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Zero Waste Pilot: The Edge Weekend Away
Last month, the Edge team escaped to the mid-north coast for some time out of the office, team building and clean air. The eagerness for...
The Sustainable Development Goals – How to go from aligning icons to driving impact.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly are a blueprint for the world to achieve sustainable development and have received...
Waste Not, Want Not: Edge’s Own Journey to Zero Waste
At Edge, we’re an organisation that very much tries to walk the talk. We’re a BCorp and have set our own Science Based Target (one...
An End to Furniture Waste – Solutions for Engineered Timber Waste
On the 13th June Edge Environment and the City of Sydney hosted An end to furniture waste: new paths for furniture waste to gather together those in...
Waste 2018 Conference: National Sword and the future of recycling in Australia
I recently attended the Coffs Harbour Waste Conference 2018, one of Australia’s leading waste conferences with over 600 attendees. As expected one of the primary...
Bringing industry to the table – why corporate uniforms will be essential to solving textile recycling
Textiles make up approximately 1.5% of total household waste, and 4% of commercial and industrial (C&I) waste by weight (Commonwealth of Australia, 2010). Unfortunately, there...
Sustainability Victoria’s drive to improve resource recovery in the property sector
Last week, Sustainability Victoria (SV) hosted a forum to explore how the Better Buildings Partnership’s (BPP) work on stripout waste, might be best applied to...
Double-positive: PonyUp recycles e-waste and ends up feeding the hungry, too
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...
Westpac’s Second Life Project rehoming office furniture
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...