GippsTAFE Becoming Waste Wise!Working toward becoming a Waste Wise Organisation By Eimear McNelis - 9th July 2002 - Back to News •Tell us your opinion •See what others have said GippsTAFE has recently signed an agreement with Ecorecycle Victoria to work toward becoming a Waste Wise Organisation.
"GippsTAFE has been conducting a ‘Business Sustainability – Profiting Through Cleaner Production’ course for the last year now and is taking it one step further by committing to becoming a Waste Wise Organisation itself," said Ross McDermott, Research and Development Consultant at GippsTAFE.
The Waste Wise Organisation Program is a voluntary program run by Ecorecycle Victoria in partnership with the sixteen regional waste management groups across Victoria.
The objectives are to encourage businesses and organisations to take action to reduce their wastes and reward companies who are taking a lead role in waste avoidance.
The program is designed for businesses, councils and community organisations since they all use resources and produce waste.
The program is a two-stage process, stage one is becoming waste wise and stage two is having full waste wise status.
Barbara Johnson from the Gippsland Regional Waste Management Group presented the agreement to Joe Piper, General Manager of GippsTAFE, saying that this was the first stepping stone for the Institute and after providing an action plan, completing an audit and reducing its waste will gain full waste wise status.
The next few months will see GippsTAFE assess what waste throughout the Insititute can be avoided, reused or recycled.
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