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Double-positive: PonyUp recycles e-waste and ends up feeding the hungry, too

October 18, 2017 By Blake LindleyIn Case Study, Edge News, Waste and RecyclingTags Circular Economy, E-waste, PonyUp For Good, recycling, waste management

Who would have thought recycling e-waste could create meals for those in need? We saddled up with e-waste recovery experts, PonyUp for Good, during a...

Congratulations to INNOWOOD Australia Pty Ltd for completing its first EPD

September 22, 2017 By Joana AlmeidaIn Case Study, Environmental Product DeclarationTags building products, Environmental Product Declaration, EPD, INNOWOOD, Innowood Australia, Sustainable Construction

INNOWOOD Australia Pty Ltd recently joined the rank of respected companies offering transparent environmental information about their products’ life cycle, by publishing its first environmental...

Westpac’s Second Life Project rehoming office furniture

By Blake LindleyIn Case Study, Waste and RecyclingTags recycling, Second Life, Waste diversion, Westpac

Westpac’s Second Life project is taking innovative steps for waste diversion, arranging the rehoming of tonnes of decommissioned office furniture. By Blake Lindley, Senior Sustainability...

CASE STUDY: SORT Recycling gives new life to damaged stock

May 10, 2017 By Blake LindleyIn Case Study, Edge News, Waste and RecyclingTags corporate responsibility, recycling

Unsellable damaged and returned stock is a little spoken of waste stream flowing from the entire retail sector. In response to this inevitable issue, Kathmandu...

Talking the walk, right to the Edge

May 4, 2017 By Tati GuedesIn Case Study, Ecolabelling, Edge News, Handprinting, Life Cycle Assessment, Policy & Tool Development, Research, Strategy & Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Procurement, Waste and Recycling

The link between future-proofing your business, connectedness and your comfort zone. Being socially and environmentally responsible has become so popular and in-demand that the majority...

Edge Environment awarded for leadership in infrastructure sustainability

October 27, 2016 By Tati GuedesIn Case Study, Conference, Edge News, Industry Insight, Infrastructure, Life Cycle Assessment, Policy & Tool Development, Strategy & Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Construction, Whole Building LCA, Whole of LifeTags Australia, David Singleton, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, ISCA, Jacqui Bonnitcha, Joel Clayton, Jon Panic, Jonas Bengtsson, Ken Lunty, Marie Le Pellec, New Zealand, Sustainability Award, Sustainable Infrastructure

Sustainability consultancy Edge Environment (Edge) was this week announced winner of the Organisational Leadership in Infrastructure Sustainability Award by Australia and New Zealand’s peak industry...

Part II: Reviewing TfNSW’s ‘Sustainable Design Guidelines’ from a life cycle perspective

October 20, 2016 By Jonas BengtssonIn Case Study, Edge News, Environmental Product Declaration, Infrastructure, Life Cycle Assessment, Sustainable Construction, Whole of Life, Whole of Life (Triple Bottom Line)Tags Australasian EPD Programme, EN15804 standard (EPD for construction materials), EPD, Sustainable Design Guidelines, Sustainable Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport

LCA in transport infrastructure Part II: Edge puts TfNSW’s ‘Sustainable Design Guidelines’ through the life cycle test. You can read Part I here. Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is...

Guest post: The building sector takes the lead again – Votorantim Cimentos publishes the first EPD by a Brazilian company in The International EPD System

August 23, 2016 By adminsIn Case Study, Environmental Product Declaration, Industry Insight, International News, Sustainable ConstructionTags Brazil, Cement, Concrete, EN15804, Environmental Product Declaration, LCA, Votorantim Cimentos

International cement company Votorantim Cimentos has become Brazil’s first company to publish a series of environmental product declarations (EPDs), in the hope it will inspire other companies...