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Supporting Communities and Regions to Transition to a Low Carbon and Circular Economy

Find out about our place-based circular economy initiatives  Supporting Communities and Regions to Transition to a Low Carbon and Circular […]

Modelling Circular Economy Transition Targets

The challenge Australia has an aim to achieve an 80 per cent resource recovery rate from all waste streams. However, […]

Offshore oil and gas decommissioning and resource recovery

CSIRO has investigated the challenges, regional opportunities and social acceptability for the multi-billion-dollar decommissioning of obsolete offshore oil and gas infrastructure in Australia.

Driving Australia’s Transition to a Circular Economy

New article published in Circular Economy and Sustainability The Circular Economy Research and Industry Collaboration has published an article in […]

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Keynote Presentation at the Waste Expo Conference 2024

Waste Expo Australia hosted the Waste Expo Conference 2024 in Melbourne on 23-24 October 2024. On Day 2, Heinz Schandl […]

Keynote presentation at 2024 Australian Resource Recovery Conference

The Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association of Australia is hosting the inaugural 2024 Australian Resource Recovery Conference in Adelaide […]

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Australia’s circular economy comparative and competitive advantages

We prepared a report for Australia’s Chief Scientist through the National Science and Technology Council – Australia’s comparative and competitive advantages in transitioning to a circular economy.

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Circular economy standards for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region 

We have produced a report on standards to accelerate the circular economy transition in the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) region.

We contributed to the UN Global Resource Outlook Report

We contributed to the UN’s Global Resources Outlook 2024 report which brings together the best available data, modelling and assessments to analyse trends, impacts and distributional effects of resource use. The report shows that by 2060, resource extraction could rise by 60 per cent from 2020 levels, increasing damage and risks to biodiversity, plastic pollution and climate change.

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Report reveals Australia’s material use and circular rate

Transport and housing make up more than half of Australia’s material footprint, followed by food, highlighting circular economy opportunities in a range of sectors.