Trash to treasure: the social enterprises transforming recycling

Often led by women, companies such as Green Collect are turning urban waste into employment for disadvantaged peopleConvincing companies to buy back their own rubbish sounds like an unlikely business model – yet the Melbourne social enterprise Green Collect has found a way to make it work. Companies in the city’s office towers pay Green Collect to take away hard-to-recycle waste. Green Collect then employs socially disadvantaged people to refashion it into something useful and then s