Recycle or reduce waste in a business

Avoiding, recycling and disposing of your waste properly:

  • reduces your environmental impact
  • keeps valuable materials out of landfill
  • recovers materials to support the economy
  • protects natural resources.

This section provides guidance on some of the best ways to achieve this.

Materials efficiency
Materials efficiency is about producing a product or service using less input materials or producing more product or service for the same amount of material.
E-waste
After e-waste was banned from landfill in 2019, all businesses must now assess their processes for handling and managing e-waste.
Conducting compost demonstration trials
This provides guidance on developing on-farm demonstration trials in agriculture and horticulture for compost products.
Single-use plastics ban
Information on accepting reusables at your business, reuse solutions, success stories, and Victoria’s regulations.