Circular
Communities
Australia
environmental
commercial sustainability.

Our Community

It takes a community to change and grow.

The Circular Communities Australia community is made up of Big Bag Recovery which includes: bag importers; brand owners; product users (consumers); collectors; and collection points (businesses, councils and resellers) AND Circular Communities Australia which includes: manufacturers; and users of new products made from 100% recycled content.

Our community does this so it can repeat it again and again. We do not generate the initial plastic or its problems, but we can influence what happens after that.

This is what our community is about.

Australia’s first purpose built big bag to new product manufacturing plant.

Toowoomba Queensland facility
operational in early 2024

Environmental and
Commercial Sustainability.

Circular economy driven by stewardship which delivers environmental and commercial sustainability. Big Bag Recovery is an Australian Government Accredited Product Stewardship Scheme.

Big Bag Recovery (BBR) provide reliable feedstock while and satisfying its members regulatory and social obligations; Circular Communities Australia (CCA) processes the BBR plastic into commercial resin pellets and new products which delivers circular economy and recycling outcomes.

For every tonne of plastic
CCA processes

  • 1.47 tonnes of CO2 emissions are avoided
  • $2,500 in landfill costs are saved

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Reduced GHG emissions, cleaner waterways and a sustainable industry that maximises the use of a created resource.

All products that CCA makes, CCA retains responsibility to recover and repeat the recycling process.

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For every 100 tonnes of plastic ecovered and processed 1 brand new circular economy job is created. Schools and small groups will be invited to visit the facility starting in mid 2024. To see and understand circularity firsthand.

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Manufacturing –
Circular Community
Australia

From Bags to 3 Key Products: Targeted directly at Governments procurement commitment to 30% recycled content.

These products:

  • Created using existing technology
  • Currently manufactured overseas, manufactured and consumed in Australia
  • Are both Environmentally and Economically beneficial
  • Recoverable and reprocessable, creating a true circular economy
  • BBR controls the ongoing recovery and reprocessing of products manufactured. This underscores ongoing environmental and commercial benefits

A.

Sound abatement
and structural panels

B.

School and
community chairs

C.

Evaporation and
odour suppression
floating covers