"Most offices wouldn't think about composting. The Cirque Du Soil program gave us the opportunity to educate our team and to practice what we preach on our development projects by implementing our sustainability strategies internally".
– Assemble Communities
“Cirque du Soil is a game changer. They operate hyper-locally but in a way that can be scaled so their impact increases. They’ve made it so easy for us to navigate circular waste solutions, and our staff and customers have embraced the changes we’ve made.”
– Pippa James, CIBI
"The duration and structure of Cirque du Soil's circular education program encouraged me to be thinking about circularity and our initiatives consistently. This has brought circularity to the forefront of my mind day-to-day, motivating me to look for opportunities and make changes wherever possible."
– Go Full Circle 2023 Program Participant, City of Melbourne
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ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE REGENERATIVE + CIRCULAR CITIES

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.

OUR MISSION

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.

OUR IMPACT

"There is increasing awareness of overflowing landfills, climate change, and the need to live more regeneratively.”


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SERVICES

We make circular waste programs accessible in our cities to enable local communities to transition towards zero waste practices.

Our Partners + Supporters

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.

HAVE A QUESTION?

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...

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.

Cigarette butts are the world’s most littered plastic item, with around 7 billion dropped in Australia every year. In partnership with Fungi Solutions, CigCycle collected cigarette butts will undergo a Myco-Remediation program (mushrooms, FYI) at their Thornbury myco-facility for research and development for new circular materials.