When MBS decided to implement a composting program, the motivation was certainly to try and reduce waste-to-landfill. ‘Reading about programs operating successfully in San Francisco and other parts of the world, it’s hard to see why Australia lags so far behind.’
Forward-thinkers, MBS felt in the near future composting programs would become the norm and possibly mandatory for all businesses. As a business school, MBS wanted to set an example.
Having had some experience with composting and gained exposure to permaculture principles and gardens along the way, Mark developed a keen interest in waste minimisation.
Mark says ‘At MBS, colleagues were already arranging to take the coffee grounds off-site to local community gardens. Individuals were making big efforts, so as a business it was time to develop a robust strategy.’
MBS were using a compostable BioCutlery and trialling a compostable BioBowl in the new MBS Hub cafe. Mark wanted to test this and see how far we could take this in a commercial sense on a much larger scale at MBS in reducing our waste on-site. And with that, all the pieces were in place to launch a commercial composting program. ‘It was a natural progression and with BioPak, it became a really easy transition to make’, says Mark.