Recycling & Waste Management
Recycling gives our precious resources another life, and reduces GHG emissions on multiple levels. Seems pretty straightforward and easy, right?
No! Time and time again, our waste audits show that much more can be done to improve recycling rates, and reduce waste to landfill.
Whether it be waste auditing, implementing new recycling programs, monitoring and reporting, tender documentation or advice, Great Forest Australia are the experts when it comes to recycling and waste.
For the last 20 years Great Forest Australia has been working with organisations, councils, office towers, retailers, shopping centres, hotels and food courts to get more waste recycled and out of our landfills.
Our work focuses on the following areas:
- Waste and recycling audits
- Waste and Recycling reporting, including a financial analysis, detailed recommendations for improvement and expected outcomes from implementing the recommendations
- Design and implementation of recycling and waste minimisation programs
- Behaviour change/education programs
- Monitoring and reporting
- NABERS assessments
At Great Forest Australia, we revel in being able to measure, improve and quantify the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions through increased recycling and a reduction in waste.
There are several ways we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions through recycling and reducing waste:
- Material in our landfills such as paper, cardboard and food, creates greenhouse gas emissions, adding to climate change. One tonne of organic material such as food, buried a landfill creates 2.9 tonnes of GHG emissions.
- Making a product using recycled materials uses significantly less resources than using raw materials. For example, producing 20 aluminium cans from recycled materials uses the same amount of energy as making one can from raw materials.
- By using less, we are reducing the amount of energy and resources to manufacture, package and transport the product. For example, drinking tap water from a reusable water bottle rather than buying a bottle of water and using it once.
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