Join us for a tour of your local Recycling Sorting Facility - CAWRA - to see recycling in action and learn what actually happens to our kerbside recycling when we put out our bin on bin night!

The Port Environment Centre Waste Advisory Group is passionate about recycling and public education, we want to empower you to recycle correctly and keep material out of landfill!

Join us on Thursday 22nd January at CAWRA, the Central Adelaide Waste & Recycling Authorities, MRF (Material Recycling Facility) for a behind the scenes look at how your recycling is sorted and where its goes next. The MRF is very cool, it uses infrared technology to sort mixed waste and is largely automated. There are conveyor belts and machines and all kinds of interesting technology!

The tour will include a short presentation and an opportunity to ask all your burning recycling questions, so come prepared. We are probably all guilty of "wish-cycling", which is when we pop things in the yellow bin in the hope that they will end up being recycled but the system is not currently set up to take them. If there is ANYTHING you are not certain about like putting bottle lids in a milk container, fabric, tetrapaks, ask your questions on this tour.

This tour is aimed at adults and only suitable children aged 10+. This event includes a tour of an industrial facility, any child must be under adult supervision at all times.

To tour the MRF you are required to wear closed in shoes.

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For event enquiries please contact the Port Environment Centre on 0488 229 925 or email hello@portenvironmentcentre.org.au

The Port Environment Centre is funded by Green Adelaide with additional support from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the Suzanne Elliott Charitable Trust.

Attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events. Follow up contact may be made (in the form of a survey) but participation in any evaluation is optional.

Marni ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna yartanga inparrinthi
It is good that we all acknowledge we are living on Kaurna Country.

Contact the host of CAWRA Recycling Facility Tour January 2026