Logistics providers play a vital role in the scheme’s supply chain. They supply trucks to collect material from aggregation points, ensuring that Refund Point Operators can continue to receive containers from the public.
Depending on the region your Refund Point operates in, the vehicles that are used include rear lift, hook lift, tautliner, and skip trucks.
Logistics providers schedule regular collections from aggregation points based on forecast and historical volumes. Despite this, there need to be regular communication between logistics providers and aggregation points when for when collections need to occur — especially in regional areas. It is key to operations for the Refund Point and logistic providers to have good communication.
The scheme’s logistics providers Include:
- East Kimberley — East Kimberley Job Pathways.
- Majority of regional areas — Cleanaway.
- Perth/Peel/Wheatbelt — non-glass material — Remondis.
- Perth/Peel/Wheatbelt — glass only — West Tip.
If you need to contact your logistic provider, please see the Logistic providers contact list.
Metro logistics and processing (Remondis)
The logistics model in the Perth and Peel for non-glass material is run by Remondis. They process material for Perth, Peel, and Wheatbelt regions from their processing depot in Canning Vale.
Remondis run 20 rear lift compaction vehicles and 2 hook trucks throughout Perth, seven days a week.
They have split Perth into North, East, Southeast, South, and Inner South runs, which a truck completes in a 10-hour shift. A truck generally visits 8 to 12 sites daily on a “milk run” with the schedule alternating between PET Clear and Aluminum. Every aggregation point has at least one collection per day.
A separate rear lift truck operates for smaller material types.
Remondis Rear Lift Vehicle used in Perth Metro with 1100L bins
Remondis provide 1100L bins to all aggregation points in the metro area.
Material is stored in these bins and the contents “flipped” by the rear lift vehicle into the truck — leaving the bin on site. Remondis have also provided 25 on site compactors that are picked up by hook truck vehicles.
All material is taken back to the Remondis logistics and processing depot in Canning Vale. Here, the material is stored in separate bays and baled and sold to accredited recyclers.
Recyclers generally send containers to Canning Vale to be packed with bales and transported to a further processing facility or sent to port for the export market.
Metro logistics and processing (WAglass and West Tip)
WAglass, and their subcontractor West Tip, provide logistics and processing services for the Perth, Peel, and Wheatbelt regions.
West Tip use 3 hook trucks to carry a 1 x 20 M3 hook bin. They drop an empty hook bin at the aggregation point and pick up a full bin (hook bin exchange). This is then taken to the glass processing depot operated by Waglass in Bassendean. This logistics service is called “point to point”.
They also service RVMs with a rear lift truck.
West Tip have a set schedule for each aggregation point that runs on a weekly basis, although some sites receive up to one bin exchange per day during busy periods.
All the glass material is taken to the WAglass beneficiation processing facility located in Bassendean. This facility crushes and colour sorts the glass, as well as removes contaminants such as aluminum, steel, and paper. This prepares it for full bottle-to-bottle recycling.
The glass is then packed in shipping containers and sent via rail and sea freight to Orora’s glass furnace in South Australia so the material can be made back into glass bottles.
Regional logistics and processing
WARRRL have appointed Cleanaway as the major regional logistics and processing provider.
Cleanaway provide logistics and processing services for all material types Kimberley, Pilbara, Mid-West, South West, Great Southern, Kalgoorlie, and Esperance regions.
Cleanaway operate two different types of logistics models in regional areas. In the South West they operate a compaction model with a rear lift truck using 1100L bins to store material at aggregation points — similar to the Perth Metro region. Cleanaway operate a milk run seven days a week for up to 10 sites in Bunbury and around the South West.
In all other regions, Cleanaway use a tautliner and cage model where steel cages are used as storage on site and picked up with a tautliner truck that has a moffett (forklift) attached to the back.
WARRRL have appointed Cleanaway to operate six processing facilities in regional areas for the scheme.
These facilities are located in Broome, Karratha, Geraldton, Bunbury, Albany, and Kalgoorlie. These six facilities all process non-glass material into bales which are then sold to accredited recyclers who generally pick the bales up from the regional sites. Occasionally, some materials need to be moved to Perth for sale.
These six facilities also process glass by lightly crushing it and loading into 24 M3 hook bins for transport to Waglass in Perth for glass beneficiation and bottle-to-bottle recycling.