October
- Sustainability Category
- Energy Awards
Solar panels saved from the scrap heap
By 2027 Australia will be generating a million waste panels a year. ElecSome can put them to good use.
- Christopher Niesche
Bingo slashed to junk under heaving debt burden, cash burn
Woes at Macquarie Asset Management’s troubled waste management business are mounting as the company adds $100 million to an already heavy debt burden.
- Elouise Fowler
September
Warning on the growing solar panel scrap heap
The industry is nearing a tipping point as the nation grapples with unprecedented levels of waste.
- Nina Hendy
July
- Manufacturing Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
How Amcor gave us guilt-free cream cheese
Soft plastics are piling up in warehouses around Australia. Amcor says it has a solution, taking out the Manufacturing category.
- Sylvia Ramsey
- Retail Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Customers love this cool solution to getting rid of old fridges
Winning Group brand Appliances Online has stopped 80,000 tonnes of electronics and appliances from being dumped in landfill, earning the company top spot in the Retail category.
- Gus McCubbing
November 2023
Growing my own jeans took three years and cost more than $15,000
A textiles teacher set out to make a pair of zero-emission pants. It was a lot harder than she thought it would be.
- Fleur Britten
October 2023
How these Aussie cafes are keeping laptops out of landfill
Repair cafés are part of a growing culture of re-use, recycle and repair around Australia as garbage levels soar and recycling systems break down.
- Tom McIlroy
August 2023
Why this Rich Lister wants to recycle your pizza boxes
Visy boss Anthony Pratt has unveiled upgrades to his Melbourne plants that he says will keep 400 Olympic swimming pools of paper and cardboard out of landfill.
- Gus McCubbing
Cadbury owner’s plan to stop importing waste for chocolate wrappers
The global confectionary giant currently imports recycled plastics to meet its target for 30 per cent recycled packaging as Australia doesn’t have a facility.
- Ben Potter
February 2023
- Exclusive
- Funding
This miner just raised $55m to extract gold from old electronics
Mint Innovation will start recycling e-waste next month in Sydney to produce gold and copper. PE fund Liverpool Partners is so impressed it has led a $NZ60m funding round.
- Yolanda Redrup
Pact Group inks Woolies recycling deal as net profits rebound
More agreements with retailers are expected as governments and consumers push companies to shift towards recycling products, the Pact CEO said.
- Jenny Wiggins
The globe has more single-use plastic waste than ever
The equivalent of almost 1 kilogram in single-use products was produced for every person on the planet in 2021, according to a report by Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation.
- Tom McIlroy
December 2022
RSL’s $25m green play to make it less reliant on pokies
Campsie RSL will open a new manufacturing plant in Bathurst next year that converts wheat straw into compostable packaging.
- Tess Bennett
Baby steps as nappies giant confronts its biggest problem
The Huggies brand is a star of Kimberly-Clark’s $1 billion Australian unit, and ASX-listed childcare group G8 is on board as part of a trial.
- Simon Evans
August 2022
New wine in old bottles: Reusing and refilling comes full circle
The practice goes back decades; it’s just that in times of plenty, we forgot how to be sustainable.
- Max Allen
May 2022
The beauty industry’s dirty little secret
Cosmetic and skincare brands are major culprits when it comes to sustainability, but some are trying to pivot with new packaging initiatives and innovations.
- Eugenie Kelly
April 2022
How this ASX small cap beat the majors to win a global recycling award
Close the Loop has taken out the top award at the global Packaging Innovation Awards for a soft plastic muesli pouch that can be recycled from the kerbside.
- Yolanda Redrup
March 2022
- Exclusive
- Funding
Recycling start-up scores $6m for enzyme that eats plastic
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Woolworths’ venture capital fund W23 and CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures have invested in Samsara Eco’s latest round.
- Yolanda Redrup
Drinks giants team up for major recycling boost
Coca-Cola and Asahi will open Australia’s first PET plastics recycling facility in Albury on Friday.
- Tom McIlroy
February 2022
Why this recycling boss would love a new tax
Sanjay Dayal, CEO of listed packaging group Pact, warns about skyrocketing rising costs and price hikes, and discusses workplace cultural clashes between Australia and India: “In Asia, if you’re the boss, you’re the boss.”
- Patrick Durkin