The Centre for Organic & Resource Enterprises (CORE) was established in 1997 in Sydney, Australia. The objectives of CORE as an international environmental marketing network are to:

• Provide proactive and face to face support for suppliers, marketers and users of environmental products, technologies and services.
• Proactively and effectively lobby to increase market penetration for recycled materials and increase awareness of avoidance, re-use and recycling.
• Assist the coordination and facilitation of local, regional, state and federal policy, research and marketing initiatives.
• Identify and attract funding and cross funding for market demand acceleration and development.
• Provide an easily accessible, member responsive secondary resource centre.
• Develop, stimulate and co-ordinate e-commerce trading of environmental products and services.
• Link with all other industry sectors that have an interest in or impact on the environment.
• Holistically promote and implement re-use of secondary materials.
• Better capture the outcomes of research and development and convert into market development and acceleration.
• Operate a market planning, monitoring and evaluation system and disperse findings to members.

Key CORE Personnel

CORE has a consultative committee to shape CORE direction based on defined market needs.