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Westpac’s Second Life Project rehoming office furniture

22 September 2017 By Blake Lindley In All Categories, Case Study, Recovery Strategies

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 …

Opening the lid on waste: where we’re going and why it’s relevant to your business

22 August 2017 By Blake Lindley In All Categories, Edge News, Industry Insight, Life Cycle Assessment, Recovery Strategies

Blake Lindley explores the increasing use of life cycle assessment to inform decision-making in the waste and recycling sector, in the below article published in Sustainability …

CASE STUDY: SORT Recycling gives new life to damaged stock

10 May 2017 By Blake Lindley In All Categories, Case Study, Edge News, Recovery Strategies

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 …

Plastic recycling: just because it’s plant-based (PLA plastic), is it better?

20 April 2017 By Blake Lindley In All Categories, Edge News, Recovery Strategies

A plastic container carries a ‘recyclable’ symbol but there’s nowhere to recycle it – who would have thought recycling could be this complex? This dilemma is …

Food recycling ideas for food business owners

5 April 2017 By admins In All Categories, Edge News, Industry Insight, National News, Recovery Strategies, Sustainable Food

Anyone running a food business would be familiar with the scenario – copious amounts of food going in the bin every day, then trucked off to landfill. It’s …

What does your coffee cup say about you?

27 February 2017 By Blake Lindley In All Categories, Edge News, Industry Insight, Life Cycle Assessment, National News, Recovery Strategies, Whole of Life

And what can you say about coffee cups? Edge Environment is passionate about driving positive change for environmental betterment, and we work hard at it. …

Let it go, let it go… in the right bin please

15 December 2016 By Joana Almeida In All Categories, Edge News, Life Cycle Assessment, Recovery Strategies, Sustainable Procurement

When considering the likelihood of recycling versus waste going to landfill, is plastic, paper or compostable packaging better for the environment? Taronga Zoo recently posed this …

Circular Threads – Weaving a new suit for the textiles industry in Australia

30 November 2016 By Sarah Bray In All Categories, Circular Threads, Edge News, Recovery Strategies

Currently, 150,000t of textiles are weaving its way to NSW landfills every year. Theoretically, all of this is recoverable resource that could be sent for …

Creative ways to use your waste: how one company turned beer by-product into dog biscuits

20 July 2016 By admins In All Categories, Edge News, Industrial Ecology, Industry Insight, Recovery Strategies, Sustainable Food

Microbreweries are popping up across the country, with waste streams to match. But an innovative new project is turning this waste into tasty dog treats – and making money along …

It’s time to bin trim

13 July 2016 By admins In All Categories, Case Study, Edge News, Industry Insight, Recovery Strategies

NSW businesses send nearly two million tonnes of waste to landfill each year, of which more than 70% can be recycled. How’s that for a reality …

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