With close to 10 years of business under their belt and profound knowledge beyond this, AMDETT Services and Plastic Recycling are ensuring that the Burdekin region and the agricultural sector are doing right by the community and right by the earth.
At the helm are Demetrios and Peter Papadimitriou, who established the business in 2014 to address a need they recognised in the area.
“AMDETT loves recycling,” Demetrios explained.
“With the help of our farmers, we are making our environment healthier for the future. We aim to empower and inform our local community on the benefits of recycling for our future generations.”
These blokes know what they’re doing when it comes to agricultural plastic recycling, having become DrumMUSTER and Big Bag Recovery agents in 2015, to further cater to the Burdekin community and their environmental mission.
With DrumMUSTERalone, AMDETT have recycled more than 90,000 chemical and farming drums since 2015, an astonishing figure.
For Big Bag Recycling, “since 2015, AMDETT has collected over 600 tonnes of big bag plastic, saving over 800 tonnes of CO2 emissions and saving the community $1.5M in landfill costs,” Demetrios explained.
“This plastic in particular will be retained in Queensland for remanufacture into new products like school seats.”
One challenge Demetrios and Peter have faced, however, is the Australian Government’s ban on exporting plastic recyclables internationally to be recycled and repurposed overseas.
“This ban meant we have had to find a domestic market for our products to be recycled,” Demetrios explained.
But for AMDETT, Demetrios and Peter, this ban only fuelled their recycling mission.
“The most important message for us is that most agricultural plastics are recyclable and can be kept out of landfill. Chemical Drums, Fertiliser bags, fluming and drip tape can be recycled,” Demetrios said.
“We offer a free drop off to our depot for most agricultural plastics. We collect the returned fertiliser bags from the resellers, and we just aim to spread the word and help farmers in their efforts to recycle agricultural plastics.”
Demetrios Papadimitriou of AMDETT. Photo credit: Sam Gillespie
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