Save Board

🎙️ Listen to a short snippet of this podcast where Paul Charteris, CEO & Founder of saveBOARD, joins the Talking Architecture & Design podcast alongside Zoe Schmidt from Adbri to tackle one of construction's most pressing questions: how do we rapidly reduce embodied carbon in the built environment, and which materials can realistically scale to get us there?

Paul breaks down how saveBOARD is doing exactly that: transforming difficult-to-recycle packaging waste into high-performance, low-carbon building materials, locally manufactured and circular by design.

Because the circular economy isn't a future concept. It's what we make every day.

👉 Listen now: https://ow.ly/KBML50Z93KL

The wall that you see could have been in your shopping bag last month. That's not a sustainability claim, its real, transparent and tangible.

Recycling only works when there is real demand for products made from recycled materials. That collection is now in 700 stores, and saveBOARD installed back 170x stores so far and counting.

If you're specifying materials for a retail or commercial fitout in ANZ, ask us what recycled content looks like in practice.

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲

One of the things I've learned over the past few years is that no company can solve complex waste challenges on its own.

Since 2024, saveBOARD has partnered with Kingspan Thermakraft to give their flexible underlay offcuts a second life. Instead of becoming waste, these materials are collected and recycled into our Multi-use panels to be used again on construction sites.

For saveBOARD it provides a reliable and clean stream of raw materials and
for Kingspan Thermakraft, it supports their goals of reducing onsite waste.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴.
Without knowing it, you've probably seen the saveBOARD branding printed directly onto Kingspan Thermakraft's underlays, helping raise awareness of the recycling pathway available for these materials. In return, we're proud to promote Watergate Plus and tapes alongside our betterBRACE external bracing system.

The circular economy doesn't happen because products are recyclable. It happens when businesses collaborate to make sure those materials actually get collected, processed, and turned into something useful again. Saying something is theoretically '𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲' is not a solution, you need demand to pull through so that material otherwise it ends up in landfill.

Next time you're walking around a construction site, keep an eye out for the saveBOARD logo on a roll of Watergate Plus. There's a good chance the offcuts from that very product could end up back on a building site.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 🛍️♻️

Last week I was flying Sydney → Melbourne out of Terminal 2 domestic. I haven’t flown from there in a while, and I’ll admit I got a bit confused when I talked to one of the customer service staff. I found out there’s not one, but Four RELAY stores in the same terminal.

At first it seems like a lot. Most people are on a mission to their gate, so they don’t get to explore the full terminal, whereas I had the time to walk from one end to the other to find all the stores.

Here’s the journey most people walk past every day without realising:
🔁 The food & beverage cartons you returned at a container deposit scheme in Australia are in those walls.
♻️ The soft plastics you dropped at the supermarket collection bin? Also in those walls.
🏭 Heat. Pressure. Composite panels cut to length, ready to build.
🔄 And anything left over? Straight back into the process. Circles beyond circles.

Most of us never connect what we put in recycling bins to the circular economy.
Next time you’re rushing to your gate, take a second look at what’s around you. You might just be standing inside something you helped build. 🌏