WastePlan

WastePlan's case study identifies roughly three tonnes of used playing cards per month at Sun International Time Square. The cards combined cardboard, plastic film, and wax, which made ordinary paper recovery unsuitable. The company reports that trials separated cardboard and plastic into distinct streams for manufacturers. This is a named-site case; the article does not provide a current output specification or independently audited yield.

The site result has a boundary

The case study reports a rise from a diversion rate at or below 40% to the mid-70s within three months, and later describes a high-80s rate. Those are figures for this customer site as presented in the article, not WastePlan's company-wide performance. Separately, the 2025 aggregate page reports 149,134,449 kg recycled, 49,991,674 kg recovered, and 199,116,916.7 kg diverted. Recycled plus recovered exceeds the diverted figure by 9,206.3 kg; adding landfill and hazardous waste brings the listed categories to within 1 kg of total handled. The small but real difference needs a definition or correction before using diversion as a reconciled mass balance.

What makes this loop transferable

The transferable question is whether a generator has a consistent laminated stream, enough volume, and a processor willing to accept separated outputs. Verify the separation method, output quality, contamination, actual destinations, period, and economics. Do not infer that other waxed or laminated paper products follow the same route.

Confirm whether the Time Square route is still operating, how the separation process works, actual monthly input and outputs, product grades, reject rate, and receiving manufacturers. In WastePlan's 2025 aggregate statistics, the reported recycled and recovered tonnages sum to 9,206.3 kg above the stated diverted tonnage; the categories plus landfill and hazardous waste otherwise reconcile to the total within 1 kg. Request the definitions and denominators before using the figures as a diversion mass balance.