Recycled Content Suppliers Index
Published by LGA Procurement, Local Government Association of South Australia, October 2020. Rawtec contributed to this work.
Summary published
A directory rather than a report. It lists 76 suppliers of recycled content products across five sectors, all of them already prequalified under LGA Procurement’s managed contracts.
The prequalification is the point. Listed suppliers “have undergone a rigorous open tender process that satisfies probity requirements (including the Local Government and ICAC Acts)”, which means a council can buy recycled content from them without running its own tender.
It is published here as an archive. The index states on its own cover that it is current as at October 2020, some rows were still marked TBA when it went out, and it was always intended to be superseded by an online resource. Treat it as a record of what was available then, and check the LGA Procurement contract pages for anything current.
Suppliers listed
Sectors covered
Date the index was current
Columns per listing
What is in it
Construction materials is the deepest category
About 35 of the 76 suppliers, dominated by asphalt, kerbing and civil contractors — Boral, Downer Group, Fulton-Hogan, Carboncor Australia, Bitu Mill and a long list of local earthmoving and kerbing firms. If a council was going to buy recycled content in 2020, roads were where the market was.
Fixtures is the next deepest, and it is park furniture
About 24 suppliers of street furniture and playgrounds made from recycled plastics, including Replas, Draffin Street Furniture, Moodie Outdoor Products, Wagners Composite Fibre Technologies, Felton Industries and Proludic.
Bins, organics and stationery are thin
Nine bin suppliers, five organics and tree-services suppliers, and three in office and stationery. The categories where a council spends most often are the ones with the least choice.
Each row records where it was made
The six columns are sector, company name, subcategory, product name or type, recycled materials and manufacture location — so local content could be weighed alongside recycled content. A number of rows were left as TBA on both of the last two.
This page exists so the document remains findable and citable, not as current procurement advice. The index is a point-in-time snapshot from October 2020 with incomplete entries, limited to suppliers under LGA Procurement’s managed contracts rather than the whole South Australian market. For current suppliers, go to LGA Procurement’s managed contract pages.
Related work
Current guidance on buying and contracting.
The full 13-page index lists every supplier by sector with product type, recycled materials and manufacture location.
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