Guide to conducting a waste audit

Guide to conducting a waste audit

The National Waste Report provides damning statistics on business recycling: every year over 20 million tonnes of waste are sent to rot in landfill from the Australian industrial and commercial sector – despite estimates that over 70% of that waste could be recycled...
Here’s what a circular economy is all about

Here’s what a circular economy is all about

So, what’s all the fuss about a circular economy? You might have heard the words ‘circular economy’ being thrown around in recent times, and perhaps wondered what all the fuss was about. The term ‘circular economy’ is not just a modern buzzword, and a circular economy...
How recycling your food and green waste saves energy

How recycling your food and green waste saves energy

We all know that recycling is a good idea – but just how does it work to save the environment? Recycling has many benefits – saving energy being one of the biggest ones. Recycling saves energy by reducing (and sometimes even completely eliminating) the need to make...
NuGrow helps the City of Gold Coast recycle green organics

NuGrow helps the City of Gold Coast recycle green organics

If you’re looking for a one-stop shop for sustainable waste management, look no further than NuGrow! We offer Queensland’s largest recycling operation of its kind – and the City of Gold Coast (City) has been reaping the benefits of NuGrow’s services over the past 18...
Why a circular economy is more important now than ever

Why a circular economy is more important now than ever

In the past 50 years, the population of the world has more than doubled however resource consumption has more than tripled. This is alarming as at the same time as our population grows, our finite resources are diminishing. Clearly, our current economic system is...
Merlo Coffee set to convert 3 million cups into compost

Merlo Coffee set to convert 3 million cups into compost

Queensland icon, Merlo Coffee, has turned up the heat on its goal of saving more than 3 million Merlo takeaway cups from landfill each year, already diverting more than 37 tonnes of organics in 2019 through its compostables initiative. In late 2018, the business...