MDR
Bingo Industries
300 TPH C&D/C&I
1.2M Tonnage Per Annum
Overview
The Australian facility is fitted out with world-leading resource recovery
technology designed and supplied by Turmec from their headquarters at Rathcairn, Athboy, Co.
Meath. The new waste processing facility reinforces BINGO Industries’ position as leaders in
Australia’s circular economy.
The facility has been designed to drastically increase the amounts of waste diverted from landfill and
manufacture them into new building and landscaping products made from 100% recycled content
which is then available for purchase by building and infrastructure companies, landscaping businesses,
councils and the general public.
Operational since July 2021, the plant is expected to process up to 7,000 tonnes of materials a day or
300 tonnes per hour. It will be capable of processing a wide variety of waste including materials from
the Construction and Demolition (C&D) and Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sectors which combined
generate 80% of Australia’s core waste streams.
The Beginning
The first stage of development included the construction of Materials Processing Centre 2 (MPC
2), thought to be the largest mixed dry waste recycling plant in the world. MPC 2 generated more
than 400 jobs during the construction phase, and an additional 200 jobs once it became
operational.
Turmec install started April 2020 amid Covid pandemic and was completed in 2021 the covid
pandemic did not effect Turmec installation
Key Facts –
• There were over 141 40ft Shipping containers which left Rathcairn for Australia and 59 from
various other destinations in Europe such as Austria, Germany and France.
• 150 Conveyors
• with approx. 2500m of belting and
• 100,000 bolts were installed on-site and in factory assembly
The overall Project
The plant is designed to process building and demolition waste (B&D) with average output 300 tonnes per hour
via 2 x 150 tonnes per hour lines located on either side of the building –The plant is SCADA controlled and
operated from a control room where 200 CCTV and cameras collect data from plant.
The plant outputs are as follows:
– Aggregates
– Hardcore
– Natural Timber
– Engineered Timber
– Ferrous Metals
– Non-Ferrous Metals
– Rubbish/Landfill material
Waste Lines – Material delivered to site and stockpiled before going through various processes – Primary
Feed Lines 2 off East & West side of building which reduces the Skip waste material down to a more manageable
size. This separates the fines, soils and smaller aggregates away from the larger stones, hardcore, timber, plastics
and lighter waste. (Divides material into 3 fractions 0-60mm fraction (fines) and mid-fraction >60mm and then an
oversize fraction A Drum Magnet was installed to further separate large ferrous metals from waste Material then
travels up the incline conveyor and passes over electromagnetic Separator to recover ferrous metals Single Drum
Separator (SDS) – Each of the 4 aggregate fractions are passed through SDS which separates lights from heavy
fractions. – The lights are collected on one conveyor and transferred to the RDF collection system before being
discharged onto the Landfill conveyor. All cleaned aggregates from all four lines are then collected on one
conveyor (6-60mm) and transferred to the out-feed conveyor system
The Results/ Outcome
The plant is designed to process building and demolition waste (B&D) with average output 300 tonnes per hour
via 2 x 150 tonnes per hour lines located on either side of the building –The plant is SCADA controlled and
operated from a control room where 200 CCTV and cameras collect data from plant.
The plant outputs are as follows:
– Aggregates
– Hardcore
– Natural Timber
– Engineered Timber
– Ferrous Metals
– Non-Ferrous Metals
– Rubbish/Landfill material
The project was delivered on budget and on time Bingo achieve industry-leading recovery rates
of greater than 80% through the state-of-the-art advanced recycling facility, MPC 2. This
results in less than 20% of BINGO’s entire waste network ending up as residual waste in the
landfill. The facility fortifies BINGO Industries’ position as a leader in Australia’s growing
circular economy. The advanced on-site screening, sorting and processing technologies not
only allow more materials to be recovered but also produce a higher quality end product.
Commenting, BINGO Industries Head of Sustainability, Nik Comito, said:
“As a resource recovery business that is committed to the principals that underpin an
effective circular economy, we are continually developing our business to stretch
ourselves and to further innovate to keep products and materials in use at as high a
value level as possible. The innovations and processing capacities we now have at
Eastern Creek will help us achieve these goals and meet the expectations of our
customers and our wider stakeholders in industry groups, civil society, government.
Turmec has been a key and supportive partner in our journey at Eastern Creek.”
