Ever wondered what happened to the tonnes of vital signage used by Council for events, festivals and pandemic related information?

Well, we have found ways to reuse and recycle signs and prevent them from ending up in landfill.

We are repurposing all of our 4,500 pandemic related signs. These signs were essential in keeping the community safe prior to vaccinations being introduced and provided up-to-date information about the changes to restrictions on our beaches, playgrounds, pools, libraries and community centres.

Fortunately, these corflute signs can be ‘re-skinned’ with fresh print 3 or 4 times. So the signs that once instructed you to stay 1.5m away may soon be on display at a Council event or project near you.

Signs that are too large to be re-skinned, like large event signage or ‘toblerone’ signs that wrap around poles or bollards are sent off to Corex, a specialist recycling service here in Australia. 

This year alone, Council has recycled around 200 large corflute signs with Corex.

The polypropylene corflute signs are shredded, melted and squeezed out like spaghetti, before being cut and cooled. The end result is recycled plastic pellets ready to be manufactured into new corflute signs or packaging.

According to Corex, 1 tonne of recycled plastic can save approximately 5.7 cubic metres of landfill space.