EPA Victoria has received an application from Advanced Recycling Victoria for a development licence for a plastic resource recovery plant in Altona, to convert end-of-life plastics into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon products.
The liquid products can be used as feedstock for manufacturing products in the plastic, chemical refining, and asphalt industries. The gaseous product can be used as a fuel. The proposed plant will process approximately 20,000 tonnes of end-of-life plastics per year.
The proposed infrastructure will include a plastic preparation shed, a hydrothermal treatment plant. tanks to store the products generated and an area for storing containers of plastics.
The consultation period for this development licence opens on 31 August. It will close on 21 September. This proposal is considered an A02a (Other waste treatment – incineration) scheduled activity requiring a development licence from EPA.
