World’s Biggest Garage Sale

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World’s Biggest Garage Sale is proudly an impact venture (social enterprise), balancing the triple bottom line of people, planet and purpose. While activating the circular economy to provide positive benefit to the environment and people, we are also committed to creating jobs for vulnerable and marginalised members of our community. Part of our charter is to ensure up to 50% of our roles go to those vulnerable and marginalised Australians. We are working in the areas of resource recovery of dormant goods (underutilised goods) through to recommerce and resale-retail.

We have launched Australia’s first Circular Economy Precinct (in Brisbane, Queensland) taking dormant goods from the community and businesses to renew, repair and repurpose these underutilised or imperfect products, transforming waste into saleable goods. Having led the growth of our Circular Economy Futures monthly meetup, Australia’s largest monthly gathering of innovators in this industry (1000+ members), we are committed to educating businesses and the community and are currently working on a retail returns circular platform.

We recently won the Banksia Minister’s Award for Environment in Australia, taking product stewardship and resource recovery to the next level, uniquely demonstrating how major national retailers can partner with small social enterprises to mutually benefit both stakeholders while deepening each business’ connection to the local community.

Finally we are working on further activating Resource Recovery and Product Stewardship within Australia via Federal, State and Local Government Policy.

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