Waste & recycling outlets in Australia

ASX-listed national waste management company operating a large collection fleet and network of organics facilities. It collects commercial food and organic waste, depackages it, and processes it into compost for farms and land rehabilitation, with biogas via anaerobic digestion at some sites.

Australia/New Zealand arm of the global Veolia environmental services group, providing food organics and garden organics (FOGO) collection and processing. It uses in-vessel composting and forced-aeration to make compost and soil conditioners, and runs anaerobic digestion converting commercial food waste to electricity.

Australian subsidiary of the global REMONDIS Group providing commercial food organics collection and processing. It uses sealed tunnel composting to turn food and garden waste into compost, mulch and fertiliser for parks, agriculture and gardens.

South Australian organics recycler and soil-products manufacturer based at the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre. It collects commercial organics across metropolitan Adelaide and processes them into AS4454-certified compost, mulch and soil products for gardening, trade and agriculture.

Australian waste and recycling company (formerly J.J. Richards & Sons) providing organics and food-waste collection across multiple regions. Collected material is composted at processing facilities including CQ Compost, which makes agricultural compost used by Central Queensland cotton farmers.

Operator of a licensed, fully enclosed in-vessel FOGO composting facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, processing up to 120,000 tonnes of food and garden organics per year. It produces AS4454-certified soil conditioners for vineyards, market gardeners, broadacre farms and landscapers.

Foodbank Australia is the country's largest food relief organisation, sourcing surplus and donated food and groceries from farmers, growers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers and redistributing it through a national network of frontline charities and Foodbank Hubs. It operates across all Australian states and territories.

SecondBite is one of Australia's largest food relief organisations. It rescues surplus edible food from growers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers and redistributes it free to charities and community groups, and runs FareShare kitchens that cook rescued produce into ready-to-eat meals.

FareShare is an Australian charity, established in 2001, that rescues surplus and donated food from supermarkets, wholesalers, manufacturers and farmers and cooks it into free, nutritious ready-to-eat meals distributed through frontline charities. It operates kitchens in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Loaves & Fishes Tasmania is a Tasmanian not-for-profit food-rescue social enterprise that collects surplus and donated produce from local providers and producers, repackages it and cooks ready-to-eat and school meals, and delivers food free statewide through partner community agencies. It is based in Devonport and serves Tasmania.

Castlegate James Australasia upcycles food and beverage manufacturing by-products, out-of-spec and grade-out material (bread, biscuits, dough, vegetables, fruit, brewers' grains, dairy powders and confectionery) into nutritionally balanced livestock feed for the dairy, cattle and sheep markets. It runs accredited production sites across Australia and New Zealand.

Talloman, the rendering division of the Craig Mostyn Group, processes animal co-products (mixed abattoir material, fat and bone, blood, feather and poultry by-products) into feed ingredients such as meat meal and tallow for the pet food, aquaculture, pig and poultry industries. Its plant is in Hazelmere, Western Australia and is the largest renderer in the state.

Bush's Proteins (A J Bush & Sons) is a 100-plus-year-old, Australian-owned service renderer that processes red meat and poultry by-products from abattoirs, butchers and meat processors into tallow and protein meals. Its main protein and oil extraction plant is at Beaudesert, Queensland.

Pridham runs an organic recycling / rendering operation that processes fat and bone from the meat industry, cooking it to separate tallow from meat and bone meal. The meal is used in livestock feed, pet food, aquaculture and fertiliser, and the tallow in edible, soap and industrial applications.

Food Recycle uses a patented multi-step process (collection, heat-treatment kill step, storage, mixing and packing) to convert commercial food waste into high-performance animal feeds for pigs, poultry and aquaculture. It operates in the Australia and New Zealand region and licenses its technology internationally.

Australian bioenergy developer and operator that builds anaerobic digestion plants converting commercial, industrial and agricultural organic waste into renewable electricity, heat, biomethane and biofertiliser. Feedstocks include agricultural waste, organic municipal waste, animal residues and source-separated food organics.