Sustainable End-of-Life Options for Plastics in New Zealand

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Appendix 2.6 Material Types Material Type Plastic Full Polymer Examples of Common Acronym Identification Code Name(s) Products Polyethylene Soft-drink and water bottles, PET Terephthalate food packaging such as salad domes and biscuit trays High Density Milk bottles, ice-cream HDPE Polyethylene containers, detergent bottles, and shopping bags Polyvinyl Chloride Cosmetic containers, pipes, PVC Unplasticised: PVC-U films, wire coatings, and Plasticised: PVC-P garden hoses Low Density Film for protection of pallets LDPE Polyethylene during transportation, squeezable bottles, rubbish bags, plastic food wrap PP PS EPS Polypropylene Polystyrene Expanded Polystyrene Lunch boxes, microwave containers, straws, packaging film, and dairy food containers Plastic cutlery, CD cases, stationery parts, toy parts and plastic ‘glassware’ Protective packaging for fragile goods, insulation, clamshell food take-away containers and cups Acronyms normally Car parts, appliance parts, specified underneath the computers, electronics, Other Identified code e.g. ABS water cooler bottles, (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and other packaging or SAN (Santoprene) Table 6: Definitions of plastic material types adapted from the Plastics Identification Code Appendix 2.7 Sources of End-of-Life Plastics a) Pre-consumer industrial: from plastic product manufacturers 31 b) Post-consumer industrial: industries who modify/fill the plastic product c) Post-consumer domestic: products which have been used by customers Figure 23: Main sources of end-of-life plastics –- using plastic beverage bottles as an example 31. Material recycled in-house during the initial product manufacturing stage is unaccounted for as a source material which contributes to the 23% recycling target 45 Sustainable End-of-Life Options for Plastics in New Zealand
Appendix 2.8 Forms of Plastic End-Market Product Form Baled Flaked Granulated Ground Pelletized Description Loose plastics compressed into a cube or rectangular shape, and strapped together Roughly chipped/shredded material formed into reasonably similar-sized flat pieces Material formed into grains or granules by continuing the flaking process until each particle has almost the same length as breadth Recovered plastic material that has been granulated until particles are in powder-form Material that has been re-melted and formed into pellets of similar size Table 7: Descriptions of different plastic end market product forms Appendix 2.9 Imports and Exports Method Indirect Imports/Exports Direct Imports/Exports Description Plastic that is incorporated with other materials on importation/exportation, for example: packaging around food and electrical goods Material that is imported/exported ready for use such as: packaging containers for the insertion of food product Table 8: Methods of Importing/Exporting Appendix 3: Website Links and Contact Details Appendix 3.1 Website Links • www.plastics.org.nz (Plastics New Zealand Inc. general website) • www.plasticsnz.com (Plastics New Zealand Inc. trade index) • www.ronz.org.nz (Recycling Operators of New Zealand) • www.mfe.govt.nz (Ministry for the Environment) • www.lgnz.co.nz (Local Government New Zealand with links to all city/district council websites) • www.packaging.org.nz (Packaging Council of New Zealand) Appendices 46
Page 1 and 2: Research Project Report Sustainable
Page 3 and 4: Executive Summary The purpose of th
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements Special thanks are
Page 7 and 8: 4.2.5 Measure of Degradability ....
Page 9 and 10: Introduction In 2003 the New Zealan
Page 11 and 12: Results 1. Plastic Material in NZ 1
Page 13 and 14: From the 2005 PNZ Mass Balance Surv
Page 15 and 16: 2. Statistical Analysis of Plastic
Page 17 and 18: 2.3 Breakdown of Recovered Plastic
Page 19 and 20: 2.5 Breakdown of Colours and Produc
Page 21 and 22: 2.5.4 PVC Approximately 2,412t of P
Page 23 and 24: 3. Assessment of the Current NZ Inf
Page 25 and 26: Figure 16: Implementation of kerbsi
Page 27 and 28: Figure 18: Other material recovered
Page 29 and 30: 3.3.3 Forms of End-Market Material
Page 31 and 32: 4.2.4 Cons • The cost of deriving
Page 33 and 34: 4.2.8 Viability of Composting Plast
Page 35 and 36: Strict regulations have been set in
Page 37 and 38: 5. Factors Influencing Recovery 5.1
Page 39 and 40: Commercial recyclers operating unde
Page 41 and 42: 5.9 Key Points Voluntary industry a
Page 43 and 44: Recommendations R.1 Improve Informa
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