Jamestrong, a leading Australasian can manufacturer with plants in Taree, is teaming up with the UNSW Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) to produce aerosol cans using the University's recycling technologies.
The partnership aims to utilise any kind of daily and basic post-consumer scrap as a raw material for making aerosol cans, like contact lens casing or food packaging. Making aerosol cans out of aluminium post-consumer scrap takes only 12 hours.
Jamestrong is targeting to have the recycling process fully operational by the end of 2024 after trial and error process offsite and real testing at the big factory.
This project is expected to boost 20 per cent of workforce at Jamestrong's Taree plant, benefitting the domestic economy and employment.
Jamestrong's plants in Taree churn out 105 million units of aluminium cans every year.
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