Hub leader Veena Sahajwalla AO has spoken to Infrastructure Connections, a podcast by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, about circular innovation, remanufacturing from waste materials and micro-recycling.
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The takeaways from this episode include:
- Companies are starting to rethink their identity. “We’re not a waste company, we’re a supply company.” We supply resources as feedstock, resources that were used waste for someone else.
- “If we zoom down to the micro recycling level, every material is important.” If it was an important component of the original product, it will be important to recover for the next product.
- “Sustainability is a normal way to think. The more we can make it a norm, the more we can think of practical ways in which sustainability comes to life.”
- We need to think of sustainability and recycling on a local level, specific to the local industries that need it, and make that recovery a priority. This is compared to the current method of sending our waste overseas and then buying it back as materials.
These concepts are key components of the Hub's Project 2: Fit for purpose technological recycling solutions, which is working to support local councils and industries in developing practical circular economy opportunities for managing waste more effectively.
