Plastic Pollution Australian Waterway Pacific Recycling Community Kit Launched

The Pacific Collective, an Australian community-led drive to help promote plastic recycling, has launched. It offers a business in a box approach to reducing plastic on Pacific shorelines.

Coffs Harbour, Australia - May 30, 2017 /NewsNetwork/ —

A new environmental business has launched focusing on waste plastic recycling and remoulding for Pacific region communities. Called The Pacific Collective, it was created by Louise Hardman, an Australian environmental science and chemistry teacher, who wanted to help save the marine animals that were being impacted by plastic pollution, and so decided to provide people with the education and tools they need to save these animals’ lives.

More information can be found at: http://thepacificcollective.com.au.

According to a recent Australian Senate report, almost 8 million tonnes of plastics are entering global waterways every year, and this is a trend that is increasing. At present, only 15% of a potential 80% of plastics is being recycled or recovered globally, and plastic trash is now regularly found washed up on remote pacific island shores.

The Pacific Collective is a community start up initiative collecting plastic waste which enters the waterways as pollution. It is a scalable business idea, supplying machinery to shred plastic waste and remould extruded filament. In addition to a 6-step education process with specialised training in the chemistry of plastics and remoulding, the package also includes collection strategies, as well as an online market through which the recycled items can be sold.

This innovative startup has seen the development of the ‘Shruder’ machine, which shreds and extrudes plastic waste, and is easy to transport as it only weighs 60 kilograms. This helps to ensure that The Pacific Collective can act as a business in a box, helping remote pacific island communities derive an income through using the shredding and extruding machine, along with the training, and then selling the end products they produce.

Louise was inspired to action when she saw a marine turtle die after ingesting more than 15 different types of plastic in the Wooli River close to where she lives in northern New South Wales, Australia. Now she strives to empower communities to help clean up plastic materials from the Pacific Ocean coastlines.

The kit she provides includes ‘Shruder’, the shredding and extruding machine, along with a 2 day specialised on-site training program, technical posters and information, plus all the equipment required to get started. This means that even people with no prior knowledge or technical ability can easily and efficiently recycle plastic, and generate an income.

Full details can be found on the URL above.

Contact Info:
Name: Louise Hardman
Email: [email protected]
Organization: The Pacific Collective
Address: Coffs Harbour, New South Wales 2450, Australia

For more information, please visit http://www.thepacificcollective.com.au

Source: NewsNetwork

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