CIRCULAR ECONOMY FNQ | HELPING BUSINESS TO:

REDUCE   REUSE   RECYCLE   REGEN

Our mission is through Human Centred Design and radical collaboration with Circular and Zero waste innovators to discover and implement a roadmap to reduce and measure our Carbon Footprint in business and our lifestyle.   


Our goal is validate local and national Circular Innovations in Case Studies so that we can through data, identify transition systems that are scaleable or repeatable in regional Australia.   Our Circular Business Transition Pilots is focused on diverting Food Waste from Landfill and reduce Methane at the same time as producing a Sustainability Report for their business.

BE THE CHANGE

As a social enterprise, Circular Economy FNQ sees it has an opportunity to be part of identifying the roadmap to move from a linear to a circular economy, in a tropical and regional setting.  The linear economy produces a lot of waste because even at best we only make use of 20% of our resources we produce or extract, because we use each resource for 1 purpose only = linear. 


The circular economy is the framework designed by sustainable economists to make recycling happen on a local and global scale. Moving the conversations from Gross Domestic Profit, GDP, to the S Curve, how much benefit can we get from this one resource. 


The reality is when you use 100% of a resource there is a lot more income to be made, take the coffee bean, we use 1% in a coffee, instead of sending it to landfill, it can be sent to Mushroom farmers or commercial composting centres to sell that compost to both regen farmers and domestic gardeners. That can be repeated across all types of food waste.


Seeing waste as a resource and changing our LIFESTYLE is two important habits we can all do to help launch the Circular Economy in FNQ. 


THIS CHANGE IS ACTUALLY BETTER FOR US AND BETTER FOR THE PLANET. It's full of opportunities including new industries that will develop effective ways of reusing our waste and the beauty of that is, it actually saves existing business models MONEY. Saving it and making it.


Our part in the piece of the puzzle is to connect the dots of passionate sustainable ambassadors in science, business and society to help us bring everyone along in a change that is good for the planet and good for the people.


1.5, that's all we can afford to let the temperature rise by, otherwise we will lose one if not both of our World Heritage Listed assets. We know if you have read it this far you feel the same way as us, join us as we need your energy in the mix. Exciting times ahead. 

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journey to sustainability

Want To Be A Carbon Neutral Human?  Join us in our Circular Citizen Challenge.

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Our Challenge Continues Till The 17th Of June 

We are developing Courses that will be included in your Circular Citizen Memberships

Did you know there are over 200 businesses in Cairns, Palm Cove and Port Douglas who already moving towards being a Zero Waste business?   

Join us in our Circular Citizen Challenge where you can show the businesses you buy from that you want them to also become a Zero Waste Business
so that you can be a Carbon Neutral Human while living in or visiting FNQ.

We believe that when we work together we can slow and even reverse climate change,
reduce the likelihood of 1billion Climate Change refugees and save the Daintree and Great Barrier Reef and all the wildlife that call both our World Heritage listed assets home, at the same time. 


We are doing this challenge in 2 ways.  Measuring your carbon footprint through the Reforest App.
We are asking those of you who have a great waste sorting system at home to share your waste sorting or reduction hacks on your Instagram or Facebook page so that we can curate those lessons in our Online Course we are building for our Circular Citizen membership. 

We believe in collective intelligence as the way to learn and overcome things faster, so we are bringing you out of socials and onto an online course where we can put those key lessons into a powerful checklist that we can share, over and over again. 

p.s. if you have any aunties, nanas or older gen who aren't tech aware, go over and film them too.  Learn more about the challenge by clicking the button below.  💚

#bettertogether

JOIN THE CHALLENGE

We Know, It's Blurry But The Message Is Great.  Not Sorry.

We Have Successfully Filled Our First Circular Business Transition Pilot.  We Start In 2023.

We are starting our first pilot in our goal to divert FOGO, Food Organics Garden Organics from landfill by testing in place processing solutions because Food Waste is 90% water and moving water around sounds bonkers!!


Food Waste makes up 60% of the landfill waste in Cairns Regional Council Landfill bins.

Every 10 tonnes we divert from landfill we create 9.2 local jobs. 


By processing the waste in place we help our Pilot businesses reduce the costs of waste management, provide a Monday style Sustainability checklist for businesses to easily follow as we write up the Custom Actions for our Pilot businesses that produces a Sustainability Report that is publically shared for other FNQ businesses to learn from.   We have designed in our pilot to curate the data we need that can not only reduce contamination but will provide training for the staff to adopt the new systems efficiently. 
 All of our solutions are data driven so we can validate in the first 3 months cost saving benefits in your business.

We are testing multiple solutions for the FOGO waste to help regenerate Farms on the Tablelands, put high quality compost in the gardens of the Hotels that are part of our pilot and create a sellable compost through P&C's and our website.   
We are designing the most good we can in our Pilot so that everyone wins.  The planet, the people and your business.

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One Of The Biggest Challenges To Making Waste A Resource Is Contamination!

We Need To Sort Our Waste Better At Home & At Work.


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Areticles and Resources

Below is a section of articles relating to intitatives, opportunities or tips and tricks to increase sustainability in your home and business. 

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13 Feb, 2023
Ai is a hot buzz word right now because it can do the dull work of looking for patterns and trends in the Natural Language Patterns, NLP, of online docs of companies that say they are doing good for People and Planet and may not be.
14 Jan, 2023
There is an open source solution to processing our plastic waste in place. Something that schools or entrepreneurs can take on.
08 Sep, 2022
When you live and work near the ocean it's hard to ignore the waste that makes its way into our oceans. Salty Monkeys are not only working on cleaning it up, they have made a product that they use every day in their lifestyle from it.
09 Feb, 2022
Plastic Free July happens every year and it helps us get better each year we run through it.
08 Feb, 2022
Reducing Methane through our food waste not being sent to landfill is the fastest way we can reverse climate change, it's one of our key initiatives to help commercial businesses to reduce food waste to landfill.
03 Jan, 2022
You know the Green Kangaroo symbol that used to encourage people to buy Australian made, well this encourages you to buy products that are made from waste resources or upcycled. Done right it will save you money and the planet at the same time!!
19 Nov, 2021
This economy is inclusive, distributive and regenerative. It takes in the needs of all including the planet and all animals who reside on her.
01 Sep, 2021
ecoBiz is a free initiative by the QLD government to help businesses find the savings in their waste, energy and water management. We are supporting this by developing relevant videos inside our memberships to help businesses change faster.
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