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Sue brings decades of senior leadership experience across financial services and community services to everything she does at Dezinery. Across a career built on delivering outcomes for people and organisations, she developed a deep understanding of what it takes to build something that genuinely serves its community - and that instinct has shaped Dezinery from the ground up.

The spark for Dezinery came from a growing frustration. Sue could see that manufacturers had put real effort into creating well-designed products from recycled materials, yet those products were scattered and difficult to find. The gap between what existed and what customers could actually access was the problem worth solving.

Outside of Dezinery, Sue's commitment to sustainability is just as practical. She composts at home, is deliberate about reducing packaging, and is involved in her local community garden - a quiet but consistent thread that runs through everything she does. Her particular passion is recycled textiles, an area she believes deserves far more attention than it typically receives. 

Vinti brings a rare combination of commercial rigour and design thinking to Dezinery. After 24 years in financial services, she qualified as an interior designer and founded her own practice, where she specialises in sustainable commercial spaces and cosmetic renovations. It was through this work that she saw first-hand how far recycled materials had come - discovering that technology had quietly transformed what was once grey and uninspiring into products that genuinely marry form and functionality.

For Vinti, sustainability spans materials, durability, and design that stands the test of time - considered choices over hyper-consumption and fleeting trends, and products designed to last rather than be replaced. Plastic sits close to her heart - one of the hardest materials to recycle, yet responsible for a disproportionate share of the waste that ends up in our landfill and oceans. It also includes using materials recovered from the waste stream to keep them out of landfill and reduce our reliance on virgin resources.

She is a diploma-qualified interior designer and member of the Design Institute of Australia.

Despite how much progress had been made in recycled product design, Sue and Vinti found that customers still struggled to find these products easily. That gap - between what was available and what people could actually discover - was the starting point for Dezinery, Australia's first marketplace dedicated exclusively to recycled and reusable homewares.

They also recognised that customers weren't just looking for products. They were looking for honest information they could trust. Frustrated by vague marketing claims and greenwashing, Sue and Vinti developed Dezinery's proprietary R.A.T.I.N.G. system - a transparent framework that gives shoppers a clear, consistent way to assess the sustainability credentials of every product on the platform.