Narelle Anderson

Integrating indigenous heritage and culture into the modern day business model.

Narelle Anderson is the founder and Managing Director of Envirobank Recycling. An accomplished business leader and a recognised indigenous mentor and speaker, Narelle is passionate about the role recycling can play in cleaning up our environment. A born entrepreneur, Narelle grew an inner-Sydney waste management business, CBD Enviro Services, twenty-fold before selling it to a public company. Narelle then set her sights on rewarding Australia’s recyclers and founded Envirobank. Narelle is a current board member of The Australian Council of Recyclers (ACOR), the peak industry body representing the recycling sector of Australia. She is also a founding board member of the Green Building Council of Australia and a current board member of the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, whose mission is to accelerate aboriginal entrepreneurship.

Envirobank
Established in 2008, we’re an Indigenous-owned company that’s committed to achieving positive environmental and social impact by incentivising bottle and can recycling. We operate recycling depots in the NT and focus on remote community recycling services, the Return and Earn Scheme in NSW and the Containers for Change Scheme in QLD.

We make it really easy — and financially rewarding — for people, schools, community groups and businesses to recycle beverage containers using our reverse vending machines, automated depots, smart pods and rewards platform called Crunch.

We believe in recycling and we pay you for the good you do. Cash for containers should be accessible to everyone and every container that can be recycled should be recycled. Our innovative technology supports cleaning up the country. Waste is a currency that changes lives and small acts every day can change the planet.

Cash for containers—for all!
Container deposit schemes work. The scheme in South Australia has been working for forty years, while the one in the Northern Territory has been running since 2012. The New South Wales scheme kicked off on 1 December 2017, followed by the Queensland Scheme, which started in December 2018, Western Australia commenced in June 2020, Victoria will start late 2023, and Tasmania soon after. Then that’s a wrap we have Australia covered, now it’s over to you join us on our mission to care for country and keep Australia beautiful.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands we meet and visit. We acknowledge their continuing connection to Country, to the dreaming and to all living things. We pay our respects to Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future, whose strength and guidance continually nurture and guide us. We pay tribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership within our communities, within business, and amongst our youth.