Chiro Coffee Episode 45 | Our New Greenbatch Bin!

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In this episode, Drs Josh and Dave our excited to announce that Duncraig Chiropractic is now a Greenbatch Collection hub. Greenbatch is a local organisation that reprocesses your plastic recylabes into 3D printer filament.

In WA, most of us use co-mingled recycling bins to separate out our plastic, paper, metal and glass from our food scraps and other waste. The recycling truck comes along to collect it all every fortnight, but then what happens?

You might assume that if you put a plastic water bottle into a recycling bin, it's being recycled and turned back into a new water bottle. Sadly, this is not the case. Currently, there is no PET plastic reprocessing in WA, one plastic reprocessing plant in New South Wales and a recent plant built in Victoria. Both plants only have capacity to recycle 40,000 tonnes. So what happens to WA's plastic? It's not economically viable for us to send our plastic to the Eastern States for recycling, nor do they want it because they get enough plastic as it is. What really happens is our plastics are bailed up by the tonne and sold to overseas markets where only a portion is being recycled. Once the ban on exports of our waste is implemented is will be a requirement to keep it onshore. This is where Greenbatch Processing will be able to reduce the plastic being sent to landfill, by setting up the recycling plant in Western Australia.