About us
We are here to make recycling easy and accessible for everyone. We help households and businesses take small, smart steps in the right direction and keep valuable resources in circulation.
Our vision
Our mission is to accelerate Australia’s transition to a circular economy by giving a second life to almost everything. We aim to foster a growing and engaged community that adopts sustainable behaviour. To achieve this, we utilise technology, powerful data, transparent partnerships, and encourage active participation to make recycling easy and trustworthy.
Our partners
Once your items are collected, they are delivered to our recycling partners, whether directly or through our consolidation points.
Our partners are:
Soft plastics: APR Plastics etc. Find out more here.
Clothes: Australian Red Cross and Upcycle4Better etc.
E-Waste: SPC Cycle etc.
Misfits: Nespresso, Sell & Parker and more!
Find out more about our partners here.
We are constantly evolving and searching for the most sustainable outcome for the recyclables we collect.
Would you like to partner with us? Get in touch at hello@recyclesmart.com
Our Team
RecycleSmart was born in September 2019 from cofounders Marco Prayer and Giorgio Baracchi. RecycleSmart is Australian owned and operated.
Since then, RecycleSmart has grown to a tight-knit team of 10 people passionate about recycling (yes!) and a crew of incredible drivers. We are a diverse group with different backgrounds, living along the coast between Melbourne and Byron Bay.
Your friendly drivers are contracted locally: they are (even more!) passionate and trained to sort, weigh and assess the breakdown of all the items we collect, and report before delivering them to our partners.
We are carbon neutral
Carbon neutrality through carbon offsetting means balancing out the amount of carbon emissions produced by investing in projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere.
TRACE has helped calculate the emissions of our day-to-day operations and worked with us to offset our carbon footprint through a program that plants trees in Australia and around the world.
We understand that recycling is not the only answer. We believe that tackling the waste problem will take more than one solution. We encourage our residents to reduce and reuse before recycling through our online platform.
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