Recycle @ Work
Although the majority of the WA community now recycles regularly at home, very few of us are recycling when we are at work. In WA more than 40 000 tonnes of recyclable material is currently lost to landfill through the small to medium enterprise sector.
So, in 2005, Amcor Recycling WA embarked on an ambitious new industry leadership effort designed to make recycling of all materials a normal part of workplace practice in WA.
Amcor Recycling WA gathers recyclable materials from hundreds of WA businesses every day and make sure they are sent to other organisations which can use them to produce new products – everything from new plastics to cardboard boxes to envelopes, bottles, cans. We have been operating in WA for more than 40 years. Just in cardboard and paper alone we have recycled more than 2 million tonnes so far.
We work with a wide range of other businesses in helping prevent waste and keep resources out of landfills.
Recycle @ Work is an initiative of the Amcor Recycling WA office.
In Good Company – about Amcor
Amcor is an Australian public company owned by over 135,000 shareholders and operated by over 27 000 employees. Our history dates back to the 1860s when Samuel Ramsden, a young stonemason from Yorkshire, arrived in Australia and established Victoria's first paper mill on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne.
Amcor was Australia's first paper and cardboard recycling company and remains the nation’s leading recycler of paper and cardboard products. We have already recycled more than 35 million tonnes of wastepaper and cardboard and plan to recycle a lot more in the decades to come.
Recently Amcor withdrew from forestry, fine paper and pulp mill operations to concentrate on its role as a leader in recycling and packaging for both economic and environmental reasons.
Australia desperately needs more manufacturing industries, especially more environmentally-friendly ones, so at Amcor we are proud to be one of our nation’s manufacturing success stories. We manufacture fibre, metal, and plastic packaging right across Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, the group manages Amcor's packaging paper mills and recycling activities. We operate 65 manufacturing plants for paper and cardboard products alone.
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