This year’s Product Stewardship Excellence Awards recognised outstanding commitment and innovation in product lifecycle management through national stewardship initiatives across diverse industries and sectors.

The Awards were presented at an event in Sydney on Thursday 2nd November. Entrants this year reflected a growing number of companies, brands, and associations, that are acutely focused on minimising environmental impact, optimising resource use, and enhancing overall sustainability right through to managing products and materials at end‑of‑life.

Environmental issues are firmly on the agenda for governments, industry and the public, and the demand for effective national solutions is a high priority for all stakeholders. Best-practice product stewardship enables manufacturers and brands to transform their high-level ESG promises into real-world action that has meaning for consumers and the public.

Product stewardship ensures products and materials are managed in a way that reduces their environmental and human health impacts throughout their lifecycle and across the supply chain.

Effective product stewardship is also a real-world operational pathway for implementing circular economy principles.

By showcasing best practice in product stewardship, we can demonstrate its potential effectiveness, further increasing scheme participation and action by individual businesses, brands, retailers, associations, and product stewardship organisations. It provides an opportunity for businesses to do more, strive for more, and achieve more.

Our awards program aims to celebrate outstanding achievements and innovative initiatives advancing the principles of product stewardship in Australia.

This year’s awards were open to organisations and industries from diverse backgrounds and sectors, including business, technology, and social impact.