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Employment Opportunities
When Josephine Ivory applied for a weighbridge role with Resource Recovery Australia four years ago, she wasn't thinking about a career in waste. Today, she manages 28 employees across five sites as Area Manager for Moreton Bay and was a finalist for the Woman of Waste Award at the 2025 Waste Innovation and Recycling Awards.
Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Boaz fled his home country in 2005 and spent years living in refugee camps before settling in Australia in 2016.
Maureen Alam has two favourite parts of her job.
Soft Landing has enjoyed a long-standing partnership with Willoughby City Council, providing mattress recycling services that deliver both environmental and social outcomes. In August 2025, Council re-engaged Soft Landing to provide mattress recycling services that contribute to resource recovery and meaningful employment opportunities.
FY26 was a year characterised by steady, sustainable growth, helping us create stable employment and long-term positive outcomes for people, Country and the communities we serve.
“How do you dispose of a dirty old sofa or a lumpy mattress?” That was the question ABC Perth posed when it visited our Wangara recycling facility in FY26. At Soft Landing, we start with a different question: how much value can we recover?
Dung is a passionate Penrith Panthers supporter, a father of seven and a valued member of the Soft Landing Smithfield team who joined as a General Hand through the Compulsory Drug Treatment Program.
Pocket spring mattresses have become one of the biggest technical and commercial challenges facing mattress recycling. Unlike traditional spring units, pocket springs contain hundreds of individual steel coils encased in polypropylene fabric.