At Marley, they care about reducing environmental impact and are committed to increasing recycled content in their products.
Marley is accepting returns of used waste pipes, spouting, ducting and other plastic construction waste and offcuts. They currently have 39 PE & PVC recycling drop off locations nationwide – you can find the one closest to you on their website at the link below.
In 2022 they were able to recycle an impressive 625,000kgs of plastic. That’s a significant reduction in the volume of product going to landfill and our target for 2023 is a substantial increase to 1,300,000kg.
The collected plastic will be used at our sites to manufacture our next generation of PVC and HDPE piping systems used in building infrastructure, and agriculture projects across NZ, completing the loop and reducing their overall plastic resin importation.
Additionally, they’re now also taking back janitorial waste such as shampoo and conditioner bottles and re-using them in their Drainflo® and Drainflo® HD products. Drainflo® is also made up of significant amounts of recycled milk bottles and other HDPE recyclate.
In 2022, Marley announced that Aliaxis NZ (Marley), Waste Management NZ Ltd and the Plastic Innovation Fund will invest $12.5m in our mission to reduce plastic construction and demolition waste. They are one of the first recipients of this new funding. Aliaxis and Waste Management have formed Plastics Recycling NZ who have in turn purchased recycling expert Compounding Specialists Ltd (Comspec). The plastic recycler, located in Christchurch, handles over 4,000 tonnes of plastic resins per year.
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