Sustainability Victoria is an agency of the Victorian Government which facilitates and promotes the sustainable use of resources. Sustainability Victoria implements Victorian Government policy by working with business, government, householders, schools and the community to deliver tangible outcomes in the areas of carbon pollution reduction and the smarter use of energy, materials and water. We are a catalyst for sustainable growth and development in Victoria, bringing together the knowledge and capabilities of people, organisations and communities to deliver integrated social, economic and environmental outcomes.

EPA Victoria has been protecting, caring for and improving our environment for almost 40 years. 

EPA sets and enforces the highest regulatory standards to ensure the environment is protected for the benefit of the Victorian community.

Thiess Services – a wholly owned subsidiary of Thiess – is a versatile, innovative and diverse services partner. Our expertise covers remediation, utilities management, waste management, transport infrastructure operations and maintenance and facilities management. We deliver long-term, cost-effective and environmentally responsible outcomes for clients while maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for employees and the community.  With operations throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, we are continuing to expand market presence in our key areas of operation:

• Remediation
• Electrical Utilities
• Water Utilities
• Gas Utilities
• Waste Management
• Road and Tollway Infrastructure
• Rail Infrastructure
• Facilities Management

Melbourne Water is owned by the Victorian Government. We manage water supply catchments, treat and supply drinking and recycled water, remove and treat most of Melbourne’s sewage, and manage waterways and major drainage systems in the Port Phillip and Westernport region. We are a significant business, managing $9.4 billion of natural and built assets. We consider social, environmental and financial effects and short-term and long-term implications in all our business decisions. Our key stakeholders are customers, government, regulators, other water businesses, land developers, the community and suppliers. These stakeholders and our other strategic partners, including alliance colleagues and research organisations, help us achieve our objectives.

WME Media is Australia’s leading environment business publisher. For 20 years it has published the monthly WME – Environment Business magazine, the country’s leading forum to discuss corporate sustainability and water, waste and energy management.

WME combines veteran journalism with industry-sourced opinion and analysis to service those responsible for the environmental performance of their organisation or who work in the environmental goods and services sector.

The company also publishes the online daily Environmental Management News.net; and Inside Waste magazine, which covers Australasia’s waste management industry and is also official publication of the Waste Management Association of Australia. WME Media is publishing the Enviro 10 Daily News.

OgilvyEarth is Australia’s leading sustainability communications agency. We help companies, industry and government harness the power of sustainability to drive brand value, achieve long-term growth and improve their bottom lines. OgilvyEarth consultants work across a diverse range of specialist fields: from empowering employees to embrace their company’s environmental platforms, to promoting green products, to advising on environmental public policy.

OgilvyEarth combines in-depth knowledge of sustainability with communications expertise to help our clients better engage with staff, consumers, government, communities, media, customers, suppliers and investors. We’ve worked with some of Australia’s leading organisations, including Qantas, Origin Energy, Woolworths, the Australian Landfill Owners Association, Veolia Environmental Services, Visy and BlueScope Steel. And we’re ready to bring this knowledge and experience to your company.

At Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), a sense of social responsibility underpins our vision of being a highly influential force in the development and operation of infrastructure.  We employ more than 13,000 people worldwide to work with our clients to reach their desired project and program outcomes, strengthening the fabric of the communities we serve around the world. Providing planning, environment, engineering, strategic consulting, and program and construction management services, PB is active in multiple market sectors, including transport, water, resources and industry, community development, defence and power through total project life cycle. PB’s commitment to a company culture based on our guiding principles of sustainability – integration, adaptation and innovation – ensures that sustainability is integral to everything we do. At PB we are committed to realising our vision to benefit our planet, and to benefit future generations.

AusIndustry is the Australian Government’s principal business program delivery division in the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

AusIndustry delivers more than 30 business programs – including innovation grants, tax and duty concessions, small business development, industry support and venture capital – worth $2 billion every year.

The Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD) is the Victorian Government’s lead agency for economic and regional development. The Government's goals for more quality jobs and thriving, innovative industries across Victoria are fostered through DIIRD's five priority objectives: investment attraction, trade development, developing innovative industries, regional development and marketing Victoria.

The Australian Food and Grocery Council’s Packaging Stewardship Forum (PSF) partners to deliver industry recycling, litter reduction and education projects across Australia. Its membership comprises Australia’s leading beverage companies and their packaging suppliers, who are committed to reducing the impacts of their packaging on the environment.

CH2M HILL brings world-class technologies and sustainable principles to water, wastewater, environmental, energy and industrial processes, high-tech, facilities, transport, power, communications and information systems, and infrastructure projects throughout this region.

We offer a complete service, taking your project from concept through planning, financing, design, construction, and operations.

Yarra Valley Water is Melbourne’s largest retail water company, providing water supply and sewerage services to over 1.5 million people who live and work across the northern and eastern suburbs. Our goal is to lead the global water sector in customer service, environmental sustainability and the delivery of a secure, high quality water supply.  

Veolia Environmental Services is one of Australia’s foremost providers of Waste and Resource Recovery solutions. Veolia has a vast infrastructure of technical solutions across waste-to-energy technology, composting technologies, hazardous liquid waste recovery solutions, advanced resource recovery technologies, and award winning facilities including Transfer Stations and Materials Recovery Facilities. Veolia operates across more than 100 depots nationally; servicing over 60,000 clients.

Clients who choose Hyder can enjoy comprehensive advice for all of their environmental management needs, whether it involves ecologically sustainable development, sustainable resource management, complex and rigorous standards, or a solution to address all of this. We are always looking to leverage our experience as an international advisory and design consultancy to address environmental, engineering, planning and project management challenges within the property, transport, water and resources sectors.

Achieving extraordinary outcomes throughout the project lifecycle requires specialist knowledge which ultimately transforms environmental, social and safety expenditure into investment.  At Coffey Environments, we partner with our clients globally to deliver life of project specialist environmental, social and safety performance solutions in the infrastructure, resources, government and property sectors.

The Publishers National Environment Bureau, the newspaper and magazine publishing industry body established voluntarily 1991:

• has led to Australia being a world leader in recycling of old newsprint and magazines;
• focuses on extended producer responsibility, diversion of waste from landfill, industry’s impact on climate change;
• spends $100,000 annually supplying education materials to schools on the importance of newspaper and magazine recycling and positive environmental impacts on use of recycled fibre;
• sponsors initiatives that raise awareness of the environmental benefits of paper recycling.

The Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG) is a Statutory Body of the Victorian Government charged with facilitating best practice waste management for Melbourne. MWMG works with 30 metropolitan councils to build capacity and knowledge on waste issues including waste minimisation and recycling, as well assisting with the planning and procurement of waste management and resource recovery services.

SITA Environmental Solutions (SITA) is one of Australia's leading advanced resource recovery, recycling and waste management companies.  Our established services include residential, commercial and industrial collection and recycling; organics collection and resource recovery through composting; waste generation audits; medical and clinical waste collection and processing; autoclaving; product destruction; engineered landfill services and transfer facilities.

SITA is the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Asia Pacific 'Waste Management Company of the Year' - sita.com.au.

LMS Generation is an independent renewable electricity generator. In 1982 the company principals pioneered the collection and conversion of landfill gas to energy in Australia. Having invested extensive resources in the on-going development of intellectual property for landfill gas management and power generation, LMS technologies are now utilised throughout the world.

Enviro Innovation in Sustainability Award Sponsor
Sulo MGB Australia

SULO MGB Australia operates one of the largest plastic injection moulding companies in Australasia at Somersby, on the Central Coast of NSW. The SULO facility is the most highly automated large tonnage injection moulding plant in Australia. SULO Australia has an extensive branch network that sees bins supplied to customers across Australia and New Zealand.