There is money in waste, especially when you put the goggles of micro-factories on. A micro factory is a small-scale manufacturing facility that is designed to produce a specific product or range of products. These factories are typically smaller and more compact than traditional manufacturing facilities, and they are often used to produce smaller quantities of items, such as custom or niche products. Micro factories can be used to produce a wide range of products, including electronics, automotive parts, medical devices, and consumer goods. They often use advanced technologies such as 3D p ..read more

When you grow up in Paradise but the worlds waste is invading your backyard. Dennis from Salty Monkeys, a business he promotes well made storytelling videos from the Torres Straits through his successful Youtube Channel & Instagram page with the rest of Australia and the world that after witnessing the plastic pollution in his dives to producing a non-virgin plastic set of quality designed fins with local indigenous artworks on them. This story reflects not only the power of the internet and some quality editing can do to make a big impact even if you live in a remote part of anywhere on ..read more

Soon, businesses all over Cairns will be proudly displaying their ‘plastic-free’ status under the Plastic Free Cairns program to reduce single-use plastic in the region. Plastic Free Cairns is run by peak not-for-profit group the Boomerang Alliance as the next step in achieving change away from plastic pollution, and is partnered with Cairns Regional Council and funded by the Queensland Government. Cairns is the fifth community in the Boomerang Alliance's national Plastic Free Places program and any food retail business is able to join! Plastic Free Cairns is a free service for all Cairns c ..read more

Today, an estimated one-third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste. That is equal to about 1.3 billion tons of fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, seafood, and grains that either never leave the farm, get lost or spoiled during distribution, or are thrown away in hotels, grocery stores, restaurants, schools, or home kitchens. It could be enough calories to feed every undernourished person on the planet. But wasted food isn't just a social or humanitarian concern it's an environmental one. When we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, trans ..read more

COP26 saw Australia get some negative press in both social media, news and offline media, think big billboards in lights on busy city intersections kind of messaging. The reason why the world was looking at us in disbelief is probably because they saw David Attenborough's; Life On Planet Earth and his statement of how we change to save it. We have to do some huge changes a lot sooner than 2050.  We have till 2031 to lower our carbon footprint by 50% to keep our temp increase to 1.5deg otherwise we are going to slide into irreversible climate change taking us out of the Holocene era i ..read more

What Is Circular Economy? Now never before this book came out would I have thought I would find economics so exciting but when someone takes something super complex and teaches you how to comprehend it and spread it, then that's something to get excited about right. Because it is the key to the puzzle that makes policies in Government change, it provides proof of impact and strategies to change without making things worse before they get better.  It's like using data to make changes and that truly excites me. Our economies run on systems and processes, economics is the foundation of g ..read more

What Is ecoBiz?  ecoBiz is a free program funded by the Queensland Government and delivered by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland (CCIQ), which helps Queensland businesses and organisations audit their resource use and reduce costs from waste, water, and energy bills. After a free two-hour coaching session with one of our sustainability experts, businesses receive a written report with practical and actionable recommendations, which are often no or low cost to implement. Every year, ecoBiz specialists analyse how participating businesses have progressed.  Here are the k ..read more