Visy glass sorting project for New Zealand

Archiv – New-Zealand / Australia | Australian recycling firm Visy has confirmed that it will build a glass sorting plant next to its A$ 21 million Onehunga recycling facility in New Zealand.New-Zealand / Australia | Australian recycling firm Visy has confirmed that it will build a glass sorting plant next to its A$ 21 million Onehunga recycling facility in New Zealand. A joint venture with glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois, the proposed 120 000-tonnes-per-annum plant is scheduled to be completed in early 2010 and will sort glass into three colours for recycling at Owens-Illinois’ manufacturing plant at Penrose.
The Onehunga plant takes the contents of co-mingled collection bins – including glass, paper, cardboard and aluminium cans – from households in Auckland and Manukau and prepares them for recycling. The new sorter will be able to recognise 17 million glass colours and is sufficiently sensitive to differentiate between, for example, a Heineken beer bottle and another type of green bottle.
The glass industry has criticised Auckland’s co-mingled recycling scheme because, it says, too much glass is broken up and contaminated during kerbside collection and sorting.