Terrific speaker! Great ideas and enthusiasm.
Otto Lechner – Waste Hubs
Field Officer from the Ipswich Centre.
Historic overview of work as a field officer focused on the nature of sustainable practice by manufacturers.
Main message: To show how businesses can work with government officers. There is a broad scale of activities that we can do. The cost $0.
Access manufacturers with the intent of moving them forward to adopt sustainability practices.
Seminar: Green on Lean with QMI. [b]Western Corridor Sustainability Group[/b] started to use as a hub on waste issues but so many other subject came up. 16 businesses got involved in the first couple of months.
1.Supply chain activity with a polystyrene company. Had to engage with the food-processing companies to reduce the use of stickers on the boxes.
2.Carbon outlet. Based on what industry you are in and what the impact will be on profit and cost.
3.Look at DERM how much surface area is there in the industrial estate to capture solar power to address peak power demand in the industrial estate?
4.An industrial ecology project to address the potential to find waste or byproducts to close the loop. Developed a number of relationships as a result of a survey about the waste 25 companies were producing that was not being recycled. 800Tonnes + 600cubic metres. There were opportunities for closed-looping.
5.We set up a national survey with the Australian Glass and Glazing Association to identify where laminated glass was being off-loaded.
6.Started to talk with the Australian Flexible Bulk Containers about bulker bags about the polystyrene stitching used in them that made then unable to be recycled. They found alternative stitiching but also companies who wanted to reuse the bags.
7.Companies trying to find products that could be used as a fuel for their businesses. Materials that had a specific calorific value. Rocky Point Green Power collecting cellulosic materials.
8.Identifying if an independent anaerobic digester could be set up next to Century Yuasa Batteries to see whether food waste could be used to produce power for CYC. Turned out to be too expensive.
9.Working with Ebenezer Industrial Estate developers to incorporate industrial ecology principles.
10.Developing an industrial waste resource tool for businesses.
Please engage the field officers of DEEDI.
Otto has great passion and knowledge.