From City to Regional Victoria: Why We’re Scaling Circular Food Systems Beyond City Limits

Alexandra Community Composting Program 2.0: Cirque du Soil goes regional in Place-Based Community-Led Regeneration Photo Credit: Murrindindi Shire Council Circular economies shouldn’t be a metropolitan luxury. For years, we’ve been perfecting food waste diversion systems in inner-city Melbourne—proving that local businesses can close the loop on their organic waste while creating value for their communities. […]

Case Study: All Her Fault Film Production 2024-2025

Case study: All Her Fault Film Production set 2024 – 2025 From pre-production to post-production, the film industry is one of the largest producers of unnecessary waste in the world, where a single film set can produce 347 tons of waste per production. We feel the winds of change at our doorstep, having had the opportunity […]

A summary of our 2024 highlights

Our highlights from 2024: We took a step back to pause and reflect on 2024, and what a year our 5th year has been! On January 9 2020 Cirque du Soil picked its first buckets of food waste when we commenced our year long micro-pilot. We didn’t know our ‘nothing leaves a 5k radius’ would […]

Cirque du Soil x Moonee Valley City Council launch Organics Advisory Service

A New Organics Advisory Service for 6 urban precincts in Moonee Valley City Council is coming to all shapes and sizes of hospitality, from hotels to grocery stores Photo Credit: OCAB Bakery via mooneeponds3039.com.au In a council first, we’ve partnered with Moonee Valley City Council to engage with local hospitality businesses in the coming months, […]

Case Study: Cirque du Soleil Luzia Melbourne 2024

Tackling Food Waste in the Events Industry – Cirque du Soleil In an exciting collaboration, Cirque du Soil teamed up with the globally renowned Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA show to launch a back of house initiative in Melbourne Flemington Racecourse, aimed at reducing food waste from their staff kitchens in Melbourne. This collaboration underscores both […]

Case Study: Circular Transitions Leadership Workshops

CIRCULAR TRANSITIONS LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS est Nov 2023  Full day Circular Economy Leadership workshops for Business & Community Leaders, from hospitality, retail and professional services. The Circular Transitions Leadership workshop is a standalone face to face workshop intensive consolidating Circular Economy learning principles in an open delivery format, with the initial 4 hour workshop pilot funded […]

Case Study: Go Full Circle 2023 Program: Wrap Up Reflections

Cirque du Soil x Go Full Circle 2023 program: Wrap up reflections In the vibrant heart of Melbourne sometime in 2023, a quiet revolution across councils and business traders were championed by the Go Full Circle Program. Now in its second successful year, this transformative initiative is reshaping the narrative for local SME businesses, guiding […]

Cirque du Soil presents Piece of Cake: Circular Hospitality Best Practice Teaser Reel

Cirque du Soil presents Piece of Cake: Circular Hospitality Best Practice Video Series Future Food Shapers of Australia Introducing our teaser for Cirque du Soil’s Circular Hospitality best Practice Guide, brought to life in a series of video short reels, some of our Victorian circular hospitality champions who are out there on the ground making […]

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.

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.