Featured News

Adelaide Resource Recovery

ARR www.arr.net.au is a South Australian company committed to the comprehensive recycling of construction & demolition materials into valuable resources. ARR operates a 20-hectare resource recovery facility at the Adelaide City Council's Wingfield Eco Resource Management centre. Since January 2005, ARR has invested more than $10 million dollars in plant and equipment, creating dozens of jobs, at its resource recovery operation. ARR recycles bitumen, concrete and mixed construction & demolition waste.

Adelaide’s pioneering Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre will showcase its environmental achievements as major sponsor for this year’s ENVIRO‘14 Conference and Exhibition.

A three-day national event run by the Australian Water Association (AWA) and Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA), ENVIRO’14 is an environmental business conference and exhibition.

ENVIRO’14 Pathways for Better Business Conference & Exhibition will run at the Adelaide Convention Centre from September 17-19, attracting speakers from Australian and international environment and industry bodies.

ARR plastic exportsSA-based recycling specialist Adelaide Resource Recovery (ARR) is experiencing strong overseas demand after exporting more than 500 tonnes of waste plastic to China since late last year.

The pioneering company, which operates from Adelaide’s Wingfield Recycling Centre, is receiving regular inquiries from businesses in Hong Kong and China that are keen to buy SA’s waste plastic.

ARR (www.arr.net.au) is a South Australian company committed to the comprehensive recycling of construction and demolition materials into valuable resources.

During the past nine months, ARR has exported more than 22 containers, each holding 21 tonnes of cleaned and baled waste plastic, which would normally be sent to landfill. Extracted from the mixed waste stream that comes into ARR’s 20-hectare Wingfield sorting facility, plastic waste ranges from soft plastics such as carry bags to hard plastics such as the strapping used to bind construction materials.