CIRQUE DU SOIL

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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. […]

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, […]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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