The document summarizes Australia's recycling system. It discusses various recycling programs like eCycle for electronics, greywater recycling systems, newsprint recycling, and plastics recycling. It notes that recycling saves energy and money while reducing waste in landfills. The best parts of Australia's system are its high employment in recycling and success with newspaper and aluminum recycling. However, the worst parts are consumer confusion about what can be recycled and lack of a national standard for measuring recycling rates.

1. Recycling System in Australia
By
Agileswaran

2. Outline
Introduction
Recycling system and how does it work?
 eCycle
 Grey water recycling
 Newsprint recycling
 Plastics recycling
What are the best/worst parts of the system?
 Best parts of the system
 Bad/worst parts of the system

3. Introduction
What is recycling?
Why is recycling important?
 Recycling saves the Earth
 Recycling saves energy
 Recycling reduces waste products in landfills
 Recycling helps you save money
 Electronics contain toxic chemicals like
lead, cadmium, beryllium and other dangerous heavy
metals.
History of Australian recycling
 The first Australian paper mill to use recycled material
was built in 1815

4. Recycling system and how does it
work?
What are the stages of the recycling process?
 The first stage is the collecting and sorting.
 The second stage is the manufacturing.
 Final stage is the selling of the recycled products to
consumers.

5. Recycling system and how does it
work?
eCycle
ECO Design Greywater Recycling System(GRS)
Newsprint recycling
Plastics recycling

6. eCycle
When you take your used electronics to the certified
recycler, you can easily be hit with a $25 to $50
disposal fee.
However, these specialized garbage companies
ensure that anything of value within the electronic
device is recycled and reused.

7. ECO Design Greywater Recycling
System (GRS)
Our use of water
 The average Australian's household uses many liters of
water every day, including in the:
• Bathroom – 50 percent
• Laundry – 22 percent
• Garden – 19 percent
• Kitchen – 8 percent.
(GRS) is a low cost and low maintenance greywater
treatment and distribution system for irrigating the
vegetation in your garden.

8. Newsprint recycling
The waste paper undergoes a process in which it is
made into new paper products.
Australians used 685,000 tons of newsprint in 2002
and recycled 500,000 tons.
Ex- recycled pencil made from used newspaper

9. Plastics recycling
The recycling process for a plastic product begins by
individuals separating them from their regular trash.
Afterwards, the plastics get split into various pieces.
This process is implemented by a machine known as
bale breaker.
Interestingly, the plastic bottles do not normally get
remanufactured as plastic bottles.

10. Best parts of the Australian recycling
system.
Australians council of recycler directly employ over
5,000 Australians in resource recovery activities.
Over the past decade, there have been some very
good results for newspaper and aluminum can
recycling.
Australians are the best newspaper recycler in the
world.
Australia keeps the second place in recycling rates
around the world.

11. Worst parts of the Australian
recycling system.
Nearly half of Australians are confused about what
can and cannot be recycled.
As a result, people are throwing out material that can
easily be recycled. But worse still, people are putting
rubbish in their recycling bins that can stop material
from being recycled.
Just 15 grams of oven proof glass can stop a whole
tons of normal glass from being recycled.
18 million printer cartridges are still being thrown into
landfill every year.

12. Cont...
Too few mobile phones are being recycled.
Australia is still in a position where we cannot
calculate a proper national recycling rate because
none of the states use a standard way of measuring
recycling and waste minimization efforts around
Australia.
How can we reduce our levels of waste if we cannot
properly measure how much we are recycling or not?

13. Thank you