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ASPIRE - diverting business waste

Sort, reuse and save on your business waste management costs.

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ASPIRE program

Join the ASPIRE program, an online platform where your business can list unwanted materials or products for trade, exchange or sale. Those items are seen by potential remanufacturers, purchasers or recyclers who need them.

ASPIRE program

Register to use ASPIRE

All businesses in Greater Bendigo can sign up for ASPIRE. Smaller businesses (20 employees or less) can sign up for free. Larger organisations pay an annual fee. 

Register

Materials for trade, sale or swap

You can trade and repurpose many different material streams and products on the ASPIRE platform:

  • Automotive parts
  • Cardboard
  • Chemicals
  • Construction waste
  • Demolition waste
  • Electronic waste
  • Furniture
  • Glass
  • Liquids
  • Metals
  • Organic waste
  • Paper
  • Plastics
  • Textiles
  • Wood and timber

There is an other category for things that fall outside the above streams.

Why ASPIRE

As part of our goal of being a net zero city by 2036, we are offering local businesses ways to keep materials and products out of landfill, and even convert them into new income streams.

Our partnership with ASPIRE is one way we are realising that goal and creating a local circular economy. With good design and effective recovery of materials, we can aim to avoid waste completely and create new industries.

Find out about the Greater Bendigo Circular Economy:
 

Greater Bendigo Circular economy

Understand the idea of circular economy and what the City is doing to realise net zero waste by 2036

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Benefits to your business

Connecting with businesses who can reuse or re-purpose your waste(d) materials and products may provide several cost sand environmental benefits, including:

  • Reducing waste disposal costs
  • Earning revenue from waste(d) materials and products
  • Diverting waste from landfill
  • Creating new supply chains
  • Connecting local businesses
  • Creating new ideas for reusing and recycling
  • Exchanging or selling items
  • Reducing emissions and tracking your carbon savings
  • Transparency on your transactions with the SGS verification system