{"id":51923,"date":"2021-07-08T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=51923"},"modified":"2024-09-05T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:11:48","slug":"cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\/","title":{"rendered":"CEFC Invests In Solar Power Assisted Plastic Recycling Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cefc.com.au\/annual-report-2021\/performance\/australian-recycling-investment-fund\/\">https:\/\/www.cefc.com.au\/annual-report-2021\/performance\/australian-recycling-investment-fund\/<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar.jpg\" alt=\"CEFC recycling investment\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A facility under construction in Albury-Wodonga that will recycle the equivalent of an estimated one billion plastic bottles a year has gained support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Construction of the Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) plant at the Nexus Precinct, around 10km north of Albury\/Wodonga\u2019s CBD, commenced in August last year and is a joint venture between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleanaway &#8211; will provide the plastic waste for recycling, collected from 100+ councils and 140,000 commercial customers<\/li>\n<li>Pact Group &#8211; technical and packaging expertise and recycled plastic buyer<\/li>\n<li>Asahi Beverages &#8211; will buy the recycled plastic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recycled <span data-ccp-parastyle=\"annotation text\">polyethylene terephthalate (PET)<\/span> plastic will be in pellet form and used to manufacture new bottles and food and beverage packaging. The facility is expected to boost locally sourced and recycled PET produced in Australia from around 30,000 tonnes to over 50,000 tonnes annually. Additionally, more than 300 direct and indirect jobs are expected to be created at the plant.<\/p>\n<h2>CEFC Backing A Circular Economy<\/h2>\n<p>The CEFC announced yesterday it was committing up to $16.5 million in debt finance to the project &#8211;\u00a0 its first investment under the $100 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cefc.com.au\/where-we-invest\/special-investment-programs\/australian-recycling-investment-fund\/\"> Australian Recycling Investment Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe CEFC investment supports Australia\u2019s recycling industry at a time of significant change in the sector,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cefc.com.au\/media\/media-release\/closing-the-loop-one-billion-pet-bottles-recycled-every-year-to-produce-more-sustainable-products\/\">said<\/a> CEFC CEO Ian Learmonth. &#8220;We are particularly proud that the Australian Recycling Investment Fund\u2019s first investment builds Australia\u2019s capacity to generate high value recycled commodities that create an important revenue stream while also reducing carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The change Mr. Learmonth is referring to is a ban on sending mixed plastics overseas for recycling, which came into effect at the beginning of this month under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.au\/Details\/C2020A00119\"> Recycling and Waste Reduction Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From July 1, only waste plastics that have been either been sorted into single resin or polymer type, or processed with other materials into processed engineered fuel can be exported. Then from 1 July 2022, only plastics that have been either sorted into single resin or polymer type <strong>and<\/strong> processed for further use (e.g. flakes or pellets), or processed with other materials into processed engineered fuel can be exported.<\/p>\n<p>This came about after China and Indonesia blocked imports of waste from Australia and other nations back in 2019. This meant around 174,000 tonnes of waste plastic could no longer be exported &#8211; annually.<\/p>\n<h2>Australian Recycling Investment Fund And Clean Energy<\/h2>\n<p>Boosting plastics recycling is a very good thing &#8211;\u00a0 84 per cent of plastic is sent to landfill and only 13 per cent of plastics used in Australia are recycled &#8211; but what does that have to do with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation?<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the CEFC&#8217;s Australian Recycling Investment Fund is on large-scale projects using clean energy technologies to support the recycling of waste plastics, paper, glass and tyres.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CEFC, the CPA plant is to be partly powered by renewable electricity through the installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\"> solar panels<\/a>. Given clean energy was essential criteria for gaining support for the fund, it would have been nice to have seen more information released on the solar energy aspect &#8211; but that was it. The CEFC has been contacted for more information on the solar power system and this article will be updated if\/when we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.cefc.com.au\/annual-report-2021\/performance\/australian-recycling-investment-fund\/ A facility under construction in Albury-Wodonga that will recycle the equivalent of an estimated one billion plastic bottles a year has gained support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":51924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CEFC Invests In Solar Power Assisted Plastic Recycling Facility<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A facility that will recycle the equivalent of one billion plastic bottles a year has gained support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CEFC Invests In Solar Power Assisted Plastic Recycling Facility\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A facility that will recycle the equivalent of one billion plastic bottles a year has gained support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-07T21:12:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-05T00:11:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cefc-recycling-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"CEFC Invests In Solar Power Assisted Plastic Recycling Facility\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-07T21:12:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-05T00:11:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":546,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/cefc-recycling-solar-mb2068\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/cefc-recycling-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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