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The industry lead logos for recycling of plastic is not working. We have to landfill it again. Only just a few years ago new packaging labelling was designed to direct the flow of plastic packaging waste. Now that system is redundant and we are back to saying “Check locally if you can recycle your plastic packaging waste”. Industry and consumers don’t know what to do. A few small startups for soft plastic recycling are under trial, with their outcomes still to be decided. So that leaves little option but to discard the waste to landfill yet again. One indirect solution to this is to make the plastic packaging able to biodegrade at accelerated rates in a landfill. It can allow the waste energy to be collected and recycled, as well as ridding landfills full of plastic waste sitting there for centuries without compromising the material recyclability if and when recycling does occur.

Another report showing the 2025 targets for recycling and recycled content are not going to be met. By now this is not startling news, but something we need to roll out Plan B for, until such a time where targets can be reached. One option for a Plan B for plastic waste is to make it landfill-biodegradable, which means the plastic that is sent to landfills will biodegrade away (over years to decades instead of centuries) which can allow its embodied energy to be captured and reused (circular economy for energy) and the plastic still retains its full recycability for when it can be recycled.

This month our co-founder Dr Ross Headifen is featured in Food & Beverage Industry News and discusses what is going on in the world of soft plastics recycling in Australia, suggesting the biggest problem is the lack of infrastructure and little demand for its repurpose. #softplastics #plasticrecycling #circulareconomy #plastics #plastic #plasticsindustry #plasticwaste #plasticpackaging #plasticmanufacturing

Seeking to minimise their environmental footprint, while maintaining the integrity and protection of their metal products, Heatlie Barbecues began exploring alternative packaging solutions. Given their need for packaging that could withstand the sharp edges of metal objects and remain shelf-stable for extended periods, they found Biogone landfill-biodegradable plastics to be a promising solution. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dQbd-Khu #manufacturing #customisedplastic #innovation #plasticsolutions #packaging #packagingsolutions #landfillbiodegradable

We’d like to thank all our Biogone customers for your support in 2023, we will be taking a break over the next couple of weeks and our office will re-open on Monday 8th January 2024. We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎅🎄⭐️

The CSIRO are working on a roadmap to divert plastic waste into resources in India, with the aim of recycling two-thirds of plastic waste and phasing out single-use plastics by 2035 to significantly reduce waste ending up in landfill. Currently only 8% of plastic in India gets recycled with the rest either mismanaged, incinerated, or dumped. Even if they achieve this reduction goal, that still leaves a lot of plastic ending up in landfill, so landfill biodegradable plastic technology can help play an important part in accelerating biodegradation. #plasticwaste #plastictechnology #singleuseplastic #plasticrecycling https://lnkd.in/gksgTgTv

Plastic waste is accelerating, projected to almost triple by 2060, with about half ending up in landfill and less than a fifth recycled ... Biogone landfill biodegradable technology for plastics is going to become more and more critical to meet the above challenge. @tanyaplibersek

The ACT is using landfill gas to power the territory as a means to get away from fossil fuels, and to increase commitment to landfill gas being implemented. Biogone technology facilitates the biodegradation of plastic waste into landfill gas, helping the transition away from fossil fuels as well as breaking down plastic waste.

Recycling is becoming a confusing term now too. This article points out some of the issues. #recycling #plasticrecycling