WELCOME TO THE AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF RECYCLING
The Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) is the national peak industry association for businesses in the recycling industry of Australia.
If your business is involved in recycling its products, recovering end-of-life products and materials or putting recovered materials to use in new products, ACOR is your industry voice to government and the broader community.
ACOR’s members are responsible for more than 85% of all recycling in Australia and include some of Australia’s largest public and private companies such as Visy, ALCOA, AMCOR, OneSteel, O-i Glass, Sims and Veolia; and employs over 40,000 people directly or indirectly.
ACOR’s overarching role is to advocate for improved levels of resource efficiency at the national and state levels and represent all businesses in the value chain of resource recovery and recycling, including:
- manufacturers who design their products for recycling,
- reprocessors who process recovered materials for reuse, and
- manufacturers using recycled materials.
Our core business is to work closely with governments to lobby and advise them on the practical implications of policy and regulation needed to grow all aspects of the recycling industry. This industry growth will deliver the business infrastructure necessary to achieve major improvements in the recovery and reapplication of products and resources, particularly material resources, into Australia’s productive economy.
ACOR seeks to support governments and the Australian community in helping Australia make the transition from an inefficient and wasteful (linear) economic system – where products and materials are disposed of at the end of their productive life – to a highly efficient, sustainable (closed-loop) materials economy.
