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Bin Trim is a free online portal to help businesses measure their waste, and find out how to waste less and save more.

Over 38,000 businesses in NSW have already cut costs and reduced waste sent to landfill through Bin Trim. See some examples of how Bin Trim works in partnership with businesses to increase recycling and save money and resources.

EPA research into waste and recycling practices informs programs aimed at helping and supporting businesses to take positive action to reduce waste to landfill by avoiding, reusing and recycling more.

Most businesses produce some form of organics waste – whether employees’ lunch scraps, food business waste, or garden trimmings from landscaped areas. Recycling this organics material is an easy way for businesses to reduce the amount of waste sent for disposal.

Businesses and households collectively throw away almost a million tonnes of food each year in NSW. Meanwhile 100,000 people in our state require food relief each month, a quarter of them children. EPA grants and programs are working to close this gap.

Compost products recycled from food and garden waste can improve soil and plant health, while also reducing pressure on the environment by keeping these materials out of landfill. The EPA regulates the production and use of recycled organics products to protect community health and the environment. The EPA also supports initiatives to improve their quality.

The Circulate Industrial Ecology Program was designed to support recovery of commercial and industrial (C&I) and construction and demolition (C&D) waste from organisations across NSW.

Recycling can reduce waste disposal costs, enhance businesses’ reputation and benefit the community and environment. These fact sheets provide advice on how small and medium-sized businesses can avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle different materials.

Using recovered concrete, brick and asphalt materials for the construction of pavements, earthworks and drainage has several advantages, including potential cost savings and conserving natural resources.