The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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Glass Recycling Dunedin
Mainfreight Dunedin along with
Envirowaste has been instrumental
in finding an efficient way to reduce
handling and costs to make it
viable to ship up to 60,000kg of
empty bottles to Auckland every
week.
The process starts at the home
owner’s gate where they put out
the blue recycling bin full of empty
glass bottles.
The Envirowaste trucks then collect
the bins and automatically sort the
glass by colour into three bigger
pods on the collection truck.
When full, the truck drives to our
yard where the pods are emptied
directly into the container.
The pods hold up to 1,500kg of
collected glass and discharge
directly into our containers through
special hoppers to make discharge
clean and efficient.
The glass is discharged through
automatic releasing hatches
without the need for human
intervention, which reduces time
and safety risk.
Mainfreight has invested in 50
purpose-built glass containers that
are loaded in Wellington, Dunedin,
Ashburton, Blenheim and Nelson.
The estimated tonnage to move in
2011 is 10,000 tonnes and could
rise to as high as 14,000 tonnes in
the next few years.
Metro Get Chilled
Our first hard-side refrigerated
unit recently hit the road for
Metro in Auckland servicing
Waiheke Island.
The start of something big...?
New chilled hard-side unit for
Mainfreight Mtero