Gyprock™ Recycling Service
The Gyprock™ Guide to waste minimisation and recycling
To meet the growing concern with reducing the amount of material going to landfill and the rising costs involved, Gyprock™ now has a service to help you minimise plasterboard waste and recycle offcuts during construction.
The Gyprock™ Recycling Service will reduce your cost of site clean-up and tip or landfill fees, which are rising substantially.
Better on-site resource management produces cleaner, safer, tidier sites. Government authorities are increasingly insisting on better waste management practices.
Finally, home buyers prefer to use builders who recycle and use products with low environmental impact.
The Gyprock™ Recycling Service.
Site Collections.
Upon completion, the fixing contractor simply leaves all offcut plasterboard material to be recycled just inside the boundary for collection.
The fixing contractor arranges collection directly with Gyprock’s recycling contractor who charges the builder the appropriate fee.
After collection for recycling, recycled material is guaranteed to be 100% fully recycled.
Acceptable Recycling Material.
Only new clean Gyprock™ plasterboard waste can be accepted. Non-acceptable materials include vinyl-covered panels, non-plasterboard ceiling panels, metal components or fixings, fibre cement, mixing boards with set cement, demolition waste, timber, chemicals, plastic, packaging, paper or general building waste and rubbish.
Rain-dampened plasterboard can be accepted if clean.
Recycling Hours and Arrangements.
In order to meet stringent quality standards only contractors who understand Gyprock’s requirements can be used for collection.
(Gyprock™ can provide the current list of approved contractors.) Material collection is accepted Monday to Friday from 7:00am to 5:00pm.
Gyprock™ and the Environment.
Gyprock™ plasterboard is manufactured from gypsum, paper and a small amount of additives.
Gypsum is a naturally occurring sedimentary rock. It is non-toxic and also used as a food additive and agricultural soil improver.
The liner board used is primarily recycled
newspaper and cartons. The additives are benign materials like starch and foam.
The manufacturing process itself is also environmentally friendly, generating little waste with the only emissions being water vapour and products of natural gas combustion, primarily water and carbon dioxide.
Gypsum dust is controlled by dust collectors in manufacturing facilities that are world-class in energy efficiency.
The energy involved in the manufacture of Gyprock™ plasterboard is amongst the lowest of any building product. Even this brochure is printed on recycled paper. EPA licence number 000457.
Builder Benefits
The Gyprock™ Recycling Service provides builders with a range of important benefits. Firstly, it will help ensure that council regulations for recycling building materials are always adhered to. Furthermore, the removal of offcut plasterboard will improve Occupational Health & Safety on site, while the ease of pick up will save builders time and money.
For more information call 131744.