Opportunities for German

Equipment Suppliers in Australia!

Grant Musgrove,

Chief Executive Officer

About ACOR

• Australia’s peak representative of the resource recovery

and recycling industry

• Advocate on behalf of the industry to influence

government policy and decision making

• Companies such as:

Australian Waste Industry Snapshot

• $14.2 billion per year!

• 2,846 waste management facilities across

Australia

• Growing at 7% p/a!!! $$$$$++

Challenges

• Limited landfill airspace

– 2016/2019

• Complexity of wastes

• High cost of landfill

– In NSW, the landfill gate fee

> $200 AU per tonne

Increasing Waste Generation

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Waste generated

Population

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Source: ABS Waste Account 2013

Federation Government

Federal

Government

(Legislation, Policy

and Planning)

State/ Territory Government

(Legislation, Policy and

Regulation)

Local Government (Local

planning, Contract

management and Operations)

Contractor and Operator (Collection,

Consolidation & Transfer Material Sorting,

Material Processing & Treatment and Disposal

Supporting Operations

(Products & Services)

Federal National Waste Policy

• Product Stewardship Act 2011

– mobile phones, mercury-

containing lamps, tyres, TVs

and Computers, Used Oil

– > New products will come

under this act with waste

generators becoming liable

parties

Significant Opportunities in NSW

$466m Waste Less, Recycle More

$250m Waste and Recycling

Infrastructure

$70m organic infrastructure

$15m recycling innovation fund

$35m business recycling program

$60m infrastructure

fund to support communities

$70m household problem wastes

$137.7m local council programs

$58m illegal dumping

$20m tackling littering

$465 million (AUD) government infrastructure

funding

Shredder floc market overview

• Primarily from the recovery of

end- of- life vehicle (ELVs) and

white goods

• Estimated volumes: ~700, 000

tonnes per year

• No establish market: either

landfilled (5%) or export

overseas

• What to do with the floc??????

Potential market Challenges

Use in a non- load bearing cement

material, e.g. a fascia product

Required a significant amount of pre-

processing to improve particle

consistency and product quality

Use of the finer inert shredder floc

fraction in road base or asphalt

production, as a substitute for virgin

sand

The shredder floc is potentially

contaminated with volatile

hydrocarbons. Vapours and fumes

would likely be produced during

asphalt production.

The material is likely to require

treatment prior to use in asphalt. The

cost is likely incompetitive compared

to the price of substitue materials, e.g.

virgin sand or recycled glass sand.

Use of the coarser fraction (i.e. plastic,

rubber and textiles) in energy from

waste

Limited technology is currently

available in AUS

State- based container deposit

schemes (CDS)

Opportunities for Energy from

Waste (EfW)

Gas $$

EfW= $$

Opportunities= $$