Resource Recovery
Turning waste streams into value — identifying opportunities to recover resources, reduce costs and improve your environmental performance.
Maximising Value from Your Waste Streams
Resource recovery is about changing how we think about waste — shifting from disposal to recovery, from cost to value, from linear to circular. Many industrial waste streams that currently go to landfill or treatment contain materials that can be recovered, recycled or reused, both reducing disposal costs and generating new revenue.
Merton Environmental works with clients to identify these opportunities, assess their viability and implement resource recovery programs that make commercial and environmental sense.
Our Resource Recovery Services
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Waste Stream Characterisation
Detailed analysis of your current waste streams — quantities, composition, contamination levels and current disposal pathways. Understanding what you generate is the first step to recovering more value from it.
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Opportunity Identification
Systematic review of your waste streams against available recovery options — identifying which materials can be recovered, what technologies or facilities could accept them, and what the commercial and environmental return would be.
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Recovery Facility Matching
Connecting your waste streams with appropriate licensed resource recovery facilities — from solvent recovery and metal reclamation to composting, biogas and reuse programs across Victoria and nationally.
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Program Implementation
Hands-on support to implement approved resource recovery programs — including waste segregation protocols, labelling, collection scheduling, staff training and documentation for EPA reporting purposes.
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Performance Monitoring
Tracking and reporting on resource recovery program performance — diversion rates, cost savings, carbon reduction and regulatory compliance. Data you can use in your sustainability reporting and stakeholder communications.
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Regulatory Compliance
Ensuring your resource recovery activities comply with EPA exemptions, licence conditions and the Environment Protection (Industrial Waste Resource) Regulations — so your recovery initiatives don’t inadvertently create new compliance obligations.
Discover What You Could Recover
Contact us for a waste stream review and we’ll identify the recovery opportunities available to your business.