A RECYCLING PLANT FOR CONTAINER AND PAPER COMMINGLED
WITH A CAPACITY OF 8 TONNES /HR

Inground primary (infeed) conveyor.	Paper - containers separating trommel.	Containers sorting line.

T & A Australia redesigned the existing plant and implemented the upgraded plant by modifying the existing equipment and adding some new equipment. The downtime was 10 calendar days.

The main features:

	the throughput capacity was doubled to 8 tonnes per hour
	the sorting made into a continuous operation without down times for baling and bin change activities
	the waste was reduced to less than 50% of the previous plant
	the quality of paper increased to acceptable standards for the higher bracket of returns
	the manning of the plant reduced to 70% of that of the previous plant