Feature

Issue No. 47 - June/ july

Business collaboration cuts waste

While householders in SA are “very effective” at recycling at home, Zero Waste SA says the same people often have fewer recycling options at work.

“There’s no doubt significant amounts of recyclable material continue to be discarded to landfill every day from commercial and industrial work places,” says Zero Waste SA Chief Executive, Ian Harvey.

“A 2007 audit conducted at landfills servicing metropolitan Adelaide confirmed that cardboard, paper, plastics, and food/kitchen organics represented a large proportion of material generated from the Commercial & Industrial sector that is disposed to landfill.”

To address this problem and encourage more recycling of these materials, Zero Waste SA launched the Recycling at Work program.

“This $3 million dollar program includes $800,000 from the National Packaging Covenant and will roll out over two years,” Ian says. “The Recycling at Work program is aimed at increasing the recycling of both dry recy...

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