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Lottie Dalziel

The Commons

part of a series on Endurance

About the speaker

Lottie Dalziel is a journalist, podcaster and leading voice for sustainability in Australia.

She is the 2023 NSW Young Australian of the Year for her work educating Australians on how to live more sustainably.

Lottie is the founder of Banish, an education platform that helps Australians reduce their waste, and the Banish Recycling and Disposal initiative. This program, known as BRAD, has recycled over fourteen and a half tonnes of hard-to-recycle items, such as blister packs, toothpaste tubes, lotion bottles, coffee pods, bread tags and more.

In 2020, Lottie delivered a TEDx talk – The Power of Community in Fighting Climate Change. In 2021 and 2022 she was named as one of Australia's Top 50 People in E-Commerce and won Business NSW Sydney Metro Young Entrepreneur of the Year with Banish taking out the Sustainable Excellence award and winning overall Business of the Year.

Education is at the forefront of everything that Lottie does in order to positively impact the habits of individuals and larger organisations.

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