TOGETHER WE CAN REDUCE SINGLE USE PLASTIC WASTE BY UP TO 2,000 TONNES PER YEAR IN AUSTRALIA.
SINGLE USE PLASTIC
It is estimated that over 40 MILLION plastic (silicone) cartridges are send to landfill in Australia each YEAR!
- Australians throw out >3.4m Tonnes of plastic every year
- >90% of Australian plastic is not recycled!
- Over 3m Tonnes of Australia plastic, is buried, burned or exported
- Increasingly, building sites are requiring contractors to remove their waste from site.
PROJECT ECO-SNAG
Goal: To change silicone market from single use plastic cartridges to a more sustainable sausage “foil” pack
Reduced Plastic Waste: Every pallet of cartridges results in 106.56kg of plastic waste
Reduced Volume of Waste: Cartridges are the same size filled as they once used, so every pallet of cartridges consumed still results in 1.38m³ of waste.
Reducing Landfill: 85% less waste in used packaging, 12 cartridge is equivalent to 1 used ECO-SNAGS
BENEFITS TO THE APPLICATOR
- Due to lower packaging cost of the Eco-Snag, this results in lower cost of silicone per 100ml
- Each Eco-Snag has 100g more silicone which results in 30% faster application as less changes required
- Eco-Snags are easy to use with the Admil Heavy Duty Eco Snag Gun which is the same size as cartridge gun
- Lower disposal costs with 85% reduction of waste required to be removed from sites
- Longer life for re-usability of silicone in the packaging, foils can be snip underneath the cured silicone and continue to be used.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT COMPARING THE PRODUCTION OF PLASTIC CARTRIDGES TO SAUSAGE FOILS
