produces 4 to 5 litres of employed oil. There are at least 250 million litres of employed oil generated in Australia each year.
But it is not just oil waste that is a landfill hazard, it is also the packaging that oil comes in – especially lubricating oils due to residual oil contamination. Therefore, why we can not accept your empty oil container at Copper Rock. There are roughly 3,050 tonnes of contaminated compact volume motor automobile oil containers sent to landfill every year. Though this quantity is basically believed to be greater than that when you take into account the complete variety of petroleum-primarily based oil lubricants obtainable. To tackle this problem, the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), below the Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands Plastics Pact (ANZPAC), has received funding to create a national item stewardship scheme for the recovery and reprocessing of employed oil containers.
APCO has completed stage one particular of the project which consists of understanding the existing landscape for oil containers and building preliminary scheme design and style possibilities. They’re functioning to have the scheme design and style finalised and an implementation program by March 2023.
The higher-level scope of the project consists of investigation of:
• The collection and recycling of higher-density polyethylene (HDPE) motor oil containers sold in Australia up to 20 litres in capacity.
• Labelling and public education.
• The prospective for packaging re-use models.
• Finish-markets and use of recycled content material.
When the project is implemented a complete provide chain method will be adopted to assure business engagement in the design and style of an effective and efficient scheme which aims to:
• Enhance the recovery of oil containers up to 20 litres.
• Lower the effect of oil bottles on the atmosphere and human wellness.
• Investigate revolutionary sophisticated recycling technologies and option reuse models for oil bottles.
• Establish recovery targets in line with the ANZPAC Plastics Pact.
To find out much more about the project or remain up to date on its progress pay a visit to the ANZPAC web-site below ‘delivering item stewardship’.
