ORGANICS ADVISORY SERVICE

Are you a hospitality business in Moonee Valley wanting to take action on food waste?

Now is your chance to benefit from a new innovative, free Organics Advisory Service (OAS) in partnership with Moonee Valley City Council’s Let’s Go Zero program. This is an excellent opportunity to join the many businesses in our area that are leading the way in effective organic waste management and reducing their environmental impact.

We’re offering expert advice at no cost.

HOW IT WORKS

ASSESS:

Got scraps? Sign up to get a free onsite food waste assessment.

COMPARE:

We'll find the most fit for purpose and cost effective organics management system for your venue, and how much landfill emissions you'll save.

TAKE ACTION:

Setting up your new system, knowing that your food waste is being processed in an environmentally responsible way.

SHARE:

Get a window badge to tell your customers about the good work you're doing to lower your business's carbon emissions.

By participating in the assessment, you’ll receive customised insights for your business, including:

WE NEED A REGENERATIVE FOOD ECONOMY.

ELIGIBILITY FOR MOONEE VALLEY HOSPITALITY BUSINESSES:

To qualify, eligible businesses or commercial landlords must:

Site assessments are limited, so act quickly to secure your spot!

If organic waste management isn’t feasible for your business right now, there are still numerous ways to reduce your environmental footprint. Visit Moonee Valley’s Business Sustainability page for resources and ideas to help you become part of the green revolution and lower your waste production.

This program is proudly supported by Moonee Valley City Council’s ‘Let’s Go Zero’ community waste reduction program. Stay informed about the latest initiatives by signing up for Moonee Valley’s Green Living newsletter.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

SIGN UP FOR A SITE ASSESSMENT WITH ONE OF OUR TEAM

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.