32ND BANKSIA SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS: Upcycling Waste Celebrated at Australia's Top Sustainability Award

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A company that has reimagined the value of waste from water and sewerage has won gold at Australia's longest running and most prestigious sustainability awards. Icon Water, which supplies water and sewerage services to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), took home the Gold Banksia Award at an online event for the 32nd annual Banksia Sustainability Awards during March. Owned by the ACT Government, the water utility's resource recovery program 'No opportunity wasted'recovers by-products from water and sewerage management such as sludges, soils and biosolids. By re-using agri-ash, spoil and water treatment solids, recovering sand and producing soil conditioners Icon Water minimises waste to landfill (for example, 11 kilotonnes of agri-ash and spoil diverted from landfill in 2019-20 and is now enhancing soils on local farms) and in doing so actively contributes to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12).