Austria's largest sorting plant for household packaging waste is expected to begin normal operation in Ennshafen this summer. The total cost of the new plant — a JV project between ARA, Bernegger and Germany's Green Dot group — will exceed €65m. Around €18m in funding comes from the Austrian government, and each of the three partners will contribute one third of the remaining investment costs. The new plant is expected to create around 60 new jobs.
TriPlast, the joint venture behind the new plant, plans to sort around 100,000 tonnes of mixed lightweight packaging waste (plastics, metals and beverage cartons) per year. The new facility will be large enough to process around 50 percent of Austria's lightweight packaging arisings and has been designed to prioritise secondary raw materials recovery, reports ARA.
The project faces criticism from competing extended producer responsibility (EPR) system operators such as Reclay....
