A giant in the making

 

 

Hungry Giant started 3 years ago as an idea drawn on a cardboard box in a warehouse.  Chris O’Brien was working for a white goods store when his idea struck. He saw truckload after truckload of polystyrene packaging materials being removed regularly from the store and taken straight to landfill. Chris knew there had to be a better way.

By the time he was 23, Chris had developed an EPS compactor machine he called the Hungry Giant that could compact polystyrene on site. Because it is 98% air, a great amount could be squashed into small solid blocks that could more easily be recycled, and fewer trucks were required to move it.

He managed to build and commercialise a machine that would change the waste removal industry in Australia forever, and significantly reduce the amount of waste going into landfill.

The “Good Guys“ were the first of many bulk goods store to start using this machine and reported instant financial savings and reduced environmental impact, closely followed by a construction company for reducing waste from building sites. This was more than enough to convince Chris to push his idea further and apply the same method with as many waste streams as possible.

Frustrated by the lack of 'green' initiative within the waste industry, and determined to show  there was a better way, Chris again came up with his own solution and launched a revolutionary  waste collection service with full recycling and diversion from landfill. And for his customers, Hungry Giant would now not only help reduce the volume of waste at source but would also collect it, offering a fully consolidated service on top of reduced waste bills.

Hungry Giant is now leading the new generation of environmental service companies - by throwing away the old “volume based” business model, and turning it into a customer first, landfill friendly business model, keeping Australia clean and green.