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Bulletin
April 2013
Brinkley Salvage & Save
South Australia
Brinkley Salvage & Save is a business ini2a2ve of Finding Workable Solu2ons Inc (FWS) located at the waste depot in Murray Bridge, South Australia, that opened in June 2011. (There was an ar2cle in the February CRN Australia bulle2n). The staff at the site recycle second hand goods, which are either donated or salvaged from the waste stream to be broken down into components or sold back into the community, by way of a low cost retail shop. Including:
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Voluntary work
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Work experience
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Traineeships
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Return to work programs
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Skills and career development
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Permanent part-­‐2me or full-­‐2me employment
Salvage & Save has four loca2ons in South Australia: Murray Bridge, Goolwa, Mt Barker and Elizabeth.
This social enterprise is a great environmental solu3on for the local community because it:
1. recognises the future growth of the waste management industry and its poten2al for delivering jobs for people with disability.
2. embraces the social enterprise business model and the environment as modern, posi2vely valued themes currently receiving strong community, corporate and government support.
3. provides opportuni2es and support for people with disability to par2cipate on a number of levels:
Jamie driving the forklift
Feature Enterprise: pages 1-2
National E-waste Alliance: page 3-4
Convener’s Report: page 4
page 5: Recycling Ideas for Enterprises
page 5: News from Tasmania
page 6: National Compost Week
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Some of the Gang at the Brinkley Salvage & Save site:
Trainee Gemma with an old pram
Andrew has made this
from recycled materials
Gemma is another one of our school based trainees who enjoys working in the retail shop and serving customers.
Jamie and Andrew are both long term unemployed Job Services Australia (JSA) par2cipants comple2ng their work experience at the site three days a week.
Peter is a volunteer who is a qualified carpenter and is at present supervising the erec2on of the nursery shade house at the site. His carpentry skills are invaluable to create useful items from second hand products. Peter is pictured with a flower house that he created from donated second hand 2mber.
Jamie enjoys honing his skills on the forkliX and says he likes his job because, “its’ always different and he likes the team”.
Andrew is interested in the online sales opportuni2es with eBay & Gumtree, and believes that his placement at Brinkley “is good because you do different things and maybe at the end of the day I’ll get a job”.
Peter has created this flower
house from recycled timber
The team at Brinkley enjoy their work and are well received and supported by the local community.
Nicholas & Mathew
stripping mattresses
Nicolas and Mathew are school based trainees from the local High School Special Educa2on unit who work two days a week dismantling, recycling and upcycling (crea2ng saleable items from second hand products) in the workshop. Both of these guys say that they “enjoy the friendly work and that there is always lots to do”. For further informa2on please contact Anita Saunders:
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National E-waste Alliance
devalue the potential yield and increase the waste
fraction that will eventuate in landfill.
Alliance sites attain a competitive edge through
manual processes, ensuring a higher recovery rate
and greater return on commodities. Employment
outcomes also underpin the prime objective for this
type of business activity. Alliance sites conduct
operations to ensure on-going jobs for staff.
The Alliance processing methodology provides better
environmental and financial outcomes for our
customers. The National E-Waste Alliance remains in
constant communication with the representatives
from industry bodies and ‘arrangement
administrators’ to ensure the Alliance remains at the
forefront of planning and selection decisions.
The single point of contact and centralized
communication provided by the National E-Waste
Alliance has proven very attractive to the
arrangement administrators and support s ongoing
supply of feedstock for daily operations.
Social Enterprises play a critical and extensive role
supporting the disadvantaged in the community, with
many organizations established now for several
decades. Business success is not new to many of
these organizations, with many years and often
decades of credentialed experience behind them. New
ventures however, often rely on a certain level of
expertise and experience to ensure success.
With many organizations expressing interest in
establishing e-waste recycling businesses to add to
their support services, an opportunity was
acknowledged back in 2009 by GreenFix
Environmental to have these enterprises operate to a
common, successful format. In anticipation of the
impending National Product Stewardship legislation,
the National E-Waste Alliance was created to bring
together and provide support for Not for Profit and
Social Enterprises to conduct e-waste recycling
services.
TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE OUTCOMES
The National E-Waste Alliance has established each of
its sites upon a business model that maintains its
status as the most complete e-waste solution in the
market place. Whilst many other recyclers make
claims to support or employ the disadvantaged, there
is no one entity in Australia with the capacity and
outcomes as delivered by the National E-Waste
Alliance. This offering is unique & unmatched in the ewaste sector providing considerable add-on benefit to
all parties and the stakeholders they serve.
The principal drivers and objectives of the National EWaste Alliance include:
• Providing sustainable employment for the disabled
and disadvantaged
• Enabling a national collection & recycling capacity
• Creating local opportunities for sustainable business
• Stimulating regional business solutions
• Amortization of risk factors and sharing of
knowledge for success
• Creating cost savings for all alliance sites
• Providing a single point of contact for the whole
alliance
• Creating true Triple bottom line outcomes –
financial, environmental, and social
ENVIRONMENTAL
• Achieve consistent high recovery of commodities
through the manual process.
• Maximizes viability in reducing costs by achieving a
small (and decreasing) waste fraction.
• Commitment to accept items outside the scope of
the Product Stewardship Legislation to provide a
single solution to clients and reduce items going to
landfill.
The recycling process undertaken at Alliance sites has
evolved as a result of extensive research into the
various methods of recycling. Facilities that simply
compact and shred electronic waste immediately
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FINANCIAL
• Working with clients to ensure their own
environmental objectives remain financially
sustainable.
• Pricing is set at rates to maintain a viable business
but also sustain a long term recycling program.
• Maintain an active role in advocating on behalf of
the client to achieve further subsidy and
obtain
greater financial relief for the client.
• The National E-Waste Alliance are in discussions
with Co-Regulatory Arrangements to accelerate the
transition to a free to consumer system. This cost
saving directly lowers the cost to the client.
illness, maintains an un-contestable status as the
most complete e-waste solution in the market place.
SOCIAL
• Facilitate local sustainable employment for between
8 & 16 staff per site.
• Support the disabled and disadvantaged, ensuring
considerable benefit back to the community.
The National E-Waste Alliance serves as an example
of how a viable concept can be expanded for the
benefit of many social enterprises with the right level
of commitment and central coordination.
For more information contact:
Kevin Mooney
P: 0400 696 065
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The National E-Waste Alliance, with an emphasis on
both metro and regional facilities, local jobs and
support for local people with disabilities or mental
Convener’s Report
Mel Flanagan from Nook Studios has been engaged to develop the CRN Australia documentary which is scheduled to be launched early May so look out for this exci@ng project.
MaC Allen and colleagues from Resource Work Co-­‐
opera@ve in Tasmania have been busy again working on the new Membership Standard which was tabled as a draG at the recent monthly CRN Australia Management CommiCee teleconference.
Work is s@ll underway on a reference copy for the new Australian Standard for E-­‐waste AS5377 , which will guide all CREs that process E-­‐waste – watch this space. There is informa@on on the Na@onal E-­‐waste Alliance on pages 3-­‐4 in this bulle@n.
Another reminder that two CRE representa@ves, myself and John Weate of Resource Recovery Australia, will be presen@ng at the Waste 2013 Conference, Coffs Harbour, April 30 – May 2. The program is interes@ng if you have the @me and budget to aCend – these conferences are a great opportunity to network. We will be flying the CRN Australia flag so if you are aCending make contact – we all like to network!
CommiCee Members have the opportunity to comment and the new Membership Standard will be put up for adop@on in May ready for membership renewals on 1 July 2013. The Management CommiCee agreed that an ‘Individual Membership’ classifica@on should be added so you will soon be able to join CRN Australia on an individual basis!
With reference to Membership, a reminder about our membership drive – there is plenty of informa@on about CRN Australia on the website or contact your State Representa@ve or Peter Cox for more informa@on. There are many benefits to becoming a member, and new members also bring new ideas and knowledge to the organisa@on.
Re-­‐gards, Miles
Miles Lochhead
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Expression of Interest
News from Tasmania
Uniform Recycling
A large corporate that
provides tidy office uniforms
to all staff is looking to recycle
uniforms and is interested in
working with a Community
Recycling Enterprise.
If you are able to provide an effective response to high
volumes of uniforms that are in need of a second life
In twenty years of operation The Recovery Shop,
located in Glenorchy, Tasmania, has recirculated over
15,000,000 valuable re-usable products; recycled
20,000 tonnes of commodities – rather than being
buried in landfill; received over 900,000 customers, and
over 150,000 drop offs; plus over $8,000,000 has been
returned to the local economy.
but cannot be identifiable.
If you are able to assist or interested in knowing more
contact Mark Daniels at Social Traders on 0414241766
The shop offers twenty departments of sale, ranging
from books and stationary, windows and doors,
essential house hold goods of furniture and kitchenalia,
to metal and mesh. The business has a very broad
customer base and offers something for low, medium
and high income earners. To facilitate social inclusion,
the business also donates free of charge goods to
those most in need, and offers substantial discounts to
community groups for events and projects.
Bicycle Tyre Recycling
Bicycling is certainly going to remain a sustainable
transport solution into the future, as well as being a lot
of fun. But have you ever wondered where all the tyres
and tubes go after they are worn out.
Recovery Tas Pty Ltd, owners and operators of The
Recovery Shop, want to thank the Glenorchy
community, all their customers for their patronage, and
Glenorchy City Council for its support over the past two
decades by holding a three day birthday party on
Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of April at
the shop.
Landfill? Most likely.
For more information on the business and
the weekend of celebrations, please contact
A quick search on the internet will show there is some
great upcycling and reusing going on out there, like
belts accessories , furniture, and even door mats.
Brad Mashman on 0409 561 190.
However, surely more can be done. If you have any
ideas or know of any community recycling enterprises
that would be interested in upcycling or recycling on a
commercial scale, please contact Miles Lochhead at:
Jackson Street
Glenorchy, Tasmania
Phone: 03 6274 1046
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https://www.facebook.com/recoverytipshop
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Contributions
Compost Week - May 6-11
Each month we would like to include the following:
• any news updates
• feature an enterprise
• introduce a new member/enterprise
• introduce a new idea/method/technique
There are approximately 140 businesses around Australia
recovering more than 5.2 million tonnes of organic wastes
and turning them into useful products and services each year.
The remaining recycled organic material is either applied
directly to land or used to generate heat or electrical energy.
Collectively these commercial organic recycling businesses
are called the Recycled Organics Industry. The peak body
representing the Recycled Organics Industry nationally is
Compost Australia. Maybe your enterprise could look into the
commercial possibilities of composting. For more information
on Compost Week go to www.compostweek.com.au/core/
• advertise upcoming events/forums/workshops
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