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A major expansion at a plastics recycling facility in Dandenong South is using state of the art technology to turn plastics containers into a recycled plastic flake which is used to create plastic for food packaging.
The multi-million facility has been upgraded with optical sorting technology with funding of $6 million from the Allan Labor Government and Albanese Labor Government and has created 28 new jobs.
Martogg, one of Australia’s largest privately owned plastics recycling businesses, has invested in new technology that identifies and sorts post-consumer PET bottles and containers.
The containers are granulated and thoroughly washed, producing a high-quality flake that can be transformed back into food grade recycled pellets for use into PET packaging commonly found on our supermarket shelves, like water and beverage bottles, meat trays and packaging for bakery items.
The expansion has resulted in a plant capable of processing 40,000 tonnes of post-consumer PET bottles per year which has enabled Martogg to produce 17,300 tonnes a year of food grade PET flake tonnes a year, or the equivalent of over 800 million PET bottles.
This is one of 13 jointly funded recycling projects completed since 2021, 9 of which target plastics. These projects have increased Victoria’s capacity to process an additional 80,000 tonnes of plastics per annum. Martogg’s project is significant as it contributes over a quarter of this additional capacity.
