media
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"
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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