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November 2011 Tas Farmer
"A Bonus for Tasmania"
September 2011 Tas Farmer "A Life Long Aussie Mate
Editorial"
August
2011 Vic Country Life "A Different Winning Post"
March
2011 Honda.com.au Editorial "Honda Innovation To Serve
Communities"
September 2009
Australian Farmer's and Dealer's Journal "What Dustin
Hoffman Didn't Know"
July 2009 Blog "Slow Art Collective - TS2:
July 2009" (Hard Plastic Recycling)
July
2009 Farm Weekly, WA, "Fence Posts are Winning
Posts"
April
2009 Press Release "Old Mobile Phones, for New plasmar Fence
Posts"
January 2008
ABC Radio National "Recycle Plastics To Fence
Posts"
November 2011
Tas Farmer Editorial
"A Bonus for Tasmania"
Tasmanians have always shown a huge interest in environmentally
friendly products and there has been no exception when it comes to
the fully recycled plasmar
composite plastic products (manufactured by Australian
Composite Technology). Enquiry and demand for fence posts, strainers, rail,
garden edging, planter boxes and bollards has shown that Tasmanians
are determined to be early adopters of these products as long life
alternatives to timber.
The attraction has not only been the environmental benefits of
the plasmar products, the life long durability of the products
(with CSIRO testing showing
a 50 to 100 year life span) has had everyone doing their sums and
comparing the savings over the product life and these are very
attractive indeed.
Read the entire article.
August 2011
Tas Farmer Editorial
"A Life Long Aussie Mate"
We’ve had enough of drought, floods and economic uncertainty and
with the environment firmly on the political agenda at the moment
we don’t need fair weather friends but rather innovative solutions
so its good to know there is a life long Aussie mate we can depend
on.
Fencing and repair of damaged fences in particular is a high
priority for many of us now and value for money is essential, the
innovative, fully recycled plasmar composite plastic fence posts,
(manufactured by Australian Composite
Technology) are proving a very successful alternative to
conventional fencing materials. This long life range of posts,
strainers and other products is suitable for a wide range of
agriculture, viticulture and aquaculture applications and is an
environmental winner.
Read the
entire article.
August 2011
Vic Country Life
"A Different Winning Post"
Here’s a different “winning post” a plasmar fence post, the
fencing product that is quickly proving to be a winner with
everyone and is becoming known as a “life long Aussie mate”
plasmar is a fence post that is really helping to resolve many
of the issues that make you feel like you’re on a losing streak
when it comes to fencing and re fencing with traditional
products.
Read
the entire article.
March 2011
Honda.com.au Editorial
"Honda Innovation To Serve Communities"
Honda Australia has partnered with Australian Composite
Technologies (ACT) in a recycling initiative which reprocess
obscelete parts into composite fence posts, bollards and other
products.
ACT’s long-life plasmar fence
posts are made of 100 per cent recycled products, are CSIRO tested for durability and
proven to last more than 50 years. Plasmar goes beyond innovation,
being immune from termite and fungal attack and fire resistant,
making it a practical and much safer option to that of traditional
timber fencing.
Read the entire
article.
September 2009
Australian Farmer's and Dealer's Journal
"What Dustin Hoffman Didn't Know"
In the 1967 movie The Graduate Dustin Hoffman learns that
the future is in plastics. What he doesn’t know is that the future
also brings with it a mounting environmental problem. Industrial
waste plastics and used polymer based packaging material now
dominate the landscape.
While government authorities
struggle with the growing problem one Victorian company has forged
a new future for waste plastics by converting the material into plasmar fence
posts.
Read the
entire article.
July 2009
"Slow Art Collective - TS2: July 2009" (Hard Plastic Recycling)
The project TS2 (Transfer Station 2) is a collaborative
installation art project by Slow Art Collective (SAC) in
partnership with Moonee Valley City Council Waste Transfer Station
and the adjacent Incinerator Arts Complex. We have orchestrated
in-kind sponsorship from recyclers linked to the Transfer Station,
such as TIC Group and Australian Composite
Technologies, which means that we will be using the existing
paths of transportation to bring back the materials after they have
been through part of the recycling process, and then turn them into
a collaborative art installation.
Visit the blog post.
July 2009
Farm Weekly, WA
"Fence Posts are Winning
Posts"
You probably think you're doing your bit for the planet by
recycling, but one Perth woman puts us all to shame. Rachel
Robertson of Longlife Fencing Products WA is now selling container
loads of plasmar fence
post manufactured entirely from waste plastic normally destined
for landfill.
Read
the entire article.
April 2009
Press Release
"Old Mobile Phones, for New plasmar Fence Posts"
MobileMuster, the official recycling program of the mobile phone
industry, is launching the 2009 'Old Phones, New Fence Posts'
Schools Recycling Challenge in conjunction with plasmar fence posts
manufacturers, Australian Composite Technology (ACT).
The 'Old Phones, New Fence Posts' Schools Recycling Challenge,
is a month long challenge where for every 5kg of old mobile phones
handed in for recycling by schools during May, MobileMuster and ACT
will donate one plasmar
fence post to communities affected by the Victorian bush
fires.
Read
more about the
program.
21 January 2008
ABC Radio National
"Recycle Plastics To Fence Posts"
You probably think you're doing your bit for the planet by
recycling household waste like plastic bottles and cartons. But in
fact, most kinds of plastic are extraordinarily hard to recycle and
they end up in landfill. Plastic in landfill can take hundreds of
years to biodegrade and burning or melting it lets off toxic gases,
so it poses a real quandary. A Melbourne business man has spent
nearly a decade figuring out how to turn the 77-thousand different
types of plastics into fence posts.
Roger Sweeney, Director of Australian Composite Technology
gets plastic waste from all over Australia. He manages to reuse
everything, from hard hats to car bumper-bars and mobile phone
casings. The ABC's environment reporter, Claire Gorman went to meet
him recently at his production plant.
Read the full transcript at ABC Radio National or view in your
browser.
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