Fairview’s Ecoloop aluminium recycling facility wins Product Stewardship Award by an SME

Fairview has declared that its leading Ecoloop recycling facility has bagged the Product Stewardship Award for Best Stewardship Outcomes after being selected by an SME business.

This current Stewardship title further establishes Ecoloop’s identity as a successful recycling and reinstating unit for combustible aluminium cladding extracted from risky facade systems. This award also emphasises Fairview’s position as a propagator of recycling building materials and other auxiliary safety practices.

The Product Stewardship Excellence Awards is conducted by the Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence with support from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The award felicitates industry-related stewardship achievements, mainly in the emissions and sustainability arena. Other enterprises awarded during the same event include Dulux, Biopak and NSW’s Return and Earn Container Deposit Scheme for their flagship sustainability movements.

One of the experts hosting the awards judging panel, Professor Damien Giurco, quoted: “Fairview’s Ecoloop is a recycling solution for aluminium composite panel cladding aimed at diverting 100% of waste from landfill as part of a national replacement of non-compliant cladding. Judges were inspired by the completely circular nature of their program and its successes in ensuring that each component of the separated materials was further utilised, namely aluminium, polyethene, ferrous metals and mixed residuals. They also noted that the program has considerable potential to be scaled.”

The Award was presented after records from a recent report was scrutinised that displayed; Ecoloop has diverted 309 tonnes of cladding rectification waste from landfill since January 2021. Also, from the same time period, the enterprise has successfully discarded an enormous 2.254 tonnes of harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) through recycling activities and has also transferred 100 per cent of the ACP cladding thrown away by various brands from landfills to recycling zones.

Fairview’s National Manager for Rectification & Recycling, Gary Norris, specifically pointed out: “With data showing that 58.3kgs of carbon is offset for every m2 recycled via Ecoloop, we could recycle much more if every cladding brand or company and government agency sent their at-risk and combustible cladding to Ecoloop to be repurposed as recycled material or sustainable building materials.”

Before this win, Fairview’s Ecoloop had been recognised as a finalist in the Urban Developer Awards for Excellence in Sustainability revolving around New Zealand and Australia.