Join us in celebrating 4 years of the Circular Economy Business Innovation Centre! We're marking the occasion with an evening of conversation and networking alongside Victoria’s circular business community, and we'd love to see you there! DATE: Wednesday 16 October 2024 TIME: 5:00pm-8:00pm WHERE: Free to Feed Fitzroy North, 205-211 Queens Parade Fitzroy North Feel free to bring a colleague who's also involved in the circular economy. Let’s connect and celebrate the future of circular innovation! ♻️ RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gQ85v2HY
Sustainability Victoria
Environmental Services
Melbourne, Victoria 49,112 followers
We're shaping Victoria's circular economy, ensuring we reduce or stop waste before it starts.
About us
Sustainability Victoria supports Victorians in being more sustainable in their everyday lives: in our homes and workplaces, in our schools and communities, and in the systems and infrastructure that underpin a thriving Victorian economy and lifestyle. We are shaping Victoria's circular economy on behalf of the state government, to build the most sustainable future for Victorians. We want to improve the way Victoria manages its resources and help communities to take action on climate change and reduce or stop waste before it starts. We want to improve the way Victoria manages its resources and help communities to take action on climate change.
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http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au
External link for Sustainability Victoria
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 2005
- Specialties
- Resource efficiency, Sustainability, Climate change, Resource recovery, Organics, and circular economy
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Level 12, 321 Exhibition Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000, AU
Employees at Sustainability Victoria
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Sustainability Victoria reposted this
Victoria is full of innovators and many of those innovators are developing solutions for the circular economy. For the last 5 years, Sustainability Victoria has been supporting Victorian businesses to develop new circular products, helping them access early stage R&D funding and more recently providing commercialisation pathways. It was great to bring some of those businesses together this afternoon to talk about the challenges and opportunities for commercialisation in Australia and how we can ensure local ideas are commercialised and funded on-shore...keeping that investment here in our economy! I was particularly excited by the work of Sequence Digital on second life options for battery cells coming from electronic products where often only one or two cells are degraded and the others perfectly viable! Thanks for taking me through your innovations Patrick Blampied! Thanks to the Markets Acceleration team Shannon Smyth Kristy Meeuwsen Sarah Kossowski Gwyneth Elsum Paul Murfitt Emily Dunstan
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Sustainability Victoria recently brought together business leaders, policymakers, and innovators to celebrate Australia’s first CIRCO training workshop. Originally launched in the Netherlands in 2014, the Circular Business Design Workshop has helped 3,000 businesses worldwide reduce waste and create long-lasting products. The workshop, hosted by the Australian Circular Economy Hub (an initiative of Planet Ark) and funded by Sustainability Victoria’s Circular Economy Innovation Fund, saw nine companies participate, including Officeworks, Coles, Reece, APCO, K5 Furniture, Green my Plate, Purple Pear Pallets, and Golf Ball Recycling, alongside Hume City Council. The evening celebration, called ‘Circo: Bringing global insights to Victoria’, was launched by Nina Taylor MP, member for Albert Park, and attended by Embassy and Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Australia, Hugo Klijn. Pieter van Os, co-founder of Circo, and his colleague Bas Roelofs, shared insights from ten years of the Circo program, emphasising the global shift toward circular economy practices and the urgent need to tackle textile and electronics waste. A panel featuring Van Os, Sustainability Victoria CEO Matt Genever, and Klijn explored the challenges of scaling circular solutions and the role of the public sector in fostering confidence and growth in these initiatives. Discussions also focused on the intersection of degrowth and circular design, stressing the importance of maintaining momentum in circular projects. As Victoria accelerates its transition to a circular economy, Sustainability Victoria is committed to connecting changemakers and driving innovation that transforms systems. These initiatives are vital in shaping a sustainable future. Register your interest for upcoming workshops in Geelong (Oct 14-16) and Melbourne (Nov 18-20): https://lnkd.in/gFrqKmjS #Circulareconomy #Circo
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Sustainability Victoria has empowered hundreds of community organisations to bring their sustainability projects to life by providing essential skills, knowledge, and tools. We’ve distilled their collective experience into seven practical guides designed for groups and organisations looking to launch community circular economy initiatives. Each guide walks you through the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of projects like repair cafes, bicycle repair/recycling, food waste prevention, composting, hard waste recovery, textile waste, and special waste streams. If your organisation is ready to start a community circular economy initiative, these guides are for you! Download your copy today: https://lnkd.in/gSZzvGMj
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Sustainability Victoria reposted this
Wonderful to spend some time at the Martogg & Company circular plastics facility this morning with Steve Dimopoulos, Gabrielle Williams MP and Mark Dreyfus. Industry and government co-investing in the type of technology that can make our materials circular again...big win for Victoria and we're proud to do our part at Sustainability Victoria! Thanks as always to David Finlayson, Heath Boucher and Ben McCulloch for showing us around and for the ongoing investment in our state. #circulareconomy #plastics #cds Zoe Furman John Polhill Marianne Johnston Gwyneth Elsum Paul Murfitt Hannah Vine Katie Pahlow
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We don't yet have a clear circular economy plan for our renewable energy transition. In some cases we have time to do that work and planning, in other cases the challenges are already upon us. That was my pitch at this week's Gippsland New Energy Conference as I outlined some of the modelling Sustainability Victoria has been doing to understand material inputs and decommissioning outputs from renewable energy from 2018 - 2050. I was also lucky to visit a regional business that is not waiting for policy to catch up. Elecsome Pty Ltd. is already processing thousands of old solar panels in their Kilmany factory into reusable products like aluminum and sand. There is always more work to do and more advances to be made, like recovering silicon and silver, but its great to see a Victorian business investing and taking a leap of faith. Huge thanks to Neeraj Das and the team for showing me around. Paul Murfitt Paul Corkill Stan Krpan PSM FAICD Gwyneth Elsum Emily Dunstan
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Sustainability Victoria designs research-led behavioural change campaigns that make it easier for Victorians to adopt sustainable practices into their everyday lives. This week, we were thrilled to launch our latest Small Acts, Big Impact behaviour change campaign, making the most out of your food scraps and garden clippings. The campaign encourages Victorians to keep rubbish out of their food and garden organics bins, highlighting how food scraps and garden clippings can be turned into high-quality compost for use on farms and gardens across Victoria. Our research found Victorians were motivated to correctly sort their food and garden organics when they understood that this behaviour would benefit local farmers. Keep your eyes peeled for campaign activity via social media, SV’s website, local council channels, and public relations and multicultural engagement activity, and feel free to share our content with your communities. The campaign launched on Monday 2 September and will run for 8-weeks through to Sunday 27 October 2024. To find out more about why keeping rubbish out of your food and garden organics bins matters, visit our campaign webpage: https://lnkd.in/ea_hW7Ys
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Sustainability Victoria reposted this
The stage is set, literally, for the Gippsland New Energy Conference #gnec2024 in sunny Traralgon. Always a powerful event on the annual energy calendar. I'm looking forward to talking about the importance and opportunity that #circulareconomy presents in our renewable energy transition with Luke Wilkinson and Lara Kruk later this morning. The reality is even clean energy has an impact and circularity principles are a key way of minimising that impact AND helping us reach #netzero Paul Murfitt Stan Krpan PSM FAICD Chris Miller Gwyneth Elsum Emily Dunstan
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Sustainability Victoria reposted this
A pleasure to visit the Pro-Pac Packaging (Aust) Pty Ltd facility in Reservoir this morning for Tanya Plibersek's announcement of more investment in plastics recycling in Victoria. Additional partnership funding through the Australian Government 's Recycling Modernisation Fund will see improvements in #circulareconomy for flexible and rigid plastics in our state. Congratulations to the team at Pro Pac, along with Naula Pty Ltd and Sustainable Plastic Solutions who will collectively benefit from $15.6 million in funding and add more than 43,000 tonnes of new plastics recycling capacity into the system. Huge thanks to Dominic Adams for explaining the process and future plans so clearly! https://buff.ly/3XlgBT1
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Sustainability Victoria reposted this
What a rich and productive few days I have had in Canberra. Its exciting to hear about the many #circulareconomy and #renewableenergy initiatives underway all across the country. A huge thanks to Pam Allan for bringing together the CEOs and Chairs from state and territory ciorcular economy agencies to explore opportunities in stewardship, textiles, market development, regulation and a host of other areas. Lots for me to download when I get back to Melbourne but perhaps the key takeaway is the need to more strongly link materials circularity with our state and national #netzero ambitions, because our clean energy transition will not get us all the way to net zero! Tony Circelli Hugh Christie Tony Chappel Elizabeth Carr AM Professor Kate Auty Anna Minns Adrian Jones Gayle Sloan Ainsley Simpson Leanne Wiseman Omer Soker Vaughan Levitzke PSM Chris Foley John Gertsakis Nikki Govan Josh Wheeler GAICD Lee Miezis PSM