Webinar - Recycling & Resource Recovery

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Anne Prince, Director, A.Prince Consulting

1 bin, 2 bins, 3 bins, more

The Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC) holds the most comprehensive longitudinal data set of household consumption and waste disposal behavior in Australia. The data set span 20 years with seven data points gained from auditing over 14,000 households from 1999 to 2019.    

This webinar shows us where public policy has taken or lead us and what we have achieved, data provides a real answers, and real insights into where our future efforts should focus and discusses the challenges ahead. 

If we are planning our future we have to learn from our past.


David Clancy, General Manager NSW, Cleanaway

Driving a sustainable recycling economy

The past two years have seen significant change in the waste management industry. Global markets have limited the export of low-quality recycling and local players have struggled to respond.   

The very definition of waste and recycling becomes an important detail as we reframe the conversation away from waste transporting to producing a commodity of optimal quality for sale and reuse. 

By harmonising material specifications, increasing quality of baled product and growing end markets, we can drive a sustainable recycling economy for Australia.


Graham Henderson, Manager Pre Contracts and Development and Jim Appleby, General Manager – Reconomy, Downer

Pulling products not pushing waste – Repurposing in action

Downer has created a nationally operating Division that focusses on repurposing materials that would otherwise be destined for landfill and extracting inherent value to enhance the performance of road building and surfacing products. Downer’s Reconomy business focusses on Pulling Products instead of Pushing Waste. We not only recover resources to avoid landfill, we recycle and repurpose those resources into high quality products and materials. This creates economic, social and environmental value for our customers and their communities.    

The Reconomy business stream has now been operational for over 12 months. During this time, we have invested significantly in bespoke plant and equipment and have developed innovative and award-winning repurposing processes and end products. 

This webinar will focus on the journey so far and outline some of our plans to further enhance and expand this business to support waste reduction initiatives.

Moderator


Gayle Sloan, CEO, Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association of Australia

Gayle has a law and arts degree from the University of Adelaide. She worked for the NSW Attorney General’s Department for a number of years before moving into the Attorney General’s Ministerial Office in 1998, and then the NSW Police Minister’s Office in 2000.

Following this time in state government, Gayle worked as a Director in a number of NSW councils, primarily looking after service delivery and assets. She developed and delivered a number of waste management contracts on behalf of councils, as well as managed environment and regulatory departments, including rangers and compliance officers.  

After three years of being a stay-at-home mum, Gayle returned to work in 2012 at Visy Recycling. In November 2015, Gayle joined WMRR as Chief Executive Officer.