October 2024
Ever wondered what companies do with their old laptops and iPhones?
Sydney entrepreneur Annette Brodie creates new opportunities for obsolete tech via her social enterprise The Reconnect Project.
August 2024
Garbos’ 10-hour shift stats should be music to Michele Bullock’s ears
When the jobs market was high, rubbish collector Cleanaway was paying its drivers a lot of time-and-a-half and double time. Now it has backed off.
July 2024
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.
July 2023
The fashion brand selling clothes otherwise destined for the bin
Returns are a headache for retailers and a sustainability nightmare. A pilot program by Kathmandu aims to repair damaged clothing to sell again.
November 2022
Snickers, Milky Way get new paper-based packaging makeover
Mars Wrigley Australia’s Ballarat-based R&D team is pioneering paper-based sustainable packaging solutions for the confectionary giant globally.
How visiting a gold mine converted this entrepreneur
George Hatzimanolis saw firsthand how much of an impact the industry had on the environment, leading him on a new path towards a circular economy.
October 2022
Former Bingo CEO pleads guilty after skip bin cartel probe
Daniel Tartak will be sentenced in the Federal Court in March after pleading guilty to criminal cartel offences in providing skip bins.
May 2022
Rugs with a message: don’t sweep plastic waste under the carpet
Alvaro Catalán de Ocón designs “products that can be like manifestos” – including these geographically accurate rugs mapping some of the world’s most polluted rivers.
July 2021
Coles kills off Little Shop and Stikeez plastic toys
Coles is pulling the plug on its Little Shop and Stikeez plastic toy promotions as part of its aim to become Australia’s most sustainable supermarket.
May 2021
Aldi commits to zero waste to landfill
ALDI has upped the ante on Woolworths and Coles by committing to send zero food waste to landfill by 2023 and zero all waste by 2025.
April 2021
Bingo boss hopes to drive expansion after $2.3b buyout
The CEO and largest shareholder in Bingo Industries, with a stake worth $455m, is set to keep running the company under Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
January 2021
Why we have to stop throwing out our clothes
With the average Australian sending 23 kilograms of clothes to landfill each year, there are growing calls for measures to address textile waste.
Is sustainable fashion just a marketing hook?
While some brands trumpet their environmental credentials, others are quietly working on small parts of this highly complex issue.
December 2020
Maggots, bees move into Sydney's Barangaroo 'farm'
A cutting edge system of waste management, water recycling and solar rooftops has turned Barangaroo South, its office and retail component, into the country's first carbon-neutral suburb.
November 2020
Atlassian co-founder's fund backs sustainable packaging start-up
Skip Capital, Kim Jackson and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's private investment fund, has led a $2m round in sustainable packaging start-up Zero Co.
November 2019
Start-up makes paper from construction rubble
Sydney-based Karst produces notebooks made from a material known as 'stone paper', which requires none of the tree-felling or intense water use of traditional wood pulp paper.
October 2019
Waste manager M8 Sustainable starts IPO
M8 Sustainable is having a run at the boards, looking to raise $19.5 million.
April 2019
Agtech in the money to fight waste with maggots and robots
An agriculture tech start-up has raised funds from VCs and Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes for an ambitious plan to use robotics and data to tackle food waste.