Qantas Club has really upped their bottle recycling!
The Melbourne Qantas Club lounge has lifted glass recycling rates from 10% to 80%, using a new bottle crushing machine.
Usually glass bottles are thrown in tubs and lifted into large co-mingled recycling bins. Because of factors such as breakage and contamination, at the recycling plants smaller pieces cannot be sorted and go to landfill. The BottleCycler helps stop this occurring.”
About 80 other venues are also trialling have taken up the two-month trial offer in Melbourne and the program is about to commence in Sydney, with the Department of Environment and Climate Change also coming on board to support the project.
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