Climate One Recycling, an Australian initiative aimed at reducing PVC waste, has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award at the 2024 ProPrint Awards.
Held on Friday 25 October 2024 at the Shangri-La Sydney, the ProPrint Awards celebrated and honoured excellence in the Australian printing industry. This year’s event reported record numbers, with more than 365 guests in attendance.
The Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award is awarded to a company that is undertaking sustainable practices within their organisation, using sustainable materials, or has achieved specific sustainability benchmarks or improvements over the last 12 months.
Officially launched this year, Climate One was created to avoid putting PVC into landfill by recycling end of life soft PVC. Utilising world-first technology, Climate One’s mechanical separation recycling process, located at its Queensland factory, the company is able to recycle billboards printed on PVC banner and save them from going into landfill.
Climate One’s patented technology and process has also been third-party verified by the globally recognised accreditation company, Global Greentag.
Media agencies nationally and several large out of home providers have shown immediate support for the initiative. Climate One is now quoting recycling as an option for all out of home billboard campaigns for Dentsu and other well-known agency groups. Climate One has also recycled and booked campaigns for Woolworths, Dan Murphy’s, Mercedes, TAC, Milkrun, Medibank, Nike, and Taxibox.
Accepting the Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award, David Walton said it was an honour to win the Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award.
“We launched nine months ago and since then we have seen continuous support from the output companies, agencies, printers, and suppliers,” said Walton.
“We have managed to collect around 120 tonnes so far, and we are looking to continue developing our output of products that we’re recycling. We’re also working with the University of Queensland to develop a closed loop banner solution, hopefully in the near future.”
Read more about the 2024 ProPrint Awards in the upcoming December issue of ProPrint magazine.
The 2024 ProPrint Awards would not be possible without the ongoing support of the event’s sponsors:
Platinum sponsor
Durst Oceania
Gold sponsors
Ball & Doggett
FUJIFILM Australia
HP
IVE Group
Omnigraphics
Pozitive Sign & Graphic Supplies
Silver sponsors
ABC Copiers
Böttcher Systems
Cactus Imaging
EFI
Graph-Pak
Konica Minolta
Kurz Australia
Lamont Print + Signs
Lamson Paragon
Mimaki Australia
PAKKO
Ricoh Australia
Spicers Australia
Xeikon
Auditing partner
PKF
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