The Circular Centre works with Australian government, businesses and the community.
In 2020 the Circular Centre received a NSW ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AUTHORITY Circularity grant to conduct a Pilot for our Circular Textile Waste Service. Through evidence based learning and practical delivery we created a unique circular system for textiles.
This extensive knowledge has expanded to offer the CTWS to operate Australia-wide and flow through ever expanding local circular streams. This service is designed for councils, corporates, companies and the community.
Our Circular Textile Waste Service (CTWS) diverts the “unwearables + unusables” from landfill via existing 26+ local circular streams.
- All “good” items are donated to charities and designers to repair, redesign and resell.
- CTWS remanufacture majority of fibre types into safe new products for many industries eg carpet, underlay, sound proofing etc.
- Provide jobs and training especially for Australian disability and social enterprises.
- Local circular innovation to keep 100% of the resources out of landfill + onshore.
- Reduction to garbage bins, waste facilities, landfill and incineration.
- The Circular Market re-sells and promotes circular solutions for textiles.
- Contact us for further information on the smart tech solutions.
Circular streams are tailored to suit:
2. Councils
See the Virgin Airlines uniforms & workwear service Case Study
4. Community groups + eco-businesses
Some clients who have used our service include:
As a start-up, we are working with councils and businesses to put the service into the community as quickly as possible.
At last official count, Australia recycles 88,000 tonnes of clothing per year, however a staggering 800,000 tonnes of textile waste goes to landfill.
We were recently invited to exhibit and attend the Minister for Environment's National Clothing Textile Waste Roundtable, see further details on CC News.
Providing the missing piece of the recycling puzzle to become circular
HOW DOES IT WORK?
AT A GLANCE.
- We collect OR you deliver a minimum of 120kg
- the clothing and textile waste is transported to our local disability enterprise partners to sort, weigh, collect data, dismantle, rebale and redistribute to a growing number of circular streams throughout Australia
- OR we send direct to the waste stream that suits your material type.
NEXT STEP.
- depending on your material type, the product is sent to reuse, upcycle or repurpose.
- we collect, measure and audit the disposal, resource recovery and repurposing data and offer a Life Cycle Assessment
- You will receive a Zero Textile Waste Certification and data on the carbon emissions you have mitigated.
WHAT WE DON'T DO.
- we don't send to landfill, incinerate or ship overseas as this will create more carbon emissions and pollution plus just end up in another countries landfill creating more carbon emissions. The Circular Centre is the only service in Australia that doesn't do this.
Contact us to request an Assessment Form to determine which of our resource recovery services and streams you require and provide a quote.
WHAT WE DO DO.
- we address the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals especially #13 Climate Action and request that our clients sign a commitment to with the United Nations Charter for Climate Action.
- we divert and harness the textile waste instead of causing more harm or a little bit less harm
- we promote circular economy innovation, industries and manufacturing to stay in Australia
- we both mitigate carbon emissions by diverting textiles from landfill plus sequester carbon through our #iamcarbonpositive direct action initiative
- we encourage education, awareness and community empowerment and highlight problems with over consumption plus promote reuse, recycle and redesign streams
- we support disability enterprise's working with Australia's peak body BuyAbility
- we support charities and re-sharing communities.
and through the Circular Market we
- create safe repurposed products and will not allow our synthetic fibres to be put back into the fashion supply chain to continue to cause harm
- we develop financially sustainable circular systems
THE CIRCULAR TEXTILE WASTE SERVICE IS A NSW ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AUTHORITY, WASTE LESS RECYCLE MORE INITIATIVE FUNDED FROM THE WASTE LEVY
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