Working closely with Tetra Pak, LoveNZ, announced yesterday (4 July 2012) their expansion to include cartons and cups.
Currently, around 384 million paper based containers are consumed every year in New Zealand. While cartons are collected via kerbside systems in several regions of New Zealand, until now there has been no opportunity to recycle cartons and cups in public places.
Once the cartons and cups are collected, they are baled and shipped to recycling mills in Australia, India and Korea. They are then soaked in water to separate the paper from the plastic and aluminium layers, and the content is turned into products like cardboard boxes toilet paper, tissue and notebooks. The separated aluminium foil can be made into roof tiles and plastic pots, or gasified to make energy.
