Meeting Municipal Waste Targets Through Campus Infrastructure
Partner with Rethink Australia to deploy advanced behavioural waste-sorting technology across your Local Government Area (LGA). We help councils eliminate landfill contamination, hit statutory recycling targets, and engage local families.
Empowering clusters of local public schools.
Rethink Australia partners with local councils through our Smarter Schools LGA Cohort programme. Under this model, councils sponsor a local cluster of government public schools within their municipality.
Sponsoring councils cover the deployment and maintenance of Refugo AI sorting units across local campuses, removing cost barriers for schools while receiving consolidated municipal diversion reports for council reporting.
Why councils partner with Rethink Australia
Hitting Mandated Waste Targets
State and federal waste strategies establish strict 2030 litter reduction and landfill diversion targets. Rethink Australia builds the direct behavioural infrastructure needed to hit these municipal benchmarks.
Reducing Landfill Levy Exposure
Recycling contamination forces councils to divert commingled bins to landfill, costing rate-payers millions. On-device AI guides sorting at the point of disposal to prevent contamination at the source.
Auditable Suburb-Level Telemetry
Our platform aggregates waste classification data by school and suburb, providing councils with clear municipal dashboards to verify the return on investment of local environmental programs.
Community facility and venue collaborations.
Rethink Australia collaborates with progressive local councils on facility alignments, securing shared assembly spaces, storage, or community venue access.
In return, we deliver on-ground circular economy workshops, interschool challenges, and student leadership summits to schools within the host municipality.
Co-design a local sustainability initiative
Submit your details below. Our Government Relations team will connect with your department to schedule a formal briefing.