COFOSS - Coalition For Sustainable Solutions

Tackling Australia's Fastest-Growing Waste Problem: Join COFOSS to Reduce E-Waste, Improve Packaging Sustainability, and Drive a Circular Economy for Electronics and Appliances.

"We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations." _{- Blythe Danner}

"If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, re-designed or removed from production." _{-Pete Seeger}

"We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly." _{-Anne Marie Bonneau}

Our Focus

The Coalition for Sustainable Solutions (COFOSS) exists to establish and maintain a circular solution for the supply of consumer electronics (CE). As part of its vision and purpose, the Coalition for Sustainable Solutions seeks to reduce the impacts of CE through its lifetime, from the undertaking of repair, resale, repurposing and recycling, in conjunction with the collection of end-of-life product and packaging materials with the transformation back to raw materials for reuse.

Through a coalition of retail and supplier leaders, COFOSS will be a representative board to influence and collaborate within the business sector and across the Government, Private Sector and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) to achieve shared sustainability goals.

PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP

COFOSS will address gaps in CE and HA Product Stewardship by working with its members to help them implement innovative solutions for achieving extended producer responsibility.

PACKAGING STEWARDSHIP

COFOSS will address gaps in CE and HA Packaging Stewardship by working with its members to help them implement innovative solutions to reduce the impact of packaging.

PARTNERSHIPS

COFOSS enables and encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing between its members to develop and implement innovative solutions.

"The opportunity to do more to tackle the environmental impact of CE and HA products and packaging is bigger than any one business can achieve alone. COFOSS has the potential to make real and lasting changes when it comes to CE and HA products and packaging."
– Kurt Hegvold, Managing Director, Electrolux ANZ and Inaugural Chair of COFOSS