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2022 Sponsors

AVPartners

AVPartners is actively committed to improving the environmental performance of its business operations. Our Environmental Sustainability Policy reinforces our commitment and precautionary approach to environmental sustainability. It also demonstrates our understanding that our actions are important to our customers and our people, as well as to our business outcomes. 

Our goals are to integrate environmental impact as a factor in business decisions, work in consultation with suppliers and client to be environmentally responsible, promote a positive culture by implementing initiatives that foster sustainable innovation, and optimise our services to improve our environmental sustainability performance.

Cleanaway

Cleanaway is Australia’s leading total waste management solutions provider. With our 6,800-strong Cleanaway team and 5,900 fleet vehicles across approximately 280 sites (including 135 prized infrastructure assets), we’re well placed to lead the development of a circular economy in Australia.

We’re committed to meeting Australia’s waste needs by integrating and extending our leading network of infrastructure assets to provide high-circularity, low-carbon solutions. This is in line with our Blueprint 2030 strategy which establishes commitments and actions to accelerate our business moving from a linear to circular waste value chain. This creates shared value for our employees, the community, the environment and our customers. We’re proud to work towards our mission of making a sustainable future possible together.

CES

Container Exchange Services is a technology and service provider to Container Deposit Schemes in Australia and around the World. We exist to keep valuable materials out of oceans, waterways, and landfills.  

Our end-to-end technology platform and key services connect the key participants in recycling schemes and facilitates the recovery of material from when it is returned to when it is re-sold to recyclers.  CES proudly supports the Containers for Change scheme in Western Australia.   

Container Deposit Systems

Container Deposit Systems (CDS) was formed with a vision to oversee the implementation of improved operational practices in recycling facilities that enables enhanced productivity and efficiency outcomes. Container Deposit Systems design, develop, manufacture, install and service a world leading, high tech product in Australia that is currently the only technology that can count and sort by container composition regardless of the condition of the container. 

Our system provides the community and the recycling depot owners with a clean, efficient, enjoyable and productive experience and an experience in which the accuracy of the number of containers returned is beyond challenge. Our technology processes 25 images per second with a proven accuracy rate of 99.8%.

Coles

Coles is an omnichannel retailer selling products including fresh food, groceries and liquor through its supermarkets, liquor stores and eCommerce platforms. We employ more than 120,000 team members, engage with more than 8,000 suppliers, have more than 430,000 direct shareholders and we welcome millions of customers through our extensive store network and eCommerce platforms every week. 

Coles is one of the most trusted consumer brands in Australia with businesses including Coles, Coles Local, Coles Express, Liquorland, First Choice Liquor Market, Vintage Cellars and Coles Financial Services.  

Liquor Stores Association

The core purpose of the LSA (Liquor Stores Association) is to represent the interested of packaged liquor store retailers in Western Australia. We do this by encouraging & promoting a responsible, sustainable & diverse packaged liquor industry. 

Our strength is through the long-term partnerships we foster across the industry & our key stakeholders. Key to this are our industry partnerships across numerous Beer, Wine & Spirits suppliers, but also our engagement with government & regulatory bodies, community groups and the broader consumer community. 

Orora

Orora Glass operate a state-of-the-art glass manufacturing facility in South Australia which is one of the largest glass plants in the southern hemisphere. Sustainability is a key focus for Orora with our “Promise to the future” built around three pillars, Circular economy, climate change and community. The targets are 60% recycled content by 2025, Net zero emissions by 2050 and a 40% reduction by 2035 and prioritising action, our people and community.

Orora is a leading glass packaging supplier with high quality, innovative and sustainable packaging solutions and works closely with their customers to create closed loop recycling systems.

Remondis

With over 1,100 employees and 38 business locations in Australia, REMONDIS Australia serves more than 24,000 commercial, industrial and municipal customers and their communities. A family owned multi-national business founded in Germany in 1934 and established in Australia in 1982, REMONDIS proudly provides full-service, end-to-end waste collection, treatment, resource recovery and management solutions right across the country. Working together, we believe we can achieve a more sustainable future – a future in which waste is a resource.

Veolia

The Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. With over 230,000 employees worldwide, the group provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste, and energy management.  

We are here to clear up, to clean, to recover, to recycle and to provide renewable energy and sanitised water. That is our purpose. In Australia, our 5500 employees put waste to good use by providing smart and reliable solutions to collect, recover and recycle waste into valuable new products and resources. 

WAglass

Waglass was created in 2019 to process glass collected by Containers for Change WA. Based in Bassendean, our site accepts all of the glass from WA collection sites, and beneficiates it for direct feed to Orora’s furnaces in South Australia.   

Working with Westbin, we are also responsible for collecting all of the glass from refund point operators in the Perth and Wheatbelt area.  In the two years since Containers for Change launched, we have sent over 75,000 tonnes of beneficiated glass back into the furnace to be remade into new bottles.   

The Brand Agency

The Brand Agency builds strong brands that bring prosperity to the world. The diversity of our team and their unique skillsets – from strategic expertise in brand and user experience; media strategy, planning and technology; through to creative, design and production – is key to the success of our clients.

The Brand Agency is the strategic and creative partner for WARRRL, delivering Containers for Change communications in WA. Following the brand campaign launch in August 2021 we saw Containers for Change become the most top of mind recycling program statewide. Now into its second year, The Brand Agency is proud to continue building on their success, and to a healthy, thriving and prosperous future for WA.