The NSW Environment Minister The Hon. Penny Sharpe MLC today introduced the Product Lifecycle Responsibility Bill 2025 in the Legislative Council. It is an Act to "establish a product stewardship framework for brand owners of certain products; and for related purposes." #mandatory #lifecycle #ProductStewardship #legislation #regulation #ProducerResponsibility #EPR
Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence
Environmental Services
Sydney - Broadway, NSW 3,480 followers
Accelerating the uptake of product stewardship in Australia.
About us
The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence was established in December 2020 by a consortium of UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, the Australian Industry Group and Dentsu Creative, in partnership with the Australian Government through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Product Stewardship enables companies, brands and retailers to reduce waste generation and improve environmental performance by taking primary responsibility for their products and services across the life-cycle and value chain. Product Stewardship is one of the key pathways for businesses to operationalise circular economy principles and objectives in a real-world context. The Centre supports and mentors companies to design-out waste while also keeping products and materials circulating in the economy. Core to the Centre’s work is webinars, training, workshops and guidance tools to help industry design and manufacture products so that they are easier to repair, reuse, recover and recycle. We provide input to the Australian Government on priority areas for stewardship action, as well as supporting businesses to get involved in a practical, business-oriented way, and help existing schemes to improve their performance. The Product Stewardship Excellence Awards delivered in 2021, 2022 and 2023 have been a highly successful vehicle to celebrate and acknowledge the best of the best in stewardship across categories covering people, products, materials, schemes, organisations, digitalisation and emissions reduction. Recognising companies and schemes that demonstrate best practice in product and materials stewardship will be a highlight of the Awards program. Cover photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via UnSplash
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- Environmental Services
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Sydney - Broadway, NSW
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2020
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- Product Stewardship, Circular Economy, Circular Design, Policy Development, Industry Engagement, Materials Sustainability, Product Sustainability, Extended Producer Responsibility, Training, Professional Development, Mentoring, Sustainable Design, EPR, Governance, Sustainable Product Design, Stakeholder Engagement, Life Cycle Thinking, and Circular Economy
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This looks like an important forum and will hopefully discuss the impact of churn in fit-outs and the extent to which waste prevention and furniture stewardship can be achieved at scale. Great to see solution providers like Paul Rosenberg Vella involved.
Chief Executive Officer, DJAS Architecture | Founder + Managing Director, Salon Canberra | Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra
What happens to office furniture after a fit-out refresh or company downsizing? Too often, it ends up in landfill which means wasted materials, lost value and a missed opportunity for sustainability. But what if we could rethink the system? Next Friday, 28 March Salon Canberra in partnership with Zenith Interiors Pty Ltd is hosting a conversation on the circular economy in commercial furniture. Expert speakers Katherine Featherstone Nicole J. and Paul Rosenberg Vella, all leaders in sustainability, policy and design, will explore real-world solutions including: 🔹 How businesses are reclaiming and repurposing surplus furniture 🔹 The role of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in procurement and design 🔹 Innovative approaches like furniture-as-a-service and modular design 🔹 The hidden climate cost of office fit-outs and what we can do about it. This is about more than just recycling, it's about redesigning systems and reshaping business models for a more sustainable future. No charge to attend but places are limited. To register go to: https://lnkd.in/gPbyYDtq #circulareconomy #commercialfurniture #sustainability #design #saloncanberra #canberra
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When it comes to advocacy on #vapes and tobacco waste, Shannon Mead is sharply focused and well-informed. As the executive director of charity No More Butts, he has been raising the need for a #producerresponsibility scheme for #tobacco products such as #cigarettefilters since 2020. His article provides observations on the challenges and opportunities, as well as insights on what's required to achieve positive impact in these problematic product categories. Read Shannon's article in 'PSpectives' - the Centre's new platform featuring solution-focused producers and brands, service providers, associations, PSOs, policy-makers and advisers, practitioners, researchers and NGOs. #vapes #vapingdevices #cigarettes #butts #filters #wastereduction
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Thanks Canon Australia for your ongoing support and showcasing that helping a charity ‘behind-the-scenes’ (by supplying us with a printer and camera) is also important. Improving our day-to-day task efficiency means we can focus on getting devices out to people in need and providing more training opportunities for neurodivergent young adults.
This Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we want to highlight the incredible work that our 2024 Canon Oceania Grant Community Winner, The Reconnect Project, is doing every day. The Reconnect Project employs and trains neurodivergent young people in providing quality repair services for mobile phones, laptops, and tablets, and accept technology donations, which are distributed to people in desperate need. This incredible operation is designed to empower neurodivergent young people with practical skills in mobile phone repair, retail operations, and customer service. Earlier this month, members of our QSE team, Nina Spannari, General Manager – Sustainability and Peter Fischer, QSE Compliance Specialist, visited The Reconnect Project. Meeting with Annette Brodie, CEO and Founder, Aaron Vargas, Workshop Supervisor, Wilbur Donaldson, Technician, who has been at social enterprise since its inception, Daniel, Technician, and recent graduate of their repair program, and Emily Giles, Support Officer, who liaises with caseworkers needing devices for their clients, our team toured and caught up with The Reconnect Project team on how the Canon Oceania Grant has helped them with their important mission – to close the digital divide. The social enterprise last year received $2,500 in cash and our EOS R10 Single Lens kit as their Grant bundle. “The camera has helped us deliver training and Canon’s support has been fabulous, I don’t have time to focus on communications and PR, so Canon has given us an opportunity to get our name out there,” Annette said. Recently, to help their operations further, we also supplied The Reconnect Project team with a printer, which Emily, The Reconnect Project’s Support Officer, who liaises with caseworkers needing devices for their clients, has found helpful for their operations, “Our old printer regularly failed and wouldn’t connect to our laptops. Now with this new printer, I can print from anywhere in the hub and getting it connected to my laptop is so much easier.” Our team was also treated to a first-hand look at the repairing process in action, with Wilbur, Technician, delicately taking apart a donated device, “You have to be careful with the screws, it’s important to map them as you remove them,” gesturing to a memory mat next to him, “otherwise if I put the wrong screws back in, you could accidentally damage the circuit board and effectively destroy the product.” This was an incredibly rewarding experience for our team and being able to catch up with The Reconnect Project to see how far they’ve come – from 2,920 devices last year in October when we last visited to 3,405 devices that have been distributed to people in need across Australia. A huge thank you to Annette and The Reconnect Project team for inviting us back for a visit and we can’t wait to see what strides you make this 2025. To find out more, head to their website: https://lnkd.in/gVC_QSaj #CanonOceaniaGrants #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
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Until recently Hayley Moffiet CPA was the head of sustainability with Good360 Australia - the largest digital marketplace in Australia for businesses to donate unused and unsold (non-food) consumer goods to people in need. As a 'connector' Good360 Australia seeks to transform lives by delivering hope and dignity to people who may be struggling to make ends meet whether due to natural disasters, domestic violence or insufficient income caused by a cost of living pressures. Hayley's article drives home some staggering numbers and highlights how governments, businesses and product stewardship partners can all leverage the expertise of Good360 Australia to keep products at their highest value, significantly reduce waste, increase #reuse rates, and ensure that material aid reaches the people who need it most. Read Hayley's article in 'PSpectives' - the Centre's new platform featuring solution-focused producers and brands, service providers, associations, PSOs, policy-makers and advisers, practitioners, researchers and NGOs. #socialoutcomes #unsoldgoods #surplus #consumergoods #FMCG #socialsustainability #charities #partnerships #digitalisation Alison Covington AM Susan Wallis Kate Seares-Burnside
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There are batteries all around us. Lots of them are embedded inside products and difficult to remove. And many are disposed of incorrectly, creating dangerous situations that have led to fires, explosions and loss of life. In response to this, the NSW EPA on behalf of the NSW Government, has led the development of legislation that aims to combat this problem. On Tuesday night the NSW Government introduced to Parliament the Product Lifecycle Responsibility Bill 2025, which provides a framework to regulate products that have the potential to cause harm. If passed, brand owners would be required to take greater responsibility for their products across their lifecycle. The Act could require battery suppliers to: ◾ Run public education campaigns to improve awareness of battery risks ◾ Facilitate safe disposal and recycling through dedicated collection points ◾ Register battery products to ensure compliance ◾ Enhance battery design, packaging, importation, and storage to improve safety and recyclability Industry and other stakeholders have helped shape the reforms and will be key to their successful implementation. This collaboration is crucial to the NSW EPA’s stewardship approach, as it’s through working together that we get the best outcomes for the environment and human health. Battery Stewardship Council Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association NSW & ACT (WCRA) Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR)
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Jennifer Macklin (Downes) is a senior research fellow from BehaviourWorks Australia, and her article on "Extending Producer Responsibility Beyond End-of-Life Collection" presents three key areas of activity that are core to achieving a circular economy in Australia. Jennifer talks about the need to build products that last, incorporating reuse and repair and providing effective take-back systems. Read her concise piece in 'PSpectives' - the Centre's new platform featuring solution-focused producers and brands, service providers, associations, PSOs, policy-makers and advisers, practitioners, researchers and NGOs. #producerresponsibility #behaviourchange #product #durability #reuse #repair #takeback #producers #suppliers #retailers
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“This Bill will give the NSW Government the strongest powers in the country to ensure suppliers take accountability for the products that they sell. This is nation-leading reform and I’m very proud to move on it." - NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe #batteries #productstewardship #lifecycle #responsibility
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James Petesic the co-founder of PV Industries outlines his thoughts on how to accelerate producer responsibility for #solarpanels in Australia, including the need for enhanced policy frameworks to build trust in recycling systems while also promoting #innovation in solar panel #recycling. This is a timely piece given Federal regulatory reforms being considered for PV systems. Read James' article in 'PSpectives' - the Centre's new platform featuring solution-focused producers and brands, service providers, associations, PSOs, policy-makers and advisers, practitioners, researchers and NGOs. #productstewardship #producerresponsibility #solarpanels #PVs #collaboration
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Project Manager Market Access & Supply Chain Innovations | Sustainability | Circularity | Business Development | Packaging |
With the supportive guidance of the Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence, Meat & Livestock Australia has been able to bring together key stakeholders to discuss challenges that may arise with the transition to sustainable packaging. Functional packaging plays an important role in our market access, shelf life, food safety and product integrity. Creating a forum of packaging expertise and representatives of our Australian Red Meat processors, enables our industry to stay informed and validate innovative solutions that will maintain the quality and reputation of our Australian Red Meat industry. Warwick Armstrong Alan Adams - GAICD Richard Smith Rick Bardell Boaz Noyman David Kilpatrick Matthew Deegan Sam Munsie Michael Lee Adam Waldron Justin Cameron Sally Haysom Craig Lems David Mollee John Marten Suvir Salins Joanne Galletly OLY Luke Forbes Rose R. John Gertsakis #sustainability #packaging #circularity #innovation Meat & Livestock Australia Australian Meat Processor Corporation Australian Meat Industry Council
By embracing a product stewardship approach, Meat & Livestock Australia and its members can demonstrate leadership in an evolving frontier of sustainable #packaging and mandated packaging regulation under Commonwealth law. This proactive stance not only helps navigate emerging regulations but also fosters innovation and #circularity within the industry, ensuring a more #sustainable future for Australian red meat production and packaging. Alicia Waddington John Marten Download the case-study here: https://lnkd.in/gbqP2pbS #productstewardship #packaging Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Tanya Plibersek Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) Australian Food and Grocery Council
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