CIRQUE DU SOIL

OUR MISSION:

  • Advocate for urban transitions to circular, regenerative cities and neighbourhoods
  • Education for communities to take climate action
  • Reduce and divert waste going to landfill
  • Help local communities transition to the circular economy through education and brokerage of precinct waste streams to locally manufactured circular products and services
  • Enable urban CE ecosystem infrastructure to accelerate CE product innovation through access to product stewardship, microrecycling initiatives and circular outcomes.

 

Since our inception in 2019, We have worked on a wide range of projects spanning diverse industry sectors across local councils, hospitality, events, film production and schools. As Consultants, Educators, Program designers and Storytellers, our work is grounded in collaboration and action, with the mission to reshape urban systems with practical, circular solutions that put people and the planet first.

With our deepest gratitude, we thank you, especially to everyone who has believed in what we do and in particular the amazing people who have so far joined us on this madcap journey.

ACTIVATING CIRCULAR NEIGHBOURHOODS THROUGH SYSTEMS CHANGE

We’re Melbourne’s first circular product and services brokerage for businesses across complex built environments to support micro recycling. We identify and divert urban waste streams from our high streets and high rises to CE manufacturers to scale up locally re(made) products, connecting CE manufacturers and suppliers to businesses wanting to buy climate friendly products and services. We believe the size of the circle matters and that localised micro-recycling hubs are a pathway to restoring ecosystems.

THE FUTURE IS REGENERATIVE AND CIRCULAR

We’re on a fever mission to transition urban precincts into regenerative and circular economies. We take a place based climate-collective socially inclusive approach to our circular waste programs. Our goal is to support businesses and communities to build community and climate resilience; reduce and divert urban waste in our cities, from landfill and ultimately from our soils.​

OUR VISION

REDUCE TRAVEL CARBON EMISSIONS

REDUCE URBAN WASTE STREAMS FROM LANDFILL

SCALE UP ADOPTION OF CIRCULAR WASTE SYSTEMS

SUPPORTING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PROGRAMS AND EDUCATION

EMPOWER PLACE BASED LOCAL COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS

"TODAY'S CHALLENGES NEED URGENT ACTION. PROGRESS REQUIRES A DEDICATION TO COMMUNITIES COMING TOGETHER AND MOVING FAST."

“The poor state of our soils means you would have to eat 8 oranges today to get the same level of vitamin A that a single orange had 60 years ago”.

Damon Gameau, Writer and Director of 2040 film

OUR IMPACT


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OUR MILESTONES

SEPTEMBER 2019
  • Birth of Cirque Du Soil
  • Street Engagement Campaign #1
2020
  • Community Compost Collective Official Launch
  • Street Engagement Campaign #2
2021
  • Street Engagement Campaign #3
  • Awarded City of Yarra Climate Action grant funding for Community Waste Collectives
  • Birth of our Circular Supplier Network
DECEMBER 2021
  • Awarded Recycling Victoria R&D Organics Grant for GrowGood Project with Sustainability Victoria in partnership with RMIT and Maze Products
APRIL 2022
  • Social Traders Certified
JUNE 2022
  • Awarded Bank Australia Community Grant for Circular Hospitality Best Practice Guide
  • RMIT GrowGood Research Plant Trials kick off
JULY 2022
  • Official member of the Victorian Circular Activator
OCTOBER 2022
  • Community Waste Collectives Official Launch
  • Project Partner of Collaborate to Thrive, VCA and Circular Economy Victoria

HAVE A QUESTION?

Want to join the fight against urban waste? Change the narrative around our food systems?
If you’re a values aligned volunteer, NFP, business or organisation…​

GET IN TOUCH

Our soft plastics program is live!

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.

SEE THE CIRCULAR JOURNEY HERE

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.

SEE THE CIRCULAR JOURNEY HERE

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.

See the circular journey here
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.
See the circular journey here