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

August 1, 2024

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, to reduce food waste and getting started on managing their food waste onsite across the following 6 urban precincts from September 2024 to July 2025:

  • Union Road, Ascot Vale
  • Racecourse Road, Flemington
  • Keilor Road, Niddrie
  • Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds Business Precinct
  • Essendon Junction, North Essendon
  • Strathmore

Join the growing number of businesses across Moonee Valley implementing effective organic waste management practices to reduce their environmental footprint as we move away from a traditional make, use and dispose system, to an avoid, reduce, reuse circular system. 

Hospitality businesses can participate in a free assessment to receive information tailored to their business on:

  • How to set up an effective organic waste management system on premises
  • Evaluate the costs associated with a range of organic waste management systems from collections to onsite tech solutions
  • Long term savings from reduced waste disposal fees
  • Payback periods from investing in onsite organic waste management systems
  • Additional tips to enhance your food waste reduction efforts and benefit the environment.

 

Eligible businesses or commercial landlords must have an ABN, be registered for GST and operate within the Moonee Valley municipality, and generate organic waste.

We’ll be running 4 Trader Information Sessions in October 2024.

Learn More and Register your interest here.

This service is part of Moonee Valley City Council’s community waste reduction ‘Let’s Go Zero’ program. 

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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.

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.