The innovation behind the flake.

Australian Recycled Plastics is the first plant of its kind in Australia — and the first of its kind in rural Australia — able to process kerbside-collected PET and HDPE into PET Flake and HDPE Flake simultaneously. It is one of the few plants in the world that can process PET and HDPE at the same time, and the flake we produce is repurposed by many other industries.

We consider Australian Recycled Plastics innovative because we are the first facility of its kind in Australia, simultaneously sorting HDPE, PET and coloured plastic. The technology used in our plant is widely used in the more progressive countries around the world — and it is the sourcing and implementing of this kind of innovative technology that improves our efficiency and competitiveness.

The business has evolved since those early days. We no longer process mixed 442 waste material — instead we have deliberately narrowed our focus to what we do best: PET and HDPE, sorted and processed simultaneously to a consistently higher standard. Concentrating on these two streams lets us run cleaner material, tighter quality control and a better end product for the industries that rely on our flake.