The famous Eaglehawk Recycling Yard and the subsequent innovations that arose from it are an indicator of how important projects like this are.
This is the cluster of businesses that have arise around the project::
On Track is a training and employment placement service that identifies and fills vacancies by providing a responsive, efficient and reliable service to employers and jobseekers.
The Eaglehawk Recycle Shop has been established at the Eaglehawk waste facility to reduce, reuse & recycle waste before it goes to landfill and to create jobs in the City of Greater Bendigo.
Enhance collects and rebuilds computers and distributes them to low income families and recycles IT parts and equipment in a responsible manner by providing accredited training to jobseekers and volunteers.
TradeStart provides training for young people who are not reaching their full potential at school by manufacturing products for other non-profit organisations and will link the students to potential employers to gain employment outcomes.
Community Recycling Ventures will promotesocial enterprise through the production of a quality publication of the Eaglehawk Recycle Shop, as a successfulsocial enterprise model, describing the development in a step by step process which is easily replicated.
Workspace Australia will establish, operate and grow a community owned self-sustaining regional business incubator network and by capitalising on the region's strengths and opportunities to develop and grow viable small enterprises and generate employment growth.