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Nearly 10 tonnes of paint sludge a month from Ford's Broadmeadows factory is being shipping to a processing plant.
Instead of being loaded into landfills, around 10 tonnes of paint sludge a month from Ford's Broadmeadows factory is being shipping to a processing plant where it is converted into fuel to power cement kilns.
The project began in August and extends Ford's association with the cement industry - its Geelong foundry provides about 50 tonnes of sand a week to be used in making cement and the company's waste polystyrene is shredded into particles that are used as filler in concrete pavers.
The paint sludge is used by Melbourne-based waste processing company Geocycle to substitute up to 10 per cent of the coal traditionally used to power cement kilns.
Geocycle is a subsidiary of Cement Australia and company managing director Chris Leon says the offshoot provides an efficient and environmentally responsible way for corporations to minimise their waste.
"We're reducing the volume of waste going into landfill and in the process cutting down on the amount of fossil fuel that is being used,"he says.
The first shipment of sludge was sent to Geocycle's processing facility in Dandenong, Melbourne in August. Ford says 56 per cent of the Broadmeadows site's solid waste is already recycled.
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