Invitation Only – Workshop: Identifying circular economy opportunities in the north of Melbourne
Hosted by: Merri-bek City Council, Hume City Council & City of Whittlesea
Delivered by: NORTH Link’s Melbourne’s North Food Group (MNFG) & Melbourne’s North Advanced Manufacturing Group (MNAMG)
Facilitated by: CSIRO
About the workshop
This exclusive invitation-only workshop brings together manufacturers and other key businesses to work with the CSIRO to identify practical circular economy and industrial collaboration opportunities in the region.
Manufacturing businesses generate material, water, energy and other resource flows every day, some of it wasted, some of it costly to manage, and some of it a potential resource for another business nearby. This session is designed to surface those flows, find where they overlap across the region, and turn that shared picture into real opportunities: partnerships, shared infrastructure, or ways of putting waste streams to better use.
Why You Should Attend
- Save money on materials and processes
- Stay ahead of new Federal Environment laws
- Improve environmental performance of your business
- Hear from the nation’s foremost circular economy experts from the CSIRO
What we’ll do
- Help you sketch the material and resource flows relevant to participating manufacturers in Melbourne’s north
- Identify a shortlist of priority materials or resource streams where circular economy intervention looks most promising
- Explore potential circular economy and industrial collaboration opportunities between businesses
- Prioritise 2–4 opportunities worth further investigation
- Capture which businesses are interested in progressing these opportunities
- Discuss the data, infrastructure, regulation, finance and coordination needed to make it happen
Who should attend?
This workshop is designed for:
- Food and beverage manufacturers
- Sustainability, operations and production managers
- Circular economy and resource recovery professionals
- General Manufacturers
- Manufacturing Supply Chain
- Hospitals
- Businesses interested in reducing waste, improving efficiency and exploring collaborative opportunities
