Cleanaway

Cleanaway announced it was acquiring Tox Free Solutions Limited,[20] including its subsidiary Daniels Health, in December 2017, subject to regulatory approval. This was granted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in April 2018,[21] followed by the Australian Federal Court on 10 May 2018.[22] The acquisition was completed on 25 May 2018. The occasion was marked by visits from Cleanaway's senior management to all Toxfree and Daniels Health sites across Australia.

In 2019, Cleanaway acquired a number of the SKM Recycling Group's assets for $66 million,[23] restoring and reopening the facilities completely by February 2020.[24] The acquisition included two Materials Recovery Facility and two transfer stations in Victoria and a material recovery facility in Tasmania. The site in Laverton North, Victoria includes an advanced plastic sorting facility which separates plastics from material recovery facilities into clean, individual polymer grades for sale or input into a pelletising facility. The acquisition of Statewide Recycling in late 2019[25] enabled Cleanaway to further service regional Victoria, including a transfer station in Warnambool.

Cleanaway has proposed an energy-from-waste facility in Western Sydney. The facility would take residual waste from Western Sydney kerbside general waste collections and convert to energy.[27]

In 2007, Cleanaway formed a joint venture with Veolia and purchased EarthPower, a food organic processing facility that can process items such as fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, and grease trap and bulk packaged waste. The facility uses anaerobic digestion technology to convert food waste into combustible gas similar to natural gas to produce green electricity.[28]

The TOMRA Cleanaway partnership was appointed to be the Network Operator for the New South Wales container deposit scheme (also known as Return and Earn). TOMRA provides the Reverse Vending Machines, and Cleanaway collects and processes the containers from the machines and collection points around New South Wales. As of 1 May 2020, 3.5 billion containers[29] have been returned since the start of the scheme.

The Cleanaway-ResourceCo joint venture opened the largest resource recovery and Process Engineered Fuel (PEF) facility in Australia. The Resource Recovery Facility (RRF)[30] in Wetherill Park, Sydney, creates a landfill diversion option for dry commercial and industrial waste, providing an alternative to coal.

On 19 February 2020, Asahi Breweries, Cleanaway and Pact Group Holdings announced a joint venture to develop a plastic pelletising facility.[31] This facility is expected to process up to 28,000 tonnes of plastic bottles and other plastic packaging. In August 2020, it was revealed that the facility will trade as Circular Plastics Australia (PET).[32]

Cleanaway is a major sponsor for Clean Up Australia, focusing on mobilising the community to clean up and conserve the environment. Prevention of litter is the key message of Clean Up Australia and Cleanaway's efforts.