ASPIRE Connects Businesses for Sustainability

Published on 19 April 2024

Southern Grampians Shire Council is committed to a sustainable future for the Southern Grampians Shire and continuing to move towards a circular economy over the coming years. To accompany many proactive campaigns and sustainability solutions, Council will be launching the ASPIRE online platform for businesses and individuals in the area.  

The Advisory Stream for Process Innovation and Resource Exchange (ASPIRE) is an online marketplace for business to exchange their commercial and office waste as a resource.  

ASPIRE allows businesses to have unlimited resource listings, so they can sell excess waste materials online and build relationships with buyers and sellers. This in turn diverts excess waste resources from landfill and creates new revenue streams. 

Developed by the CSIRO, the website aims to help manufacturers to offset the increasing costs of using landfill as well as reduce the overall amount of waste going to landfill.  

Where this differs from previous systems is that any sale or exchange made on the platform can measure the carbon footprint saved or neutralised. If a company is working towards net zero or publishing these numbers regularly, this can be enormously beneficial.  

Southern Grampians Shire Council has begun the process of rolling out ASPIRE internally and is inviting local businesses to contact our sustainability team with any potential waste streams they may have, with the intention of rolling this platform out across local businesses.  

If your business is looking to save on waste disposal, earn revenue from waste, connect with other businesses or create new supply chains, this is a fantastic resource to avail of.  

Please email sustainability@sthgrampians.vic.gov.au for further information and stay tuned for updates about ASPIRE and other council programs.