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FEATURED BUSINESS
Eco Buy
ECO-Buy is a not for profit Centre of Excellence in Environmental Purchasing, established to encourage the purchasing of environmentally preferable (green) products and services.
ECO-Buy offers a one-stop-shop to support businesses to 'green' their purchasing, providing a wide range of services and resources encompassing all aspects of green procurement, from policy and strategy development to practical tools, templates and advice.
“Green purchasing is a proven way to reduce your environmental impact, improve your efficiencies and deliver cost savings”, says Hugh Wareham, CEO of ECO-Buy. “Based on the simple premise that every purchase impacts on the environment, it’s about buying products and services that are less damaging to the environment and human health than those you currently buy.”
ECO-Buy has an online Sustainable Procurement Assessment tool, featured on Carbon Compass, that enables businesses to measure and benchmark their green purchasing status and progress, highlight gaps and opportunities, and keep a record of and report their results.
MobileMuster is the official recycling program of the mobile phone industry, established in 1999 and funded by the telecommunications industry to stop old handsets from ending up in landfill and to reduce the demand on the planets valuable resources.
The free program collects and recycles mobile phone handsets, batteries and accessories from a network of over 3,500 mobile phone retailers, local councils, government agencies and business drop-off points across Australia.
All mobiles collected by MobileMuster are dismantled, sorted and separated into circuit boards, batteries, handsets and accessories, no item is re-used or re-sold. These are then processed either locally or overseas for resource recovery.
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