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re glass aggregate
2008-08-24 07:35:55 UTC
Hi there
There are a few places in NZ using glass aggregate in roading. Have a look at Christchurch City Council website and also Ashburton and another town called Palmerston North. http://www.glassforum.org.nz/future.html#roading Since 2006 the Palmerston North City Council in Partnership with Higgins Aggregates and Fullcircle have been recycling around 2,000 tonnes of glass into a 5% aggregate mix which has been used in cycle track and road construction in addition to building foundations. The Awapuni Recycling Centre built on the closed Awapuni Landfill was built on a foundation that included the 5% aggregate mix. Higgins Aggregates are able to produce a number of different aggregate materials with this process and Transit New Zealand has modified specifications to allow use of up to 5% glass cullet in the base course of roads. Higgins Aggregates is paid $30/tonne to produce the 5% glass aggregate mix. This is significantly less than the local landfill costs of $55 to $100/tonne. The trail blazing efforts of the Palmerston North City Council was recognized in an award from the New Zealand Packaging Council in August 2007
Lindsey Turner
Education Officer for Xtreme Waste
PO Box 153 Raglan/Whaingaroa
(07) 825 6509
[email protected]
www.xtremewaste.org.nz
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Events Waste
2008-04-24 07:15:49 UTC
Hi
can anyone assist with this - with regards to waste produced at festivals/large events etc Is there an average tonnage of waste produced per 1000 peeps figure anywhere? This is intended to be based on an event without any resource recovery system in place. I want to be able to say for example 30,000 people produce an estimated XXX tonnes of waste and at events like XXXX with no resource recovery in place that we can estimate that XXXX is going to landfill.
Thanks
Lindsey
Jacqui Forbes and Lindsey Turner
Education Officers for Xtreme Waste
PO Box 153 Raglan/Whaingaroa
(07) 825 6509
[email protected]
www.xtremewaste.org.nz
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