The Situation
Hazardous and liquid waste streams are among the most difficult in the country to divert from landfill. Recovering value from them — rather than simply destroying them — requires specialised treatment capability, technical expertise and significant licensed infrastructure. Many complex streams have historically been treated as a cost to dispose of, not a resource to recover.
Australia’s national direction is clear: an 80 per cent average resource recovery rate across all waste streams by 2030. Meeting that target depends on infrastructure capable of recovering the streams everyone else writes off.
Our Approach
Evoro committed to building purpose-built recovery infrastructure rather than relying on disposal. This involved several key steps:
Invest in purpose-built recovery infrastructure
Develop a $17 million, world-class treatment and resource recovery plant at Laverton North, EPA-licensed and engineered for a broad range of complex streams.
Build recovery capability the market lacks
Establish advanced treatment processes capable of recovering reusable product from complex liquid and hazardous waste streams that would otherwise be destroyed.
Design for maximum landfill diversion
Engineer the facility’s processes to prioritise recovery and recycling, diverting approximately 95 per cent of received waste from landfill.
The Results
The facility processes up to 60 million litres of hazardous and liquid waste each year, giving Evoro the treatment capacity of a major national operator.
Around 95 per cent of received waste is diverted from landfill, turning the group’s recovery-first philosophy into a measurable environmental outcome.
Complex waste that would once have been destroyed is instead recovered into reusable product — extending the range of streams that can be given a second life rather than sent to landfill.
The facility anchors Evoro’s contribution to the circular economy: operational, measurable, and built to extend the range of waste that can be recovered rather than disposed of.
The circular economy is built, not announced.
National recovery targets are set in policy but met in infrastructure. A plant that recovers what others destroy is the difference between a commitment to circularity and an actual contribution to it.
“We wouldn’t have gotten to where we are today without Finovate. The Finovate spent time with us to better understand our processes and where our bottlenecks were.”
