Last week, Australia’s brightest innovators and business leaders gathered for Circularity 2023, a conference in Melbourne that drove actionable change towards implementing a more circular future.
Last night, The Australian Circular Economy Hub (ACE Hub) and Diversified Communications Australia announced the winners of the 2023 ACE Awards, which recognises Australian organisations and individuals moving the needle towards a more circular and sustainable future in Australia and APAC by spreading awareness, innovating and implementing change.
From a product certification perspective, there is a clear need to disrupt and renew our way of working with the manufacturing industries to bring them closer and shift the mindset and outcomes in our relationship with nature.
Underwear is not often thought of as a potentially circular product. After all, who wants to wear someone else’s used underwear? However, the way we currently use and dispose of our underwear leads to a massive waste of precious materials.
The Seamless scheme aims to tackle Australia’s 200,000 tonnes of clothing waste by making brands responsible for the whole of life of the garments they produce.
Federal Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek announced the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Circular Economy at the inaugural Circularity conference in Sydney.
