On 15 March 2021, in collaboration with Edge Environment and the Global Product Stewardship Council, GECA was awarded a grant by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment to tackle the issue of commercial office furniture going to landfill. The group will use the funding to design a product stewardship scheme that will help reduce the estimated 30,000 tonnes of furniture – much of it in perfectly good condition – that ends up in Australia’s waste stream each year.
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Now is the Time to Prioritise Recycled Content
The rise of circular economy thinking is creating new ways of approaching manufacturing and product stewardship across a breadth of markets. Buying products and materials made from recycled content is a significant step to shift our economy from linear to circular.
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GECA Releases New Waste Collection Services Standard
GECA, in collaboration with the NSW Office of the Environment and Heritage and the City of Sydney, has released a new standard for Waste Collection Services in New South Wales.
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