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PEOPLE’S CHOICE
The People's Choice award
is open to entries across all categories and will be awarded to the entrant with the highest number of valid votes from the public.
The winning entry will receive a media package from Urban:List worth $25K.
One People's Choice voter will be selected at random to win a prize pack that includes:
- Cork Sofa from Koala (valued at $2,300)
- Flow Hive 2 in Araucaria with 6 Flow Frames and Hive Stand (valued at $1,577)
- Airgarden (valued at $699)
- KOH Spray Mop Bundle (valued at $219)
- Lush Life Gift Pack (valued at $190)
- Gift voucher from Mighty Good Basics (valued at $150)
Please note: Voting is limited to one vote per person.
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We are a spirits manufacturer, based in Hay Valley, SA.
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Again Again is building a technology platform to make it easy for companies, in Aotearoa New Zealand and globally, to loan out reusable serveware for convenient takeaways. Where once single-use packaging waste was the conduit for this convenience, in future reusable packaging will be managed in-app. This will make the experience seamless and timely for consumers, and commercially viable and secure for vendors.
Again Again currently manages reusable cups in the coffee industry. In a nationwide network of 170+ cafes, we collectively save 800,000 single-use cups going to landfills or into nature already. But coffee cups are the thin end of a world-changing, planet-rescuing wedge and we have only just begun.
With Again Again's technology and app, cafes can offer the same great service and convenience for customers, and enhanced waste-free experience in any container appropriate, and at the same or reduced costs.
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Cercle is designed to make it easier for people to use reusable cups at work. Cercle provides office buildings and nearby cafes with a simple circular economy solution by offering takeaway customers free reusable cups to enjoy their coffee in that can then be returned to Drop Pods in their workspace. This unique end-to-end service is available to building & workspace managers who are looking to reduce their single use waste. All workspace residents have to do is ask for a Cercle cup when they order their coffee. Cercle is currently piloting at 200 George Street in partnership with Mirvac and happily watching the number of coffee cups saved from landfill rise each day.
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In 2007 we started Australia’s very first edible insect farm, the edible bug shop. We reuse fruit and vegetable waste from food production processing and circle it back into our food system by feeding it to our mini livestock, crickets. We then send our nitrogen rich insect frass (poo), back to farms as a fertiliser to grow high quality fruit and veg. In 2020 we rebranded and relaunched our retail brand as Circle Harvest. We manufacture familiar foods, that have enriched with our invisible protein. Think about having a bag of corn chips with more protein than an egg, or eating a chocolate brownie with 100% of your B12 for the day. Our urban farm and food processing facility has control over the entire process under one roof, from farm to table. Which means we have one of the most sustainable, nutrient dense forms of protein around. And all farmed on upcycled food waste. A huge part of what we do is education, for 14 years we have been running school education programs about our future food system and have seen over 1 million students through our program.
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Close the Loop Solutions manufacture and source the best and most innovative alternatives to single use plastic. All 100% certified home compostable and made from existing plant-based resources, our solutions break down in soil in less than 4 months, without human intervention. The most developed brand as part of our portfolio is called Mister RYE and is the first Australian rye straw: 100% home compostable and the first truly sustainable alternative to imported drinking straws. We work with South Australian farmers and use the byproduct of their crop to replace plastic and paper straws. Our vision is to replace the 10M straws used daily in Australia being the country's leading organic straws manufacturer. We also launched a one-stop platform Compostable Alternatives where hospitality owners and event managers can source single-use materials and packaging guaranteed to break down and compost in just a few week, benefiting the circular economy. All products are 100% certified home compostable, made of raw plant material and are the byproduct of agricultural waste such as sugarcane fibre, coconut or food waste. In Australia, the packaging market represents 5.5M tonnes of products of which 2.7M tonnes end up in landfill and 130.000 tonnes of single-use plastic end up in the environment. Growing trends of packaging said to be compostable are in fact are only commercially compostable and require specific disposal and treatments. Lack of information and awareness for businesses and individuals creates a lot of confusion and more problems than solutions.
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Daily Good immunity shots are formulated with natural and organic super-ingredients to boost your immunity with 3 flavourful tonics.
A natural immunity booster packed with super ingredients supported by zinc and NZ manuka honey. Providing a fully rounded health boost with turmeric to decrease inflammation, ginger to aid digestion and the antioxidant benefits of blackcurrant.
Daily Good provides 7 daily doses in one small glass bottle, so eliminating single use plastics. Daily shots can be taken neat or enjoyed diluted in hot or cold water.
Proudly New Zealand made and owned, Daily Good is made from only the best ingredients sourced locally in New Zealand and from Daily Good’s partner farm in Fiji which sustainably farms FDA certified turmeric and ginger, where the ingredients can be traced back to the very field that they were planted in.
Daily Good is developed by Red Shoots, a women run, dynamic NZ business developing innovation in the health and wellbeing space. Our vision is to develop high quality authentic health and wellness brands that are affordable to the consumer in New Zealand supermarkets. We are proud of our use of whole ingredients (no powders or fillers), of the traceability of our organic ginger and turmeric and of the work we have done developing our relationship and providing secure revenue for our Partner Farm Ranadi organics in Fiji.
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Foodprint is a two-sided market place app that connects eateries with surplus and imperfect food to customers who can purchase it for a discount preventing it from becoming waste. The app allows for eateries to retain value in food that was previously thrown out, while also making good, nutritious food available at a discounted rate for customers. Our key objective is to keep good, edible food out of landfills for the sake of the environment while also raising awareness around food waste. In our first year and a half, we have saved approximately 40,000kg of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions through food rescue. Wasting food carries a huge financial burden in the hospitality industry. For every $1 profit thrown away an additional $3 of profit must be made in order to cover the cost of that item and break even. We keep up to $10,000 per annum in the businesses we work with and out of the bin. The pick-up model encourages our customers to eat locally and connects them to the teams preparing their meals, something that has been largely lost with the increase in convenience and delivery options currently available. Given that we sell food primarily on a takeaway model, we're also really conscious of creating additional single-use packaging. To combat this, about a year in, we implemented what we believe to be a world-first "Bring Your Own Container" feature. By simply ticking a box, customers can let the eatery know they'll be bringing their own container.
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Green Caffeen is Australia’s largest swap-and-go reusable cup network. Our mission is to help Aussies kick the single-use coffee cup habit by making it easy (and free) to be green. What started as a tiny movement amongst mates has grown into a country-wide crusade, which has been embraced by councils across NSW, Victoria, Queensland and ACT.
Green Caffeen provides participating cafes with reusable cups as an alternative to disposable single-use cups. For customers, it’s like borrowing a library book - free as long as they bring the cups back. All they need to do is download the Green Caffeen app and sign up. Then ask for their coffee to go in a Green Caffeen cup, tap ‘Grab, Swap or Drop’ in the app, and scan the Green Caffeen scan code sticker to check the cup out. Next time, they simply return their cup(s) to any participating cafe and swap it for a fresh one. Plus, they’re allowed to have two cups checked out at once. If they can’t return the cup within 30 days, they’ll incur a late cup fee of $12.99. This motivates customers to keep the cups in the system. We don’t like to sting people with the fee, so reminder emails are sent out at 14 days and 28 days. Consumers don’t need to wash their cups either - they simply drop them at the cafe’s contactless drop zone.
Together, we’re changing consumer behaviour. We’re reducing waste. And we’re stopping single-use cups from polluting land and sea.
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We rent tech-enabled one-way stainless steel kegs to drinks producers. Each keg has its own unique identity making it easily tracked through your supply chain on our proprietary cloud-based software. It’s as simple as fill, scan, deliver, repeat, leaving the collection of empty Kegstar kegs to us and our dedicated network of industry partners. Meaning you can focus on getting more great beverages to even more happy drinkers. By having a 'pool' of kegs that producers can dip into, we are able to reduce the number of kegs needed within the industry and by tracking each one we are able to cut down on the number of kegs that become lost (industry average above 10% of fleet). We also turn our kegs faster (up to 5 times per year) meaning each keg takes less time to become a sustainable packaging solution.
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Kua is a Sydney-based social enterprise that does world positive coffee for workplaces. Founded in 2018, Kua does three things differently to business as usual coffee suppliers. Firstly, all produce is purchased direct from farmers, secondly all waste coffee is collected and repurposed locally and thirdly, all profits are reinvested in climate resilience programs in Uganda, where Kua’s coffee is grown.
Kua's core service; a fortnightly coffee bean subscription for urban workplaces of up to 2500 employees, is a finalist in the 2021 Banksia Sustainability Awards for its use of dedicated 'fresh' and 'spent' reusable canisters to eliminate waste, and inclusion of sustainability workshops. Since launching, forty of Australia’s most progressive workplaces; from Canva to SAP to WWF to Aesop, have jumped onboard to drink Kua.
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Avocado oil uses 15% of the fruit so we wanted to find a way of using the the 85% which was 2,500 tonnes at our Kenyan plant in 2012. We decided to look at a biogas system because our Kenyan plant had erratic supplies of electricity at an increasing annual cost that would make our production noncompetitive over a decade. This would mean our 2,500 small farmers in our organic, fair for life programme would have no market for their avocado and we would have no organic avocado oil. Our Kenyan plant is the world's largest producer of organic avocado oil. With no research internationally for avocado waste as a feed stock to produce methane we conducted an 18 month research project in-house. With good methane results we looked to design a system that would work well in our Kenyan location far from technical support. The system we designed and built produces methane to run a generator with sufficient biogas to operate a truck fleet and the digestate is a good soil enhancer to improve soil health and therefore soil fertility. We are increasing production of avocado for oil in New Zealand to over 2,000 tonnes/annum. We are building a new factory which will have a biogas plant to use the waste. Electricity is not a problem in NZ but waste management is costly. The biogas will be used for local households and small businesses as well as for trucks and cars; the digestate will improve soil health.
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Pacific Moonshine is the lovechild spirit born of the pandemic
As they say, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” or in this case “when life gives you a surplus of beer, you make Moonshine”, so when COVID-19 hit Australian shores, the highly-awarded Cape Byron Distillery saw an opportunity to create some ‘sustainable’ magic with local craft brewing legends Stone & Wood. The result? ‘Pacific Moonshine’ – a clear and unusual spirit that was artfully distilled from kegs of Stone & Wood Pacific Ale.
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T&G Fresh is the New Zealand domestic business of T&G Global Limited. Driven by its purpose to grow healthier futures, the company grows apples, tomatoes, citrus, grapes and berries, and partners with over 1,200 growers globally to sell and distribute produce to consumers in 60 countries.
Embedded deeply in T&G is the Māori concept of Kaitiakitanga, which means guardianship of land, resources, produce, people and communities.
As part of its Kaitiakitanga strategy, T&G has a firm target to reduce its GHG emissions by 22% by 2025, which is aligned to the guidance from the Science-Based Target Initiative and supports T&G’s long-term goal to achieve carbon neutral operations by 2030.
Its New Zealand business, T&G Fresh, is the country’s largest grower of tomatoes and is currently reliant on natural gas to heat its glasshouses, given renewable energy alternatives are extremely limited for remote growing sites, such as in Reporoa.
To address this, T&G has partnered with Ecogas to develop New Zealand’s first large-scale food waste-to-bioenergy facility, which is being built by Ecogas adjacent to T&G’s Reporoa glasshouses.
Due to be operational in 2022, the anaerobic digestion facility will recover 75,000 tonnes of organic waste from businesses and kerbside food scrap collections in the North Island, turning it into sustainable renewable clean energy. T&G Fresh will then purchase renewable electricity, heat and CO2, which is needed to enhance the growing conditions of tomatoes. The outcome will be a carbon neutral, circular economy alternative to natural gas at T&G Fresh’s Reporoa glasshouse.
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We are Australia's first certified organic spirits company that is carbon neutral as well as using 100% renewable electricity.
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The Goodness Grocer is a group of two natural, organic based grocery stores located in the Franklin District in NZ.
Our first store opened over 8 years ago, the second one followed 2 years later. Since opening, neither store has sent a single bag of rubbish to the dump. The store runs on a 100% zero waste model, all waste is diverted from landfills with great success. Our food waste is all fed to local farm animals, soft plastics are made into fence posts via a local recycling company, cardboard, glass, tins etc are recycled, papers that aren't suitable for recycling are incinerated in a controlled environment on our small farm.
The Goodness Grocer are actively declining new product ranges from companies that are suppling products in non-sustainable packaging. We are providing feedback to these suppliers, so they understand why we are declining their product range, in the hope these companies will look more closely at their packaging options.
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Our philosophy is the pursuit of a plastic-free ocean and The Hidden Sea Wines, with our partners ReSea Project, are working for that goal which is to be part of the change, not part of the problem. People want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Consumers are passionate to buy into change. The Hidden Sea has always had the purpose to give back. We didn’t start the brand so we could sit with our families over dinner in the future and talk about how many cases of wine we’ve sold. We want to talk and engage in meaningful conversations about the impact we’ve made on the environment - in 30 years - saying to our kids - the message that we’ve pulled X amount of plastic bottles from our oceans resonates much deeper for us and always will. At a consumer level, The Hidden Sea wine is for people who believe in what we believe in. Socially conscious people who like drinking quality wine. We are not trying to create another drinking moment. We are creating a movement. That movement is to rid plastic from the ocean. Everyone can do their little bit. Humanity has begun to understand that we will all rise or fall together, that we are bound together, as we live together. As Industry, we have a moral obligation to lead the charge. We have a clear purpose to not only give back to our customers but to the environment where we live.
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The Only Straw is a drinking straw with a difference, it is 100% home compostable and completely biodegredable and is a zero waste alternative for the drinking straw market. Being gluten free and vegan friendly it is a drinking straw for everyone and is marine life and wild life friendly also. A zero waste alternative that will break down in any environment and contains zero micro plastics it will disappear within 90 days in landfill or waterways.
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Ulu Hye creates waste-free, plant-based milk products, reducing the usage of long-life cartons. We were first to market in 2017 and we would love to share our story with you to inspire and encourage others to shift their perception on making milk at home and hopefully implementing sustainable change in our community.
Ulu Hye has a range of all natural Mylk Base products which come in a small glass jar, in the form of a thick paste. The mylk bases allow you to make fresh milk at home by simply blending water with our mylk bases for 60 seconds, giving you your milk for the week with completely no waste.
We are proud to have created sustainable and healthier alternatives to store-bought alternative milk products. Our ethos is better for you, better for the environment; and one jar makes 10 whole litres of mylk.
Here's a quick 16sec video on how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0aUJt_6...
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Wallaby replaces problematic plastic bottles with infinitely recyclable aluminium cans and bottles.
Globally, 1 million PET plastic bottles are used every minute. In Australia, less than half make it to a recycling facility and only 12% will be used in a new bottle. 70,000+ tonnes of plastic bottles go straight to landfill every year or leak into our environment, wreaking havoc on our oceans, land and wildlife.
Aluminium is our best chance at a circular packaging economy. 100% of an aluminium can has an 82% chance of becoming a new can with the highest average recycled content of any container on the market. All that’s missing is you – so keep recycling, you’re crushing it!
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Young Henrys, in partnership with UTS, has been developing a Micro-Algae Carbon Capture system. The system that is under development is designed to capture the CO2 produced during fermentation and sequester this CO2 by growing algae. The algae can then be used to treat wastewater, as a food supplement for animals and humans, or as a substrate to produce pharmaceuticals. Current research is focused on identifying an algae strain that will reduce methanogenesis in cattle. Agriculture contributes ~10% of the world's greenhouse gases with 1kg of methane being the greenhouse gas equivalent of 25kg of CO2. With a grassroots supply chain for the delivery of brewer's spent grain already in place, the delivery of an algae supplement to cattle will change the microflora of the rumenic biome, which will, in turn, will reduce methane output and improve weight gain and milk production. The Algae produces oxygen via photosynthesis, with a 400L bio-reactor at the Young Henrys brewery creating more oxygen than if the whole site was virgin Australian bush. Young Henrys' seeks to further develop it's MACCS system so as breweries across the world can contribute in introducing the carbon footprint of the brewing and agriculture industries.
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At Your Food Collective what we do is simple. Delivering better tasting, insanely fresh, locally & ethically sourced groceries to homes. We're creating a food system that will feed our future, contribute to the climate change solution and that is truly circular. We're carbon positive, short supply and closed loop from food waste to packing nothing gets wasted. The four pillars that describe our business are outlined below.
Healthy Land - We work with growers who grow with respect for the land and the systems that support it. This means our growers are regenerating life across their farms. Local
Communities - One thing we can all agree on is we need our local communities now more than ever. So we make a bold promise: over ninety five percent of our fruit and veggies is grown within 250 kilometres (bonus less carbon footprint!). We pay fair prices for a product that's better. We take time to listen and tell their stories because they’re worth telling.
Delivered with Love - Nearly all of our fruit & veg is picked from the ground when you ordered it, so we get it to you faster with more nutrients than if it's been sitting in a warehouse, truck or store for days. We minimise our footprint, whether it’s carbon, waste, or packaging.
As easy as can be - We offer everything you need, a growing range of time saving meal solutions, heaps of great recipes, a fun
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A.BCH is a circular fashion label that exists to transform the way people buy, wear and discard clothing. Rejecting many of fashion's norms, A.BCH focusses on eliminating material and energy waste through the entire lifecycle of a garment whilst creating beautiful, design-led products for people around the world to love and enjoy. Through our unique point of view on seasonality, production volumes and marketing alongside a devotion to industry education and customer empowerment, A.BCH is leading the charge in demonstrating an entirely reimagined future for fashion. Our project is a new concept for our business that was launched during 2020 - A.BCH Seasons.
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BORN OUT OF BYRON BAY IN 2006, AFENDS HAS ESTABLISHED ITSELF AS A SUSTAINABLY FOCUSED BRAND INSPIRED BY COASTAL AND STREETWEAR, KNOWN FOR ITS QUALITY, DESIGN AND ATTITUDE.
With co-Founders Declan Wise and Jonathan Salfield at the helm, Afends continues to evolve, as is represented by the brands dedication to sustainable practices, the creation, promotion and expansion of the Hemp Revolution and the release of this year’s first 100% eco-friendly Afends collection. They believe that small changes will have a big impact, and from the grassroots to the tail end of the manufacturing process, this brand is committed to sustainability, creating a positive change within the fast-paced fashion industry, taking their time and slowing right down to the source.
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We believe it takes small visionaries and independently owned brands to blaze the trail of sustainable and responsible fashion. Since its beginning, AURAI SWIM works to raise the importance of better practices in the design process, supporting the use of clean technologies and valuing craftsmanship not only for better products but also for better social outcomes.
To understand this project, we'll have to take you on a journey to our two previous collections... (please refer to images)
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AirRobe is a tech-fashion company on a mission to rid the planet of textile waste and build a network of designers, retailers and consumers who are transitioning e-commerce into re-commerce.
Our innovative re-commerce solution seamlessly integrates into retailers online stores so that fashion brands can empower their customers to join the circular economy, with one-click. Our secondhand marketplace connects retailers and consumers making circular fashion an accessible option.
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Melbourne-based footwear label, Bared Footwear designs mindfully crafted shoes that not only look good but feel good too. As the fashion industry is the second-largest polluter, owner and founder Anna Baird recognised Bared was part of the problem but wanted to be the solution, too. By implementing waste reduction practices for all areas of the business; design, production and in-house, a big goal has been set - to not only limit the impact of our contribution but utilise sustainable opportunities and materials so that our shoes don’t end up in landfill. We are on a journey to replace all shoe components with more sustainable alternatives. We only use Leather Working Group’s Gold Rated leather, and committed to using less petroleum-based materials, introducing footbeds derived from sugarcane and increased the natural rubber content into all of our sole units. Working alongside our manufacturers, we committed to repurposing our offcut leathers and transforming them into dog collars and leads to save them from landfill. We have introduced recycled plastic bottles (rPET) in structural components; shoelaces and mesh. All packaging is made from either recycled or biodegradable materials. We encourage our community to adapt our practices, we have introduced Save our Soles, a recycling initiative that allows everyone to drop off their old shoes, no matter the brand, to be recycled into leased rubbing matting. In 2020, we partnered with Greenfleet, committing $50,000 to plant thousands of native species and offset over 3,300 tonnes of carbon, becoming completely carbon neutral for two years.
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Founded in 2018, A_C Official is an Australian accessories brand whose sole mission is to create a bag that is not only environmentally friendly but environmentally beneficial. From the raw material sourcing through to the end-of-life, A_C's path from design to production is a considered one, ensuring the final offering is kind to the Earth and its inhabitants.
With carbon-sequestration models built into both the start and finish and a number of Recycling-programs in the middle, A_C Official works with innovative plant-based leathers and would-be-waste to create contemporary but timeless collections for the modern market who recognises the eminent need to safeguard our future.
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Conscious Koala provides ethically made, organic cotton baby clothing available within a circular rental subscription. Our aim is to tackle textile waste and keep clothes for fast growing babies out of landfill. Families are sent a bundle of baby clothes in the appropriate size and once outgrown, the clothes are sent back, laundered, quality checked and sent out once again to continue their story with another family. Whatever we can’t reuse is recycled via a textile recycling program, so we are proudly zero waste.
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I started this business last year to provide an affordable and sustainable option for occasion dressing. Rental businesses inherently support the main pillars of the circular and sharing economy because customers are purchasing to access rather than own a product. Fast fashion has caused an enormous amount of damage not only to the environment but also to the communities in developing countries who work in the factories that manufacture for fast fashion brands. Because of the low price point, Fast fashion products are often discarded after one use
Whereas I rent out designer brands which tend to be manufactured locally and are of higher quality so their products are ethically made and are more durable.
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Effekt Footwear a conscious footwear start up creating low impact sneakers from upcycled waste streams. Materials are selected to divert waste from landfill and remain in the technical cycle longer. Circular Effekt Collekt program helps retain value in the economy and encourage consumers to think of the end of life of their footwear products.
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My name is Pamela Berbigier and I run an independent label since 15 years. I used to stock 40 independent boutiques in Australia and had a lot of stress working a year in advance as well as purchasing all the materials, Agency cost etc only not to be paid on time by my customers. With COVID I changed my business model - I only manufacture what has been ordered so no waste is being manufactured - and I use dead stock materials. So I rescue fabric from going to Landfill and breathe new life into them by making made to measure pieces for women aged between 25 - 80 years of age.
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We take discarded single-use plastic bottles and turn them into stylish, thoughtfully made sunglasses. It takes the plastic from one 600ml bottle to make one pair of our sunglasses frames. The frame is made from 100% recycled plastic, including the specially designed hinge. There are no metal components and no other materials mixed in making the design modular, so people can mix and match the colours and styles. In addition, it means that they are repairable so rather than throw the whole pair away if a part breaks, you can replace it.
We launched with two classic styles that have stood the test of time in three colours – lemonade, cola and aqua – a nod to their origins. We’ve added a distinctive design feature to our hinge and because we give each person that buys a pair gets a citizen number, the hinge acts as a visual signifier. Citizens can spot each other 30 metres away and it sparks a discussion.
It was incredibly important that people would feel proud to wear our glasses. Often eco products can be undesirable and people feel compelled to buy them because of their shared values rather than because they are beautiful.
We wanted our sunglasses to look great and feel premium. We wanted to show that it is possible to recycle waste into beautifully designed and desirable products. Selfridges London loved the design and concept so much, they gave us an entire window for three months, proving eco products can be stylish.
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Good On You is the leading sustainability ratings platform for fashion. Our comprehensive brand ratings empower consumers to know the impact of brands on the issues they care about.
We believe fashion brands should be responsible for, and be transparent about their impact. We want to know where clothes were made, who made them and from what materials. We pull-together and evaluate more than 100 different standards and certifications to provide simple, easy-to-understand sustainability ratings on fashion brands - ‘1-We Avoid’,’ 2-Not Good Enough’,’3-It’s A Start’,’4-Good’ and ‘5-Great’.
The Good On You app was launched in Australia in November 2015 and it's now available worldwide for iOS & Android. Since then, we’ve built a database of more than 3,000 fashion brands, all assessed against our robust rating system for their impact on people, the planet and animals. We celebrate the designers and retailers who are doing good, and connect them with the growing number of conscious shoppers who want to look and live better.
More than 1 million people accessed Good On You data in April 2021
We currently work with 100+ global retailers - including Farfetch, Luisaviaroma and Afterpay - to help them assess, source and promote sustainable brands and reach the growing conscious consumer market.
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E tū is on a mission to divert tents from landfill, and build an open-source library of waste to wear tutorials to inspire others to join the movement. We collect music festival waste (tents and marquees) diverting textiles from landfill by repurposing materials into limited edition bags creating product with purpose.
Founded by Melbourne’s circular design activist Rachel Kelly, E tū is the Māori word to ‘stand’. E tū aim’s is to take a ‘stand’ for mother nature by raising awareness about the impact of textile waste on the environment and does this by respecting the resources that go into making the products we consume by keeping materials in circulation for longer.
The project submitted is ‘Hello World’ which in the midst of Melbourne’s hard lockdown saw E tū launch itself into the world, producing a suite of products advocating and educating consumers on circular design.
The Hello World launch included three key elements:
1.Debut bag collection - Made entirely from festival textile waste which had been collected, cleaned and hand sorted by E tū’s founder. Sewn by a team of local, female machinists the design and development of the collection took considerable time and effort as features of the materials' former life were retained and celebrated making every single bag 100% unique.
2.Ecommerce website - This vigorous process included user research, digital content design, web development and usability testing, product styling and photography.
3.Open-source resource - An instructional film, step-by-step how-to-guide and downloadable patterns all available for free.
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We are a volunteer organisation who have partnered with the local Salvation Army Family Store to rescue good quality clothing and fabrics destined for landfill. We then repurpose that garment/fabric either by embellishing, mending, reworking etc to make it ready for reuse. We have our own label and swing tag as well as an Intercept boutique inside the Salvation Army Family Store. All sales go through their till and help fund the many community assistance programmes they operate. After about 14 months, we are bringing in funds to equal their whole electrical department. The public response has been confirming with new customers coming in every week and a Facebook group page with more than 1K members. As well, anything we cant use gets donated to those in need in our community. This has resulted in an 80% reduction in fabric waste since we started. Our operational team of about 28 comprises fabric artists, makers, crafters and zero waste advocates. We have produced a manual describing how we operate to assist other charity shops to set up a similar operation. We produce more than 40 products all in natural fibres. Repaired and embellished quality clothing for women, men, teenagers and children are our top sellers. Our vintage rack is also very popular as is our vintage linen. We make products for a sustainable household with items like wipes, all kinds of bags, blankets, cushions, and products made from t shirt yarn with lots of ever popular denim in all departments.
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Jamoo is a small business, run by two sisters (Georgie and Jemima) in Sydney, Australia, that emerged during the chaos of COVID-19. Georgie has a background in textile design while Jemima’s is studying business. Due to COVID we both ended back in Sydney where Georgie started to experiment with the notion of up-cycling materials and creating practical and functional objects. Having freshly graduating and feeling a little lost Jemima began helping Georgie with some projects and ideas. Combining their different interests and skillsets, Jamoo was born. Inspired by our beach oriented lifestyle, the products that we sell are called Jamoos; practical, unisex towel jumpers made from vintage and second hand beach/ bath towels collected from around Australia. The cut of the jumper is uniform but the size of the jumpers are unique and vary depending on the dimensions of the towels. Every Jamoo is one of a kind and handmade in Sydney, Australia. Over the past year we have created a Jamoo community of people who celebrate Jamoos for their uniqueness, practicality, self-expression, comfort and most of all the sustainable nature of the garment.
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Sustainable and ethical Fashion. Bright and bold, active outdoor wear for fun in the sun. Hand made to order on the Sunshine Coast.
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Populace Threads in an online circular fashion marketplace for consumers. Populace Threads started as a swap marketplace in early 2020, and has recently been relaunched to include Shop, Swap, Sell. Over the next 12 months the platform functionality will expand to include; Rent, Repair (Upcycle), Recycle (Dispose) and Donate. Ultimately, the vision for Populace Threads is that it will become the single platform for consumers to use when clearing out their wardrobe so that they help keep clothing in circulation for as long as possible, help minimise overproduction and overconsumption of clothing, reduce landfill and positively contribute to a sustainable future.
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Team Timbuktu is an outdoor womenswear brand, creating clothing from recycled fabrics and encouraging women to adventure outdoors, without compromising on style or sustainability. It is a Melbourne-based business solely run by Rhianna Knight, starting from an overfunded crowdfunding campaign in 2018 scaling to now having recycled over 100,000 plastic bottles into its fabric to create Raincoats, Puffer Jackets, Activewear and Beanies from.
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Restoration Closet Repairs offers an effortless and affordable solution to mend and alter clothing. It is all done contactless, through our website enabling anyone within New Zealand to have easy access to our services.
We are going back to the wholesome basics of taking care of the possessions that our customers care about. Restorations can be anything from turning a jumpsuit into a short + t-shirt combo, adding some funky fabric to patch a hole, or as simple as replacing a button. It’s anything that will extend the life, memories, and passion in that garment, both in terms of functionality and style. We are supporting customers to love clothes for generations, because clothes deserve to be worn and worn and worn again.
Restoration Closet Repairs is driven by our mission which is to end the unsustainable culture feeding the fast fashion industry by creating a lasting trend of buying once, buying right, and buying with love.
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Simple Chic Women is a fusion of timeless traditions and digital innovation, offering a mindfully modern approach to clothing luxury.
Connecting women with local artisan makers to experience the creativity and pure joy of working with talented makers for their individual clothing needs and style preferences.
From thoughtfully and with purpose altering, upcycling and mending garments to extend the life of their loved clothing ... to the creation of new custom-made on demand and couture eternally loved pieces.
Simple Chic is redesigning women's fashion for good.
We are designing in: Ultimate Inclusion, Natural Fabrics, Local Makers & Endless Styles.
We are designing out: Waste, Emissions, Inequality and Obsolescence.
We believe in the visibility of all women, celebrating their diversity and unique propositions. Able bodied, restricted by mobility or living with one of many medical conditions. By creating individual semi-custom clothing pieces on demand there is no exclusion and waste.
At the heart of our business are local communities of talented Artisan Maker micro-businesses: women's seamstresses, tailors and couturiers. All sharing our passion for placing their Client's clothing needs first in the making process.
The vast majority of makers, locally and globally, are women themselves - all with inspired stories, striving to grow their micro-business, contribute to their families, communities and their own independence.
We are a circular and data-led tech platform for women's clothing focused on the wellness, visibility and prosperity of women, local makers and our planet.
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The Common Good Company (TCGCo) is a newly launched Australian sustainable and ethical essentials brand closing the loop on fashion, one t-shirt at a time through the use of recycled materials.
TCGCo has developed its own 100% recycled material composed of 60% recycled pre-consumer cotton and 40% recycled polyester to eliminate the unnecessary waste, water use, land use and pollution that is typically involved with the production of yarns made from virgin materials.
It has been suggested that designers influence 80-90% of the environmental and economic cost of a product. As custodians of the land, we need to understand that the earth’s resources are finite. A single cotton t-shirt costing the earth 2700 litres of freshwater is not sustainable.
Whether you subscribe to the ‘Fashion Industry’ or not, we each contribute to the demand of the Garment Industry and while the Industry’s environmental degradation is common knowledge, our need to produce basic clothing is not going to diminish anytime soon. We set out to develop a business that not only upcycled existing waste but was produced to the highest ethical standards available.
Producing apparel, that could provide a blank canvas for the change-makers, both businesses and individuals. Through D2C sales via our online store, B2B wholesaling for branding and apparel needs along with manufacturing.
For those who ask ‘who made my clothes and how does that impact the planet'?
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We are a new company who is focused on products that are made from the abundance of plastic that we have in this world. We then offer upcycling (with incentives) so that we can close the gap. At this stage we are working with two amazing kiwi guys who live in Taiwan. They are skilled in making thongs from recycled plastic. Additionally each purchase funds the removal of up to another kilo of plastic from our ocean. We have just applied to support The Great Barrier Reef Foundation where we give $1 for every pair of thongs sold (still being confirmed)
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The Social Outfit is a social enterprise fashion label founded with the purpose of supporting women from our refugee and new migrant communities to kick-start their Australian careers and thrive through employment. We operate an ethical manufacturing workroom and retail store in Newtown, Sydney. 100% of the profits from our clothing sales goes towards supporting our training and employment programs in retail, manufacturing and design. We’re passionate about sustainability - our clothing collections use remnant fabrics donated by our fashion industry partners – we’ve saved 7.5 tonnes of fabric from landfill to date.
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The Very Good Bra was created to be the world's first zero-waste, and circular economy bra on the planet in response to the increasing environmental damage resulting from the rise in fast fashion in the last 20 years. As a bra is made from 9 different materials in small pieces, all worn against the body, recycling was difficult and the only solution was to make the bra botanically circular and fully compostable at end of life. It was launched via a Kickstarter campaign in May 2018 and achieved 100% of its funding goal within 48 hours. It went on to achieve 350% of its target goal.
Given that success, I launched the business properly via a website later that year, and also expanded into sleepwear. As manufacturing is such a capital intensive process I still run the business solo but outsource key functions as it has grown including accounting, and fulfilment which has gone to the social venture Avenue Co-Working - great win-win for all.
I fund the business through pre-sales, which also minimises over-production in the less popular sizes. This is absolutely key when covering 27 sizes and to date, we have never held a conventional 'sale' to clear excess product.
The business has grown 80% p.a in each of it's first 3 years and last year won Best in Class for Fashion Impact at the Good Design Awards. Liberty Fabric also created it's first organic cotton knit for us to use in 2020.
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Worn for Good is a for-purpose social enterprise. We believe that together we can reduce waste in the fashion industry by giving new life to designer apparel donated by Australia's favourite fashion heavyweights, influencers, designers, brands and the general public. The best part is, we commit 100% of profits to our charity partners that improve the lives of vulnerable women and the health of our planet. Ultimately WFG exists to offer a creative solution to reduce waste in the fashion industry, to promote a circular economy and give back to those who need our help. We believe that empowering vulnerable women, alongside regenerative solutions for the earth are the two most effective investments that we can make as a community. That’s why we partnered with four Australian charities that align with this vision, and that with our own experience, we felt personally connected to:
1- Womens Community Shelters - protecting and supporting women and children facing domestic violence and homelessness
2 - Look Good Feel Better - supporting people living with cancer
3 - Greening Australia - working with environmental restoration and education
4 - Children's Ground - improving education for First Nations Children.
We work within the Rx4 model (reduce, reuse, repair and resale) wherever possible, from collecting pre-loved and surplus clothing all the way through to our packaging.
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Nique is an independent Melbournian fashion label. We design our clothes with intent. Timeless designs, in mindful fabrics, responsibly made. But we care just as much about how garments are made as where they end up. It’s part of our mission to keep clothes out of landfill, reduce the impact of the apparel industry, and design a future without waste. When our customers are done with their pre-loved Nique garments, we ask that they give them back to us, not discard them. They can return them back to us in-store or by post – no matter what the condition – and we provide them with a 10% discount off any purchase. Garments are inspected by our team of experts who decide how to renew them; 1 Faulty or damaged garments are sent to Second Stitch, a NFP social enterprise, who carefully and lovingly mend these pieces to give them another chance. 2 Worn/torn garments sent to our collaborators, which include Gliese (504) and SZN, who deconstruct and renew these garments into totally unique pieces ranging from dresses to bags and hats. 3 Garments with stains or colour disparities, are over dyed by creative collaborators Gliese (504) or Citizen Wolf. 4 Clothes in perfect condition that have been lightly stained or dirtied are professionally cleaned and sold at a discount. 5 Some garments with minor production faults, that are still deemed sellable by our team of experts, are sold in store at a discount.
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simétrie is about symmetry in the business of making handbags - balancing the human desire for style with their impact on the earth.
They do this from their Melbourne atelier, through educational leather craft workshops & their beautiful accessories that are handcrafted to order.
Through the workshops, Simone, founder & head craftswoman of simétrie, educates consumers on the creative and production processes of hand-craftswoman-ship and encourages the shift away from fast fashion.
The goods are designed to be timeless, using considered materials to craft quality handbags that will last a long time, that are sustainable for people & the planet. All leather wares are handcrafted in-house by Simone & local craftswomen who are paid fairly in exchange for their skilled and artisanal work.
The collections are inspired by natural geometry and are made from vegetable tanned wild Australian kangaroo leather, sourced from wildlife management, as well as organic hemp canvas, water-based glues and dyes, and where possible, natural threads.
simétrie prioritises natural materials over synthetics in an effort to move the industry towards a circular economy. The brand also offers a lifetime repair warranty to ensure their wares are kept in use for as long as possible.
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un-sanctioned™ is a start up premium running apparel company, focussed on creating innovative, performance-driven garments for marathon running with an absolute focus on developing and using sustainable materials and practices from day zero. We have developed 100% recycled functional polyester fabrics called [ BottleKnit™ ] together with a world-leading textile knitting mill. Even our garment care labels are from recycled yarns, our swing tags FSC certified with plant-based inks, compostable garment bags and courier satchels. Since launching we have sold products in 30+ cities around the globe. We are a 100% self-funded, bootstrapping from the kitchen table, classic start up story with no outside investors.
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We are Bec and Carlie (BECCA), two mums from Auckland’s North Shore with a passion for essential oils, self-care, style and amazing scents.
Combining these passions with our desire to reduce our footprint on the planet, we have created our range of all-natural candles, solid fragrance balms and oil diffusers, using sustainable packaging and hand-crafted in our own studio.
All of our scent combinations are uniquely curated by us. They are designed to create a feeling or mood, using the renown benefits of each selected essential oils.
We are not just another candle company! We use real, organic essential oils in our products, not just fragrance (like most), so you get to experience the holistic mental and physical wellbeing benefits of our range, along with our hand-picked, heavenly scent blends to suit your down-time goals.
Because we started out as essential oil sceptics, we are always mindful of keeping it real with our customers and being transparent with our ingredients. We are total converts when it comes to the wellbeing benefits of essential oils, having experienced first-hand how they have improved our own health. Our ethos is based around ‘hygge’ – taking a moment in time for contentment. Pausing for self-care and slowing down.
Our passion for Becca Project stems from wanting to share the power of these wonder-oils with our customers. You have to try them to believe it and we are confidently able to promise that you won’t be disappointed…
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Biologi is a profoundly different approach to skincare that delivers unheard of results. Biologi are the first skincare company in the world to provide consumers with Clean Cosmeceuticals in the form of stable, 100% active, plant phyto-nutrients, including purely natural Vitamin C. Using our exclusive, revolutionary CLECS II extraction method, our highly performing skincare has been developed from 12 years of research and understanding of cellular health and function. We have perfected the ability to extract plant nutrients in their own liquid matrix, this protects the natural actives and allows the serum to perform on the skin just as it does in the plant. Our serums are supercharged with active phyto-nutrients shown to be highly effective at nourishing and protecting the cells. We’re incredibly proud to claim our full range is the first in the world that is undiluted, free from fragrance and contains zero synthetic activating agents.
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We are committed to continuing to find ways we can make positive sustainable changes within our company. We have implemented systems and projects throughout the business to ensure we are constantly progressing to be the best we can. Our warehouse and office use renewable energy from solar power and any remaining carbon emissions are offset by our partnership with GreenFleet. Our carbon offsets support local Australian native reforestation projects, which help to build climate change resilience by absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere. We are changing all of our packaging to be made from Post Consumer Recyclable Materials to assist in reducing waste and our carbon emissions from our packaging manufacturing is now offset. We no longer accept any plastics into our warehouse and we have asked all suppliers to send their packages with no plastic as another one of our striving goals is to be plastic free.
We are working towards being completely paperless and systems are in place for our team to no longer need to print anything unnecessary. Our goal is to be completely paperless, and we are on our way. Our ingredients are all organic and natural and contain nothing synthetic and no animal by products.
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The initiative we are submitting for The Circle Awards is the Emma Lewisham Beauty Circle. This was a New Zealand-first and launched with Terracycle on 15 June 2020.In addition to this,we are moving to a 100% circular model with our packaging in 2021,re-using materials in the production process after sterilisation, giving it a new life.
Our mission is to establish our brand as the global benchmark in beauty : in product-through providing luxurious skincare that is scientifically proven and 100% natural; in people-through uplifting,educating and empowering; and in planet positive skincare-through leading a movement towards a circular,carbon positive and transparent industry.
We are setting benchmarks in beauty in:• Scientifically active and proven skincare-our products are scientifically proven to give you results.To be sure,we have them independently tested where they are proven to outperform even the most recognised,high performing brands on the market.We are known for biologically active, concentrated formulas.• Planet positive skincare-we care deeply about our planet and ensuring that our children can enjoy Mother Nature-clean and beautiful,just as we have.We promise to lead the movement towards a circular and carbon positive beauty industry, where refills,recycling and regeneration are simply responsible business.• Luxuriously natural skincare - our products are 100% natural.• Transparency - we promise to be transparent in all aspects of our business - from supplier to shelf.
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The PVC Recycling in Hospitals Program diverts hospital plastic PVC waste from landfill to recycled in Australia to make gumboots and garden hoses.
Baxter Healthcare, a local manufacturer of Intravenous (IV) medicines in NSW, partners with the Vinyl Council of Australia (VCA) and hospitals across Australia to collect its empty plastic IV bags from hospitals and recycle them in Australia.
The empty IV bags (used for medical fluids including Saline, Potassium, Glucose and more than 200 types of medicines) are then processed and converted into gumboots by Bata shoes in Victoria and into garden hose.
More than 140 tonnes of plastic PVC waste is diverted from landfill annually to be recycled in Australia.
More than 220 hospitals across Australia are now taking part in the program which also collects and recycles plastic oxygen masks and tubing.
A typical 300 bed hospital has the potential to recycle about 2.5 tonnes of PVC every year - that’s enough to make about 20km of garden hose.
The PVC Recycling in Hospitals program also includes the collection and recycling of Baxter's Australian Made plastic PVC dialysis bags from the homes of patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) treatment.
More than 800 dialysis patients across Australia are now participating in the recycling program.
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I am so proud of our business 'Single Use Ain't Sexy' (www.singleuseaintsexy.com) & what we've achieved since launching just over a year ago
- PLASTIC BOTTLE REDUCTION - We have saved up to 125,000 single-use plastic soap bottles from landfill, by replacing them with our revolutionary dissolvable hand soap tablets and sexy reusable glass soap bottles. We're only just getting started! :)
- OUR MISSION - We are on a mission to make simple & sexy sustainability accessible to all Aussies with our cutting edge 'just add water' tablets. We aim to save over 5 million single-use plastic bottles from Aussie landfill.
- OUR TRACTION - We launched 1 year ago, have sold out twice, won a Pause Fest award, have thousands of obsessed Aussie customers who genuinely love our mission & have featured in Time Out, Yahoo News, E News, Better Homes & Gardens, Inside Out Magazine and The Herald Sun, among others.
- HOW IT WORKS
1. FILL - Fill our reusable glass soap bottle with warm tap water
2. DROP - Drop in our soap tablet & let it dissolve
3. PUMP - Pump the foam & wash your hands. Congrats, you're not a Tosser! ;)
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The world we live in today is all about the end result. We choose products for the desired outcome without considering the consequences of these products and furthermore their effect on our health or the environment. There are chemical additions to everything we eat, we use, we clean and even we wear. These chemicals are the bad guys. And whilst they have allowed us to achieve a higher form of convenience, they are resulting in a lower form of health. Born out of the need to find a product that doesn’t contain unnecessary hormone disruptors for my toddler, I created a shampoo bar called Solibar. Solibar is a natural and Vegan shampoo bar that is designed to moisturise your hair whilst giving you the amazing benefits of carefully sourced natural ingredients. As a baseline, all of my Solibar’s contain Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Castor Oil and shea butter, they are soap-based and natural. They also contain super ingredients which are designed to promote hair growth and keep sensitivities at bay. The best part – they’re all handmade in Melbourne! Which makes them individually unique but loveable at the same time. I wanted to create a shampoo bar that was going to: shampoo your hair in the same way as conventional shampoo • be the best option for healthy haircare & not contain any nasties and not contribute to the already increasing rubbish created by plastic bottles.
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Hello Cups are menstrual cups. Designed by the company's female founders and lifelong best friends Robyn McLean and Mary Bond, a Registered Nurse, Hello Cups make periods easier, more comfortable and environmentally friendly. Put simply, Hello Cups are 'bloody brilliant'. For too long no one has challenged the status quo. After dealing with heavy periods all their lives, Robyn and Mary wanted an easier and more sustainable option for their daughters. A single person with a period can generate more than 100kg of period-related landfill waste in their lifetime. It's horrific. Not only that, but the single-use products on the market are expensive and often uncomfortable. We were perplexed about why no one had come up with a better solution. Menstrual cups were invented a long time ago, but we felt the design of those on the market could be improved. We designed Hello Cups from scratch. Who knew periods could be so cute, comfortable and sustainable? We did. The Hello Cup company has saved more than 200 million singe-use period products from landfill. We are certified B Corp and Carbon Positive. As we like to say at Hello Cup there are - 'no strings attached' when you make the switch from single-use period products.
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The Nail Snail is a multi-design award winning baby nail trimmer. 3-in-1 tool - V-shaped precision nail trimmer, nail file & under nail cleaner in a snail shape. It is an innovative, patented design, vastly different from all other nail cutters on the market. The trimmer is a recessed, V-shaped blade. Which glides across the nail rather than cutting down onto it. The Nail Snail has no moving parts. No batteries. Which makes it silent, safer, easier & faster than any other available option. It is ethically produced and SGS safety tested. It makes trimming tiny nails a moment or care for parents rather than a scary and dangerous task. The Nail Snail solves the problem of stressful & dangerous fingernail & toenail cutting in children. Clippers & scissors cause nasty cuts & biting causes germ & infection transfer. Electronic nail files are bulky, expensive, time consuming & ineffective after 1 year of age. The Nail Snail lets you cut your child's nails accurately & with confidence. The Nail Snail is suitable for right- or left-handed people, those missing fingers or children with conjoined Syndactyly nails. The lack of clipping noise & smooth motion provides a better experience for those children with sensory processing disorders. It can be used on children up to 6 years old & the blade lasts 30 - 40 years.
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A tech driven, nature based concentrated powder to foam hand and body wash product delivered in a certified home compostable sachet.
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nil products offer everyday essentials that are sustainable and ethically made. With nil effort we can create a world with nil harm and nil waste. The nil bathroom range is designed to create nil waste while caring for your skin. nil wool beauty tools are handmade in New Zealand from organic wool. Our nil makeup remover pads, facecloths and body sponge are unique and are truly circular products made with material which was previously going to waste. Beauty tools and products used in skincare are often single-use, creating waste, or made with unsustainable materials. Products made from non-organic cotton or synthetics have a big impact on the environment. The wool industry throughout the world is struggling as consumers choose synthetic carpets and clothing, and non-wool items. Without consumer demand, many farmers are unable to sell the wool they shear from their sheep and it is simply discarded. Over its lifetime, a sheep’s fleece absorbs approximately 30kg of carbon dioxide. Then at the end of use it will naturally biodegrade, returning back to the earth. nil products is owned by Munch Cupboard, a New Zealand company and social enterprise producing eco essentials for day to day use. For 5 years Munch have made it easier for consumers to be more sustainable. All our products are eco friendly in some way from being reusable, organic to biodegradable. Our ingredients and products are sourced from ethical communities and we have a Home workforce of women in New Zealand making many of our products.
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Our entry is for our organisation 107 Projects (107). 107 is a registered charity using creativity and a circular economy to renew and repurpose places in ways that foster social change, and create positive human interactions. Our vision is to combat isolation, loneliness and unaffordability by transforming how people in the arts, business and education engage with communities.
We make diverse artistic and cultural participation accessible through public events, community place-making, creative spaces, arts education, public art projects and our social enterprise model. Through a circular economy we are able keep spaces affordable and accessible for artists and communities, while presenting community focussed programs that promote connection and creativity. Our programs and events are designed with circular systems that champion reuse, repurpose and the sharing of resources.
In 2019 Hugh McKay AO highlighted the importance of social inclusion as being key to the prosperity of society: “Social interaction builds social cohesion; social cohesion builds social capital; social capital builds strong societies. And compassion is like the high‐octane fuel that drives the machinery of social cohesion.” Creativity is a powerful tool for social change. We aim to be proactive in addressing isolation and issues born from disconnection. By leveraging our network of existing resident artists and organisations across our three sites, we provide opportunities for artists and communities – both financial and development pathways – and anchor our activities with quality, expertise and sustainable practice.
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Bettercup is a female founded and led, award-winning, Melbourne social enterprise that creates reusable cups and supplies reuse systems and services to major events and venues in Australia and New Zealand.
Our mission is to create a lasting environmental and societal impact by supporting major events and venues transition from single-use waste to circular reuse systems successfully and for reuse at events to be the expected standard.
Bettercup provides reusable event cups for rent or purchase and our services include - washing and drying onsite and offsite (reuse systems), onsite management and training, collection, storage and responsible recycling, post event reuse reports and reuse implementation consulting.
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Green My Plate is a sustainable service aimed at eliminating single-use food packaging from events. We supply reusable plates, bowls and cutlery as well as wash stations, staff and compost bins. Our system allows us to not only reduce single-use food packaging but separate food scraps from general waste bins which can then be delivered to a local composter. Our ethos is to wash, dry and reuse the plates, bowls and cutlery, creating a simple and effective cycle. This process will be of benefit to events etc. as single-use plates, bowls and cutlery are removed from the site leaving a cleaner footprint and less waste to clean, as well as diverting waste from landfill. This can also benefit the event financially. Potential financial benefits include less waste crew, rubbish bins, skip bin and rubbish disposal.
Green My Plate began after we all had been working in the events industry for 10 years, here we witnessed firsthand the huge amount of waste produced at events. It was extremely frustrating to see the large amount of waste an event can produce and unfortunately there weren’t too many solutions available, so it made sense to create something ourselves.
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Seaside Scavenge is a grassroots environmental organisation whose mission is to activate local communities to create a world where nothing goes to waste through fun and unique programs that ultimately clean up the ocean. We endeavour to educate communities to understand there is no ‘away’ when it comes to rubbish and to introduce them to circular economy solutions, which aims to design out waste and pollution and regenerate natural systems. In November 2020, Seaside Scavenge ran Australia’s first public-facing circular economy festival: Looped Festival, in Sydney, NSW. A day-long celebration and exploration of circular economy concepts and practical applications, the festival brought together over 200 people interested in learning how to live a less wasteful life. There were talks, demonstrations, music and slam-poetry, all focused on ways to move beyond the traditional linear economy to a more regenerative circular economy. The Festival gave 16 innovative circular brands, including Sustainable Salons and HuskeeCup, the opportunity to engage with and educate participants through 1) A circular PitchFest - where businesses pitched how their brand is shaking up traditional linear plastic, textile and organic waste streams and turning it circular 2) Waste Wise Workshops - practical tools and resources to encourage participants to adopt circular behaviours in the home 3) Networking opportunities with other circular economy advocates.
Looped Festival’s mission is to connect everyday Australians with circular solutions that ensure no plastics, textiles and organics in the home go to waste.
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The Talented Eater aims to help people fight food waste in their own homes, by providing them with tips, inspiration and knowledge for them to be able to cook with the ingredients they have on hand. People can often be constricted by recipes, if there is one ingredient they don't have often times opting for take out instead of cooking. The Talented Eater aims to educate people with the knowledge of flavour combinations, ingredient substitutes and instil the confidence to be able to cook without a recipe. With this as the mission, The Talented Eater hosts Tips Tuesday each week on their Instagram page and in October 2020 launched Saved by Supper Club. Saved by Supper is a monthly communal dinner, where guests bring along their unloved food from home. Together as a group, we cook it up into a delicious dinner. Guests have bought along a variety of ingredients, including: chickpeas, lentils, pomegranates, lettuce, half tins of coconut milk, and open jars of curry paste. The guests are encouraged to bring along any food item that needs to be used up. Each month, the food items vary, the guests vary, but the message stays the same. A collective effort to create what would otherwise have been wasted, into a delicious meal. Guests receive a follow up newsletter, based on the ingredients from the evening to continue the learning back home.
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Take 3’s CEO Clean Up is back, and this year it was bigger and better than ever!
On Friday 7 May 2021, our CEO Clean Up moved to Sydney following successful equivalents on the Central Coast.
CEOs and business leaders from around New South Wales were out in force at Manly Cove Beach to show leadership on sustainability. The unique event encourages CEOs, directors and business owners to roll up their sleeves and join one of our clean ups, while also raising money to support our work to rid the world of plastic pollution through education and action.
Past events on the Central Coast have proved a big success with 90 CEOs and business leaders attending, collecting nearly 500kgs of litter and raising more than $36,000 for Take 3.
Funds raised from the CEO Clean-Up help Take 3 to deliver vital education programs in schools, surf clubs and communities around Australia. Specifically, you’re helping us to achieve a major goal of educating three million school children by 2025.
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The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2020 was a completely virtual event celebrating the 2020 UN World Oceans Day theme “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean” and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
The goal of Pitchfest 2020 was to discover, showcase and celebrate innovations and innovators with the passion, drive and potential to have a significant positive impact on Planet Ocean through commercially scalable 'business for good' solutions.
Launching on the 25th August 2020 with a six-week application window, Pitchfest 2020 attracted 192 applications from impact driven startups operating in 38 countries around the world. 12 shortlisted Finalists were judged by an expert panel with the Winner being Sydney-based Planet Protector Packaging with their innovative solution to expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging using waste fibre from the wool industry.
Other Finalists focussing with circular economy solutions included: ARC Marine (2nd Runner Up) who use carbon neutral and recycled concrete to make their 'Reef Cube' artificial reef structures; PumpFree Energy who convert waste fats, oils and greases (FOGS) from commercial kitchens into bio fuels and Water Warriors who use their innovative 'Poseidon Pellets' to capture harmful phosphorus and nitrogen pollutants before they enter the ocean, repurposing them as slow release fertilisers for agricultural applications.
Of the 192 applicants a significant number had solutions that employed circular principles and we expect this to continue throughout future years of this annual campaign.
OIO's goal is to accelerate 100 ocean impact startups in 5 years and make Australia a world leader in ocean solutions.
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Zero Waste Victoria addresses the growing issues of waste, recycling and pollution in the community. Our mission is to inspire people to reduce consumption and waste and through everyday choices and actions.
Our purpose is to
• Promote educational programs to encourage people to reduce waste and pollution, conserve natural resources, and to understand how this impacts our environment
• Motivate behaviour change to improve waste minimisation, take into account producer responsibility and sustainability issues by supporting a localised circular economy
• Facilitate and encourage public discussion, education, research and behaviour change on waste reduction, product stewardship and associated environmental issues
• Work alongside and with community, industry, government and organisations to promote programs to enable sustainable practices which support the transition to a circular economy.
The aim of the Zero Waste Festival is to provide waste-wise education, empower sustainable living, community engagement, and open conversations about the producer and consumer responsibility and waste minimisation.
There are presentations, workshops, information stalls and activations where people can reconnect and be inspired to rethink waste which supports a circular economy.
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Our entry is the design & construction we executed for 1280 Ceramics new fit-out.
1280 Ceramics is the name of Melbourne's newest Ceramic Studio; the operations are based around casual 'hot-desk' style subscriptions, making it easier than ever for people to get involved in ceramic work. Subscribers benefit from a supportive, educational work space, use of equipment such as kilns and wheels etc, and a retail area where they can sell their work. The Owner of the business (Kevin Li) approached us with an interest in incorporating sustainable initiatives into his fit-out.
What we ended up executing was an outstanding example of innovative repurposing and sustainable building practice.
The entire fit-out works we executed, were completed using only recycled materials. To make it even more special, the entire new shopfront was constructed using materials we salvaged from the demolition of the existing ceiling on that same site....seriously pushing the boundaries of repurposing.
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Pact Group vision is the lead the Circular Economy through recycling, reuse and packaging solutions.
Due to our business structure and significant investment in growing Australia's domestic recycling capacity, the Group have access to locally sourced recovered material that can be re-purposed into different industrial, infrastructure and consumer products and then, in turn, be recycled at end of life.
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An industry-first apartment at Mirvac’s Pavilions development in Sydney Olympic Park has been constructed using ‘green ceramics’ – becoming a blueprint for how future development can join the circular economy in ways that are desirable, feasible and scalable.
These green ceramics, manufactured from waste glass and textiles, are an innovation born from collaboration between Mirvac and the University of NSW Centre of Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT), led by global pioneer in waste technology, Professor Veena Sahajwalla.
The collaboration pioneers a way to revolutionise the construction industry by producing an entirely new built-environment material from waste that would otherwise find its way to landfill.
Green ceramics are produced at SMaRT Centre’s MICROfactorie™ by reforming problematic waste materials through a combination of heat and compression.
The Pavilions apartment is the first time these green ceramics have been used as a construction material in a residential setting – as floor and wall tiles, kitchen-island fronts, light-fittings, furniture and artworks.
The apartment was designed by Mirvac Design. Pavilions’ project team conducted extensive testing of the sample materials, modifying the green ceramic products in collaboration with the SMaRT Centre until they satisfied the relevant building codes, Mirvac’s stringent quality requirements, and without compromising Mirvac Design’s vision.
The apartment’s design excellence demonstrates a new, viable circularity for waste materials and has the potential to deliver impact at scale.
As a next step, Mirvac is now investigating opportunities to create additional microfactories to locally manufacture green ceramics at its future projects.
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Our organisation comprises of architectural lighting designers, suppliers, product developers and production. Our team used this unique positioning to create a lighting product - Andro - that enabled us specifically to design and engineer with an entire project & product lifecycle in mind.
Andro is a lighting range used across commercial and residential projects, consisting of the following attributes:
- Andro is designed with modularity and interchangeability in mind so as to reduce the overall number of SKU's that are needed to be carried through the chain.
- It uses internal components that come with high durability and quality so that it's lifetime can be prolonged.
- It is built with cautiously considered materials (recycled aluminium) that come with a higher recyclability value and is designed to enable recovery of most materials at the end of it's life.
- The technical characteristics of the light are designed to get the most light for power consumed thereby reducing the amount of light fittings required in a space.
- The packaging of the product is also exceptionally considered. There is no plastic in the packaging and it is fully recyclable. The shape of the boxes is thoughtfully designed so that they can be re-purposed or re-used for storage of any consumables (pens/chopsticks/make-up/tools). We also include Australian native seeds in the packaging so the box can be turned into a pot plant. The paper install guides have also been replaced by easy to scan QR codes thereby preventing wastage.
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Fulton Hogan is a family owned business, committed to ensuring the work we do today will make a real difference to the lives of our people and customers, the communities they call home, and the world we live in, tomorrow.
In 1933, Jules Fulton and Bob Hogan teamed up to form Fulton Hogan. From there, we’ve grown to over 7000 people. A family of real people dedicated to doing good work that connects and cares for communities across New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.
From concrete, asphalt and aggregates through to biodiesel, signs and graphics, we’ve been supplying top quality construction products to the industry for over 50 years. Our decades of experience, combined with our wealth of plant and resources, give us the technical knowledge and skills to provide a wide range of construction services (including construction, surfacing, asset management, laboratories, transport and traffic management).
Fulton Hogan started on roads. In the last 87 years we’ve gained vast experience across a range of sectors, including roads and transport infrastructure through to utilities and resources.
We’re all about keeping it REAL (Respect, Energy & effort, Attitude & Leadership). These are the values at the core of everything we do.
We see sustainability as the only way to do business. It’s our way of improving the world we’ll live in tomorrow.
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Warehouse Greenhouse is a brick warehouse renovation in Brunswick, Victoria. The tagline for this project is "Do more with less" which underlined every design & build decision from the outset. The stunning highly sustainable split-level residential renovation was built by Never Stop Group and designed by Breathe Architecture.
Warehouse Greenhouse was designed for "a family of guerrilla gardeners & artisans" and the resulting home fits the design brief perfectly with space for learning, creating, gardening, planting, eating, bathing & sleeping within the context of a highly sustainable renovated warehouse.
The client, architect and build team's focus remained on sustainability in every aspect and at every stage of the project, from design, to material selection, to waste management on site ensuring there was zero unnecessary waste. As the principal contractor on this project we are very proud of the high quality home we built for our clients... and we want to show The Circle how we got there and encourage other construction companies to follow suit on their own projects!
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The building industry is Australia’s largest single contributor to landfill. Our buildings generate waste at the time of construction, during renovations and at the end of their lives. In response to these issues we have created XFrame; a circular economy based structural wall framing system that allows all layers of a buildings wall to be cost-effectively deconstructed and reused again and again. XFrame is manufactured from sustainably and locally sourced (FSC certified) structural engineered timber using precise computer controlled milling machines. The finished product is a series of modular parts that are designed to clip together without the need for nails, screws or adhesives. The parts clip together to form panels that are inherently self-braced and ready to receive building linings. The self-braced nature of the frame means that internal wall linings can now be simply 'clipped' / 'hung' from the walls in an easily reversible manner. XFrame makes the same approach possible for cladding materials and insulation products. The effective result is a wall that does not generate waste.
Our goal is to make the deconstruction and reuse of building materials the most attractive end-of-life strategy for buildings. This means throwing out today’s low-cost carbon intensive single use irreversible fixing heavy construction handbook and replacing it with systems inherently designed for the future. XFrame is one of the products that will allow Australia’s construction sector to achieve such levels of circularity.
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Zoomo is the only global light electric vehicle (e-bikes, e-mopeds) provider which now allows businesses to deploy and manage large fleets of carbon-friendly e-bikes at scale. Founded by ex-Deliveroo and Mobike executive Mina Nada and his former Bain colleague Michael Johnson, the business’ mission is to transition billions of urban miles to light electric vehicles.
Zoomo initially built its products to service the demands of gig workers in the food delivery industry. Their expectations for efficient and sustainable vehicles, on demand service, flexible financing and technology enabled security features spurred the business to innovate. Now, Zoomo is seeing enterprises and fleet managers benefiting from the platform they have built - a platform for gig workers and businesses to electrify their fleet of delivery vehicles.
Zoomo provides businesses safe, efficient and eco-friendly transportation options for their employees to deliver goods.
Since Zoomo launched its e-bikes for businesses model, they have welcomed new customers including up and coming on-demand grocery delivery companies, Getir, Gorillas and Dija. They have also signed up Just Eat Takeaway, owner of Menulog in Australia, Pizza Hut and a growing number of forward-thinking Domino’s franchises’ locally in the hot-food delivery space.
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CandleXchange is a swap and go model for candles, allowing customers to purchase a new soy candle of various size options and once used, return in exchange for a new candle for ~40% of the cost. CandleXchange then reuse the container to make new candles.
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ClipCroc® is the World’s first ‘Clip-together' plastic tableware range and consists of Plates, Dishes, Bowls and Cups. The unique, and patented, ClipCroc® mechanism allows the individual items to be clipped together to form a single unit making ClipCroc® one of the most innovative and user-friendly tableware ranges in the world! ClipCroc® has been specifically designed to be extremely durable, reusable and sustainable helping to reduce over 500 Billion single-use plates, bowls, dishes and cups from landfill every year!
With our revolutionary clip-together advantage, ClipCroc® is rattle-free, easy to pack, safe to stack, stable to store, heat-insulating, easy to clean and free from rattling, sliding or falling while travelling. The air gap between two items of ClipCroc® provides an innovative heat-insulating safety feature meaning food or drinks are never too hot to handle. Clipping used items together also eliminates the nuisance of washing up at an inconvenient time or place by locking in any sauce or food remnants for dishwashing later.
We first became aware of the sustainability problem while travelling across Australia we noticed the roadside bins at campsites, picnic areas and beachside BBQ’s were literally overflowing with disposable items of tableware! Unfortunately, this very serious problem accounts for over 500 Billion single-use plastics that are thrown to landfill every year, and about one-third of this unintentionally ends up in the world’s oceans.
We were so passionate about solving this global problem we just had to quit our day jobs and start our sustainable tableware business, WandsPro!
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The startup company Kelland Environmental Technology Pty Ltd operates as the business DiaperRecycle with the intention to make an environmental impact through recycling nappies and creating new consumer products.
The business is offering a waste recycling service to users of disposable nappies, in order to divert them from going to landfill, and from that waste produce new consumer products. In the recycling process the high quality plastic is separated and will go to plastics recyclers to become many new products, and DiaperRecycle is using the fibre to make new consumer products. The first one ready for market is cat litter.
Registering as a company in 2019 after developing and proving the technology first, DiaperRecycle began scaling up by expanding the recycling technology and working with nappy providers and cat litter testers to ensure the business model was sound, and that a usable product could actually be produced for market. The cat litter was tested and refined over 18 months with cats around Melbourne with good evaluations, that also informed us that cat owners are looking for products that will truly make an environmental impact. The nappy providers also wanted to do something good for the planet.
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EcoMax Brushes are a range of household, kitchen, body, garden and pet brushes designed to replace common plastic cleaning products in the home. The brushes are all handmade from natural vegetable fibres in Sri Lanka. Unalike plastic, vegetable fibres are a sustainable carbon neutral material that is long lasting and biodegradable. Some of our fibres are bi-products from other production or waste products from other industries. Coconut fibre is a waste product from coconut production, Rubber wood from rubber trees at the end of their productive lives, Alstonia off-cuts from the building industry and fallen palm leaves become our amazing Coconut Palm Brooms.
Each natural fibre has its own unique set of properties and is carefully chosen for each brush to provide the best sustainable advantages for their uses. Coconut fibre is naturally antibacterial and antifungal making it the idea choice for the kitchen, Tampico in our Scrub and Nail Brushes absorbs water, releasing it as you use it and the soft Jute fibres are ideal for sensitive body brushing.
EcoMax Brushes aim is to provide ethically made long lasting, affordable alternatives to plastics that are as functional as they are beautiful, that are biodegradable and that reduce our environmental footprint.
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We want to live in a future where petroleum based plastics no longer exist - So we quit our day jobs to solve this problem.
Currently we make home compostable stretch wrap from potatoe waste at our solar powered factory on the Mornington Peninsula but the vision is huge. We are working with Monash University to develop a process in which we can take the waste from making wine and converted into our stretch films. This product will not only be home compostable but marine biodegradable too. At the moment we sell cling wrap for home users and we are launching with a commercial sized wrap as well as pallet wrap in the coming months. Australia puts 150,000 tonnes of stretch wrap into landfill each year, we aim to be manufacturing all of this here in Australia by 2022.
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Airgarden is soilless, self watering vertical garden. Airgarden uses NASA developed aeroponic technology allowing you to grow 3 x more produce, 3 x faster & with much higher success rates than traditional gardening. It's easier than traditional gardening & success rates are much higher. You can grow 150 different types of fruits, vegetables, herbs & edible flowers. Best of all Airgarden is great for you & great for the planet. We uses 95% less water & space, food waste is reduced by up to 99%, there are no herbicides or pesticides & no transport or food miles. Food straight from your garden to your table live fresh & packed with nutrients. Airgarden is the garden absolutely anyone can grow, absolutely anywhere. Airgarden grows 10 x more per square metre than traditional gardening & farming with a significant reduction on our planet & resources.
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Lasso is a revolutionary new circular recycling solution for homes and businesses. Lasso’s tech-enabled recycling system removes contamination at the point of use (in the home or workplace) to ensure that your used plastic, glass and other packaging materials can be remade into high-value new products.
The Lasso appliance contains an array of sensors, a wash system and processing units that convert packaging materials into feedstock for industry. In its first iteration, the Lasso system will recycle 7 of the most common and most valuable packaging materials: PET plastic, HDPE plastic, clear glass, green glass, brown glass, steel, and aluminium. To ensure purity, each of these materials will be stored in separately in 7 individual storage containers in the base of the appliance.
When a packaging item is loaded into the Lasso system, it is first sensor-checked to ensure that it is recyclable. Once its recyclability is confirmed, the item is then washed to remove dirt and other contamination. Finally, the item is processed and converted into a format that meets industry standards for remanufacture before being stored in one of the 7 storage containers for collection.
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Lore offers beautiful, handcrafted homewares and furniture designed and manufactured in New Zealand.
Focusing on natural fibers such as linen, hemp and recycled materials including fabric made from 100% recycled bottles, the desire to create sustainable pieces with the aim of safeguarding our Earth's natural resources guides everything we offer.
In addition to offering classic pieces in our "Reflect, Slow and Knowledge" ranges we have a contemporary "Recover" range that reupholsters furniture in denim that would otherwise be destined for landfill.
We have had several collabs including with Ethically Kate (Kate Hall) a NZ made chair upholstered in NZ wool and also with carpet maker Bremworth.
Excitingly across all our ranges we can create bespoke pieces for our clients or reupholster existing pieces in keeping with Lore's ethos of sustainability.
We see a growing demand for products with an Environmental focus and the intention is to target both residential and commercial markets as we grow our business.
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In Australia, we use an estimated six million coffee pods daily. Disposable capsules deplete natural resources, increase C02 emissions, and the majority are sent straight to landfill where they contribute to the global landfill issue. Even when these kinds of single-use products are recyclable or 'biodegradable/compostable', not only are these materials often problematic in themselves - we're also using up energy and our environment’s natural resources to produce these easily-avoidable items.
Striving to propel real, positive social change amid the excessive consumption and consumerism, in 2014 we decided to do something to combat the issue, launching a range of reusable coffee pods, helping consumers reduce the environmental impact of their coffee pod machines.
As the first refillable coffee pod company in Australia, our goal is to reshape the capsule coffee landscape - we're doing everything we can to break down barriers and help consumers make the switch from disposable to reusable. And of course, as a social start-up, everything we do is designed or actioned with purpose. So as part of our ongoing mantra to create better things in a truly better way, we were looking for a local, responsible manufacturing solution for a product to assist users of our reusable pods, when we were introduced to the Precious Plastic concept.
Fast forward to 2021, and we’ve crafted something quite revolutionary - The Perfect Press, an innovative device not only helping home baristas save time refilling their Nespresso compatible pods, but also saving plastic bottle caps from landfill.
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ReCo is an initiative of Mundane Matters Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based design practice.
Mundane Matters have been raising awareness about sustainable living through creative projects. ReCo was inspired by Wasteland, an art installation. We recycled marine debris and built a 24-metre tall structure using these recycled objects.
Witnessing the transportation cost, labour cost and energy usage in recycling - not to mention the world’s plastic recycling rate is only at 5%, we wanted to know whether there’s any way to redesign our ‘take, make, waste’ model commercially. Therefore we started looking into the ‘reuse’ model.
ReCo is a local refill delivery system to help accelerate to a circular economy. How it works:
We deliver household cleaning products in our reusable glass containers.
When you finish, place another order.
We collect the empty container, while delivering you a full one.
We then clean and refill the containers for other customers. Just like the milkman in the old days!
We stick to these rules:
Only operate locally, by the locals.
Minimum delivery packaging - only in a small paper bags.
Work with local suppliers (except our glass containers), and this includes our product partner, SimplyClean, who’s an eco-friendly home cleaning product brand based in Lismore NSW.
Collaborate with our customers to improve our service.
Using technology to solve the problems.
Our vision is to build a system to collaborate with both the individuals, as well as large brands and the supermarkets, at a national and global scale - towards a circular economy.
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Social Living is established to manufacture sustainable bedding and furniture options for social housing customers. We have redesigned and simplified products so that they easily be assembled, disassembled, repaired and recycled. Flat packing reduces the need for excessive packaging, while minimal material (mono or dual in all products) use enhances the ability of the materials to be reused, repurposed or recycled. We have phased out harmful and toxic substances such as glues, adhesives and chemicals that are often incorporated in. bedding and furniture products such as mattresses and sofa, and which make it difficult for these products to be disabled at their end of life, for which they frequently end up in landfill. Furthermore, we have phased out difficult to recycle components such as polyurethane foam, one of the most common components in ordinary mattresses and sofas. Due to the simplification of our products our products can easily be manufactured here locally in Melbourne, which creates an abundance in assembly jobs for disadvantaged cohort. This is something we seek to develop in the near future. Due to the simple and short supply chain, we can provide these products at very low cost without compromising on quality to those struggling to afford these products in the regular market.
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TOMbag is an Australian social enterprise on a mission to rid the world of single-use garbage bags with our sustainable and reusable alternatives. We've developed the world's first reusable garbage bag - made with certified recycled plastic (rPET), it's highly durable, easily washable and 100% waterproof.
Our garbage bags currently come in two different sizes - large (capacity 30-40L, good fit for medium to large bin sizes) and small (capacity 12-20L, good fit for smaller bin sizes) - with plans to release a third extra large size of 120L capacity in the very near future. TOMbag products are suitable for both general waste and recyclables. We sell directly to consumers, as well as businesses, and ship our products worldwide.
TOMbag is a member of SECNA (The Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT) and a part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation community.
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The Reimaginarium is a circular economy retail concept and social enterprise, developed to encourage the public to perceive reclaimed goods as at-least equal to new ones. For too long people's perception of secondhand goods has been driven by op-shops, pawnbrokers, secondhand markets, vintage bazaars and private sales. There perception is therefore often of imperfect goods, limited information, minimal warranties and pot-luck access to items that they want.
The Reimaginarium takes the principles of new-product retail - consistent pricing, quality guarantees, condition quality control, product knowledge, shop layout - and applies them to repaired, repurposed and reimagined goods. In doing so we elevate the perception and value of non-new goods, increasing demand from customers and turnover for re-makers. Applying these principles in our flagship store in Geelong and our online presence, we are able to support businesses making products from salvaged materials right across Australia. From jewellery and clothing to electronics and furniture, we provide the community with an alternative to purchasing new goods, by making old goods accessible and appealing. Through our network of re-makers we are also able to provide valuable repair and repurposing services to customers with existing goods that they can no longer use.
To date, the goods that we have sold through our store have saved over 4 tonnes of otherwise unwanted goods and materials from ending up in landfill.
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The Swag is the world’s first, 100% natural, patented produce bag, that keeps fruit and vegetables fresh and crisp for two weeks or longer in the crisper of the fridge. Intelligently designed, using ethical and fair-trade practices and hand-made from non-toxic, sustainable, machine-washable and compostable materials, The Swag reduces plastic pollution and saves households thousands of dollars each year in food waste.
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Two Design Lovers is contributing to the circular economy. We have established a stylish platform for lovers of interior decorating and design to easily buy and sell quality, authentic designer furniture and home decor. Our purpose is to make it easy to keep good design (ie items that have been thoughtfully designed and manufactured with attention to materials, function and aesthetics) in circulation. Our mission is to educate consumers who are in the market for new/replacement furniture that there are viable alternatives and choices beyond replica and poorly made fast furniture options. Disposable decorating ultimately ends up in landfill and is simply unsustainable.
We have chosen to focus on authentic 'designer' furniture. The design process entails thinking through the aesthetics, materials, manufacturing, comfort, longevity, purpose and so on. We believe a well designed piece of furniture is far more likely to stand the test of time and will continue to have resale value in the circular economy.
Over the past two years, we have attained the #1 position on google search in Australia for search terms such as 'second hand designer furniture', 'used designer furniture' and 'designer furniture for sale'. We have 5 star rated customer service.
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Zero Co is on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic packaging from the world’s kitchens, laundries and bathrooms. We deliver incredible personal-care and home-cleaning products directly to households (minus all the single use plastic). We currently have 10 products in our range: handwash, bodywash, laundry liquid, stain remover, dishwashing liquid, dishwashing tablets, multi-purpose cleaner, bathroom cleaner, toilet cleaner and air freshener.
In 2020, Zero Co burst onto the FMCG scene and introduced a world first truly circular-economy FMCG brand that tackles the plastic problem at both ends of the supply chain; stopping single-use plastic products and funding large-scale ocean clean-ups. We replace single-use plastic with reusable packaging made from plastic waste pulled from beaches and landfill.
Our closed loop works via a refill model that replaces single-use with forever-use. It’s an incredibly simple and powerful 4 step process: you order, we deliver, you return, we refill.
Our ‘forever’ bottles are made from plastic waste pulled out of the beaches and landfill. You keep them at your house and refill them for a lifetime. Our refill pouches are made from recycled materials and are designed to be refilled and reused over and over and over again. Once you’ve emptied your refill pouch, send it back to us so we can clean it and reuse it.
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We are a small family-run pharmacy located in Northbridge, Perth with big focus on living healthy and sustainably. We are passionate about reducing our impact on the environment so we stock a huge range of plantbased foods and supplements and eco and sustainable swaps for your kitchen through to your bathroom. We also have plans in the future to introduce a hub to collect items for recycling such as hard plastics, batteries, coffee pods and more. Our latest project which we are very proud of is the Ecobot, a zero-waste robot which we use to refill consumable household items. There are currently two Ecobots, one for edibles (olive oil, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, etc) and one for non-edibles (hand sanitiser, body wash, shampoo, dishwash detergent, etc). We are big plans and large dreams to raise awareness of the world's plastic crisis and introduce more machines throughout the city so that their ease and convenience to use gives people no reason to hesitate to commence their zero waste journey.
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Cleansip's journey began in 2019 when founder AJ, was working for a UV sterilization company in Victoria. It was here he learnt about the amazing bacteria eradicating properties of UV light and wondered how he could bring this cutting edge, cleansing technology to the daily lives of everyone around him. Meanwhile, Co-Founder Emma, with a strong passion for all things health, wellness and environmental consciousness, found herself struggling to understand how with all the impressive technologies to date, there was not a more sustainable way of keeping one's drinking water clean, at the ideal temperature or even drinking your morning coffee whilst loving the planet at the same time. When the two finally sat down, it seemed only natural that the resultant product would be a hybrid of Emma's strong passion for health and AJ's knowledge of UV sterilisation, from this - Cleansip was born.
Whilst moving to Byron Bay in 2020 we fell in love with the clean oceans and wanted to keep them that way. We started with a simple vision to reduce single use plastic and to achieve this, we create beautifully designed, innovative and sleek environmentally sustainable products that fit into your life and that make it easy to live healthy and consciously.
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Happy Planet Toys is the first Australian business to bring toys into the circular economy with our exciting, engaging toys made from recycled Australian milk bottles.
Happy Planet Toys was started by Australian mum-of-three, Miranda, after feeling overwhelmed by the environmental impact of the toys building up in her home. Knowing she wasn’t alone, Miranda started the company to meet the increasing demand from Australian families for locally made, sustainable toys.
We are the only company to create toys from recycled Australian milk bottles, and only the second company globally to create toys from recycled plastic. Our toys are closed loop and fulfilling the objectives of the circular economy. They’re created from plastic waste, and because they have been designed without bolts or screws like most toys, they can be recycled via kerbside recycling.
It took 2 years of research and development to understand the recycled plastic and ensure we could use it to create engaging, functional and safe toys, before launching our first range late in 2019. We receive consistently strong, positive feedback from our customers, telling us how much children enjoy our toys, and how supportive they are for the change we are driving within the toy industry. We’re demonstrating the value of recycling and reducing plastic waste, and allowing children to make a direct and positive connection between their recycling and toys.
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Karst Stone Paper (or more affectionately known as just ‘Karst’) is an Australian company founded in Sydney in 2017 by two high school friends (Jon Tse & Kevin Garcia). Both were from corporate backgrounds, who shared a passion for entrepreneurship and were avid users of notebooks (which at the time, were only made from traditional wood pulp e.g. trees). Jon and Kev travelled to a little known city in Taiwan (Tainan) to meet the President of a company that had pioneered the creation of stone paper by transforming recycled calcium carbonate into paper-like products for commercial and industrial purposes (mostly food packaging and adhesive labels). This became the lightbulb moment that kickstarted Karst and is proudly represented on the company website: ‘Why do notebooks need to be made out of trees? Why can’t our journals be waterproof? Why does the third-largest industry in the world need to be responsible for creating so much waste?’ Although based in Sydney, Karst has since developed a range of stone paper stationery goods that are sold around the world and are currently stocked in retailers like Dymocks, Kinokuniya and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra). In 2019, Karst became a Certified B Corp and was also selected to be in the official TED main event goodie bag. The company proudly flies the flag to drive consumer awareness of this new, alternative material and has been recognised in publications including CNN, Fast company and Forbes.
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Australias automotive industries recycle rate is 0.9% sending 196,800 tonne of plastic waste to landfill each year. Boxhead Plastics exists to support the automotive industry divert more of its plastic waste from landfill. Our launch product, The Naiteev™ Golf Tee is made from recycled plastic car bumper bars collected from the Sydney basin and remanufactured in Hornsby NSW. Our target is to manufacture and sell 550800 golf tees diverting 1.3 tonne plastic waste from landfill in 12 months
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Since 2004 Onya has been offering the public, through our retail website and B2B to global wholesalers/distributors/stockists, the opportunity to reduce their waste by choosing to reuse and refuse single use packaging.
By empowering individuals to reduce the waste they personally produce, Onya products have significantly reduced the reliance on single use packaging, not only in Western Australia but across the country and globe.
By making as many of our products as possible from recycled materials such as rPET, we are one of the buyers of recycled materials helping to support the recycling industry become more economically sustainable.
Creating new facilities that can handle many different forms of recycling is just one side of the coin. Without buyers like us, and customers like ours, the recycling industry would have no market for their products leading to viability issues across the spectrum.
Onya offers reusable bread bags, reusable produce bags, reusable bulk food bags, reusable shopping bags, reusable lunch wraps, side bags and backpacks using rPET fabric which can be recycled at the end of their life cycle. We also offer reusable stainless steel drink bottles and reusable silicon coffee cups that can also be recycled through our recycling programme partnership with TerraCycle and we offer a 30% discount to customers who do recycle their products with us.
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The Party Kit Network is on a mission to make parties more sustainable by making party kits of reusable tableware more accessible.
A party kit is a box of reusable tableware and decorations hired out to the local community as an easy way to significantly reduce waste at parties; an affordable alternative to single-use disposables. Users visit the easy-to-use Party Kit Network website and search for a party kit to borrow in their area. All the party kits are run independently by individuals, school PTA groups, lending libraries, small party businesses and zero waste stores.
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Pottery For The Planet exists to contribute to the Earth’s long and healthy life, by crafting ceramic products to minimise single-use culture, reducing plastic waste, while promoting sustainable business practices.
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Project Blank is an Australian owned business providing premium, environmentally considered wetsuits, hardware and beach accessories for green-minded surfers.
Founded on conscious, honest decisions, Project Blank blends quality and affordability with more eco-friendly products, constantly striving for ways to move forward sustainably and transparently.
Every decision is made with the environment and community in mind. From product design, chosen materials and manufacturing methods to packaging, delivery and partnerships, sustainability is at the very centre of our ethos.
We have wetsuits that use plant-based rubber, recycled car tyres and PET bottles, and a natural limestone neoprene alternative. Our boardshorts and umbrellas are also made using recycled plastic bottles.
We’re striving to do our best for the planet and give back to good causes with every sale by donating to organisations like Seabin and Ecologi who are out creating a positive, measurable difference in the world.
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Hi, I'm Leo, the founder of RIPL.
We make beautiful, minimal insulated water bottles for ocean lovers. The best bit... Every time someone buys one of our water bottles, they set off a massive ripple effect of positive change.
Profit from every RIPL product funds the employment of a Balinese local to collect ocean-bound plastic from beaches and waterways.
1 bottle = 1 day of employment
We pay our collectors 3x the going rate, lifting them and their families out of poverty.
But it doesn’t stop there.
We take the ocean-bound plastic they collect and use it to manufacture water purifiers, which we distribute to remote communities so they don't have to rely on bottled water.
As well as cutting off the constant flow of plastic bottles entering the ocean, it saves families one of their biggest monthly expenses at a time when so many Balinese have lost their tourism jobs due to Covid.
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Rebold connects the players of the circular economy in the electronic industry, recyclers and refurbishers, with consumers through an easy to use platform where people can sell, donate to charities or recycle their unused devices.
Our goal is to give a second life to every used electronics and change the way Australians consume electronics from linear to circular.
Rebold is a platform that connects consumers with professional recyclers or refurbishers. A consumer can access the platform to get an instant quote for their unwanted electronics in order to sell them or donate them to a charity. If the device can't be sold to our refurbisher partners then we offer the option to recycle it through the National Recycling Program Network: MobileMuster.
So far we've source more than 100 smartphones and tablets from consumers' homes to our refurbisher partners. We're launching the platform this month to all refurbishers so they can easily source devices from people who are looking to sell or donate their devices.
We take care of all the operation to ship the device from the customers' homes to our refurbisher partners, free of charge. At the moment, we are operating this service for smartphones, iPads and smartwatches and soon we will extend to other product categories (tablets, laptops, accessories and more) as we developing the platform with different refurbishers.
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Founded in 2016 by Sophie Kovic, Seed & Sprout is an eco-lifestyle brand born and bred in Byron Bay. We started from humble beginnings and have grown from a single offering of a plastic-free lunchbox to a diverse range of plastic-free products across a number of categories. We're dedicated to developing beautiful, practical, innovative and ethical products that lessen the impact on the planet and provide plastic-free solutions to people no matter where they are on their sustainability journey. We're passionate about identifying and testing alternative production methods and are committed to searching for new, innovative solutions to everyday problems. We consciously source materials that minimise harm to our planet's natural precious resources and strive to be trailblazers in ethical and sustainable products that serve the needs of our extended family - the Seed & Sprout community. Our products are made from stainless steel, aluminium, bamboo and natural fibres that are designed to make the plastic-free switch seamless. We design with longevity in mind and know that caring for products is key for extending their life span - that's why we include care instructions on each of our product pages and give our customers the opportunity to purchase spare parts for some of our most popular products. Our mission is to not only do less harm, but more good.
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We are two sisters who imagine a world without waste. We're finding new ways of making and using beautiful things that are regenerative by design. Seljak Brand launched in March 2016 and has since worked towards accelerating the transition towards a circular economy.
We work with Australia’s oldest mill in Tasmania and a 92-year-old weaving mill in Lithuania to weave recycled wool blankets that are closed loop. The blankets are made from a minimum of 70% recycled merino or lambswool and a 30% blend of other fibres (mohair, cotton and alpaca) and poly for strength. Wool is a natural fibre that is incredibly hard to replicate – it’s a renewable resource, it is odour and stain resistant, antibacterial, lightweight, breathable and insulating – and one worth retaining at its highest value.
After a Seljak Brand blanket has enjoyed a long, adventurous life we collect it free of charge using a carbon neutral courier service. Back at the mill, we shred it and spin it into new yarn to make future blankets. This circular model allows us to divert waste from landfill and create luxurious and useful blankets.
As well as exemplifying more circular systems through product and systems innovation, Seljak Brand educates consumers, students, business people and other designers about the circular economy, and advocates for climate action.
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Stay tray is a small business located on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Stay tray is a reusable drinks tray. It's the sturdy, stylish and sustainable alternative to using single use cardboard drink trays. Stay tray is made from 100% recycled plastic. Stay tray grips your favourite drinks tighter than any other cup carrier. It won’t let go, it won’t tip over, it won’t slide around in your car and it won’t bend or break apart like cardboard cup holders. Stay tray can be used again, and again and again. It’s the first and last drink carrier you will ever need!. It’s also made from 100% recycled plastic so your daily coffee run is helping the environment.
Stay tray is a small female led business Kate Stewart (Founder and Managing Director) took a leap of faith a few years ago and left her secure corporate role of 17 years in the pursuit of doing something that would make a difference to people and planet. Stay tray is B Corporation Certified. Stay tray is also has Australian Made Certification.
In fact all design, engineering and manufacture of Stay tray is undertaken within a 60km radius of Stay tray's HQ on the Mornington Peninsula.
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WAW Handplanes is a Sydney-based sustainable surf brand. Its latest product The WAW BadFish, is a bodysurfing handplane made with recycled Australian ocean plastics collected from the Great Barrier Reef. Designed to enhance the bodysurfing experience by providing the bodysurfer with more lift, less drag and ultimately more speed. It allows anyone to catch waves easier, ride them for longer, and with more control.
The WAW BadFish is Australias first commercially produced product that utilizes a traceable Australian ocean plastics supply chain that was established by Rikki Gilbey, founder of WAW Handplanes.
The BadFish project was created to push the limits of Australian manufacturing. It provides a positive case study to showcase that plastic waste should not be seen as waste at all, but as a valuable resource. By creating value in plastic waste we can stem the flow on virgin plastic production and begin to commercialize the removal of plastic pollution from our oceans.
The BadFish offers a unique opportunity to do good in the world by simply getting out into the ocean and having fun. Many sustainable products and brands that exist today often ask consumers to make some form of sacrifice, to remove something from their lives, or use a slightly less convenient product. With the WAW BadFish, you can simply get out there, enjoy nature, catch waves and leave nothing but a cleaner ocean in your wake.
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ettitude is a purpose-driven lifestyle brand with a vision for a more comfortable world for all. Founded in Melbourne in 2014, ettitude offers sustainably-made bedding, sleepwear, bathware and accessories made from the world’s first CleanBamboo™ fabric.
While many companies offer bamboo bedding using toxic rayon or viscose technology, ettitude spent years refining and testing its signature textile to create an evolved and improved, new-generation bamboo fabric that is 100% biodegradable and produced in a closed-loop system. The brand’s technology reuses water up to 200 times, recycling 98% of water in the process.
As part of the brand’s inaugural Impact Report, ettitude engaged third party research group Clean Agency to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comparing CleanBamboo to cotton. The report revealed that, compared to a cotton sheet set, ettitude’s CleanBamboo sheet set uses 500x less water and creates 52% less carbon emissions. In 2020, the launch of ettitude’s Australian textile recycling program Loop saw 254.2kg of textile waste diverted from landfills, preventing 1016.8kg of greenhouse gases in just two months.
The company is built on the understanding that we all want to live better, more comfortable lives while protecting and caring for the planet. It’s this knowledge that drives ettitude to innovate ways we can all more easily adopt an eco-attitude—where comfort and quality is not compromised by a commitment to conscious living. In 2021, ettitude announced it is a certified Climate Neutral company.
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Tamara Russell of Karhina Textiles specialises in free machine embroidery, hand stitching and mending. Creating art, sculpture, handbags, jewellery and mending supplies using up-cycled, recycled and reclaimed materials and embroidery for a one of a kind sustainable art and fashion statement. I manipulate and transform the meaning of everyday objects, to explore issues including the Australian environment, climate change and the treatment of asylum seekers.
In my textile art practice, I explore my surroundings and interpret what I see through the medium of embroidery. In my works composition, I combine light, colour, shape and texture to recreate images that inspire me in both 2D and 3D form. I consider myself a painter using thread, an artist painting with a needle.
In creating my Textile Kinstugi pieces I use the principles of Kinstugi, a Japanese repair method, as a process to recreate discarded ceramics. Using reclaimed textiles, many hand-dyed, to wrap broken pieces and reassemble them with stitch, enhancing the breaks. As with Kinstugi I aim to celebrate the imperfections, recreating the ceramic to become more interesting for its irregularities giving the object a new lease of life that becomes more refined thanks to its ‘scars’.
My work has been exhibited and is in private collections in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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My lighting is 100% handcrafted in Australia, made with Australians clays, glazes and electrical LEDs. I am a graduate of the National Art School, East Sydney.
I create environmentally sustainable light designs, where I recycle clay, minimise resource inputs and waste creation and offer supply chain transparency; a lighting product which meets circular economy standards, without compromising on beauty. My lighting benefits the “green architecture” industry, which chooses eco-friendly building materials. They are one of a kind functional art that form a reaction against the disposability of mass-produced replica furniture culture.
The porcelain clay I use contains micro-fine iron free bentonite with the brightest firing kaolins, resulting in a silky smooth body with a glossy finish that is highly translucent. In firing reduction it is a unique blue/white colour, which enables added stains to appear particularly vibrant in contrast.
My process explores the infinite possibilities of porcelain clays, whose unique translucent qualities delivers unparalleled iridescent and luminous qualities when paired with energy-efficient LEDs. With varied colour stain additions, marbled chromatic panorama coloured surfaces akin to landscape topography found in the Australian environment are the result.
My lighting has the benefits of LED lighting; including reduced operating costs from high energy efficiency, lower temperatures and carbon emissions, and user-controlled variability in light level and colour, all of which result in enriching human experiences with quality light that biologically maximises well-being & mood.
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Lucidum is a mycelium-based lighting solution that pairs contemporary form with biomaterial development to aid in the transition towards a future where short-life homewares are truly short-life.
Mycelium are the vegetative growth of filamentous fungi – a root-like system that live all around us, and play a vital role in the circularity of our ecosystem. Leveraging the incredible binding properties of these threads, mycelium materials are being developed all around the world to replace everything from Styrofoam, to timber, leather, and even meat products.
Binding together waste wood-shavings using mushroom mycelium, Lucidum projects light across the surface to highlight the beauty and textural intricacies of mycelium. Completely modular, Lucidum is centred around an LED light source housed within a recycled timber base, designed to last for years and years. The limited life of the compostable mycelium diffuser allows guilt-free style changes, while maintaining an heirloom quality light-source.
Combining biomaterials with contemporary form, Lucidum is an exemplar piece demonstrating what a restructure of our traditional industry may look like. Mycelium has already proven to be a powerful material in a range of applications, but it is now up to us, as the designers and the consumers of the world, to inform the future of our planet.
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Neo3DT designs artisanal, 3D-designed and printed jewellery artefacts made from compostable cornstarch filament for women that want cutting-edge statement pieces. It was concepted
Transcending traditional design practice, by using 3D design, zero-waste methods, compostable materials and a closed-loop program to ensure jewellery artefacts can be reinvented, recycled, and regenerated.
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Push Pull Textiles is a responsible textile studio based in Katoomba, on Dharug and Gundungurra Land in the Blue Mountains. Designer and maker Eloise Rapp transforms existing and discarded cloth into beautiful new fabrics. She is a contemporary practitioner of traditional crafts, using time-honoured techniques alongside her own unique methods of hand-making. Specialising in natural dyeing, weaving and experimental textile manipulation, she produces one-of-a-kind textiles for clothing, interiors, art installations, furniture, and more.
Working from the principle that any material can be broken down and re-assembled, Push Pull’s purpose is to use what is available—rejecting outdated and harmful models of overproduction and instead exploring the potential of what already exists. The results are rich and expressive studies in the transformational quality of hand making, where each metre of cloth created is completely unique. By only working with natural fibres and treatments, she ensures all of Push Pull's textiles can eventually be returned to the earth after a lifetime of use.
Push Pull is a single operator studio, with Eloise managing all her own production, communication, sales and marketing. Eloise has worked for over a decade in commercial fashion and textile production, social enterprises, community development and university education in Australia, Japan and Taiwan. She has seen the damage the fashion industry has done, but she also knows the potential for a circular revolution built on slow, traditional techniques of making which are rooted in textile justice, regenerative practices and care for land and species.
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METcALfe (Metal Metcalfe) is an emerging creative business combining our (Amy Lynch & Katie Baptiste) skill sets.
Having started as an experiment in October 2020 between the two of us; our colourful, stylised, playful artworks
continue to be in demand from customers, stores and galleries alike. Amy brings her product and metal fabrication
skills to the organisation, while Katie brings her pattern, colour and material expertise. The results are energetic, fun
and accessible artworks and now their first product; Studs of Steel.
We are two creative, curly-haired sisters having great fun, designing, problem solving and fabricating metal sculptures and products. Play and experimentation are fundamental to our practice. We grew up making around the kitchen table and lockdown last year enabled a period of time to reflect and reference back to our ground roots. Having both worked within various design roles for global brands we’ve observed volumes of waste within manufacture and now within our own design practice challenge, incorporate and ultimately work to minimise waste and seek opportunities to add value to existing materials or resources.
Getting grubby, playing with materials and working through solutions is very much our happy space, therefore work very rarely feels like work! For the first part of our creative careers we were working in different hemispheres and in different sectors, now working collaboratively and combining our experiences in the same space enables us to address issues within our locality but with our experiences from a global lens. A privileged position in our opinion.
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Liane Rossler is a celebrated designer, artist and curator whose inventive work has engaged diverse audiences and highlighted critical environmental issues for over 15 years. Rossler is devoted to building a circular economy, and advocates for the uptake of its models and the diminishing of waste outputs through artistic activism and community engagement. She holds a position on several key advisory boards in NSW where she has been instrumental in educating on the roles and responsibilities of artists and designers to devise pathways to a circular economy through creativity and innovation. Some of the themes addressed in Rossler’s practice include: regeneration; material innovation; ocean conservation, warming and acidification; macrofungi; post-petroleum design; food waste; endangered species; and the rewilding of urban environments. Rossler is inherently experimental. A prolific artist and designer, much of her work explores the reimagination of resourcing and the realisation of material potential. From the development of an oyster shell concrete for vessels, to repurposing discarded glass bottles into new objects, Rossler’s work is problem-solving, and an expression of pure invention and artistic vision. Beyond her own creative practice, Rossler has founded Superlocalstudio, an initiative which inspires collaborative, socially-engaged cultural and creative projects. Her collaborative spirit, continued mentorship and quiet leadership has driven material innovation in the Australian art and design community and beyond. With an inexhaustible curiosity and a deep material understanding, each of Rossler’s projects is clear and generous, with a rare ability to simultaneously educate and inspire.
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Voronoi Runners were part of a project that looked to improve on the manufacturing and post consumption management of footwear. The aim was to explore the designed aspects of footwear and look to offer alternative means to benefit the environment and improve perception of everyday products. Voronoi Runners are sneakers made using only 100% biodegradable materials, constructed without the use of any adhesives. Proposing a solution to the large amounts of waste impacting the environment from the footwear industry. Biodegradable alternatives accommodate proactive waste management targeting the source of the issue as opposed to dealing with materials after production. Voronoi Runners offers a product of timeless design, suitable in many aspects of day-to-day life. Materials with improved technologies and proven performance are given total focus and attention is lost to the toxic biproducts and energy usage, Voronoi Runners replaces modern synthetic material with environmentally friendly alternatives and construction for a closed lifecycle, leaving no trace when the product usage stage ends.
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WE ALL SPEAK FOR THE TREES is an experiment, transformed into an artwork. It dramatically decodes and engages the public on key circular issues; single use versus reuse, supply chain understanding and transparency, product lifecycles and the impact of everyone’s everyday decisions on the circular economy.
It started when Iggy’s bakery asked customers to reuse paper bags their bread came in. Myself and my family took them at their word and commenced an experiment to see how many times a 'single use’ paper bag could be reused and refilled with Iggy’s sourdough. Every time we collected our bread we’d mark the bag in pen to tally the number of times it made it home without breaking
Over 3.5 years, 6 bags completed 569 return journeys, with one of them making it 104 times. With the bags often carrying more than 1 loaf at a time, the 6 bags collectively carried more than 600 loaves home.
To turn his paper bags into an artwork, Andy asked a simple yet powerful question. If the paper bags could speak, what would they say? With inspiration from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, Andy felt the bags might well say that through our everyday actions, whether negatively or positively, ‘WE ALL SPEAK FOR THE TREES’.
Bringing this all together, the bags house LED lights, spell the words ‘WE ALL SPEAK FOR THE TREES’ and sit on a harrowingly beautiful burnt tree trunk salvaged from the recent bushfires (making the connection with the supply chain).
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Global medical authorities are struggling to supply medical workers with crucial PPE and find sustainable solutions to increased medical waste. Long reaching global supply chains and increased use of disposable ppe has led to mass shortages, placing thousands of medical workers around the world in direct risk of infection. In response, Aegis is developing a ppe alternative that is completely bio constructed and biodegradable. Drawing from the unique properties of an Australian aquatic weed called Cumbungi, Aegis is designing a new medical gown for use in a hospital setting along with an integrated system of waste disposal.
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Established in 2019 Alex Fraser’s Sustainable Supply Hub (The Hub) aims to recover diverse, high volume, priority waste streams to recycle high quality end products needed for infrastructure development.
The Hub is one of the world’s largest recycling facilities, annually producing over 1,000,000 tonnes, to provide the construction industry sustainable alternatives to depleting earth resources. It markedly reduces landfill, carbon emissions, transport and extraction. It incorporates an integrated High Recycled Technology (HRT) asphalt plant, and innovative glass recycling plant, and a construction and demolition recycling plant.
The Hub recovers glass, asphalt (RAP), brick and concrete, recycling them to make new asphalt, roadbase and sand for civil construction. This represents a $20 million investment on one ideally located site enabling sustainable infrastructure through economies of scale, reduced handling, transport and emissions.
The glass recycling plant produces 800 tonnes (four million bottles) of construction sand per day. It supplies the asphalt plant, producing up to 500,000 tonnes of recycled asphalt per year. Its greenest asphalt mixes are Glassphalt™, made with recycled glass, and PolyPave™, incorporating recycled plastics. Recycled roadbase and aggregates are produced at the co-located C&D plant.
This Hub not only produces more recycled material than any other facility, but has established strong end-markets with an urgent demand for recycled products. The Hub represents Alex Fraser’s significant long-term investment in improving resource recovery, infrastructure sustainability and Victoria’s circular economy.
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We are re-manufactures, i.e. we only make items from recycled materials. We wanted to make a new type of composite stone for tables and bench tops that was environmentally positive, healthy and made from recycled materials.
Ambicrete is the result of 18 months of research and testing to produce a new type of man made stone from primarily recycled products.
The end result is a natural looking and feeling product made from 70% recycled materials, using clean and eco friendly manufacturing methods, with a reduction of up to 30% Co2 emissions, a decreased permeable surface and silicosis free, making it a healthy and environmentally friendly choice for your family and home. With a variety of finishes, textures and colours it fits almost anywhere.
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In this project, the research team led by A/Prof. Sarah Zhang, the Environment and Sustainability Research Theme Champion from Western Sydney University, who is also the Co-Chair of NSW Circular Research Taskforces, developed a green, light and durable cement named as magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) by innovative application of by-products from magnesium mines and other industry by-products including fly ash and silica fumes.
Comparing to the conventional cement, MOC has a much higher compressive strength, and what is more, the impressive strength can be achieved very fast. This fast setting of MOC and early gain of strength are very beneficial for the fast construction.
MOC, is produced by mixing two main ingredients including magnesium oxide (MgO) powder and magnesium chloride (MgCl2) solution. MgO and MgCl2 are by-products from magnesium mines. In many countries in the world, including China and Australia, there are plenty of magnesite resources, with a recoverable resource of 202Mt of magnesium ore in Australia. Comparing to OPC, less energy is needed in the manufacturing.
Via scientific investigation on the microstructure and mechanism and experimental studies on the mechanical properties, the team solved the notorious and critical issue of poor water resistance of MOC and developed a durable and green cement with high performance without degradation of material properties with water attack. This has removed the barrier of application of green MOC as structural components outdoor, enhanced the quality of MOC products used indoor, significantly advanced the development of green construction and building materials.
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CERES Fair Wood sells timber and wood that doesn't cost the earth. Our mission is to support reforestation by providing a market for farm forested timbers. Our primary process for facilitating this mission is to sell timber from well-managed farms, salvaged wood and well managed plantations only. We also provide a market for timber that would otherwise go to waste. In doing so, we protect what is left of our native old growth forests. We are a social enterprise that falls under the wider umbrella of CERES. CERES vision is for everyone to 'fall in love with the Earth again'. The primary process for facilitating this change is community based learning and action that connects people with each other and the earth. All of CERES Fair Wood profits are re-invested in realising this vision.
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The project was an Australian first, with Licella among a group of companies that collaborated to produce Australia’s first soft plastic food wrapper made with recycled content. The companies included Licella, Nestlé, CurbCycle, iQ Renew, Viva Energy Australia, LyondellBasell, REDcycle, Taghleef Industries and Amcor.
The prototype KitKat wrapper, which represents Australia’s opportunity to close the loop on recycling soft plastics, was created by a coalition of companies with a shared vision. The companies brought their individual expertise together to collect and process waste soft plastic, turn it back into oil, and create the prototype wrapper.
Licella's Cat-HTR advanced recycling technology made this possible - turning waste soft plastic back to oil, from which food-grade recycled plastic content can be made.
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Cirque du Soil's (CDS) Community Compost Collective (CCC) project is Melbourne's first operational hyper-local circular economy focused on food waste management. CDS has created a regenerative community-embedded circular food system model which is disrupting the traditional commercial composting waste system - creating close to zero carbon emission operations and targeting demographic markets in urban precincts left behind in FOGO programs. In this way, the CCC is not only contributing to climate action by diverting food waste from landfill, but is revitalising urban soil quality, contributing to local economies, and enhancing the social and cultural fabric of the local urban area in a place-based approach.
CDS saw an opportunity to both target this under-serviced demographic consisting of households, cafes and restaurants, and to improve on the existing resource recovery processes, by adding additional life cycles to food waste material.
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Around 16 million fast-food meals are served up in Australia each week. Each person creates around 8kgs of grease waste per year. There are two forms of waste oil that come from commercial kitchens - the oil from the fryers and the oil that goes into the grease traps. The fryer oil or Used Cooking Oil (UCO) is collected and recycled. However the grease trap oil or Fats, Oils and Greases (FOG), is largely disposed of via soil application which creates methane emissions. And if the grease trap doesn’t work well, FOG can go into the sewers and cause significant pollution for our oceans. But what if we could reduce this waste and turn what’s left into a resource, a renewable form of energy! Clean Our Blue is a cleantech company that does just that. Through our world-first technology, Clean Our Blue reduces the amounts of FOG going to the sewer from commercial kitchens and transforms what’s left into biofuel. Our trucks extract a cleaner waste oil that's easy to turn into biofuel and the water we leave behind in the grease trap is 54% cleaner than traditional methods. Our solution provides a circular approach to commercial kitchen waste and has been independently measured to reduce: - Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), amount of organic contamination in the water by 54%, suspended solids by up to 75% and FOG going to sewer by up to 65%.
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Compost Connect is an organic recycling initiative and online platform that provides businesses with access to products, services and information that allows them to participate in a circular and regenerative system by diverting waste from landfill and converting it into nutrient-rich compost. There is a significant opportunity to capture and recycle a larger portion of the nearly 900,000 tonnes of organic waste generated by the foodservice and hospitality sector whilst simultaneously recovering and recycling an estimated 10 billion individual single-use foodservice disposables.
Built as an open, not-for-profit organisation Compost Connect allows businesses to identify suppliers of certified compostable packaging and access a sustainable end-of-life option.
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A next generation dynamic bin weigh system. It precisely weighs a bin’s contents, without stopping, pausing or slowing the collection and emptying process. It’s a little bit like magic.
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Shaw Contract is the worlds largest carpet yarn extruder, largest carpet tufter and largest carpet recycler. In fact, our recycling efforts eclipse the rest of the industries recycling efforts combined - we recycle more carpet than the rest of the industry combined! Shaw has led the Global Industry in manufacturing sustainable floor coverings and our flagship product platform is Ecoworx and was developed to transform the wasteful floor covering industry into a circular economy contributor.
An important measure of our progress is an external circularity certificate scheme - Cradle to Cradle https://www.c2ccertified.org/ The scheme is designed to encourage development and update of circular economy products with a set of criteria.
Ecoworx is the first floor covering product that is certified to this program.
Ecoworx is Shaw primary platform for our commercial carpets produced globally.
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Fungi Solutions collaborates with Fungi to rescue resources from landfill, produce sustainable circular packaging solutions and remediate toxic pollutants.
We are passionate about reimagining waste and changing perceptions of the usable life of those resources. With fungi they can be broken down and rebuilt into new forms while capturing C02 instead of emitting it. At the end of use our Mycomaterials positively contribute to soil health once it is disposed of through ordinary home composting.
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Goterra is reimagining biological waste management systems to process organic waste and enhance food security. We have designed and built decentralised infrastructure that uses robotics and maggots to convert organic waste into high value, low impact protein and soil conditioner, returning nutrients back into the food chain, in a circular economy. We call these units Modular Infrastructure for Biological Services (MIBs)
In October 2020, we commissioned our first commercial MIB in the iconic Barangaroo towers on Darling Harbour, in partnership with Lendlease. The MIB processes food waste from commercial and retail tenants. The silent, odourless unit operates in the basement, feeding the maggots macerated food waste.
Our unit is a world-first. Other onsite solutions exist, but they tend to down-cycle nutrients into compost or worse, flush them down the drain. The decentralised MIBs reduce the need for waste management logistics. The transport requirement is merely a light vehicle that services the MIB once every 12 days.
Insect production is growing rapidly worldwide. Most insect production is a large scale agricultural process which replicates conventional agriculture. Our approach is different because we use Black Soldier Fly (BSF) larvae to manage hard-to-manage wastes at the same time as producing protein. BSF larvae are fast growing and will tolerate a varied diet. They produce a product highly suited to animal feed, pet food and aquaculture.
At scale our solution would have a significant impact on emissions from both waste management and protein production.
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Grainstone is an award-winning early-stage Australian agrifoodtech company presently scaling up its automated modular processing technologies that convert large-volume consistent pre-retail food waste streams into high-value nutritional ingredients, nutraceuticals and biomaterials using renewable energy. Starting with Australia's 300,000 tonnes of brewers spent grain which it converts into specialty flour, a protein isolate and a prebiotic soluble dietary fibre isolate.
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Grounded is a packaging business focused on innovation in materials and replacing traditional virgin plastics in the supply chain. We are singularly focused on creating a functioning circular economy for packaging materials.
One of the first problems we set out to solve was for non-recyclable, multi-layer plastic laminates used extensively for vacuum packaging of meat and alternative proteins. Specifically we were working alongside an organic poultry farmer to create a circular solution for their packaging materials.
At the time there was nothing that existed globally to solve the particular needs of this product set and industry. Grounded worked to create the world's first home compostable vacuum pouch made from a blend of different plant based materials including eucalyptus and sugarcane. Although we now have this product set in the market, the project is ongoing as we seek to refine the solution and make it increasingly viable at scale.
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LUP Global uniquely looks to extend circularity in the upstream Supply Chain. Our focus is capital assets across many sectors - Industrial, Medical/Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Chemical - our goal is to extend the life of assets potentially destined for landfill & enable greater access to resources. We build collaboration with asset owners developing a community that engages Sellers with potential Buyers whilst proactively working with the Original Equipment Manufacturer and Service Partners to enable the working life of assets to be extended. We work to build our collaboration as the key to our success - the greater the reach we have across Sellers - Buyers - OEMs - Service Partners the greater the potential for assets to be reused or repurposed. We rely on our networks and use social media wherever possibly to sell our story and offering. Key to our success is partnering - we do our best work when we are engaged to support capital procurement plans. If a business is buying assets it is also most likely disposing of existing assets - when we are engaged early we can plan with the client to support both the buy and sell process. In many situations we need to open the minds of the capital purchaser to the value and opportunity that exists if they would consider an under-utilised unit over new. Equally the longer the view we have to their asset disposal plans the greater the potential we have to find a buyer
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Climate Wave Enterprises deliver events that comply with sustainable standards. We work with the planet for positive, ethical and social outcomes, and provide a holistic recreational event experience that engages all stakeholders in a journey that will reduce environmental impact whilst having fun.
We pride ourselves in the zero waste management systems we deliver to small events (10,000 people) on the Gold Coast and looking forward to presenting these sytems to Australian event organisers.
We have the system that works and our plan for the future is to connect with universities to design, build and sell zero waste stations as a social enterprise business.
Design attributes of the zero waste station:
Sustainable materials
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Transport, all contained in a neat pack
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Each year over 500,000 tonnes of soft plastics like plastic bags, packaging & farm silage wrap are dumped in Australian landfills or burned, with less than 10% of soft plastics being recycled. However Australians are keen to embrace a more sustainable future, with the amount of household soft plastics being returned to supermarkets for REDcycle collection & recycling growing rapidly, and many farmers seeking an alternative to landfill for their used silage wrap. But what happens to this mountain of used soft plastic? Plastic Forests is a small family business that specialises in transforming and re-manufacturing this challenging plastic 'waste' into useful recycled products. Following the devastating 2019 bushfires, we wondered whether we could help farmers get back to business AND find a truly circular solution for soft plastics like farm silage wrap. Could we create the world's first fence post made from 100% recycled soft plastics? We set about researching, designing and manufacturing a recycled plastic fence post that could meet the needs of farmers, withstand the rigours of cattle and the harsh Australian climate. After months of R&D we produced and successfully trialled on farm the PLUS fence post - a strong, steel reinforced, driveable, fully insulated fence post that will last for decades, transforming a major environmental problem into a circular success story. We're making a real difference -turning used soft plastic from farms & households, into durable, functional and stylish recycled fence posts that empower farmers to give their plastic waste a long new life.
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Our Pod-to-Plant™ programs turns used coffee pods into compost.
We've combined best in class sustainable materials in our coffee pods with a free service for customers to return them to us to be turned into compost.
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In 2009, Environmental Entrepreneur Alison Price saw an opportunity to offer mobile recycling to construction, waste and mining industry clients. SoilCyclers use trailer-mounted dirt sifting machines to aerate, remove waste and blend additives with soil, all in one process.
We make physical, chemical and biological changes to soil and waste to fix contamination or transform waste into topsoil or structural fill like you’d purchase from a quarry. By preventing soil ending up in landfill or tailings dams, reducing trucks on roads and reducing reliance on raw materials, SoilCyclers saves clients money and makes a big impact on our environment.
Each year, SoilCyclers recycles up to half a million cubic metres of material, taking around 30,000 trucks off local roads and saving clients around US$3.5 million. Each of our mobile crews can divert 1000 cubic metres of soil from landfills each day, resulting in 6000 tons less carbon emissions annually.
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The Better Packaging Co designs revolutionary, customised packaging solutions based on a circular economy in which generating waste is not an option and the earth’s resources are not treated as infinite. Our sustainable packaging solutions consider the complete lifecycle impact of a product from raw material sourcing, right through to end-of-life disposal. Our range includes home compostable Courier Bags Satchels / Mailers (in 7 sizes), Poly bags , Courier & Barcode Labels , Padded / Bubble Mailers & Jiffy Bags and protective Inserts, Pallet Wrap, Hanging Garment Drycleaning Bags as well as recycled envelops made from quarry waste and recycled resin. To make Better Packaging accessible and affordable to business of all sizes we sell our Better Packaging range via our website in units as small as 20 pieces and we also produce custom packaging for larger businesses. We take Product Stewardship very seriously and have invested in an extensive collection network (BCollected) so that people who don’t have access to a home compost are able to dispose of our packaging responsibly.
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Planet Protector Packaging (PPP) manufactures an insulated packaging technology called Woolpack, a sustainable alternative to EPS used in supply chains for shipping temperature sensitive foods and pharmaceuticals.
Woolpack uses sheep’s waste wool unsuitable for the textile industry. This is ordinarily designated a waste stream and diverted to landfill. Until now, there has been no alternative to EPS that has delivered equivalent thermal performance while being price competitive. Additionally, there has never been a product with such unrivalled ‘green credentials’ in which all components are easily diverted from landfill into more sustainable disposal or reuse options.
Wool is the best natural insulator on the planet. WOOLPACK technology leverages the thermal properties of wool, making it ideal for businesses delivering food, seafood and pharmaceuticals.
Aside from being a disruptive and sustainable innovation, PPP’s Woolpack solutions offer inherent cost savings. Delivered flat packed, it occupies only 20% of the space of the equivalent volume of EPS boxes, which translates to less pallet movements, reduced transport cost, lower labour costs and a lower carbon footprint. Transitioning to a Woolpack solution means a demonstrable commitment to sustainability, enhanced customisation/branding options and an elevated, premium image.
Since our early 2016 launch, PPP has enjoyed steady growth and now boasts 350 clients across ANZ. Our client segments encompass producers, wholesalers, retailers, consolidators and distributors in the following spaces:
-Meal Kit/home delivery meals
-Artisan meat/cheese
-Probiotic/fermented foods
-Live seafood (ex. lobsters, crabs)
-Processed/whole seafood such as salmon and oysters
-Pharmaceutical goods including IVF, vaccines, drugs, chemotherapy and cosmoceuticals
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eWater Systems is the most sustainable hygiene solution in Australia and challenges the notion that cleaning and hygiene management require wasteful synthetic packaged synthetic chemicals. Utilising sustainable electrolysis technology, eWater’s circular economy products to date, have helped over 600 Australian businesses replace over 200 Million litres of chemicals, removing the need for an estimated 45 Million single use plastic containers. eWater’s onsite generation system utilises world leading electrolysis technology to generate an endless stream of organic, commercial grade disinfectant, sanitiser and multi-purpose cleaning solution that naturally biodegrades leaving no chemical residue. eWater Disinfectant is a certified organic hard surface disinfectant proven to kill Coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). ARTG No.343004. Electrolysed Water is accepted for use by leading authorities such as the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), HACCP, AQIS, State Food Authorities and Organics Australia and USA. In addition, electrolysed water is accepted by the US FDA and EPA, Japanese Ministry of Health, NHS UK & other authorities worldwide such as WELL International, and NSA. eWater is a proud bCorporation, three times Best for the World Environment recipient, winner of the Victorian Premiers Recognition and Innovation Award, Banksia award finalist and featured as a case study in the Victorian Government’s Circular Economy Policy and Action Plan – “Recycling Victoria. A New Economy”. Internationally recognised for commercialising electrolysed water products in industries such as: Aged Care and Hospitals; Convention Centres; Zoos; Restaurants; Childcare, Defence Bases, Correctional facilities and other Government buildings, eWater contributes to Green Star building points, WELL, NABERS and more.
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The enrich360 Program was launched to keep food waste out of landfill, reducing methane gas and global warming by making the food waste into fertiliser, which helps our soil recover and helps farmers grow better more nutritious produce. enrich360 was founded in 2015 by Bill Kollatos, a passionate Australian food industry leader who had seen first hand the growing challenge of food waste for the hospitality and food service sector. Bill as CEO of In2food, one of Australia’s largest fresh produce distribution companies, built on strong relationships with growers and food service outlets across Australia, created enrich360 to seize the opportunity and find a better way to dispose of food waste. Committing to a more sustainable future, enrich360 embarked on a journey to tackle the food waste problem by engaging in the circular economy – where everyone can benefit from recovering resources, reducing landfill and replenishing farmed soil with the nutrient-rich organic fertiliser. As a Certification Program, Approved by the ACCC, enrich360 is a unique program made up of certified members who share enrich360's vision and commitment to food waste recycling and work together to turn an everyday problem into a game-changing solution. Using enrich360 Food Waste Dehydrators, the enrich360 Circular Community Members will divert close to 100 tonnes of food waste from landfill in 2021 through the enrich360 program. Dehydrators come in a range of capacities from 22kg to 1.1 tonne per day. The fertiliser is used on farm land to grow better more nutritious produce .
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3D & Circular Design is a design agency and consultancy that integrates 3D technology and circular design principles to design out textile waste and create time efficiencies in apparel sampling, development, and marketing and creates circular apparel closed-loop take programs for product stewardship so that garment becomes ‘product of service’ with a continuous afterlife, potentially unlocking new value to bend our linear fashion and textiles model into a circular model. We provide design, consulting, and training in 3D and circular design of apparel to apparel and uniform manufacturers, brands, and sporting organisations to design out pre-consumer waste by using 3D design to digitally concept, sample, develop, and market apparel and to integrate circular design principles at initial design by facilitating closed-loop take-back programs with local waste recyclers and sourcing safe, circular materials such as smart bio-materials or deadstock to give garments a continuous circular life into circular waste streams to prevent garments going into landfill. Our core target market is school uniform, sports uniform manufacturers, licensing and sporting businesses and clubs in Australia and abroad in which we aim to offer Our services include design and consultancy on • Implementation and integration of 3D design Services and 3D digital workflow optimization to prevent textile waste, create time and ROI efficiencies in the design, development(patterning), sampling, production, and visualization marketing of apparel • Facilitation of customised ‘Closed-loop take back programs’. accreditation. • Consultancy on creating circular apparel through safe and circular materials sourcing.
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The Waste Lab Project was undertaken as result of DHL employees recognizing that unwanted products were being sent into waste streams from our warehouses that could have been reused by other teams if they knew about the availability of reusable products.
The Waste Market web site was created so that the different DHL warehouses had visibility around what products were available for reuse. The web site allowed a ‘seller’ to upload details and pictures of products onto a user friendly platform where a ‘buyer’ could then secure the products. In the background, transport for the relocation of the ‘sold’ products was arranged so that it became a seamless transaction.
The Waste Market solution reflects how a circular economy philosophy could be applied in a fast paced logistics environment that is focused on ensuring sustainable environmental improvements.
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Floral Image offers a delivery service of beautiful, everlasting flowers on hire, rotated for a new design each month. An Australian-based success story that has expanded to over 85 locations in 21 countries across the globe. The flowers are lifelike, made from 18% recycled materials, requiring no maintenance, no water with the added benefit of being hypoallergenic.
Floral Image recently conducted an LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) to compare the carbon footprint of Floral Image to fresh flowers.
The LCA was carried out by ALCAS certified practitioners at EDGE Environment to assess and analyse the environmental and social hotspots in both product and supply chains, including the impacts on ecosystems, human health, resources and social risk.
The results confirm that fresh is not always best.
Over an average 5 year lifespan, Floral Image lifelike flower arrangements are 80x better for the environment.
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At the Generous and the Grateful, we connect excess with need to help people and the planet. GG channels the excess bulky furniture and white-goods of hotel chains, construction projects, retailers and wholesalers away from unnecessary landfill & scrapping. By prolonging the lifespan of items, waste is reduced and production reduced, while simultaneously creating incredible social impact. The items are tested, collated and dispatched to people highly vulnerable to homelessness and harm through frontline experts at agencies which include Benevolent Society, Salvation Army, Wesley Mission, Womens Community Shelters, and multiple Refugee and Youth at Risk partners. By taking bulky homewares acquisition off their plate they dedicate more resources to vital interventions like trauma recovery, employability, financial literacy and so on. By turning housing into home, recipients report improved dignity and self worth, a crucial component to improving their life and the chance to reach their potential.
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In her first business, Karie Soehardi wanted to take over the world. Years later, with the launch of her second business, Karie only wants to help save it. A collaboration between like minded individuals, the team are experts in their field, with collectively over fifty years experience. The team are passionate about circular solutions for a very 'traditional' industry, which unfortunately (outside of a few thought driven organisations), continues to produce with a mentality of the Industrial Revolution. The consultancy advises to furniture, window, wall, floor coverings, homewares, lighting and textile mills, manufacturers, designers, importers, wholesalers and retailers. Many local companies are focused on textiles for fashion or for the built environment’s building materials. To date, KS Consultancy believes they are the only local collaboration dedicated to educating the interiors 'finishing trade products', on sustainable innovations, technologies and circular design - through product development, supply chain, operations and scientific environmental carbon solutions. The amount of waste in this space isn't seen by the end consumer. Samples, faulty products, quality control wastage and dead stock. Not to mention the single-use plastics used to get products from warehouse A to warehouse B or commercial sites. There is also waste in refurbishments, end of season trends - the list goes on. Culture expects consumers to make change but industry needs to advocate sustainable transitions for consumers to be capable of achieving their part in this solution. Our consultancy is not only to advise but also support implementation of processes, towards the circular economy.
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Littlefoot is an environmentally friendly business that creates all-natural cleaners for the home and body.
Everything we make uses only natural plant-based ingredients and contains NO sulphates, phosphates, parabens or preservatives or palm oil. This ensures that everything we make is better for not just you and your sensitive skin but also our environment and waterways.
Our concern for the environment isn't limited to what's inside the bottle but also the bottle itself and how to get Littlefoot products.
All Littlefoot product comes packaged in easy to reuse and recycle glass bottles. We also stock our product in a variety of bulk stores so bottles can be reused and refilled. Not only do we offer our product in these bulk containers but we also have a closed-loop system in place so these stores can send their empty containers back to us to be reused.
Littlefoot aims to reduce the overwhelming tides of plastic by encouraging our customers to reuse the old bottles they already have and fill them with a product that they can count on to be better for their family and our planet.
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RePlated is a business that is circular by design. We make reusable takeaway food containers that can replace single-use. Our first product is designed for heavy-duty use. It's made from an innovative combination of recycled PET & glass in Sydney. The containers are dishwasher (eco-cycle recommended at home) & microwave safe, stackable, fit most standard takeaway sizes and keep food hotter than single-use. Currently available in avo-smash & rock oyster these guys don't just do a great job during their lifetime replacing one of the worst culprits a linear economy (single-use) we also make sure they have a great next life as 3D printed cutlery.
RePlated recently obtained BCorp status and proudly donates 2% of our revenue to Bush Heritage.
We don't rely on great product design alone to make the shift to reusables - we ensure simple effective systems underpin the switch. There is a growing network of food businesses across the country accepting our containers as BYO is supported by the SWAP & WASH pilot we're running in Waverley. This pilot is helping us prove a model for reuse with food outlets that will work for delivery. We're also now available on the Byron loves BYO program and you can expect us to come on board with some of the other greenest councils out there.
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Rntr. is an all-in-one software platform and logistics partner for fashion retail businesses, supporting brands by managing their own clothing rental service in an easy low risk way, we also create support a rental subscription model for fashion retailers including logistics, warehousing, dry-cleaning, repairing, packaging, shipping, insurance, return processing and final recycle process. The customer experience of Rntr is through the brands they shop on the brands own website, where they are given the option to buy or rent, if they rent they will come through to Rntr. we manage customer information, complete and ship the rental order, and are the point of contact. At the end of the rental life we recycle the items.
Although clothing rental is not a new concept, technology and the climate imperative for more sustainable consumption has meant that globally there has been a growth in the value of the market. The Rntr is a startup business that seeks to empower brands by supporting them with our easy to install Rntr button that sits on their own website, and the technology and logistics support to allow their customers to consume fashion in a sustainable manner. We therefore offer a low risk means for fashion brands to enter the fast growing rental market and help them to reach their sustainability targets quicker. For the consumers we are making the choice to easy rental, and Rntr will be a key part in establishing the growth and economic shift in the structure of the industry.
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Education is a crucial part of what we stand for at Banish. The reason why Lottie Dalziel created the platform was to help make living sustainably easy and accessible to all Australians. Each and every day we inspire thousands of Australians to do just that with tips and tricks from composting to upcycling and recycling. We connect with audiences on numerous channels including podcast, Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook groups.
At Banish, recycling is something that we feel very passionately about, so much so that we're offering an end-to-end solution for some of those hard-to-recycle household items. We launched in Banish Recycling and Disposal Program (BRAD) in November 2020 to help Australians do just that and in less than 6 months have collected over 1,000 kg of waste from over 1,000 Australians.
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The Brisbane Tool Library allows people to borrow hand and power tools, camping gear, sporting equipment and other items (e.g. Christmas decorations). BTL has created a practical circular economy in which items go from “start to start” being borrowed weekly by community members. Through a monthly or annual membership people are able to access items that they may otherwise not be able to afford, store, or that simply they don’t want to purchase. Our work is based on the following objectives: Economic: • Allow people to save money on un- or under-used products; for the price of one tool people can borrow thousands of items • Provide access to specialized tools where ownership of the tool is cost prohibitive, integrating people from lower socio-economic background • Reduce the costs of waste in recovery centres to governments and councils • Save space (and money) at home Social: • Provide workshops and training to upskill people • Engage and create community hubs and resilient neighbourhoods • Upskill and motivate the community to make, repair, renovate (ex. houses, bikes) • Involved socio-economically marginalised members of the community people in the working system • Educate people on the benefits of the circular economy • Create jobs and social stability, through development of employable skillsets Environmental: • Stimulate high-quality reuse • Stimulate the 3R: Reduce, Repair & Recycle • Create less general waste and in particular less e-waste • Implement waste avoidance strategies • Reduce the use of new virgin resources • Reduce emission
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Due to the impending closure of its sole remaining landfill (Eaglehawk Landfill) by 2022/2023, the City of Greater Bendigo (‘the City’) is completing a process of identifying, developing and implementing high-value Circular Economy (CE) and resource management solutions to handle, reprocess and recirculate end-of-life material resources moving throughout the wider region. The aim of this process is to simultaneously avoid the necessity for a new landfill in the region or major dependence on non-City landfills AND to treat these materials as a potential benefit that can support desirable sustainability and economic outcomes for the region and its residents. These desired outcomes are in-line with the City’s ‘One Planet’ vision, to become the world’s most liveable community.
The City is treating this as an opportunity to realise the “highest value” outcomes, i.e. in terms of regional costs/revenues, environmental benefits, societal benefits & jobs, for the treatment of what has traditionally been considered unavoidable “waste”. That is, rather than seeking the lowest upfront cost “black-box” solution, the City through this process, and through an internal Circular Economy & Zero Waste policy is identifying, developing and implementing ‘circular economy’ solutions for the region that will complement our existing approach to resource management, develop means of minimising future general waste that needs to be sent to landfill, and increase the environmental, societal and economic ‘added-value’ of materials to an area of society that is typically seen as an unavoidable expense for the wider region.
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In a world first, the City of Canterbury-Bankstown is using AI and machine learning to detect waste contamination. It’s part of a technology-led transformation program, ‘Closing the Loop on Waste’, that is having a measurable and lasting impact on residents, liveability and the environment.
Simply put, Closing the Loop on Waste was our attempt to explore quicker and more efficient methods to be able to “close the loop” or communicate with our residents about our services, starting with the domestic waste service.
In a world first, Closing the Loop on Waste piloted technology and data to dramatically improve our waste services for residents, our workers, and - ultimately - the environment.
This $2.1 million technology-led transformation program focused on improving liveability and sustainability for our residents. We want to drastically reduce recycling waste contamination, improve the city’s data collection methods to make it easier to share information, and thus empower an informed and engaged community.
Closing the Loop’s main goals were to:
1. Use technology to detect issues with bin collection and contamination
2. Upgrade access to important information to allow us to close the loop with residents about their waste service
3. Use real-time data from our trucks to minimise delays to the domestic waste service
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Cult Status is a book and content platform that aims to inspire and educate people to build better businesses, as well as bring together a community of like-minded people who all believe in using the power of business for good.
‘Cult Status: How To Build A Business People Adore’ began as a book published by Pantera Press in July 2020, and it has now evolved into an education ecosystem that aims to show people examples and lessons in how to use the tools of business to make the world a little bit better.
The book breaks down 7 steps to building a business with a strong community around it, starting with the first step of thinking about your impact first. It is aimed at a whole new generation who think about business in a new way, and be a guidebook to increase increase and businesses in the circular economy.
Cult Status features interviews and case studies with dozens of circular businesses to give readers inspiration and advice to help them start their own business with a purpose. Interviews in the book include Blake Mycoskie from Toms, Simon Griffiths from Who Gives A Crap, Zoe Foster Blake from Go-To, James Bartle from Outland Denim and others to present simple, aspirational stories from other founders.
The book has now evolved into a national speaking tour, workshops and an online course to help people bring to life some of the concepts in an easy, practical and accessible way.
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Fox Studios Australia (FSA) is the largest fully integrated film and television production centre and media ecosystem in the Southern Hemisphere. The studio occupies a substantial 32-acre site in Moore Park and it comprises of ~50,000sqm of floor space consisting of sound stages, workshops and offices for the use of screen content creation in addition to a thriving office and high-tech facility portfolio of 60 independent businesses who support the overall offering. During peak production period, the studio accommodates over 4,000 employees and operates 24/7, 365. Since its inception in 1998, FSA has hosted projects totaling over $2bn worth of international investment along with a range of domestic film and television productions. Recent credits include: Peter Rabbit 1 & 2, Alien: Covenant, and Marvel's Shang-Chi & the Legend of Ten Rings. We are currently hosting Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder.
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Launched in 2015, Good360 Australia has created the largest online marketplace for businesses to donate spare non-food goods to a pre-vetted network of 3000+ charities and schools. In 6 short years, we have matched 19,713,047 items valued at $162.02m RRP and diverted 2,810 tonnes = 2000 cars.
We give businesses a seamless and frictionless solution at speed and scale to donate pre-consumer goods that did not sell - an area of the circular economy that has been overlooked. What happens to goods that were manufactured and ordered that did not sell? Where do all the good things go?
The problem of food waste is well known, but most people don't know what happens to everything else, the non-food items that are not sold through. We estimate the market is $2bn rrp p.a - 4,000+ skip bins every year. Our online marketplace is an innovative way to match spare with the growing need in Australia of 3M+ people living in poverty. We match 13 items every minute helping lift up Australians. We work with some of Australia’s largest brands to solve donating brand new goods including BIG W, Harvey Norman, Colgate, Lego, Jeanswest, Best & Less & Booktopia and use technology to match the right goods, to the right people at the right time. Using a combination of e-commerce (Magento), WordPress, Netsuite and other cloud-based applications we have scaled our operations to meet the needs of charities of all sizes and causes nationwide - growing 50% year
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Tyla Lockwood's Intro To Low Waste Living Online Course is a simple, accessible and practical course to support individuals on their journey to begin reducing their waste. Tyla Lockwood is a sustainability advocate, speaker and educator with a passion for low waste living, sustainable living and sustainable travel who saw a need for introductory content on low waste living. The course is a self-paced, introductory course that takes students through the best and easiest mindset changes and fun hacks that have been tried and tested by Tyla to make the biggest impact on reducing your waste. The course consists of 30+ videos that support students through the most common areas of waste production including bathroom, kitchen, laundry, takeaway, online shopping and more. The course is focused on supporting beginners by bringing all the content they need in one place. The current online landscape means there are a number of resources out there but they are difficult to navigate and hard to get the best value out of them. This is where this course comes in to make it as easy as possible for any beginner to get started on their low waste living journey.
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Lake Macquarie has always been a progressive council in the Sustainability arena. They employed a Circular Economy Lead in January 2020.
One of the key pieces of work this has delivered is a Circular Economy Policy and Framework for council. The policy provides an over-arching commitment to a Circular Economy approach aligned to the state CE policy statement. The CE framework provides guidance to enable our operations, our people and communities to be supported to make decisions and undertake activities that are consistent with Australia’s commitments to the Paris Climate Change Agreement to limit global warming to 2.0 degrees and the integrated framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. We reviewed international best practice in CE frameworks and adjusted it to an Australian context. We were delighted to include an Indigenous Perspective as one of the key 6 focus areas in our framework.
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Over the past two years MSDI has worked closely with industry and government to develop a pathway for the TCF industry to transition to a circular economy. The overall goal of the project is high - it is to ensure that only circular TCF products are produced and sold in Australia. The project consists of four stages. First, qualitative research was undertaken to gauge on industry views regarding the enablers, barriers and opportunities in transitioning to sustainable practices. Second, desktop research was undertaken to match the needs of industry with current Australian policies. The findings revealed a clear picture of the gaps in Australian policy blocking the TCF industry from progressing a sustainability agenda. Third the project focused on identifying tangible change that industry could make itself. This work was conducted in collaboration with Behaviour Works Australia, running three facilitated workshops. The results of this work led directly to the development of the Circular Stories Working Group (the fourth stage) - a collaboration across a mix of fashion designers, product developers, waste and charity recyclers, steered by MSDI. This group has co-designed an interactive, web-based user guide defining what a circular t-shirt is. We believe this is a first’ for the Australian TCF industry.
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At Makerspace Adelaide we are building an inclusive, resilient and sustainable community by providing an engaging space that fosters connections and inspires making.
Makerspace Adelaide is a not-for-profit community asset that supports the establishment of a circular economy by encouraging circular approaches to design, contributing to local production and economic activity, extending the life of materials and things, and fostering innovation and skills development. Makerspace Adelaide's underpinning ethos is to break bad habits around material wastage and enable a measurable effect of recovery, reuse, repurpose and redesign.
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Mullum Cares is an Incorporated Association in Northern NSW that has pioneered a sharing economy through the development of a Library of Things (called the Library of Stuff or Library for short), developed circular systems for local events that utilise assets from the Library to achieve zero waste to landfill outcomes and its latest and all encompassing project, the Salvage Culture Project, is on track to create a Circular Economy Incubator & Activator Precinct. The Salvage Culture Precinct will house the Library and a Northern Rivers Reverse Garbage operation alongside spaces for REmaking, REpairing, REpurposing & REcylcing activities that will be supported to scale with increasing industrial grade machinery that will become a new category of the Library. Our purpose is to design and deliver solutions to the ills described in Annie Leonard's, Story of Stuff. Instead of contributing to the exploitation of people and environs in countries with little regulation, Mullum Cares support its communities growing demand for conservation by enabling maximising and RElocalising the utility of all resources within its sphere of influence. Rejecting disposable and reconnecting with durable consumer goods that are shared to reduce the communities volume of items needed to live fantastic lives. With support, Mullum Cares intends to provide its complete operations in an easy to access blueprint for other communities to adopt. The planet cant sustain the current levels of human consumption let alone projected estimations based on global population growth. A radical reduction in consumption is required as well as delivering circularity.
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Plastic Oceans Australasia is a not-for-profit that delivers 12-month supported programs to schools and businesses across Australia and New Zealand to educate them on the impacts of plastic in our oceans and developing self-led initiatives that create lasting behaviour change to eliminate plastic from their schools, workplaces and communities.
The Oceans in Motion Film Competition is in its second year and open to all Secondary Schools in Australia and New Zealand. Our mission is to change the world's attitude to plastic within a generation, and this program supports that as it requires teams at participating schools to create a plastic reduction or elimination action. They then create a 5-minute film which is their entry into the competition.
Plastic Oceans Australasia came about after the release of the multiaward winning film, A Plastic Ocean. Seen in over 90 countries and now available on Netflix, the film uses science and spreads awareness on the impact of plastic on human health, the earth and future generations.
We are driven by our three pillars of education, business and sustainability and science.
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We're a leading-edge community plastic recycling workspace on a mission to tackle plastic pollution, co-founded by a husband and wife team. We launched Precious Plastic Melbourne with an aim to repurpose traditionally 'hard to recycle' plastics into useful products.
After 5 years of helping consumers reduce waste via our eco-friendly coffee capsule business Crema Joe, it was a natural next-step for us to create a local circular economy from materials that were originally destined to be waste. In 2019, inspired by the Precious Plastic movement (a global community committed to finding a solution for plastic pollution) we self-funded our Melbourne workshop, initially focusing on building machines to manufacture our own products, and collecting plastic lids, as they're compact to store and come in a wide variety of colours.
Discarded plastic lids are collected by our local community and donated to our warehouse, they are then cleaned and sorted into their respective grades of plastic. The lids are then sorted into colours, shredded and fed into a machine to heat, melt and inject the plastic into a mould, creating a new product from the reprocessed plastic.
We want to make it easier for Aussies to access recycling solutions for their plastic waste, encouraging consumers and businesses alike to opt for recycled over virgin plastic. With the demand for 100% post-consumer recycled products increasing, we have continued to expand our operations, specialising in machine building for micro-recyclers, assisting schools, community groups and small businesses to set up their own plastic recycling workshops.
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Seabin Project have packaged 4 core elements into a full service product offering designed to monitor the health of our oceans and drive behavioural and policy change on land. Whilst cleaning up our beloved waterways and therefore our oceans.
The 4 core elements are
1. Data Monitoring
2. Prevention
3. Cleanup
4. Community Engagement
The Smart Cities pilot has been operation in Sydney Harbour since July 2020.
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STITCH KITCHEN is a project of JUST ATELIER TRUST, a registered charitable trust social enterprise. Just Atelier Trust was founded in 2015 seeking a local solution to a global problem of social and environmental waste in the fashion industry. Working in the fashion industry and wider community made us aware of the need for a co-ordinated approach and central resource centre for community, creative professionals and industry to grow together. Just Atelier Trust aims to start where we are, use what we've got, and do what we can to provide a local solution to this global problem.
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This research project addressed the lack of Australian-based contextualized research in circular design and product development in the fashion sector. As 80% of a products environmental impact is determined at the design phase, and with 88% of Australian apparel manufacture made up of SMEs, this project focused on the design processes and associated business models of fashion SMEs as an influential group for systems change to the linear take/make/waste fashion model widely operating in Australia.
With a core framework of product stewardship and employing design-thinking strategies; the SME’s in this research are building new design processes, new business models and new relationships around circular purpose. The project goal was a visual, communicative and accessible tool that could be distributed widely to stakeholders for education, a pathway for change and leverage for transformative action.
Importantly, the research identified the need for wider stakeholder support for SMEs and larger enterprise in moving to circular and product stewardship approaches. This takes the form of education of the community and industry; legislation and mandating around the collection and disposal of textile waste; and investment in infrastructure and technologies.
This research and the Design Map and Digital Article developed from this project are tools to support the pathway to circularity in the Australian fashion industry; visually storytelling the complex interrelated relationships and strategies of circularity in an Australian fashion context to the diverse stakeholders involved.
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Ten Little Pieces is an empowerment movement inspired by ordinary folks collecting ten little pieces of rubbish, anytime, anywhere, especially with children involved. This opens conversations around environmental awareness, conscious consumerism, systems theory and conservation. We advocate and encourage solution development to the devastating impact of plastic pollution to promote clean oceans through school based sustainability education, community activism and corporate environmental impact awareness and change management.
As a 5 Gyres ambassador, a member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition and partner of the United Nations Environment Program, the Global Partnership on Marine Litter, Ten Little Pieces delivers engaging and impactful education to students of all ages inspiring value driven action towards the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Established in 2019, The Ecobahn was born to create a platform for the eCommerce, digital and retail industry to share ideas for more sustainable eCommerce growth and more eco-friendly business practices.
The Ecobahn has three fundamental focuses:
1. Media Platform- The Ecobahn (https://theecobahn.com/) is a media platform championing sustainability in eCommerce.
2.Consultancy- With a growing audience of eCommerce leaders, we provide bespoke sustainability consultancy support to digital businesses
3. Technology- Developing technology to simplify and make sustainability accessible to all, driving sustainable eCommerce growth and more eco-friendly business practices.
Retail is changing. eCommerce is the future. The World, however, is also changing. We need to ensure eCommerce, as the future of retail, is also providing a positive future for the planet. Our mission is to lead the digital market towards eCommerce sustainability, both for businesses, and for the planet. We are commercially focused; eCommerce is a high growth industry and we are passionate to help accelerate this growth. Our mission is for this growth to be both financially and environmentally sustainable.
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World’s Biggest Garage Sale (WBGS) is proudly an impact venture (social enterprise), balancing the triple bottom line of people, planet and purpose. They are revolutionising the “secondhand” economy by connecting the circular economy to “resale-retail”. While also growing the circular economy to provide positive benefit to the environment and people, they are also committed to creating jobs for vulnerable and marginalised members of the community. WBGS currently operate Australia's first and only Circular Economy Precinct.
Strongly aligned with SDG12 and SDG17, WBGS are working in the areas of resource recovery of dormant goods (underutilised goods) through to recommerce and resale-retail. To date they have diverted tens of thousands of tonnes of product from potential landfill. Via their Precinct, they take dormant goods from the community households and businesses and renew, repair and repurpose these underutilised or imperfect products, transforming waste into saleable goods.
With a strong community focus, WBGS are not only generating wealth from resource recovery, they are also dedicated to building community awareness and engagement. With a model that incorporates workshops to teach people repair, reuse, and repurpose their goods. They also run Australia's first and largest Circular Economy monthly education event, Circular Economy Futures (1400+ members). Pioneering Circular Economy activation in Australia, they are also further activating Resource Recovery and Product Stewardship within Australia via Federal, State and Local Government Policy.
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iClick2Learn teaches business skills to not-for-profit organisations.
As a certified social enterprise, our social impact goal is to contribute to healthy, resilient communities. We do this by building the capacity of volunteers and staff who are at the forefront of social change in communities. We provide access to an online learning library of videos, tools and resources including an annual development program encompassing expert Q&As and online workshops and webinars.
Launching in 2018 as an eLearning provider delivering online learning projects. In early 2019, we reviewed the achievement of our purpose and realised we needed to shift our business model. We were focusing resources on developing ‘single-use’ learning assets for one organisation, and realised the opportunity we had to develop and repurpose learning assets for the not-for-profit sector. In late 2019 we commenced a build of the learning library. This learning library was developed to increase access and accessibility to learning resources; maximise the usage of these learning assets and increase the ability to re-purpose these assets. We developed a business model that maximises opportunities of shared value and practices aligned to circular economy outcomes.
iClick2Learn was co-founded by former not-for-profit sector consultant Natalie Bramble and digital consultant Glen Dunkley. We have a team of 6 team members, 3 subject matter experts and am currently bringing on more subject matter experts to share knowledge and resources. Our business, website and products have all been built in Dubbo, regional NSW.
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