Category: Health-Promoting Workplace
Winner: Corio Waste Management
Corio Waste Management (CWM) is an Australian company formed in Geelong in 1996 and owned by the Dickens family.
Ken, Mathew, Anthea and Nathan Dickens are all employees of the company and work with a management team, including some of the most consistent, experienced and knowledgeable experts in the waste management industry.
CWM offers clean, efficient and sustainable waste management services across the waste resource value chain.
Services include waste collection, resource recovery and waste treatment – all conducted in accordance with best-practice environmental guidelines.
CWM offers a range of safe, efficient and sustainable waste management services covering general commercial, biosecurity, cytotoxic, organic, sanitary and hazardous waste management.
Within the Geelong and Melbourne regions, the key customers for CWM’s core commercial waste services include small, medium and large organisations in hospitality, retail, professional services, construction, schools, ports, airports, hospitals and government.
CWM has 60 employees and more than 6000 clients
Each week the business performs 10,000 waste and recycling collections, servicing around 2000 commercial and industrial and local government customers across the Surf Coast and Corio Bay area and in Melbourne’s west and south-eastern suburbs
With offices and depots in Geelong and suburban Melbourne, CWM operates a waste transfer station at Altona North and an alternative treatment plant in Shepparton
The company has made a significant commitment to Geelong’s GROW project, addressing community disadvantage through job-creation initiatives.
The business recorded profit growth of 85.3 per cent over three years while making strategic investment in infrastructure, people and processes
CWM is proud of its reputation as an innovative industry leader in a tight financial environment
