Defrauded Facilities: The Fraud Types

As a CPA qualified industry consultant, in 2018 I undertook what turned out to be a case study into fraud across the waste management industry, looking specifically at front end operations at landfills, transfer stations and tip shops. Fraud, the “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain”, comes in many […]

Trash Talk: New Video on Writing Grants with Sam Wylie

Actioning change and targeting opportunity in the resource recovery sector often requires capital, and there are some great opportunities across all states and nationally for grant funding at the moment.  As such, we thought that now would be a great time to kick off our regular video series, Trash Talk, with a guru of grant […]

EOFY & Waste Levy Challenges

As we near the end of the financial year, a common topic of conversation in the industry is the change in levy rates across the country. The timing of these changes impact Councils, commercial operators and the community alike and many decisions are made with waste disposal costs as a contributing factor.  In Queensland, an additional […]

Remote Facilitation that Works?

We all experience learning and communication differently and demonstrate different levels of comfort with learning via technology. This is one of the biggest drivers for clients engaging their consultants to come to site, whether it’s for project planning and definition, training, assessment of challenges etc. While day to day there are many meetings that we action […]