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Recy­cling Oper­a­tor, Chris­t­ian Mac­Nab, is the man respon­si­ble for sort­ing and pro­cess­ing most of that card­board. He said each bail of card­board weighs around 400kg.

“We turn a good chunk of card­board into one bail,” he said.

“The card­board goes into the machine which com­press­es it and ties it into a bundle.

“The bails are picked up by truck and tak­en to Ade­laide for recycling.”

Mr Mac­Nab is hop­ing to process even more card­board for recy­cling this finan­cial year, so his mes­sage to the pub­lic is to ​“just keep it coming”.

“Every lit­tle bit of recy­cling we can do helps,” he said.

Tips for card­board recy­cling at the Region­al Waste Man­age­ment Facility:

• NO mate­ri­als oth­er than cardboard
• NO greasy card­board (e.g. piz­za or take­away boxes)
• NO card­board that’s weath­ered from being out­side too long
• DO flat­ten your card­board before drop­ping it off

In addi­tion to card­board, you can also bring the fol­low­ing items to the Region­al Waste Man­age­ment Facil­i­ty for recycling:

• Steel cans
• HDPE 2 plastics
• Glass
• Drink con­tain­ers

The Region­al Waste Man­age­ment Facil­i­ty is locat­ed at 80 Com­mon­age Rd, Ilparpa. You can find more infor­ma­tion about the facil­i­ty here.