On September 16th and 17th, WV Tech attended Convene 2025, Social Traders’ annual and Australia’s largest social impact conference where social enterprises, social entrepreneurs, corporate partners, and governments from across Australia come together to listen, learn, and share the power of social enterprises and doing business for good. During Convene, we were able to connect with many other like minded social entrepreneurs and enterprises.

And on the 17th, we won Social Traders’ Social Enterprise Pioneer award, an award that recognises our exceptional creativity and innovation in addressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges. As Social Traders is Australia’s largest social impact organisation, it is an honour for WV Tech to be recognised as a pioneer in the social enterprise space.

Since day one, delivering social impact and driving real change in Indigenous communities has been our mission. We go beyond the ones and zeros, beyond just ticking boxes, to putting our money where our mouth is – using IT asset disposal and e-waste recycling as a vehicle for empowerment for at-risk Indigenous youth. Providing training opportunities, stable employment, and mentoring from Indigenous elders allows Indigenous youth to lay the foundation for a better future and break the generational cycle of disadvantage.

And as we deliver social change for Indigenous communities, we are also delivering business value for our customers in the form of transparent reporting on sustainability initiatives, industry leading data security certifications and practices, and of course, our social impact. Our social impact is made possible because of our customers and when they work with us, we are able to provide more support, funding, and resources back to Worldview Foundation.

Our sustainability initiatives, driven by our Indigenous team, saw us recovering a staggering amount of precious metals from e-waste – 6000 ounces of gold, 25,000 ounces of silver, 3000 ounces of palladium, and over 200 tonnes of pure copper. And because of our commitment to sustainability, 99% of material that goes through our facilities is recycled, refurbished, or reused – allowing us to keep over 2500 tonnes of waste out of landfill since 2018.

And our innovation doesn’t stop there. WV Tech was the first firm in Australia to be NAID-AAA certified for both data destruction and sanitisation, allowing us to deliver secure IT asset disposals to the highest level. With PSPF Endorsement from the Australian government, NAID-AAA certification, and ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 45001 & AS/NZS 5377 certifications, we are able to provide secure IT asset disposals to every customer, from those that need data destruction up to TOP SECRET, to those that need to ensure customer data is securely wiped from decommissioned devices.

Those devices that require the most secure destruction are sent to our hammer mill at our Fyshwick site in Canberra, to be destroyed. We deliver serious security for our customers – the hammer mill pounds the devices down into dust under 3mm. The we bring in an auditor to sieve the dust to make sure that more than 2 percent of the dust specks go the sieve.

As we move into the future, we’ll keep creating innovative solutions for social, cultural, and environmental challenges and deliver business value to our customers and communities.