100% Recycling Initiative

100% RECYCLING INITIATIVE!

Tassal is tackling waste in Tasmania, with plans to achieve 100% recycling of all major plastics across our operations. Partnering with Tasmanian company, Envorinex, plastics will be sent to the George Town based facility to be made into second life products – some of which can be recycled up to 17 times!

The extended partnership with Envorinex sprouted from an initiative pioneered in 2015 by our Senior Manager of Environment, Matt Barrenger. “I initially contacted Envorinex in relation to our options for recycling in Macquarie Harbour,” Matt told Current.

“From here we developed a solution for our recyclable equipment at the time – stanchions, feed pipe, cage pipe, blue plastic drums, intermediate bulk containers and black buoys.”

Following the success of the partnership over the previous years, Envorinex will now also be recycling all soft-plastics such as nets, ropes, feed bags and processing bin liners.

Envorinex Managing DirectorJenny Brown and Tassal’s Head ofEnvironment Sean Riley with Envorinex

Envorinex Managing Director Jenny Brown said from Grid recycled from Tassal’s old pipes Tassal’s waste plastics a raft of second life products are made, including permeable grids for car parks, stockyards and roadways, steel truss spacers for housing frames, fence posts, components for fire extinguishers, shellfish products and other innovative custom products.

Annually, approximately 500 tonnes of Tassal’s plastics will be transformed into products, which will support the building, horticulture, essential services and fishing industries.

Tassal Head of Environment, Sean Riley, said the company was pleased to take its recycling to the next level.

“Envorinex is a good example of the level of innovation which exists in Tasmania,” he said.

“We have a strong focus at Tassal on reducing waste, and our environmental footprint, and it’s very rewarding when two organisations can work together like this to achieve a solution for the potential benefit of other industries through the creation of recycled and remanufactured product.”

Egg transfers go environmentally friendly

Tassal’s drive to continuously improve sustainability extends to our hatchery, where teams have invested in a new egg transferring system to eliminate the need for single use polystyrene boxes when transporting eggs between hatcheries.

As a result of the partnership, Tassal will now become Tasmania’s largest single supplier of redundant plastics for recycling.

With the new system, eyed eggs are loaded into perforated tubes and transported in large cooler boxes. Both the egg tubes and the cooler boxes can be easily cleaned and disinfected between trips, meaning we can maintain a higher level of biosecurity while eliminating the waste!

Below: 1.

Mike McMann packing eggs at the hatchery

2. Ready to transport

3. Doug Paveley receiving tubes at the nurserywhere eggs will hatch and baby fish will liveuntil they grow to around 300g