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Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence

Sydney - Broadway, N/A, AU • 20 - 49 Employees
Waste/Recycling/Environmental

The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence was established in December 2020 by a consortium of UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, the Australian Industry Group and Cox Inall Communications in partnership with the Australian Government through the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.Product Stewardship enables companies, brands and retailers to reduce waste generation and improve environmental performance by taking greater responsibility for their products and services across the life cycle and value chain. The Centre supports and mentors companies to design-out waste while also keeping products and materials circulating in the economy. Core to the Centre's work will be training, workshops and guidance tools to help industry design and manufacture products so that materials that are easier to recover, reuse and recycle.We are advising the Australian Government on priority areas for stewardship action, as well as supporting businesses to get involved in practical, business-friendly way., and help existing schemes to improve their performance.The Product Stewardship Excellence Awards will also be launched this year as a vehicle to celebrate and acknowledge the best of the best in stewardship across categories covering people, products, materials, schemes and organisations. Recognising companies and schemes that demonstrate best practice in product and materials stewardship will be a highlight of the Awards program.Cover photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via UnSplash