In August each year, Keep Australia Beautiful holds a campaign to raise awareness about the simple things we can all do in our daily lives to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage action.
Across the week, volunteers gathered together to support our ongoing efforts to Keep Australia Beautiful. Massive thank you to those who took time out of their busy schedules to help clean up areas where we live, work and play and to those that joined online for our "Lunch and Learn" with Candice Myers from Cleanaway.
Cleanaway - Sustainable Waste Management and Resource Recovery
Did you know that 42% of all organic waste, and 90% of textile wastes that ends up in landfill have come out of households.
Candice Myers from Cleanaway joined Rebecca Voyer, Group Environmental Lead at Monadelphous, to talk all things waste and resource recovery, while exploring ways to reduce our impact on the environment during Keep Australia Beautiful Week.
Candice had no previous waste management experience when she first entered the industry. She was thrown in the deep end of waste management when her and her sister came up with the idea to open a skip bin company.
Commencing her journey focusing on household residential waste, Candice's interest and curiosity for the whole idea of where our waste comes from, and the broader sustainability issues associated with it, led her to further tertiary studies on the subject and her job with Cleanaway. Candice and Bec discuss the principles of good waste management and ways we can contribution to minimising impacts by preventing waste to landfill.
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Keep Australia Beautiful Clean Up
Thank you to everyone that participated in the efforts.
Keep Australia Beautiful gives us the opportunity to get involved and give back by prompting everyone to think of ways to reduce our impact on the environment and encouraging action with clean-up activities, making our sites, streets and waterways a cleaner place.
We also acknowledge the continued efforts of our Kalgoorlie and Gladstone Teams, and the Bunbury and INPEX ILNG teams, who got on board and hosted their own events. Other clean up events are still happening over the coming weeks, and it's fantastic to see such involvement across different locations.
Our commitment to initiatives like this is part of our greater Community Engagement Plan, which focuses on supporting our people, the communities and environments where we live and work.
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