Webinar - Recycling
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Presenters
Liam Scale, Business Development Associate, TerraCycle
Global trends in moving from recycling to reuse
Liam is a Business Development Associate at TerraCycle Australia and New Zealand, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers, cities and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently goes to landfill or incineration.
Through TerraCycle, Liam and the team have facilitated partnerships with the likes of Mecca, David Jones and Woolworths to provide consumers with free national recycling programs to tackle hard-to-recycle waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.
Dr Helen Lewis - Principal, Helen Lewis Research, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, Consultant, APCO
Strategies for problematic (non-recyclable) plastic packaging
Dr Helen Lewis provides research and strategic advice to a range of industry and government clients on product stewardship and packaging sustainability. She is an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney and a consultant to the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO).
Helen has written widely on product stewardship and corporate social responsibility including several books. She published Product stewardship in action in 2016 and is a co-author of Packaging for sustainability (2012) and Design + Environment (2001). She has a PhD in product stewardship and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Packaging.
Colleen Watson, Resource Recovery Officer, Cleanaway
Extending the life of hospital plastics
Colleen is a member of Cleanaway’s Centre for Sustainability, working as a Resource Recovery Officer in the Commercial and Industrial space. With a background in healthcare before moving to the waste sector, working on better resource recovery options in hospitals is of particular interest.
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Mike Ritchie, Managing Director, MRA Consulting Group
Waste Strategy and its potential for the economy
With NSW developing its 20 Year Waste Strategy, and Infrastructure Victoria releasing its waste and recycling report, there has never been a better time to discuss how state and national government’s waste strategies can affect our struggling economy.
In a post-COVID world, economic recovery is about investment in industries that add value and insulate Australia from international shocks. So how should the government implement new policies and strategies to boost the waste sector?
Just one strategy would be a national ban on organics to landfill. This would require 200 new composting facilities to be built, at 10 jobs per facility that is 2000 new jobs alone! Plus, a 5-fold increase in secondary job creation in collecting, transporting, marketing, and spreading the compost. This creates over 10,000 ongoing new jobs and would stimulate over $2b worth of direct capital investment.
But what practically would need to be done to implement such strategies, what barriers exist and how would the sector respond?
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