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I want my business to be more circular
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Currently, our global economy is built on the concept of a linear and depletive economy, where we extract, manufacture, distribute, use and dispose. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems we live in.
We do a lot around here but at the heart of it - we’re on a fever mission to transition urban precincts into regenerative and circular economies with a place based climate-collective approach, with the goal of reducing and diverting waste ending up in our soils, which could otherwise be used to grow and nurture local food growing projects. We're Melbourne’s first circular product and outcomes brokerage for businesses across complex built environments, to connect CE manufacturers, suppliers to urban waste streams from our high streets to scale up locally re(made) products.
"There is increasing awareness of overflowing landfills, climate change, and the need to live more regeneratively.”
We make circular waste programs accessible in our cities to enable local communities to transition towards zero waste practices.
It takes a village, and great partnerships and community collaborations make what we do possible. Together, we take a multi-stakeholder and future forward thinking approach to better supporting our local businesses to transition to a circular, regenerative future.
Want to join the fight against urban waste? Change the narrative around our food systems?
If you’re a values aligned organisation, business, not for profit, social enterprise or individual looking to make change happen...
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Our soft plastics program is available in Oct 2022.
Do something drastic & cut the plastic. Single-use plastic food packaging is a major contributor to the global solid waste problem. Although the food industry is developing strategies to reduce single-use plastic packaging, we need to better understand consumer awareness and attitudes about the issue.
When you toss a plastic bottle into your recycling bin, there’s no guarantee it actually gets recycled. In fact, odds are, it doesn’t.
This is one of our key priority streams, where by using the same containers, in the same form, over and over again – it eases demand for virgin materials, reduces energy needed to spit out thousands of new plastic bottles or cardboard boxes, and prevents heaps of trash from ending up in landfills or oceans.
They’re bulky, large in size and consumes large amounts of space.
We use paper and cardboard in so much packaging and stacks of it still ends up in landfill, resulting in stacks of methane production, a major greenhouse gas.
When when you recycle cardboard waste and keep it free of oil and contamination, you end up saving ample amounts of water and energy and minimise trees being chopped down to get virgin material.