Cardia Bioplastics has secured a two-year supply contract with Cleanaway and has received its first year order to deliver 7.8 million Cardia Compostable kitchen tidy bags and 50,000 Kitchen Tidy Bins for commercial roll out.
Cleanaway is a subsidiary company of Transpacific which is considered to be Australia's leading waste management company which operates a national network of unique collection, processing, treatment and landfill assets from over 200 locations across the country.
The company said that food and garden wastes are the main sources of organic waste which is usually sent to landfills instead of being put to better use. The aim of this program is to recover organic material to create quality compost.
The organic waste management products will be used by Albury City Council, City of Wodonga, and Corowa and Indigo Shires kitchen scraps and garden waste diversion program.
Kitchen organics collection programme would cover 50,000 households and is expected to begin in April 2015.
Cardia Bioplastics managing director Frank Glatz said: "We are excited to be part of the introduction of kerb side organics collection in the region, and commend this innovative initiative and Albury City Council, City of Wodonga, and Corowa and Indigo Shires foresight. Cardia Bioplastics organic waste mangement products were developed for programs such as this.
"As a business, we recognised that diverting organic waste from landfills using compostable bin liners has become essential as landfills are filling up. We are seeing rapid growth in the uptake of our Cardia Compostable organic waste management systems, amongst Councils within Australia and throughout the world."
A number of waste processing operations, including advanced waste treatment facilities, transfer stations, resource recovery and recycling facilities, secure product destruction operations and quarantine treatment operations are owned and managed by Cleanaway.
Image: The Cardia Bioplastics bags will be used to collect food and garden waste. Photo: courtesy of Cardia Bioplastics.
