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We invite clients to join us in our plasic pledge to remove single-use plasics from our business.
Cut down on your consumption of products that leave behind a lasing plasic trail.
Containers, bottles and other everyday items can be reused if we make choices outside of plasic.
Pay attention to the life cycle of the products you consume, and how they can be recycled.
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goes deeper than recycling A saggering 9 million tonnes of plasic ends up in the world’s oceans each year, and land-based wase is the greates polluter. This ocean debris afects about 700 marine species, some of which are now endangered.
To help turn the tide on plasic pollution, Wanless eco(logical) is invesing in Ausralia’s oceans.
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Mixed Recycling Learn how to recycling using jus one bin. Get sarted now!
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Mixed Wase Recycling We have dedicated commingle rear lift collections ranging from 240lt – 1100lt in size. Our saf can assis your business to choose the right sized bin and collection frequency to maximise your environmental performance. Wanless can supply source separation bins for your kitchens and saf lunch rooms that allow saf to easily dispose of recycling easily, avoiding landfll. We recommend that you check the recyclability of all packaged wase before placing in the bin. Products with the new Ausralasian recycling label assis you to dispose of products. Please note that commingle collections vary per sate and are available based on disposal options. Wanless has pledged to help save the planet from plasics and turn the tide on plasics littering Ausralia’s ocean and beaches. Your business can also assis by committing to a mixed recycling service for clean aluminium, seel cans, plasic (PET & HDPE) and glass bottles and containers.
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What can go in your mixed recycling bin
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The following recycling items are acceptable:
If unsure always contact are saf or local council to ask.
Milk cartons Plastic bottles Aluminium cans Glass containers and jars Steel cans
No General rubbish No food wrappers No food product No containers containing liquid/li> No Prescribed or hazardous wastes No Flammable waste No Asbestos
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Do not put recyclables in plasic bags as they may not be recycled.
100% of plasic made sill exiss today and that every year, about a million sea creatures die because of plasics contaminating the environment, oceans and waterways
Aluminium is the mos recyclable of all materials and is infnitely recyclable. The energy saved by recycling a can of aluminium can power a tv for up to three hours
Leave Lids and labels on plasic containers for recycling
You could power a computer for 25 mins from the energy saved by recycling 1 plasic bottle.
If your bin has a liner, break it open when disposing of recycling in the bin, removing any contamination
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General Wase Management Whils wase avoidance and susainability are at the core of Wanless operations, we undersand at times whils we encourage recycling there are hard to recycle residual wases that need to be disposed of by our cusomers. Assessing your businesses wase volumes, Wanless provides a range of wase equipment that’s individually tailored to suit your needs and wase output, big or small. Backed by a market leading service delivery model, we provide collections from a large feet of vehicles nationally to support reliable, on-time collections including rear lift, front lift and hook lift. Whether it’s a regular service you require or a once of clean up we have a solution. Wanless provides cusomised commercial wase solutions for all sized businesses that’s individually tailored to your businesses needs and volume by our expert saf. Providing general wase services as part of a total wase solution is simple, cos efective and allows your business to improve its environmental performance.
Solutions for small to medium sized businesses Rear Lift services in mobile garbage bins (MGB) 240lt-1100lt are perfectly suited for small volumes of wase that can be cleared more frequently, where access is limited and a smaller bin and collection service is required; for example - city locations and back laneways. Suitable Indusries include resaurants, cafes, hotels, ofces, medical centres, retail spaces and work shops as they are compact and take up less space on site. For improved health and safety, mobile garbage bins are easy to manoeuvre and light weight as they are plasic, easy to clean and can be used both inside your businesses premises or can be left outside.
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Solutions for larger businesses For larger cusomers who produce larger commercial and indusrial wase volumes with space onsite for larger containers, we have a range of front lift services with equipment ranging 1.5 - 4.5 meters. Holding larger wase volumes onsite longer between collections, front lift services are a cos efective and fexible wase solution for cusomers. Depending on how you use the equipment, front lift bins can be ftted with wheels, brakes padlocks and chains.
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Our range of Wanless bins are colour coded to Ausralian sandards with clearly defned wase and recycling signage to ensure our Wanless cusomers can easily identify the right bin and landfll as their las point of disposal as Wanless is committed to “creating a better environment”.
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Bulk collections For large bulk volumes of wase on a permanent or ad-hoc basis Wanless can provide cusomers with hook lift bins varying from 12-31 cubic meters to assis in the disposal of landfll and production wases. These include specialized equipment like compactors for various indusries including transport and logisics, shopping centres, hospitals, manufacturing and warehouses. Storing larger volumes onsite can efectively reduce transport movements increasing site safety and reducing your company's carbon footprint. Compactors are easier to load, absorb odour and reduce pes control issues to the site as wase is securely contained.
Bulk bins sizes ranging from 12 – 31m3
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What can go in your general wase bin
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Any wase that’s not recyclable goes in the General wase bin, this includes:
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General business Waxed cardboard Non Recyclable Packaging Non recyclable plastics Non- compostable plastic cutlery
Aerosols Prescribed or hazardous wastes Liquid or flammable waste Asbestos Tyres Mattresses or hard bulky rubbish items
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General wase is the residual of all nonrecyclable items excluding liquid, hazardous and prescribed wases.
Did you know that the correct loading of all bins is to water level?
When closing lids on the bin always keep hands away from any pinch points and slowly close so as to avoid your hands.
In Ausralia some sates tax landfll with a levy to encourage households and businesses to recycle, providing funds back into the community for recycling education and facilities.
Landfll gas is comprised of approx. 50% methane and 50% CO2, which can be converted to power back into the grid as green energy to homes and businesses.
We ask you don’t over load bins as it can cause unnecessary litter and can attract pess.
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Paper & Cardboard Recycling Recycle more of your business card & paper. Bins from jus $5*.*Per week
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Paper & Card Recycling Solutions To “Create a better future� we mus all undersand the role we play in recycling at work, especially as businesses want to improve their fnancial and environmental performance. By diverting precious materials like paper and cardboard from landfll you can save your business money as cardboard is a commodity of value as well play a role in saving the environment as the more we recycle the less reliance on virgin materials. Recycling is at the core of Wanless operations as we operate our own Resource Recovery Alliance in Kemps Creek, NSW. In everything we do Wanless and its employees ensure recycling is front of mind. We have set goals to ensure as a business to improve our environmental performance and resource recovery. This includes recovering paper and cardboard from wases disposed in our recycling park and collections business nationally where Wanless cusomers and our own materials are recycled into new boxes locally in Ausralia. Providing a paper or cardboard service as part of a total wase solution is simple, cos efective and allows your business to improve its environmental performance.
Solutions for small to medium sized businesses Cardboard boxes come in all sizes depending on your indusry, what you order into your business or produce as a manufacturer. For smaller volumes a rear Lift services in mobile garbage bins (MGB) 240lt-1100lt are the perfect choice especially in ofce environments or for cleaners to mobilise around your premises. Mobile garbage bins can be flled inside an ofce, easily ft next to photocopiers or in sore rooms and can be easily wheeled out to the collection point. They are ideal in loading docks, where access is limited, laneways and can even where allowed by your local council be left on the kerb for collection. Due to the size of the bins we recommend you fatten all boxes and check regularly for any contamination to be removed prior to collection.
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Solutions for larger businesses For those cusomers producing higher volumes of materials with space onsite for larger containers, we have a range of front lift services with equipment ranging from 1.5 - 4.5 cubic meters dependent on how cardboard you produce on a regular basis. Front lift bins can recycle 50-225kg of cardboard depaneding on how they are carefully loaded by saf. Flattening cardboard box’s maximises space in the bins and your businesses recycling volumes. Every kg of cardboard diverted from landfll saves your business money as there is no disposal coss to recycling. Front lift bins can be ftted with wheels, brakes padlocks and chains.
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Bulk collections For large bulk volumes of cardboard on a permanent or ad-hoc basis Wanless can provide cusomers with hook lift bins varying from 12-31 cubic meters and specialized equipment like balers and compactors including negotiating any available rebates so you may fnancially beneft from recycling…….as recycling pays! Compacting cardboard saves volume that can sometimes be taken up by air in sandard bins when saf don’t fatten boxes, reduces collections required to your site as we can collect larger volumes in tonnes and maximises rebates. Wanless saf can perform a wase assessment on your business and advise you on the bes way to collect and transport your recycling, we also report monthly to our major cusomers so you can measure your environmental performance and results. Start saving today.
Bulk bins sizes ranging from 12 – 31m3
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The following fbre items are acceptable:
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White paper Cardboard boxes Newspaper Magazines Manila Folders Envelopes (no windows) Coloured Paper Phone Books
Tissue or Carbon Paper Waxed Cardboard Plastic or Plastic Bagged Items General rubbish Cardboard with food residues Asbestos Flammable waste Prescribed, liquid or hazardous waste
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Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves 13 trees, protecting our natural environment
Did you know Ausralian homes and businesses purchase approx. 2.4 million tonnes of paper per year
The paper recycling process uses 50% less energy and 90% less water than the production of virgin paper.
By recycling one tonne of paper it helps save 1438 litres of oil or 4000 kilowatts of energy
Recycling is better for the environment so choose recyclable paper when you next purchase paper
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Organics Recycling Turn your wase into lovely compos. Enquire here.
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Food Wase & Organics Recycling Diverting food scraps and other organic material like cofee grinds from manufacturing, resaurants, cafes, hotels, ofces, retail precincts, schools, universities, aged care facilities and hospitals not only saves the environment but can also save your businesses money. When organic material is placed in landfll it produces methane gases, by diverting food wase to a recycling facility new product including; compos, mulch and soil are produced. Some sates even have disposal options to a renewable energy facility where organics assis in the production of bio-gas to go back into indusry. Organic matter in bins are of a higher weight density to other materials, often forming the highes cos component in your general wase collections, so it makes sense to recycle. Wanless is committed to helping our cusomers to improve their environmental performance and to “Create a better future�. To reduce your businesses carbon footprint and wases sent to landfll combine an organics recycling service with other Wanless recycling solutions and we will assis you to become greener and more fnancially lean. Contact us and our saf can perform an onsite wase assessment, providing your business with a Total Wase Management solution, consolidating all your services into a single supplier – Wanless. To reduce your businesses carbon footprint and wases sent to landfll combine an organics recycling service with other Wanless recycling solutions. Wanless will assis your business to become greener and more fnancially lean.
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For larger business requirements we can also provide onsite services for organics greater than 500kg a day with an continuous food processor. Reducing weight up to 80% our equipment creates an odour free material suitable for transport to an aerobic digesor to be re-purposed into green energy.
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The following recycling items are acceptable:
If unsure always contact are saf or local council to ask.
Fruit Vegetables Processed foods Bread and bakery items
No Shellfish No Bones No meats No food wrapping, strings or tags No general rubbish No hazardous, liquid or flammable wastes
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It is esimated that for approximately every tonne of food wase diverted from landfll, there is a reduction of 1.6 tonnes of landfll gas emissions.
Organic wase can represent the highes weight component of bins, reducing weights by having a separate organics bin can save coss on your general wase service fee.
Place smaller organics sorting bins in kitchens and saf tea rooms to assis saf where food wase is generated to recycle easier.
Please ensure all food wase is scraped out of containers, tea bag srings removed with only organic packaging going into the organics recycling as not to contaminate bins.
Every year Ausralians send approx. 7 tonnes of food wase to landfll. Contact Wanless and we will assis your business to reduce wase to landfll with an organics service.
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Plasic Recycling WTF(R) –> Want to fx your recycling… and prevent landfll? We can help.
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Plasic Wase Recycling Wanless has pledged to help save the planet from plasics and turn the tide on plasics littering Ausralia’s ocean and beaches, to support this pledge we provide our cusomers with a range of services to recycle soft, fexible plasic’s like pallet wrap, shrink wrap and other fexible and recyclable packaging ( LDPE Low-density polyethylene). Plasic on collection is taken to a local recycling facility where it is sorted, cleaned, shredded and turned into granular pellets for further reuse in manufacturing creating new plasic products like builders wrap, packaging and even hard plasic products like furniture and wheelie bins. Wanless assiss businesses of all sizes to sort and recycle their soft fexible plasics with collections available. Providing a soft plasic service as part of a total wase solution is simple, cos efective and allows your business to improve its environmental performance.
Rear lift collections Rear lift collections are ideal for small to medium sized businesses where plasic is collected in 1100lt bins for recycling. These bins can be used both inside and outside of businesses making them ideal for warehouses, factories and production areas. Depending of the size of your business you can have one or multiple bins with fexible collections available.
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Balers are ideal for cusomers with larger volumes of plasics whom have sorage space to sore bales blocks on their premises for collection by a bale truck or in a bulk bin.
Vertical balers are available with single and three phase power and produce bales in sizes from 100kg to 500kg. Horizontal balers are suitable for larger volume customers when bales are considered a quality to go direct to market as opposed to resorting at a local recycling facility.
With a large range of equipment from quality Ausralian suppliers Wanless can assess your volumes and provide the right baling solution to match your out put, maximising any available rebates.
Balers frames and bags Balers frames and bags are ideal to assis your saf to separate at the point of generation plasic recycling. Our frames are designed to compact plasics into the 240lt bag as it gets fuller. Once full bags can be transported to bins or a baler and then for collection. When performing a detailed wase assessment of your business, Wanless saf can recommend where to place recycling sands and how many to purchase. Making recycling plasics easy and simple for saf within the proximity they generate plasic, maximising landfll diversion for your business.
What can go in your plasic recycling service
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The following recycling items are acceptable:
If unsure always contact are saf or local council to ask.
Pallet wrap Shrink wrap Flexible wraps
No general rubbish No food wrappers No food product No containers containing liquids No prescribe or hazardous wastes No flammable waste No asbestos
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Try to keep single sream plasics separate for optimized recycling.
Add signage so your recycling service is clearly identifable to saf and simple to use, assising saf to make right disposal choices.
Always have a separate plasic recycling bin so recyclable plasic isn’t mixed general wase in areas where recycling is generated.
Keep clear soft plasics separate to coloured bags and always check if they are the same type or classifcation.
Take care not to contaminate your recycling, check it regularly and remove any contamination prior to collection as plasic is clear and contamination is easy to see.
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Timber & Pallet Recycling Got wood? Give new life to old timber.
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Timber Wase Recycling Ausralians are a large importer of timber products including soft and hard woods, pallets and chipboard. As part of a Total Wase Solution or as a once of collection Wanless can provide your business with a Timber recycling collection. Depending on your timber volumes we have bins ranging from 12-31 cubic meters to sore, collect and dispose responsibly of recyclable untreated timber. Through a network of local recycling centres nationally and an integrated service model, Wanless will transport your timber product to a recycling facility to be either mulched into new commercial product that is re-used back into indusry, new particle board or can be used as a fuel sock for renewable bio-energy. At our Kemps Creek Resource Recovery Alliance we recover timber from incoming loads and re-use this mulch as landfll covering. Any treated product with a chemical spray or painted coating are not recyclable because they may contain toxic chemicals however Wanless can assis your business with a disposal solution for non-recyclable product. For those businesses who produce timber wase Wanless provides simple and efective solutions for timber recycling disposal. Turn your timber wase into a resource, providing it new life as a new mulch product.
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The following fbre items are acceptable if untreated:
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Reusable pallets – hardwood Reusable pallets – softwood Single use pallets – hardwood Single use pallets – softwood Skids Timber box’s Timber crates Cable reels Dunnage
No general rubbish or hard rubbish No treated timber No MDF or chipboard No Melamine or high gloss painted timber No green waste No plastics or strappings No asbestos No flammable waste No prescribed, liquid or hazardous wastes
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By recycling wood you assis in preserving the environment by reducing reliance on virgin materials being logged thus protecting a living source.
Timber sill represents in NSW 13% of wase disposed in landfll.
Can you reuse the timber in your own business so recycling is a secondary disposal option?
Look into the community for a local re-use solution, can you connect with a wood working guild or men’s group to donate wood?
Broken pallets may sill be repairable or recyclable, our saf can assis your business to determine a recycling option.
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Liquid Wase Combine liquid wases into a single contract with your other wase services.
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Liquid Wase Management The safe and efective handling of liquid wase requires an exceptional level of experience, care and attention to detail. Wanless has a dedicated team committed to providing a professional service to all clients, one that adheres to the highes sandards of safety and compliance to regulations, so you can trus that your liquid wase is being managed responsibly. Wanless makes managing your wase easy by combining liquid wases into a single contract with your other wase and recycling services, providing your business with ONE point of contact, ONE invoice and full documentation to give your business assurance that your wases have been handled environmentally responsibly. At Wanless we look at ALL wase across your business holisically and can provide collections for liquid services and grease trap wases. Providing a liquid service as part of a total wase solution is simple, cos efective and allows your business to improve its environmental performance.
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We ofer grease trap collections so your business can dispose of its kitchen fats, oils and other wases that cannot otherwise be discharged down the drain.
If you have empty or full drums or IBC’s with any liquids from manufacturing food, chemical production or workshop fuids we can provide safe collection, disposal and often recycling. All containers are triple rinsed prior to recycling or re-use.
Wanless can provide a bulk liquid product desruction services for food manufacturers where product needs to be desroyed due to manufacturing concerns, change of branding, bonded job or out of code.
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Secure Document Recycling Protect your privacy with our secure document desruction service.
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Secure Document Desruction & Recycling The collection of your business’s private information is a sensitive issue, at Wanless we provide a secure document desruction service to our cusomers that provides piece of mind that your sensitive information is securely sored, collected, transported and disposed responsibly. Through our integrated service model, we provide document desruction services in rear lift bins 120lt-660lt, archive box’s, pallets and bulk collections that follows security sandards to protect your information and privacy.
Benefts of using Wanless:
Our service partners are certified to NAID AAA standards by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) Service staff have gone through a rigid evaluation process and police checks to ensure the protection of your information including for schools, childcare facilities, hospitals and government a working with children check. Materials are shredded under strict conditions, full security and CCTV for full assurance its been responsibly destroyed Finally Wanless partners deliver the shredded paper to a recycling facility so it can be made into new recycled paper products, allowing our customers to be environmentally responsible and more sustainable
Protecting the privacy of our cusomers sensitive information is a priority at Wanless. Providing a secure document desruction service as part of a Total Wase Management Sysem give our cusomers piece of mind we handle your sensitive information responsibly.
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240 litre
660 litre
1100 litre
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What can go in your document desruction bins
What can’t go in the document desruction bins
The following recycling items are acceptable:
If unsure always contact are saf or local council to ask.
White paper Documents Medical records Sensitive information Envelopes Magazines and articles Branded materials
No general rubbish No food wrappers No food products No paper clips or stapes No plastic sleeves No arch files No metal
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Did you know Wanless can securely desruct uniforms & branded clothing.
Compliance with new privacy act requirements including new notifable data breech laws for the total desruction of personal information.
Before recycling archive boxes check for any contaminates like bull and paper clips, plasic sheets and folders.
Shredded paper gets graded before recycling, white paper being the highes grade is the mos valuable, used to manufacture new paper products.
Wanless can provide cusomers a certifcate of desruction, giving peace of mind our collections are performed responsibly.
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Medical Collections Ensure your medical wase is managed efectively and respectfully.
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Medical Wase Management We have extensive knowledge in the medical collections area and can provide your business with a range of sharps, clinical, cytotoxic, anatomical and pharmaceutical disposal services to suit your businesses requirements on a regular or ring in schedule. Wanless through its collections model ensures all wases especially if regulated and require specialis disposal methods under srict conditions are adhered to providing our cusomers with piece of mind that all wases have been disposed compliantly with a certifcate provided. We undersand that when the wrong wase sreams go in the wrong medical containers it can be cosly, Wanless through its Major Account Management Process engages actively with its cusomers to ensure saf under sand the impact they make with wases disposal choices and make the right disposal decisions. If you have a frs aid room, are a medical centre, veterinary clinic or hospital, Wanless can supply medical services as part of a total wase solution sreamlining all your wase, recycling and medical collections into ONE easy to manage contract.
Medical Collections Sharps
Clinical Wase
Cytotoxic
Anatomical
Pharmaceutical
Wanless provides sharps containers from 1.4lt, 3.5lt, 7.8lt & 20lt
For the collection and disposal of medical wase Wanless can provide your business with 20lt tubs or Wheelie bins ranging from 120lt, 240lt and 660lt,
Cytotoxic wase is all drug adminisrative equipment, all gowns and body fuids/wase requiring disposal from patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Wanless can provide 20lt pails or 120lt & 240lt wheelie bins for cytotoxic MAKE AN ENQUIRY collections.
All anatomical wases which can be body parts, specimens and tissue mus be collected and transported to an incinerator facility under EPA regulations. Wanless can provide 20lt pails or 120lt & 240lt wheelie bins for anatomical collections.
Wanless can provide businesses with bulk pharmaceutical collections for the desruction of packaged medicines under a controlled environment that’s fully certifed, secure and witnessed if required or court ordered.
For all sharps items including: Syringes & injection devices, blades and used sharps items from frs aid kits.
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Our vision goes deeper than recycling A saggering 9 million tonnes of plasic ends up in the world’s oceans each year, and land-based wase is the greates polluter. This ocean debris afects about 700 marine species, some of which are now endangered.
To help turn the tide on plasic pollution, Wanless eco(logical) is invesing in Ausralia’s oceans.
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Rear Lift Services
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Indusry solutions for small & medium sized cusomers Wanless operates a large feet of rear lift collection vehicles across its Ausralian operations, providing our cusomers with a range of reliable service solutions for commercial and Indusrial wase. With safety at the forefront of everything we do, rear lift services are ideal for any sized businesses who seek:
A smaller bin option where space is a premium for the customer or the location of the bin is separate to the collections area A service solution for low entry or inner city back lane ways, as rear lift trucks are more compact in size Larger businesses where they require multiple bins for swap over; for example shopping centres, factories and warehouses Flexible service options based on your businesses waste and recycling volumes A standard approach to all waste and recycling streams that encourages positive recycling outcomes.
Rear lift collections are performed often where bins are left for collection with the driver wheeling bins to the “rear” of the vehicle, where the bin is placed on a hydraulic comb that weigh the bin, emptying wase into the back of the vehicle where its compacted into the vehicle body. Once the vehicle is full it is transported for disposal at a local landfll or recycling facility. All Wanless Vehicles are connected to our Wanless Integrated Vehicle Sysem that includes scales for weighing our collections. In real time we know where our vehicles are to optimise service delivery and performance and can easily react to cusomer demands, especially in an emergency where you may need an additional collection. All Wanless vehicles are ftted with reversing lights, camera’s and beepers so we can perform our collections safely, with lights and sounds creating awareness of our vehicle to those in close proximity as YOUR safety is OUR safety.
Bin Specifcations
120 litre
240 litre
660 litre
1,100 litre
0.48m(l) x 0.55m(d) x 0.925m(h)
0.58m(l) x 0.74m(d) x 1.08m(h)
1.34m(l) x 0.64m(d) x 1.22m(h)
1.36m(l) x 1.28m(d) x 1.465m(h)
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Benefts of a Wanless Rear lift Service Large Range
Flexible
Young Fleet
Multi-Option
Wanless supplies cusomers with multiple bin sizes to suit your businesses wase and recycling volumes. We consider what you produce, how its collected, sorage space and lasly collections capabilities onsite. Our range of bins includes 120lt, 240lt, 660lt & 1100lt bins sizes.
Wanless is fexible when it comes to your service schedules, providing collections around your businesses requirements. With our integrated services model we have multiple collections options if your business requires time sensitive solutions.
Wanless through its national expansion has invesed heavily in new feet. Having a younger feet provides a more reliable service outcome allowing Wanless to meet the service needs of our cusomers.
Wanless ofers a large range of services including; general wase, paper & cardboard, commingle, soft plasic and organics in rear lift bins. Cusomers can enjoy the fexibility of rotating bins to use for internal collection at the source, being charged only on qty presented.
Safety with and around equipment At Wanless the safety of our cusomers and employees when handling our equipment is our highes priority that’s why we ask you take note of the following at all times:
Don’t overload bins, keep all waste lid level as this can cause unnecessary littering and additional pest issues Bag all general waste so it’s secure, and keep the lids closed at all times to minimise odours Ensure all recyclables are removed from bags; check and remove any contamination No Liquids, aerosols, flammables, asbestos or hazardous wastes is accepted Wanless recommends a regular bin cleaning schedule and can organise this for your business
ALL Wanless safety is our frs priority, so please be aware around service vehicles and bins. After all, business should you have any quesions around safety and our services
YOUR safety is OUR safety. A Wanless representative is happy to call your
Bin cleaning We undersand that maintaining your back of house or external docks to a high level of presentation and hygiene is important as those parts of your may be visible to the public, part of a certifcation where hygiene sandards are regulated as well as providing wellbeing to those using the bins within your facility. So that sandards can be upheld reducing ofensive odours, pess and discomfort by end users Wanless ofers its cusomers scheduled or unscheduled bin and compactor cleaning as part of The Wanless Total Wase Management Solution. To ensure Wanless bins are maintained to hygiene sandards, they are cleaned inside and out with a citrus-based degreaser, and rinsed and sanitised with an odour control spray to assis with odour control long after the service. As Wanless is concerned with protecting the environment, through our integrated services model we partner with bin cleaning companies in each sate taking into consideration chemical and water usage when cleaning is conducted on the clients premises or our own Wanless depots. Wanless can ofer bin cleaning for rear lift, front lift, hook lift and compactors. All prices are on application
Retail Ideal for shopping precincts as can be placed in back rooms for internal use and wheeled to the loading dock for collection.
Commercial ofces Rear lift bins are great for
assising saf to separate wase in your tenancy, saf rooms or the loading bay. They are also light and easy for cleaning saf to move around the facilities.
Warehouses
Manufacturing
Some businesses require bins at the source of wase production to allow saf to remain highly productive whils disposing of wase & recycling. Rear lift bins are compact for warehouses and easy to move around.
Rear lift bins are easy to clean and sanitise making them ideal to use in manufacturing. Bins can be placed in production at the source of wase generation to be exchanged by saf during shifts when full.
Small businesses For small businesses that
produce smaller volumes of wase, rear lift bins are recommended. Wanless can match the right sized bins and collection frequency to your businesses wase or recycling requirements
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Front Lift Services
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Indusry solutions for all sized cusomers Wanless operates a large feet of front lift collection vehicles across its Ausralian operations, providing our cusomers with a range of reliable service solutions for commercial and Indusrial wase. With safety at the forefront of everything we do, front lift services are ideal for all sized businesses who seek:
A cost effective and affordable collections solution A regular scheduled service or more flexible service options, your business is in control A more secure option as bins are lockable and made of steel, effectively containing wastes A standard approach to all waste and recycling streams that encourages positive recycling outcomes. Multiple services or bins onsite Choice of castors, brakes, padlocks or chains
Front lift collections are performed where the bins are lifted over “the front” of the vehicle by hydraulic arms that weigh the bin, emptying wase overhead before being compacted within the vehicle body. Once the vehicle is full it is transported for disposal at a local landfll or recycling facility. All Wanless collection Vehicles are connected to our Wanless Integrated Vehicle Sysem that includes scales for weighing our collections. In real time we know where our vehicles are to optimise service delivery and performance and can easily react to cusomer demands, especially in an emergency where you may need an additional collection. All Wanless vehicles are ftted with reversing lights, camera’s and beepers so we can perform our collections safely, with lights and sounds creating awareness of our vehicle to those in close proximity as YOUR safety is OUR safety.
Bin Specifcations
1.5m3
3.0m3
4.5m3
2.0m(l) x 1.0m(w) x 1.1m (h)
2.0m(l) x 1.5m(w) x 1.5m (h)
2.0m(l) x 1.8m(w) x 1.8m (h)
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Benefts of a Wanless Front lift Service Large Range
Flexible
Young Fleet
Multi-Option
Wanless supplies cusomers with multiple bin sizes to suit your businesses wase and recycling volumes. We consider what you produce, how its collected, sorage space and lasly collections capabilities onsite. Our range of bins includes 1.5m, 3m and 4.5m sizes.
Wanless is fexible when it comes to your service schedules, providing collections around your businesses requirements. With our integrated services model we have multiple collections options if your business requires time sensitive solutions.
Wanless through its national expansion has invesed heavily in new feet. Having a younger feet provides a more reliable service outcome allowing Wanless to meet the service needs of our cusomers.
Wanless ofers a large range of services including; general wase, paper & cardboard and commingle in front lift bins. Cusomers can enjoy the fexibility of rotating bins to use for internal collection at the source, being charged only on qty presented.
Safety with and around equipment At Wanless the safety of our cusomers and employees when handling our equipment is our highes priority that’s why we ask you take note of the following at all times:
Don’t overload bins, keep all waste water level as this can cause unnecessary littering and additional pest issues Bag all general waste so its secure, and keep the lids closed at all times to minimise odours Ensure all recyclables or removed from bags, check and remove any contamination No Liquids, aerosols, flammables, asbestos or hazardous wastes is accepted Wanless recommends a regular bin cleaning schedule and can organise this for your business
At Wanless, safety is our frs priority, so please be aware around service vehicles and bins as YOUR safety is OUR safety. A Wanless representative is happy to call out to your business should you have any quesions around safety and our services
Bin cleaning We undersand that maintaining your back of house or external docks to a high level of presentation and hygiene is important as those parts of your may be visible to the public, part of a certifcation where hygiene sandards are regulated as well as providing wellbeing to those using the bins within your facility. So that sandards can be upheld reducing ofensive odours, pess and discomfort by end users Wanless ofers its cusomers scheduled or unscheduled bin and compactor cleaning as part of The Wanless Total Wase Management Solution. To ensure Wanless bins are maintained to hygiene sandards They are cleaned inside and out with a citrus based degreaser, rinsed and sanitised with an odour control spray to assis with odour control long after the service. As Wanless is concerned with protecting the environment, through our integrated services model we partner with bin cleaning companies in each sate taking into consideration chemical and water usage when cleaning is conducted on the clients premises or our own Wanless depots. Wanless can ofer bin cleaning for rear lift, front lift, hook lift and compactors. All prices are on application
Front Lift Bin Options No Casors Wanless highly recommends for cusomers where bins don’t need to be moved and are directly placed for service that for safety they have NO casors. This is our sandard option.
LH or RH swivel casors Swivel casors are perfect for
Wheel brakes
Bin lock
Chains
those sites where bins may need to be moved for collection or by saf.
In some insances where cusomers want a secure and fxed bin, you may reques brakes to lock wheels.
Chains are ftted to bins where padlocks are required.
One side of the bins casors are fxed, the other side swivels, making them easy to move.
Please ensure all saf keep brakes locked to ensure bins remain in a fxed position on site.
For a small fee Wanless can supply a padlock so that our cusomers can keep there wase secure from theft and pess. Our locks are “key liked” so at all times our driver has a key to unlock bins on collection.
Padlocks may be welded to the chains at the cusomers reques.
*non-sandard items may incur an additional fee
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Bulk bin collections & compactors
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Wanless operates a large feet of bulk bin collection vehicles across its Ausralian operations, providing our cusomers with a range of reliable service solutions for commercial and Indusrial wase. With safety at the forefront of everything we do, hook lift services are ideal for any sized businesses who seek:
To remove larger volumes of waste and recycling A regular scheduled service or more flexible service options, your business is in control To compact waste or recycling into specialised equipment due to high volumes Multiple services or bins onsite for more bulky items like timber, steel, recycling bales or electronic waste. A ad-hoc clean up of their business of hard rubbish
Bulk bin and compactor collections are performed where the bin is lifted onto the rear of the truck by a “hydraulic hook” and locked into place for transport for disposal at a local landfll or recycling facility where it is weighed for charging. All Wanless Vehicles are connected to our Wanless Integrated Vehicle Sysem that includes scales for weighing our collections. In real time we know where our vehicles are to optimise service delivery and performance and can easily react to cusomer demands, especially in an emergency where you may need an additional collection. All Wanless vehicles are ftted with reversing lights, camera’s and beepers so we can perform our collections safely, with lights and sounds creating awareness of our vehicle to those in close proximity as YOUR safety is OUR safety.
Bin Specifcations
12 M3
15 M3
20 M3
5.0m(l) x 2.0m(w) x 1.2m(h)
6.4m(l) x 2.0m(w) x 1.3m(h)
6.4m(l) x 2.2m(w) x 1.7m(h)
25 M3
30 M3
6.4m(l) x 2.2m(w) x 1.9m(h)
6.5m(l) x 2.4m(w) x 2.3m(h)
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Benefts of a Wanless Hook lift Service
Multiple bin sizes to suit your businesses waste options. Our range includes 12m, 15m, 20m, 25m & 30m bins Wanless is flexible when it comes to your service schedules, providing permanent or ad-hoc collections New fleet means less breakdowns, creating a more reliable service performance – meeting the needs of our customers Large range of services including; general waste, paper & cardboard, product disposal, timber, steel, plastic, electronic waste and hard rubbish
Safety At Wanless the safety of our cusomers and employees when handling our equipment is our highes priority that’s why we ask you take note of the following at all times:
Don’t overload bins, keep all waste level as we cannot safely tarp and transport bins Place heavier items on top to ensure waste or recycling doesn’t blow away when bins are onsite Be aware of servicing vehicles and other bins onsite No liquids, aerosols, flammables, asbestos or hazardous wastes is accepted – we can provide a specialist service for those wastes.
ALL Wanless our bins have safety sickers and a Wanless representative is happy to call out to your business should you have any quesions around safety and our services, as YOUR safety is OUR safety.
Compactors
Ofce clean ups
Wanless can design specialised compacting equipment built to your businesses wase or recycling volumes, assising you to save coss and collections as they are compacted and contained in a 12-31m container.
Hook lift bins are ideal for a regular or once yearly clean up of your business.
Timber recycling Hook lift bins are ideal to
neatly sack and sore recyclable timber or pallets onsite for those cusomers who produce large volumes.
With 1-2 days notice Wanless can supply our cusomers with the right sized bin to ft in your businesses car park or loading bay.
Recycling bales Wanless can transport in bulk bales of cardboard or pallet wrap in hook lift bins to be recycled, maximising your rebates
Wanless can collect and transport timber in bulk to a recycling facility.
Product desruction Wanless can place hook
lift bins onsite to dispose of out of code product to be taken for secure burial or to be shredded and recycled. As this is often on demand we will respond quickly to your businesses needs
Bin cleaning We undersand that maintaining your back of house or external docks to a high level of presentation and hygiene is important as those parts of your may be visible to the public, part of a certifcation where hygiene sandards are regulated as well as providing wellbeing to those using the bins within your facility. So that sandards can be upheld reducing ofensive odours, pess and discomfort by end users Wanless ofers its cusomers scheduled or unscheduled bin and compactor cleaning as part of The Wanless Total Wase Management Solution. To ensure Wanless bins are maintained to hygiene sandards They are cleaned inside and out with a citrus based degreaser, rinsed and sanitised with an odour control spray to assis with odour control long after the service. As Wanless is concerned with protecting the environment, through our integrated services model we partner with bin cleaning companies in each sate taking into consideration chemical and water usage when cleaning is conducted on the clients premises or our own Wanless depots. Wanless can ofer bin cleaning for rear lift, front lift, hook lift and compactors. All prices are on application
Compactors
Ofce clean ups
Wanless can design specialised compacting equipment built to your businesses wase or recycling volumes, assising you to save coss and collections as they are compacted and contained in a 12-31m container.
Hook lift bins are ideal for a regular or once yearly clean up of your business. With 1-2 days notice Wanless can supply our cusomers with the right sized bin to ft in your businesses car park or loading bay.
Timber recycling Hook lift bins are ideal to
neatly sack and sore recyclable timber or pallets onsite for those cusomers who produce large volumes.
Recycling bales Wanless can transport in bulk bales of cardboard or pallet wrap in hook lift bins to be recycled, maximising your rebates
Wanless can collect and transport timber in bulk to a recycling facility.
Product desruction Wanless can place hook
lift bins onsite to dispose of out of code product to be taken for secure burial or to be shredded and recycled. As this is often on demand we will respond quickly to your businesses needs
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Who we are Our website address is: https://wanless.com.au.
Wanless Wase Management Privacy Policy Wanless Wase Management Pty Ltd (Wanless) is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information. We have adopted the Ausralian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, sore, secure and dispose of your Personal Information. A copy of the Ausralian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Ofce of the Ausralian Information Commissioner at www.aoic.gov.au
What is Personal Information and why do we collect it? Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifes an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include: names, addresses, email addresses, phone and facsimile numbers. This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including; interviews, correspondence, by telephone and facsimile, by email, via our website www.wanless.com.au, from your website, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, from cookies and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties. We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you, providing information to our clients and marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumsances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing liss at any time by contacting us in writing. When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
Sensitive Information Sensitive information is defned in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information. Sensitive information will be used by us only: For the primary purpose for which it was obtained For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
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Disclosure of Personal Information Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumsances including the following: Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and Where required or authorised by law.
Security of Personal Information Your Personal Information is sored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modifcation or disclosure. When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable seps to desroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, mos of the Personal Information is or will be sored in client fles which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
Access to your Personal Information You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing. Wanless will not charge any fee for your access reques but may charge an adminisrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information. In order to protect your Personal Information, we may require identifcation from you before releasing the requesed information.
Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable seps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you fnd that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
Policy Updates This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Wanless Wase Management Pty Ltd PO BOX 205, Split Junction NSW 2088 1800 926 537
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Wanless provides simple and efective wase management solutions to the Ausralian manufacturing Indusry, assising our manufacturing cusomers to meet their environmental targets that’s both efcient and cos efective. We undersand that Ausralian brands manufacturing locally need to remain competitively priced, with wase having an impact on production coss. With your environmental goals in mind we work in partnership to create tailored solutions, aligning the right equipment to support the reduction of manufacturing wases, whils maximising your recycling performance inline with your susainability plans. We achieve this through a partnership approach with your susainability, facility and production managers across your organisation right down to the production lines as to be successful everyone has a role to play. To gain a srong undersanding of how manufacturing wase and recycling is generated and your time and coss spent managing the process, we consider may factors including; how the wase or recycling sreams are produced, how this difers per production line across the production foor or location, the journey the wase and recycling sreams travel to their fnal desination and fnally how they are collected. Once this is mapped out your Wanless account managers can provide a detailed visual or volumetric assessment of your wase to esablish opportunities to maximise your current recycling volumes, new recycling opportunities, reduction in material handling and the mos efcient collections method to assis reducing your wase coss. This includes looking at new technologies and innovations, source separation bins for your lines and specialised equipment for collections. When it comes to assising our cusomers toward achieving zero wase targets, Wanless has for the manufacturing sector an education and engagement program that supports positive culture changes around good recycling practices at work. Through tool box meetings, coaching, mentoring sessions and educational materials we develop saf to make a positive impact on recycling choices whils undersanding how their role in wase disposal decisions can impact coss and the environment. Staf are empowered to work together in green groups or train the trainer to share knowledge and processes to ensure the culture we create around susainability and positive recycling behaviours becomes part of their daily role long after we leave, especially at times of seasonal production where you may experience an infux of saf. With safety at the forefront of our organisation we also consider your trafc management in loading docks and any time resrictions, other plant and equipment at times of our collections and the safety of our employees, your saf and any contractors at all times. We work with our clients to identify prior to our commencement and ongoing any risks through our hazard identifcation process, requirements for any certifcation or licensing and any saf inductions to ensure our collections are carried out to the scope of works, ensuring a great cusomer experience for our cusomers.
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Wanless is committed to supporting the Facility and Property sector through the provision of reliable wase collections that delivers srong environmental performance to meet your building or portfolios susainability goals including NABERS ratings. Managing wase services across multiple tenancies, buildings and sakeholders including visitors, tenants and cleaners can be a complex environment. Wanless makes it simple, providing cusomised solutions that drives successful environmental outcomes and we assis you to manage your wase more efectively and inline with your annual budgets. Our Account Managers are experienced across the Facility and property sector providing your business with a “Total Wase Management Solution�, efectively bundling all your wase, recycling, liquid wase, medical and hygiene services into ONE simple to manage contract saving you time and cos managing multiple vendors. Wanless srategically works in partnership to assess, manage and continuously improve the performance of the contract through the term.
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To commence Wanless assesses your portfolio through a detailed wase assessment or physical wase audit to determine; wase sream identifcation, wase desination mapping from source to disposal, wase diversion opportunities, equipment and collections requirements, your safs current awareness of recycling and culture and contamination levels. This performs the base line of current environmental performance. Our saf can also provide a detailed cos analysis, highlighting savings with a new Wanless ofer.
Wanless through its detailed assessment identifes the simples, cos efective and labour intensive processes to separate at the source, collect and dispose of wase & recycling throughout your facility. During the execution sage Wanless may change equipment, ensuring its use is specifc to your requirements, is colour coded to Ausralian sandards and has matching signage. We also ensure your adequately set up to separate recycling at the source, maximising recovery whils minimising landfll disposal.
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Engagement Wanless supports the Facility and property sector with efective engagement program that promotes awareness and encourages good recycling practices and outcomes across your portfolio as we believe its critical to achieving your environmental targets and to maintaining building ratings. We provide innovative activities that promote source separation, a greater level of awareness of your building or portfolios environmental goals, an undersanding of what is the correct wase handling procedures, undersanding contamination and the role everyone play’s at work in an away from home recycling program. Wanless also engages with your onsite cleaning teams as they often handle more than 65% of wase, collecting it from tenancies and transporting wase and recycling to its fnal disposal desination in the dock.
Reporting Wanless provides a suite of monthly reports so we can monitor the environmental performance of the contract and ensure continuous improvement throughout the term. Our reporting suite allows cusomers of all sizes either at a single site view, sate view or national view to better undersand fnancial coss per month as well as recycling rates by sream. Wanless uses reporting as a discussion point in monthly meetings to pin point contract performance and use gap analysis and recycling results to analyse changes to drive further improvement. Reporting can provide trends across locations with the ability to benchmark sites of similar size and output as well as an undersanding or saf culture for a targeted engagement campaign. Wanless can also provide assisance with onsite Wase management saf who are dedicated to resource recovery, dock management, managing collections and working alongside your tenants with engagement activities. By invesing in dedicated resources your recycling results improve and that of the recycling culture across the building or portfolio as our saf are highly qualifed and experienced with cusomer engagement.
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Wanless is well equipped to provide wase management solutions for special events of any size. From corporate sadiums to fesivals in the park, Wanless has the experience to service your event needs. Our professional special events team begins by liaising with the client to determine specifc requirements and your events wase management plan. This includes undersanding time critical requirements so our asset and logisics professionals can tailor our collections to ensure minimal disruption, specifc access routes, security requirements and any OHS inductions or requirements. By partnering with Wanless we provide piece of mind that your events wase is collected and disposed responsibly and environmentally. We support our events with equipment and signage that engages the audience to participate in recycling including a green solution, providing simple solutions for separating wase sreams and reducing cross-contamination. Wanless also has extensive experience in providing wase management solutions for smaller events, including school fetes, local community events, and regional show day fesivals. For major and large events our saf will consult daily providing reporting and pos-event analysis and feedback to ensure your event is successful and your wase requirements taken care of efciently adhering to your approved wase management plan or any council requirements.
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The initiating process determines the nature and scope of the project. Wanless Wase Management use the SEF site assessment form that includes the safety review and vehicle driver onsite inspection.
Planning time, cos and resources adequately to esimate the work needed and to efectively manage risk during project execution.
Executing process involves coordinating people and resources, in addition to integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan.
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We make managing events simple with a Single point of contact, ONE email, ONE phone number ONE invoice & report.
Wanless can ofer your event a “Total Wase Management Solution” for solid wase, recycling and all your hazardous & liquid wases. Saving you time dealing with multiple vendors.
Wanless equipment is colour coded to Ausralian sandards so that wase sreams are easily identifable to event visitors, making recycling easy.
Our saf remain in consant contact during larger events to ensure our business can react to changing environments and wase volumes and manage this as an end – to – end solution.
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Can I get my bin serviced after hours? Other people are putting rubbish in my bin. What can I do? The driver left a mess after tipping the bin. Can I complain? Can Wanless manage all of the wase out-take of my business? How much does it cos? Where does the rubbish go? My bin is overfull. What do I do? What things can I put in my co-mingle bin? The truck driver did not arrive when expected. What can I do? I am worried about the powerlines above my bin. Will the driver hit them? I am expecting to have extra rubbish this week. Can I get an extra service? How and where is asbesos disposed of? What are the things I need to do regarding my wase management?
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Education & Engagement Services Wanless makes recycling simple and fun through our cusomer education program as everyone plays a role with recycling in the workplace.
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As a company we are committed to the engagement of our cusomers and undersand that an efective “away from home” recycling program is essential in meeting your companies susainability goals and targets. Our Account Managers are trained to deliver an efective education program that promotes a positive recycling culture, rewards good susainability behaviours and improves participation rates with Wanless recycling services on our cusomers sites. By increasing your recycling results it can save your business money, making it good for business and the environment!
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Invesigation Our Account Managers work with your team to undersand your company’s susainability goals, what wase and recycling sreams are being produced and how they may difer per location or business sream. We map the wase desination process and consider how it can be simplifed, what is the right source separation processes and aligning the right collections model. Wanless saf also consider your current challenges around your companies recycling culture. Our saf can also provide a detailed cos analysis of current coss V’s Wanless proposed ofer, detailing the savings by switching.
Assessment To undersand your businesses recycling culture and opportunities, Wanless Account Managers perform a visual wase assessment which details what you produce, any contamination and what’s further recoverable. If a more detailed assessment is required we can perform a physical audit where wase is manually sorted and weighed as a representation of a full days wase. This provides us with a benchmark of current environmental performance, any potential cos savings initiatives and forms the srategic plan to managing your wase and budgets.
Engagement Wanless undersands that wase can be hard to manage, a low involvement category in businesses and that language and culture barriers can exis. We provide a change management program engaging saf in a fun and interactive way that assiss them to undersand the role they play in the workplace with recycling and the impacts there disposal decisions have on there business. No matter what indusry your in we can engage with saf across all levels of your organisation, retailers and tenants or within the production foor if required. st1{fill:#
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Support & monitoring Wanless Wase & Recycling services are colour coded to Ausralian sandards with matching bin sickers so that our cusomers can easily identify with the right recycling services, promoting positive recycling choices. Our services can be supported with source separation bins, wase & recycling signage for bin sations and education materials including; tool box talks, presentations, information handouts to saf. Through our detailed cusomer reporting we can monitor progress of the program and identify key areas of your business that may need positive support an reengagement, ensuring throughout the entire contract term efective results ultimately improving environmental performance.
Solutions for Indusry Wanless has over 30 years experience working with cusomers across the for Retail, Cleaning, Facility management and manufacturing indusries and a proven track record with assising cusomers with achieving signifcant recycling outcomes. Let our team observe your business over a period as a time motion sudy to determine your current practices and a solution for improved resource recovery. We can provide as part of your “Total Wase Management Solution” a dedicated wase recovery ofcer who’s sole responsibility is ensuring you maximise your recycling rates, managing collections and bin rotations, contamination and tenant engagement.
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Wanless team make learning; fun, interactive and engaging. We put the excitement back into recycling at work!
Wanless cusomers learn the impact their decisions make to a business with their recycling choices.
When positive behaviours become rewarded and you sart to see a cultural shift and increased recycling rates.
Wanless bins and signage improves recycling for cusomers as saf engage with our colour coded sysem for positive recycling outcomes.
Wanless can provide workshops, tool box meetings or dock training…..ask our saf how we can impact your business and empower your saf to all become recycling champions.
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Wanless is committed to undertaking business in a manner that is environmentally responsible, having due regard for sandards and expectations of the community and protecting the environments in which we operate. As a business we srive to continually improve our environmental performance and srategically assis our cusomers to improve theirs. What you might be surprised at is that while you’re saving the planet, you’re also saving money. Clean wase sreams – that is, sorted and uncontaminated rubbish – is a lot cheaper to manage. For example, a cardboard bin of the same size as a general wase bin will cos you up to half the price to collect and empty. That’s a 50% saving. The same goes for timber, seel and many other types. Wanless recognises that srong environmental performance is critical to our businesses success. Our holisic approach means we consider all wases as a resource, and srive through our collections and Resource Recovery Alliance to incorporate recovery, recycling and re-use in everything we do.
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Wanless Account Managers work closely with our cusomers to undersand your businesses susainability goals and targets, considering all your wase sreams to create an efective srategy for wase diversion and resource recovery. Ultimately improving your environmental performance.
Due to the nature of our operations we undersand what we do as a business can have a potential impact on the environment. Minimising any adverse environmental impact, and care for the environment is the responsibility of all Wanless personnel and contractors at every level of the Company and its embedded in our corporate culture.
Our experience is that to drive continuous improvement and ultimately meet your susainability targets it’s a combination of:
Clear strategic direction based on Wanless 50+ years experience in the waste Industry Utilisation of equipment that’s colour coded to appropriate recycling streams that encourages strong recycling results Simple, identifiable signage that assists the right recycling choices Engaging with staff through an at work education program of which Wanless can deliver Monthly waste reporting allows customers
Our team members are committed to upholding high environmental sandards as a representative of our company. For the broader protection of the environment, Wanless promotes a work environment where susainability is fundamental to our daily operations delivered through:
A systematic approach to controlling environmental hazards and risks Effective management demonstrated by commitment and direct involvement at all levels of the company. In its activities Wanless is committed to ensure all work sites are maintained to
Commitment to the community Wanless is committed to protecting the greater environment as well as the communities in which we operate. We do this with broad focus on community engagement through partnerships that promote susainable outcomes and greater resource recovery. Wanless has pledged to sand with communities and NGO’s to save the planet from plasics and is committed to reducing single use plasic wase from the ocean which is something close to Dean Wanless heart as a Northern Beaches resident and active user of Sydney’s beaches, now and for future generations’ use.
Our future focus is to make Wanless “part of the solution to pollution” Remove single use plastics from the environment through client & community partnerships for community participation in education events st1{fill:# Invest our company resources where appropriate to support community Contact sponsorship and engagement. Empower our staff to get involved and bring projects to management that align with our company vision. Celebrate and participate in key
to track costs and volumes, communicating valuable insights on performance and improvements Understanding contamination and its impacts on cost to your business
prevent unacceptable risks to employees and the environment. This will be achieved by: Ensuring there is a system in place aimed at protecting the environment and preventing pollution.
sustainability days and local projects that support the local community.
Our vision goes deeper than recycling A saggering 9 million tonnes of plasic ends up in the world’s oceans each year, and land-based wase is the greates polluter. This ocean debris afects about 700 marine species, some of which are now endangered.
To help turn the tide on plasic pollution, Wanless eco(logical) is invesing in Ausralia’s oceans.
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Sydney Recycling Park is located 56km Wes of Sydney’s CBD on 11 hectares in the idyllic Kemps Creek area, accepting inert wase from Sydney’s Commercial, Indusrial and Demolition markets. With close proximity to Sydney’s manufacturing and Indusrial hubs in the Wesern region where the majority of Sydney’s wase is produced, its easily accessible from the M7 motorway to support your collections business. Through innovative and susainable practices Wanless is committed to reducing wase from landfll through an advanced technology sorting process whils protecting the environment in which our facility operates and engaging the community that surrounds it. We undersand that whils wase avoidance is the ideal solution there are always going to be residual inert wases that need a disposal desination in Sydney, where wase is handled in an environmentally responsible manner with resource recovery and re-use at the forefront of its operations. To provide this assurance to our cusomers, we srictly adhere to local legislation and EPA guidelines managing our facility to the highes work place safety and environmental sandards; currently operating two active engineered landfll cells in the southern section. Sydney Recycling Park’s current wase capacity is 250,000 cubic metres which will be further enhanced through the mining of clay and shale materials over the next two years. With the fnal land formation being taken into consideration, the design airspace remaining is 1,000,000 cubic metres with an esimation for completion in 2043. The facility is licenced to accept commercial and indusrial and consruction and demolition wase sreams including:
Consruction & Demolition wase Timber Plasterboard Aggregates Concrete Ceramics Metal
Packaging materials Bricks Glass Clean soil Green waste
Commercial & Indusrial wase Non- putrescible dry waste Timber Glass Metal Plastic Cardboard
Batteries Tyres Matrasses Polystyrene Hard plastics
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Putrescible wase We are not licensed to accept residential or “wet” wases
Asbesos We can not accept any asbesos materials. They mus be disposed at a licensed facility
Food wase Any food wase or organic matter is not accepted at the Sydney Recycling Park
Liquid wase Liquid wases need to be disposed at a licensed liquid treatment plant and can not be accepted at The Sydney Recycling Centre
Medical wase All medical wase mus be taken to an autoclave or incineration facility for disposal. They are not accepted in The Sydney recycling Park.
Contaminated Soil We only accept clean soil that’s been tesed and certifed by the transporter.
Through our commitment of “Creating a better environment” the northern aspect of The Sydney Recycling Park is a fully comprehensive recycling facility where recoverable materials are screened, processed, treated and recovered for re-use locally. Our facility processes up to 220,000 tonnes of wase per annum, with approximately 85% of incoming material diverted from landfll. With srict protocols that ensure quality control, we have developed an efcient, efective process that ensures all materials are allocated properly and recycled in the appropriate manner including:
Metals We recover various ferrous and non-ferrous metals through our process, which are sent to a local recycler to be processed into new metal products
Concrete We sort heavy materials like concrete which can be sent to a recycling facility where its put through a crushing and screening process to be made into new road base
Cardboard We recover cardboard which is re-baled and delivered to the Botany processing facility to be made into new corrugated box products
Soil Clean, uncontaminated soil is accepted and screened to remove aggregates to be re-used in local indusry or as landfll cover in our own facility
Timber All recyclable timber is sorted and chipped onsite and is transferred to a local recycling facility for use as garden mulch.
Aggregates We separate aggregates to be sent locally for recycling where they are recycled to produce high grade road base and other aggregates for civil consruction and infrasructure projects
The community relies on facilities such as The Sydney Recycling Park at Kemps Creek to provide safe and appropriate treatment of wase materials, both now and into the future. This includes conservation of resources and allowing for the efcient and cos efective recovery of materials for reintroduction into the economy. Above all, the community needs for these functions to be undertaken in a way that value the protection of the environment including: Stringent planning of all activities Odour monitoring and management Noise management and acceptance of wastes during business hours Maximum of 90 vehicles accepted per day Litter monitoring and control Detailed environmental monitoring and reporting. We welcome and value feedback from the community around our operations and ask you to direct your enquiries to: Manager:
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The Wanless Recycling Park is a proposed resource recovery and recycling precinct at Ebenezer, about 12 km southwes of Ipswich CBD in Queensland. Wanless plans to consruct and operate an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge. The company’s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community. This is a model they have tried and tesed at Sydney Recycling Park, where up to 80% of wase is now diverted from landfll.
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With recycling and resource recovery and reuse at the forefront of its operations, Wanless Recycling Park will accept wase from businesses and areas where it knows it can recover the mos recyclable material. This will include household, commercial and indusrial, and demolition and consruction wase. The integrated facility will also include a landfll element for residual wase.
The Current Development Application Before Wanless can build the recycling park, it mus be approved by Ipswich City Council. Wanless Recycling Park’s current Development Application is for a development permit for: a Material Change of Use (MCU) for a Waste Activity Use (Landfill & Rehabilitating a Mining Void) and Special Industry (Waste Transfer and Resource Recovery); and a Reconfiguration of a Lot (RoL) for a Boundary Realignment (21 into 21 Lots). The application will also include an application for an Environmental Authority for Environmentally Relevant Activities (ERAs) 54, 60 and 62, which specifcally relate to Wase Management. * See below for further information regarding these terms.
The proposed development encompasses the following facilities. Resource Recovery Facility Resource Recovery Facility for Construction and Demolition, Commercial and Industrial and General Waste – to recover dry materials such as timber, paper, cardboard, metals, aggregates, soils, bricks, green waste and concrete rubble, plastics, fabrics (these processes involve physical processes only and do not involve any chemical processes). The resource recovery processes to include shredding, screening, magnetic and eddy current separation, optical sorting, hand picking, and air classification, crushing and baling. Landfill The residual waste will be put into the landfill voids and will be isolated from groundwater by a synthetic barrier. Landfill Gas Recovery will be undertaken. Gas collected will be used for onsite power generation. The development application was lodged with Ipswich City Council in December 2019 and it is currently part way through the development assessment process. Key Changes made to the Application since lodgement When proposals are submitted to Council it is expected that some changes may occur through the assessment process in response to quesions raised by Council and State Government. The following key changes have been made to the proposal since the application was originally lodged: Height: Overall reduction to the maximum landfill height by 9m within the Ironbank and Lane’s Pit voids Wase Streams Changes to the waste types to be received at the site to further promote resource recovery and recycling of the incoming waste streams Increase in the resource recovery rate from an overall rate of 35% to 45% Access Further investigations into a range of site access options which have confirmed Champions Way is considered the only viable site access arrangement Redesign of the access from Champions Way to maintain the existing flow of water during flood events external to the site Identification of strategies to be considered in relation to traffic management during events at the Motorsports Precinct Wanless invites you to review the technical reports published via Council’s website and are available at Development Application Status The development application for Wanless Recycling park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since this time, the formal information reques sage has commenced, which is intended to allow Council and State Government to ask for further details regarding the proposed development. A reques for additional information was issued by Ipswich City Council and the State Government in early 2020 and Wanless provided a response to both requess on 27 April 2020. A copy of the development application, information requess and information reques responses (application number 10674/2019) can be found through the City of Ipswich Council PDOnline at the following link. If it is your first visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then enter the application number 10674/2019 into the appropriate boxes on the first line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required.
Working with the community Wanless has been engaging with sakeholder groups and interesed residents to provide preliminary information on the proposal. This will also help Wanless consider community interess about the proposed development. Pre-lodgement Community Sessions (now completed) Drop-in community information sessions were held on 5 and 7 December 2019. Representatives from Wanless and key consultants were available to discuss the proposed development. The information boards used at the sessions can be found here.* Public Notifcation (current) Now that Wanless Recycling Park has responded to all the requess for additional information, the development application moves into the public notifcation period of the assessment. The application will commence public notifcation on 14th May 2020 and the closing date for submissions is 5th June 2020. During this sage, local residents and members of the Ipswich community can submit feedback on the proposal directly to Council for consideration in their decision-making process. Wanless invites the community to provide feedback directly to Council to be considered. During the current climate with social disancing resrictions of COVID-19, unfortunately there will not be an opportunity to hold additional community information sessions during the public notifcation period. We encourage community members to contact us with any queries about the application via the email below. Newsletters To keep the community updated on the development application, a series of newsletters have been published and disributed within the local community. The newsletters can be found via the below hyperlinks: Newsletter 1 – December 2019 Newsletter 2 – January 2020 Newsletter 3 – May 2020 Newsletter 4 – Augus 2020 Newsletter 5 – November 2020 We welcome feedback from the community about this proposed development. Please direct your comments to WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au. For the lates recycling and news updates, check out our News page.
What is the time frame for this project? The timing of consruction and operations is subject to change and is directly infuenced by approval periods and market demands. If approved by the Ipswich City Council, consruction is scheduled to sart in 2021, with operation expected to sart during FY 2022/2023.
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Where a pollution incident occurs, The SYDNEY RECYCLING PARK Landfill Manager will be responsible for reporting to the authorities below without delay. Relevant authorities’ notification order If there is an immediate threat to human health or the environment: Call Fire and Rescue first
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Ministry of Health (Nepean)
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Local Authority (Penrith city council)
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1300 729 579
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0408 278 439
Early warnings for affected or potentially affected community members for any pollution incident are to be communicated to those members via a door knock process or phone calls. The Landfill Manager or nominee will be responsible for coordinating the communication process. For air pollution incidents that may affect neighbours, those neighbours will be asked to close their doors and windows and stay indoors until further notice. For water pollution incidents that may affect neighbours who could access the said water, those neighbours will be asked to avoid use of the water until further notice. This could be the case with groundwater contamination or water run off onto neighbouring property. Regular updates of any pollution incidents will be via letterbox drop to the local community, notices in local papers or via door knocks as required. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Extract – SRP Pollution Incident Response Management Plan 2019
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WANLESS Who is Wanless? Wanless Waste Management is a family-owned and operated business. The Wanless family started automotive and metal recycling in the Ipswich region in the late 1950s, long before recycling was a priority. Now an industry leader, the company uses its experience in resource recovery to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. Wanless owns the site where the Wanless Recycling Park is proposed. The Ipswich community deserves a strong recycling industry with sustainable practices. As a business with our roots in Ipswich, we are committed to working with locals to minimise impacts and share the economic benefits of a future focused industry.
Our Track Record Wanless already operates an extensive recycling waste management business in South East Queensland and partners with enterprises that share its commitment to sustainability. We have a track record in managing waste and recycling services responsibly, including Sydney Recycling Park, which has maximised diversion from landfill and implemented best practice recycling techniques through technology.
SYDNEY RECYCLING PARK • Located 56km west of Sydney’s CBD within the employment zone for the new Western Sydney Airport. • We handle waste in an environmentally responsible manner with resource recovery and re-use at the forefront of operations. • Uses advanced technology sorting processes, e.g. magnetic and eddy current separation, air current separation and baling of recovered commodities. • Waste avoidance is the ideal solution but there will always be residual wastes that require disposal. • We manage our facility to the highest work place safety and environmental standards. We strictly adhere to local legislation and EPA guidelines. • We currently operate two active engineered landfill cells. These have been designed to include a range of environmental protection methods as we operate on an active clay and shale quarry. Less than 20% of the incoming volume finds its way into the void space. • We invested significantly in groundwater and surface water management through an engineered stormwater detention basin. • We continue to invest in infrastructure that improves environmental outcomes.
WANLESS RECYCLING PARK Wanless Recycling Park (WRP) is a proposed resource recovery and recycling development. This will take waste material and redirect it to alternative use, where possible. Any residual waste will be disposed of through landfilling in the existing voids on site.
Willowbank Motorcross
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A development application is currently being prepared for Ipswich City Council and will likely be lodged in December 2019. WRP will manage three types of waste Household
Industrial
Demolition & Construction
Willowbank
What will happen on site? Queensland Raceway
Waste is sorted by physical processes only and will not involve any chemical processing. They will include shredding, screening, magnetic and eddy current separation, optical sorting, hand picking, crushing, air classification and baling.
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Waste is sorted into: • soils • concrete & brick • timber • metals • some plastics • gypsum
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Some plastics
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Concrete & brick
Secondary Receiving Shed
Paper, cardboard & metals
Landfill
Willowbank Raceway
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The current development application is for a material change of use (MCU) and for landfill and resource recovery uses, as well as Reconfiguration of a Lot (RoL). The proposal includes a range of waste management operations and processes. This development application refers to Precincts 2, 3A and 3B.
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PRECINCT 4 + 5: POTENTIAL FUTURE USES ▪ Metal recycling ▪ Cardboard and paper recycling
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▪ Aggregates and construction materials recycling
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▪ Timber recycling
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▪ R and D facilities for recycling equipment ▪ Manufacture of waste recycling equipment; and ▪ Water and liquid recycling
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ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS • Responsibly managing potential impacts on the environment, nearby residents and businesses, is front of mind for Wanless. • The proposed development has been designed to best use areas that have already been significantly disturbed due to previous mining activities and bentonite processing. • Technical assessments of the following matters are being undertaken to identify and manage potential impacts: • Site surveys for flora and fauna that need to be protected – for example areas of existing koala habitat along the north western part of the site have been identified and avoided as part of the current development application. • Potential impacts on waterways, surface waters and groundwater. • Potential air and noise emissions to ensure nearby residents and businesses are not adversely impacted. • Rehabilitation requirements under the existing mining lease and environmental authority. • All existing rehabilitation requirements will be complied with and details will be included in the site rehabilitation plan prepared and submitted as part of the development application. • Identified potential impacts will be addressed to ensure local and state government requirements are complied with.
SITE ACCESS • We know that traffic is a key concern for locals in particular, impacts on Coopers Road. • Site access is proposed via Champions Way. • Formal technical investigations are being prepared for the development application, including: • Traffic movements and site access studies; • Potential noise, dust and odour assessments to consider associated impacts of vehicle movements to and around the site. • Site access is designed so that trucks associated with the proposed development will have minimal impact on nearby residential areas. • The proposed internal access road from the site entrance to the Resource Recovery Facility will be sealed. • It is proposed that modified operations could occur on Queensland Raceway event days. This arrangement can be agreed with Queensland Raceway and Ipswich City Council. It will form part of an agreed traffic management plan.
NEXT STEPS The development application for the proposed development has not yet been lodged with Council. Once lodged there will be further opportunity for stakeholders to view details of the development application and provide comment.
The Process as Guided by the Planning Act 2016
Our discussions today, along with engagement with other key stakeholders over the coming weeks, will help Wanless consider community interests in the project proposal. We will continue to provide information to stakeholders as the project progresses, this is just our first step in the process.
• Applications are available for viewing by the community online
Step 1 • Development application lodged by Applicant to Council, also referred to State Government for certain matters
Step 2 • Council and State request clarification and more information from the applicant
Step 3 • Applicant responds to requests from both Government authorities for clarification and more information
Project Timeline (estimated timeframes - subject to change)
November – December 2019 Preliminary Stakeholder Engagement
2019
Early 2020 Consideration of Development Application by Council
2020
Future Decision by Council
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Step 4 • Applicant notifies the public as required by the Development Application – typical notification periods are 15 or 30 business days
Step 5 • Public notification completed
October – December 2019 Preparation of Development Application
December 2019 Lodgement of Development Application
2020 Public Notification of Development Application
Step 6 • Council assesses community feedback and State recommendations and decides on the Development Application outcomes
WHAT WE HAVE HEARD Wanless and the consultant team have held preliminary discussions with a range of stakeholders recently. We know that there are concerns about: • Suitable engagement with the communities who are directly affected by the proposed project; • Impacts on the community (including traffic, odour, noise, house values and reputation of the local neighbourhoods and the City of Ipswich); and • Impacts on the environment (water quality, local flora and fauna, air quality, rehabilitation of mining voids, rehabilitation of the site). Stakeholders have highlighted significant opportunity for Wanless to engage with the community to access local knowledge to understand and manage environmental and community impacts.
Feedback If you have comments, feedback or questions about the Wanless Recycling Park proposal you can email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au
More Information You can find out more about Wanless Waste Management at the website www.wanless.com.au and our demonstrated record of recycling and resource recovery at the Sydney Recycling Park wanless.com.au/about-us/ sydney-recycling-park
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Introduction Wanless Waste Management invites you to a drop-in community information session, on either Thursday 5th December or Saturday 7th December (details overleaf) . Wanless Recycling Park, a subsidiary of Wanless Waste Management, is currently preparing a development application to submit to Ipswich City Council, for a resource recovery, recycling and landfill precinct. The site is located at 304 Coopers Road & 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12 km southwest of Ipswich, Queensland. During November and early December 2019, Wanless is seeking to engage with key stakeholder groups and interested residents to provide preliminary information on the proposal What is the Wanless Recycling Park? Wanless Recycling Park will be a world-class resource recovery facility to address emerging issues in the South East Queensland (SEQ) waste industry. Wanless Recycling Park will accept household; commercial and industrial; and demolition and construction waste from businesses and areas where it knows it can recover the most recyclable material. This integrated facility will focus on recovery and reuse. It will also include a landfill element for residual waste. Who is Wanless Wanless Waste Management is a family-owned and operated business. The Wanless family started automotive and metal recycling in the Ipswich region in the late 1950s, long before recycling was a priority. Now an industry leader, the company uses its vast experience in resource recovery to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. Wanless owns the site where the Wanless Recycling Park is proposed.
F ST RECYCLING F CTS 13 Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves 13 trees
3 The energy saved by recycling a can of aluminium can power a TV for up to three hours
25 The energy saved by recycling 1 plastic bottle can power a computer for 25 minutes
Drop-in Community Information Sessions The information sessions will offer preliminary information on the proposed development of the Wanless Recycling Park in Ebenezer. Representatives from Wanless and key consultants will be available to discuss the proposed development.
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These drop-in sessions are part of pre-lodgement engagement. Interested parties will have further opportunity to view details of the application once lodged.
Ebenezer
Please note there will be no formal presentation or meeting throughout either session, so you are free to arrive at any time during the sessions. Both sessions will provide the same information and offer an opportunity for you to hear about the proposed development.
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RECYCLING PARK Creating a better environment
Willowbank
To help ensure we adequately resource the information sessions, we would appreciate your RSVP to the Eventrbrite address provided below so we can assess numbers.
Session 1
Queensland Raceway
Thursday 5th December. 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Session 2
Willowbank Raceway
Saturday 7th December. 10:00am – 12:00pm Session Location: Rosewood State High School Hall, 46 Lanefield Road, Rosewood
Brisbane CBD
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Ipswich
RECYCLING PARK Creating a better environment
Project Timeline (estimated timeframes - subject to change)
November – December 2019 Preliminary Stakeholder Engagement
2019 October – December 2019 Preparation of Development Application
Early 2020 Consideration of Development Application by Council
2020 December 2019 Lodgement of Development Application
Future Decision by Council
Future 2020 Public Notification of Development Application
You can find out more about Wanless Waste Management at the website www.wanless.com.au and our demonstrated record of recycling and resource recovery at the Sydney Recycling Park wanless.com.au/about-us/sydney-recycling-park If you have comments or feedback about the Wanless Recycling Park proposal you can email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au
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RECYCLING PARK Creating a better environment
PROJECT UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2020 Wanless Waste Management has submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park at 304 Coopers Road & 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12 km southwest of Ipswich CBD. It is proposed that Wanless Recycling Park will accept household; commercial and industrial; and demolition and construction waste. This integrated facility will focus on recovery and reuse and will work with partners who prioritise recycling. The facility will also include a landfill element to manage residual waste. Development Application Progress The development application (DA) for Wanless Recycling Park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. A request for additional information has subsequently been issued by Council to Wanless in January 2020. A copy of the development application (application number 10674/2019) can be found through City of Ipswich Council PDOnline at pdonline.ipswich.qld.gov.au • If it is your first visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. • Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then enter the application number 10674/2019 into the appropriate boxes on the first line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required. What Happens Next? Wanless and the project team will work with Council over the next several months to respond to the information request (IR). Once this response is submitted to Council, Wanless will commence public notification to give the community opportunity to make submissions. This will be prior to Council making a decision on the application. It is expected that the public notification period will not occur before May 2020, although assessment timelines can vary. Development Application Process (estimated timeframes - subject to change)
November – December 2019 Preliminary stakeholder engagement
Early 2020 Consideration of DA and issue of IR by ICC
2019 October – December 2019 Preparation of DA
2020 Public notification
2020 December 2019 Lodgement of DA
Decision by ICC
Future Early 2020 Wanless respond to IR
Stakeholder engagement Prior to lodging the development application in December, representatives from the Wanless Recycling Park project team: • met with members of the Willowbank Area Group, Rosewood District Protection Organisation and Lock the Gate • met with state and federal elected representatives • held two community information sessions to provide preliminary information about the proposed development. • met with Ipswich City Council in prelodgement meetings.
From this engagement we know: • Communication is essential and Wanless need to continue to engage with the community. • Recent waste proposals in the region have created concerns for residents and locals. • Residents want to understand the potential impacts on the environment (water quality, local flora and fauna, air quality, rehabilitation of mining voids, rehabilitation of the site), and the proposed mitigation actions. • Residents are worried about the impacts on the community (including traffic, odour, noise, house values and reputation of the local neighbourhoods and the City of Ipswich). • Many stakeholders are supportive of recycling and see it as a solution to a recognised problem.
You can find out more about Wanless Recycling Park at our website https://wanless.com.au/about-us/wanless-recycling-park/ and our demonstrated record of recycling and resource recovery at the Sydney Recycling Park www.wanless.com.au/about-us/sydney-recycling-park. If you have comments or feedback about the Wanless Recycling Park proposal you can email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au
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PROJECT UPDATE - MAY 2020 Wanless Waste Management (Wanless) has submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park at 304 Coopers Road and 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12km southeast of Ipswich CBD. Wanless propose to target primarily general waste from commercial and industrial as well as construction and demolition sources. This integrated facility will focus on resource recovery and will work with partners who prioritise recycling. The facility will also include a landfill element to manage residual waste.
Development Application Progress The development application for Wanless Recycling park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since this time, the formal information request stage has commenced, which is intended to allow Council and State Government to ask for further details regarding the proposed development. A request for additional information was issued by Ipswich City Council and the State Government in early 2020 and Wanless provided a response to both requests on 27 April 2020. A copy of the development application, information requests and information request responses (application number 10674/2019) can be found through the City of Ipswich Council PDOnline at pdonline.ipswich.qld.gov.au • If it is your first visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. • Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then enter the application number 10674/2019 into the appropriate boxes on the first line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required.
Update on Recent Changes to the Development Proposal When proposals are submitted to Council it is expected that some changes may occur through the assessment process in response to questions raised by Council and State Government. The following key changes have been made to the proposal since the application was originally lodged: Overall reduction to the maximum landfill height by 9m within the Ironbank and Lane’s Pit voids Changes to the waste types to be received at the site to further promote resource recovery and recycling of the incoming waste streams Increase in the resource recovery rate from an overall rate of 35% to 45% Further investigations into a range of site access options which have confirmed Champions Way is considered the only viable site access arrangement Redesign of the access from Champions Way to maintain the existing flow of water during flood events external to the site Identification of strategies to be considered in relation to traffic management during events at the Motorsports Precinct Wanless invites you to review the technical reports published online via the above link to review these changes in greater detail.
Development Application Process (estimated timeframes - subject to change)
November – December 2019 Initial stakeholder engagement
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As part of Council’s assessment process, the development proposal will be publicly notified. During this stage, local residents and members of the Ipswich community can submit feedback on the proposal directly to Council for consideration in their decision-making process. Public notification runs for 15 business days (excluding public holidays and weekends) and will start on 14th of May 2020 and the closing date for submissions is 5th of June 2020. Wanless invites the community to provide feedback directly to Council to be considered.
Wanless and the project team will continue to work with Council over the next stages of the assessment process. After the 15 business day public notification period ends, the consideration of submissions and decision period for the application commences. This period can be extended if Council requests further time and Wanless consents to the extension. The State Government will assess the application at the same time as Council.
Wanless previously ran community information sessions in December 2019 before the development application was lodged to Ipswich City Council. Wanless intended to run additional community information sessions during the public notification period so that local residents and interested parties would have another opportunity to meet with representatives from Wanless and find out more about the application. Unfortunately, Wanless is unable to host information sessions at this time due to Covid-19. However, you can still provide your feedback about the development application directly to Wanless by sending your comments via the email address listed at the bottom of this newsletter.
You can find out more about Wanless Recycling Park at our website https://wanless.com.au/about-us/ wanless-recycling-park/ and our demonstrated record of recycling and resource recovery at the Sydney Recycling Park www.wanless.com.au/about-us/ sydney-recycling-park. If you have comments or feedback about the Wanless Recycling Park proposal you can email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au
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PROJECT UPDATE NOVEMBER 2020
Wanless Waste Management (Wanless) would like to provide an update to the Ipswich community about the Wanless Recycling and Innovation Park development application. Here, we also share news about our partnership with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to conduct real-world research projects at the site of the recycling and innovation park.
PARTNERSHIP WITH QUT FOR REAL-WORLD RESEARCH Working in partnership with QUT, Wanless has welcomed three teams to conduct research at its Ebenezer site. The collaboration with QUT follows the company’s interest in QUT’s Centre for a Waste-Free World, which develops and implements new waste technologies and processes. Wanless wants to work with the Waste-Free World team to test some of their innovations. In the meantime, Wanless is partnering with QUT on research related to groundwater, surface water and vegetation. This research will contribute new knowledge and innovative ideas about how Wanless can best manage the degraded mining site. One of the first research projects off the ground is related to vegetation.
QUT students measuring out a vegetation survey site at Ebenezer.
Wanless is proposing to build an innovative recycling and resource recovery facility at 304 Coopers Road and 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12 km southeast of the Ipswich CBD. This represents a significant investment in the region and an opportunity to set an entirely new benchmark in waste recycling and reuse. Wanless’ vision is to transform an old vacant, derelict mining site into a productive resource recovery and recycling precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community.
REBUILDING BIODIVERSITY CORRIDORS One of the first research projects QUT is conducting through the partnership with Wanless involves students assessing two vegetation communities at the site. When Wanless conducted its environmental assessments, remnant and high-value regrowth vegetation communities described as ‘of concern’ and ‘endangered’ under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act (1999) were identified. QUT Associate Professor Susan Fuller is supervising an environmental science student research team to assess and analyse the two vegetation communities and the soil on which they grow. The aim is to identify potential restoration activities that will potentially link the site to biodiversity corridors in the region. The QUT team has conducted vegetation surveys in the ‘endangered’ swamp paperbark forest (regional ecosystem 12.3.18 and essential habitat for the endangered plant, Melaleuca irbyana) and the ‘of concern’ woodland dominated by narrow-leaved ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra; regional ecosystem 12.9-10.7 and essential habitat for the koala). The researchers are now comparing areas of non-remnant and remnant native vegetation with benchmark data. This will provide a baseline for future assessments and deliver Wanless recommendations about how to restore non-remnant areas. As the success of restoration activities is highly dependent on the soil, the research team have also taken soil samples and will conduct a soil analysis of each site.
“Wanless is enabling QUT students to apply learnings from their degree to an environmental challenge faced on many legacy industrial sites. The members of the student research team are expanding their experience and Wanless will get useful data to manage the land and potential restoration activities,” Dr Fuller said.
Development Application Progress Wanless submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since then, Wanless has been following the processes required by Local and State Government agencies to progress the application through the assessment process. As part of the Council’s assessment, there was a public notification period about the proposed development between 14 May 2020 and 5 June 2020. Following closure of the public notification period, Council summarised the matters raised in the public submissions and Wanless prepared a response to Council’s summary, providing a further response and clarification on any questions raised in the public submissions.
Wanless is also continuing to work with the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA), Department of Environment and Science (DES) and Department of Transport and Main Roads (DMTR) to provide further information and respond to any further questions the agencies have about the application to inform their assessment. Alongside the development application process, Wanless will apply to amend the existing Environmental Authority (EA). This amendment is necessary to transition the EA that applies over the site from mining to recycling, resource recovery and waste management. All of the above documentation is available via City of Ipswich Council ePathway Online Tool (refer to the link provided below). Ipswich City Council keep the portal updated with all application material that is submitted over the course of the assessment.
How to View the Proposal You can find a copy of the development application (application number 10674/2019/CA), information requests and responses on the City of Ipswich Council ePathway Online Tool at ipswich.qld.gov.au/ online_services/application_enquiry • If it is your first visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. • Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then ‘Development Application’ head to the ‘Search by Application Number’ enter the application number 10674/2019/CA into the appropriate boxes on the first line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required.
Development Application Process Early 2020 Information request issued by Council and State Government
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Late 2020/Early 2021 Council assessment
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August 2020 Wanless responds to public submissions
Late 2020 State Government assessment complete
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Early 2021 Independent Decision Review Panel (public hearing)
What Happens Next? Wanless will continue to provide additional information to State Government agencies as requested and expects the State Government referral and assessment process will conclude in late 2020. Once the referral process is completed, Council’s decision-making period will commence. The development application will also go through Ipswich City Council’s Independent Decision Review Panel, which involves a third-party review of the Council’s recommendations. This process includes a public hearing about the proposal, which gives local stakeholders another opportunity to learn more about the proposed development and have their say before Council makes a decision. It is expected that this public hearing will be held in early 2021.
Find out More or Give Feedback You can find out more about Wanless Recycling Park at our website https://wanless.com.au/about-us/wanless-recycling-park/ See our demonstrated record of recycling and resource recovery at the Sydney Recycling Park www.wanless.com.au/about-us/sydney-recycling-park Wanless welcomes your comments or feedback about the Wanless Recycling Park. Please email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au
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Action Metal Recyclers | “Forging” an alliance between two recycling greats
Wanless Wase Management is proud to announce its partnership with Action Metal Recyclers, a recycling company that specialises in all types of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals ranging from the common domesic products such as fridges, window frames and roofng iron, to commercial scrap metal such as sructural seel and machinery.
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Action Metal Recyclers’s sate-of-the-art shears, shredders and machinery is a welcome addition to Wanless’s 80% recycling rate achievements. “Action specialises in metal, and dominates in its feld,” says Action Metal Recyclers general manager Kevin Carlile. “Wanless Wase Management has a broader but more general skill set that connects greater to the clients’ overall
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Action Metal Recyclers’s “Cash for Scrap” initiative pays cash on the spot for unwanted scrap metal. Old fridges, sinks, pool fencing, car batteries, tap fttings or copper cables, simply get in touch for a price or drop into one of our sites to fnd out more about turning your unwanted goods into insant cash. With a wide range of bin and truck types with a capacity to suit projects of every size domesic. Both companies have a srong cusomer-service ethic and are leaders in innovation, and this new alliance continues to build the family tree of susainability Wanless Wase Management has grown for over 60 years. Call us to fnd out how you or your business could beneft from our services today.
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QUT sarts groundwater research at Ebenezer recycling site
One of Queensland’s leading experts on groundwater, Dr Lucy Reading from QUT’s School of Biology and Environmental Science, is supervising a team of environmental science sudents to conduct groundwater research at Wanless’s proposed recycling site at Ebenezer near Ipswich, Queensland, and its interaction with vegetation and surface water.
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innovative resource recovery and recycling precinct. The company has insalled a network of bores, which its team uses to monitor groundwater levels and quality. The company has shared exising data with QUT, and the groundwater research team has visited the Ebenezer site to collect its own samples. Once the samples are analysed, the team will draw up a conceptual model to show groundwater fow directions, aquifers and the potential for groundwater and surface water and vegetation interactions.
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Market moves | Wanless fnalises acquisition of Resource Enviro
Wanless Wase Management is proud to announce the fnalisation of its acquisition of national contract services business Resource Environmental Solutions, solidifying Wanless’s divesment and commitment to a susainable future. “I have always believed that the contract services model has many benefts that when coupled with traditional
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Expanding geographical reach Aside from a single-provider service, the acquisition also means Wanless Wase Management’s geographical reach is expanded, for both new cusomers and exising clients, as is its service ofering. “We have a client that has been after ‘one invoice’ for years as they operate in remote places, including in New Zealand where we traditionally haven’t serviced,” says Dean.” We now manage their wase and recycling from outback
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Kalgoorlie in Wesern Ausralian, to Chrischurch in New Zealand, with detailed reports on their operations.”
Resource Enviro acquisition “We are excited for this acquisition,” says former owner Chris O’Brien. “The move has allowed me to create businesses in the US, where I currently live, and expand my aspirations. My srong relationship with Dean and the team has also meant Wanless is coming on this journey with me as a partner which has helped accelerate the process.” The acquisition is refective of the wase management indusry as a whole as more and more companies look to create a “one-sop-shop” solution for their clients. This benefts both the end cusomer and the wase management provider, as it negates the need for wase brokers. Combining the two platforms and being the business’s own cusomer creates internal competition and aids feedback across all services.”
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Wanless Recycling Park update | What happens next?
Wanless’s proposed innovative recycling and resource recovery facility at 304 Coopers Road and 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12km southeas of the Ipswich CBD, represents a signifcant invesment in the region and an opportunity to set an entirely new benchmark in wase recycling and reuse. Here’s an Wanless Recycling Park update.
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Wanless submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since then, Wanless has been following the processes required by Local and State Government agencies to progress the application through the assessment process, including a public notifcation period between 14 May 2020 and 5 June 2020. Wanless is also continuing to work with the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA), Department of Environment and Science (DES) and Department of Transport and Main Roads (DMTR) to provide further information and respond to any further quesions the agencies have about the application to inform their Assessment. Alongside the development application process, Wanless will apply to amend the exising Environmental Authority (EA). This amendment is necessary to transition the EA that applies over the site from mining to recycling, resource recovery and wase management.
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Wanless Recycling Park update – so what’s next? Wanless will continue to provide additional information to State Government agencies as requesed and expects the State Government referral and assessment process will conclude in late 2020. Once the referral process is completed, Council’s decision-making period will commence. The development application will also go through Ipswich City Council’s Independent Decision Review Panel, which involves a third-party review of the Council’s recommendations. This process includes a public hearing about the proposal, which gives local sakeholders another opportunity to learn more about the proposed development and have their say before Council makes a decision. It is expected that this public hearing will be held in early 2021. Wanless welcomes your comments or feedback about this Wanless Recycling Park update. Please email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au.
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Centre for a Wase-Free World announces 3 new research projects
Working in partnership with QUT, Wanless has welcomed three teams to conduct research projects at its Ebenezer site. The collaboration with QUT follows the company’s interes in QUT’s Centre for a Wase-Free World , which develops and implements new wase technologies and processes.
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Wanless is committed to working with the Wase-Free World team to help progress breakthroughs in this feld. Resoring the conservation values on this site is a focus, as when it was acquired, it was degraded and hazardous to the surrounding
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communities. Major seps have already been undertaken to undersand the Ebenezer site’s environmental condition and assess its potential as an innovative resource recovery and recycling precinct. QUT and Wase-Free World’s reports and recommendations will contribute new knowledge and ideas about how Wanless can bes manage this site.
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“Wanless is allowing QUT sudents to apply learnings from their degree to an environmental challenge faced on many
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Wanless wants to work with the Wase-Free World team to tes some of their innovations. In the meantime, Wanless is partnering with QUT on research related to groundwater, surface water and vegetation. This research will contribute new knowledge and innovative ideas about how Wanless can bes manage the degraded mining site. One of the frs research projects of the ground involves sudents assessing two vegetation communities at the site. When Wanless conducted its environmental assessments, certain remnant and high-value regrowth vegetation communities were identifed, ones described as ‘of concern’ and ‘endangered’ under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act (1999). QUT Associate Professor Susan Fuller is supervising an environmental science sudent research team to assess and analyse the two vegetation communities and the soil on which they grow. The aim is to identify potential resoration
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Endangered vegetation The QUT team has conducted vegetation surveys in the ‘endangered’ swamp paperbark fores (regional ecosysem 12.3.18 and essential habitat for the endangered plant, Melaleuca irbyana) and the ‘of concern’ woodland dominated by narrow-leaved ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra; regional ecosysem 12.9-10.7 and essential habitat for the koala). The researchers are now comparing areas of non-remnant and remnant native vegetation with benchmark data. This will provide a baseline for future assessments and deliver Wanless recommendations about how to resore non-remnant areas. As the success of resoration activities is highly dependent on the soil, the research team have also taken soil samples and will conduct a soil analysis of each site.
Other research projects Dr Lucy Reading is a Senior Lecturer at QUT’s School of Biology and Environmental Science. She is supervising the research of fve sudents who are assessing groundwater at the Wanless site and its interaction with vegetation and surface water. QUT Associate Professor Sara Couperthwaite is leading the third research team that has developed an innovative way to improve water monitoring using a robotic boat. The team will tes the full capabilities of their boat for the frs time at Ebenezer in the coming months. The QUT sudent research teams sarted their projects in Augus and will present their fndings to Wanless later this year.
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Deloitte Access Economics | A new choice: Ausralia’s climate for growth
Deloitte Access Economics’ report, called A new choice: Ausralia’s climate for growth , found Ausralia is primed for an economic contraction of 6 per cent and $3.4 trillion in los GDP by 2070 if the worsening efects of climate change remain unchecked.
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Deloitte Access Economics has consructed a view of the Ausralian economy where the physical damages to the environment cause damage to the Ausralian economy if there is inaction, or mis-action, in preventing climate change.
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The analysis shows that the Ausralian indusries hardes hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, are also the mos vulnerable to the efects of a warming world and climate change. Ausralia’s agriculture, consruction, manufacturing, tourism related indusries and mining sectors all feature consisently in the top indusries exposed to the risks of Covid, climate change and unplanned economic transition as the world responds.
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Deloitte Access Economics esimates that the top six indusries: • Hit by Covid – in looking at weekly ABS payroll data – represent 32% of all employed people in Ausralia. • Mos exposed to the physical damages from climate change today, represent 46% of all employed workers. • Mos emissions intensive in their output represent 23% of all employed Ausralians. Ausralia’s emissions intensive indusries are vulnerable to disruption as the res of the world changes – the world may not want what Ausralia has to ofer. Taken today, on average, Deloitte Access Economics esimates that over 30% of employed Ausralians are exposed to economic disruption and risk from Covid, climate change and unplanned economic transition as the world responds. While this is a signifcant number of jobs and growth at risk – enough to drive recessions – it is not all doom and gloom. The good news is that the remaining 70% of the workforce and Ausralia’s GDP is able to help create the change and a
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Oil Separator Tanks Mos machines operate by separating oil and water based on the principle of gravity displacement, utilising gravity plates, centrifugal force, fotation and other methods. They do this to separate oil and water, so that the water can be treated for discharge into sewers. Oil and water separators are used in many and varied indusries, from crude oil production to vegetable and mineral oil manufacturing. Automotive workshops, car washes, mining and foood manufacturing businesses are jus some – oil separator tanks are even used on ships to prevent oil and other contaminants from reaching the ocean. Regular oil water separator wase management includes servicing your tank every three to six months, depending on type and volume. Wanless can remove accumulated wase from the tank, followed by a deep service clean. Depending on your location and indusry, your wase oil water separator tank may also be regulated by water authorities, making regular service essential.
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New virus-fltering mask material made from agriculture wase
A new company, CelluAir, will bring the world-frs, virus-fltering mask material made from agriculture wase to market. The material was developed
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The material, which can flter nanoparticles smaller than the Dr Thomas Rainey, QUT process engineer from QUT Science and Engineering Faculty’s School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
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CelluAir, a sart-up managed by Ausralian commercialisation company Innovyz, signed a licence agreement and a shareholders’ agreement with QUT on Friday. CelluAir will begin an accelerated six-week scope of work to scale up the technology to bring it to market as soon as possible. Innovyz is known for having incubated many advanced manufacturing sart-ups from research including lising Amaero (3DA) from Monash University, and Titomic (TTT) from CSIRO on the Ausralian Stock Exchange in 2019 and 2017 respectively.
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“The new material is relatively cheap to produce and is biodegradable making it susainable for single use,” Dr Rainey, from QUT Science and Engineering Faculty’s School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, said. “Our tess showed the new material was more breathable than commercial face masks, including surgical masks. “Breathability is the pressure or efort the wearer has to use to breathe through the mask. The higher the breathability the greater the comfort and reduction in fatigue. “This is an important factor for people who have to wear masks for long periods or those with exising respiratory conditions.” Innovyz general manager Tom Kenyon said the company specialised in taking research from the laboratory and moving to market. “We’re super excited to be working with QUT which has a great reputation in research and are very focussed on commercial outcomes. “Many researchers want their research to have impact and the quickes way to have impact is to bring that research to market.” Tags: COVID-19, QUT, recycling
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Covid-19 and cleaning | Keeping your home and workplace infection free
COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. A person can acquire the virus by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or eyes.
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WASTE MANAGEMENT You may need to provide additional washing facilities and change rooms to facilitate physical disancing. You mus also consider whether there are an adequate number of hand washing and drying sations, in convenient locations, to susain the increase in workers’ practicing good hygiene. You may need to provide alcohol-based hand sanitiser in appropriate locations, such as entry and exits, worksations and other areas if there are limited hand washing facilities available. Washroom facilities mus be properly socked and have adequate supplies of toilet paper, soap, water, and drying facilities (preferably single-use paper towels). They mus also be kept clean and in good working order. When determining what facilities you need consider the number of workers on site, the shift arrangements and when access to these facilities is required. If you have temporarily down-sized worker numbers in response to COVID-19 and these will now be increased, you mus take this into account to determine the facilities you need before workers return to work.
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Why are paper towels preferred over hand dryers? Paper towels are preferable as they can reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 by drying the hands more thoroughly than hand dryers. Hand dryers can sill be used, however, there is an increased risk of transmission if hands are not dried properly.
I am providing paper towels in my workplace. What else should I do? Providing paper towels to dry your hands after washing them is better than using hand dryers because they can dry your hands more thoroughly. If you provide single used paper towels at your workplace, remember:
the paper towels should be replenished as required, and used paper towels should be disposed of in a waste bin that is regularly emptied to keep the area clean, tidy and safe. Wases (including used paper towels) should be double bagged and set aside in a safe place for at leas 72 hours before disposal into general wase facilities. For further information regarding cleaning, please refer to our cleaning guide.
What if I can’t provide paper towels? If paper towels cannot be provided, then hand dryers may be used to dry hands. You mus train workers on how to dry their hands. Placing posers near hand dryers may assis with communicating the need for hands to be dried completely. If hands are not dried completely, good hygiene will not be achieved, and the hand washing will be inefective. Frequently touched areas of the hand dryers (i.e. buttons to activate the drying mechanism of the hand dryer) and the entire body of the dryer should be cleaned regularly. Nearby surfaces (such as the sink and taps) should also be cleaned regularly to remove any germs that may have been spread when drying hands. Wanless ofers Covid-19 washroom services – contact us today to discuss your workplace’s needs. Tags: COVID-19, washroom services
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Recycling takes a dive during COVID-19 world pandemic
Ausralian households have thrown out more than 10 per cent more rubbish and recyclables via kerbside bins during the COVID-19 lockdown, amid a spike in supermarket shopping and home deliveries, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. The Ausralian Council of Recycling says urgent action is needed to manage the additional volumes of plasic wase
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generated in the pas two months. CEO Pete Shmigel also warns people are throwing the wrong things in kerbside recycling bins – especially soft plasics – leading to unprecedented levels of contamination.
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This cass further doubt on Ausralia’s ability to meet federal and sate-agreed national packaging recycling targets by 2025, which were agreed by federal and sate governments in 2018. Exceptionally high amounts of soft plasics – such as plasic bags, toilet paper wrapping, food packaging and Ausralia Pos delivery bags – were ending up in kerbside recycling bins, which was spoiling the nation’s good recycling eforts. Ausralia’s recycling downturn is exacerbated by many cafes not accepting reusable cups.
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Wase management an essential public service in the fght to beat COVID-19
With the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to spread and its impacts upon human health and the economy intensifying day-by-day, governments are urged to treat wase management, including of medical, household and other hazardous wase, as an urgent and essential public service in order to minimise possible secondary impacts upon health and the environment, according to the UN Environment Programme, a leading global environmental
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During such an outbreak, many types of additional medical and hazardous wase are generated, including infected masks, gloves and other protective equipment, together with a higher volume of non-infected items of the same nature. Unsound management of this wase could cause unforeseen “knock-on” efects on human health and the environment. The safe handling, and fnal disposal of this wase is therefore a vital element in an efective emergency response. The Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions, Rolph Payet, sated that: “All branches of society are coming together to collectively beat the virus and to minimise the human and economic impact of COVID-19 across the world. In tackling this enormous and unprecedented challenge, I urge decision-makers at every level: international, nationally, and at municipal, city and disrict levels, to make every efort to ensure that wase management, including that from medical and household sources, is given the attention – indeed priority – it requires in order to ensure the minimization of impacts upon human health and the environment from these potentially hazardous
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wase sreams.” Efective management of biomedical and health-care wase requires appropriate identifcation, collection, separation, sorage, transportation, treatment and disposal, as well as important associated aspects including disinfection, personnel protection and training. The safe management of household wase is also likely to be critical during the COVID-19 emergency. Medical wase such as contaminated masks, gloves, used or expired medicines, and other items can easily become mixed with domesic garbage, but should be treated as hazardous wase and disposed of separately. These should be separately sored from other household wase sreams and collected by specialis municipality or wase management operators. Resources on the safe handling and fnal disposal of medical wases can be found on the website of the Basel Convention’s Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacifc, in Beijing, which liss a series of guidance documents and bes
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Wanless Wase Management takes the health and wellbeing of its employees seriously. Outbreaks of any type are always a public health concern, and the situation is evolving rapidly around the world and within Ausralia. Wanless Wase Management wishes to ensure we act as far as reasonably practicable to prevent or minimise the
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In light of the current outbreak of the COVID-19 srain of Coronavirus in Ausralia, Wanless Wase Management is implementing the following Health and Safety Policy.
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Under WHS law, Wanless is required, so far as is reasonably practicable, to ensure the health and safety of its workers
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eliminate those risks, or where this is not reasonably practicable, to minimise them. Wanless will undertake risk assessments for employee and workplace conditions based on the available information provided by our employees and from health authorities under the consultation of the afected parties. According to the conditions of the risk assessment, appropriate control measures will be developed to eliminate or minimise the risks to workers and/or other people at the usual workplace. Wanless Management reserves the right to determine where it is appropriate for workers to work from another location including their home. Wanless Management endeavour to consider all aspects during the risk assessment process including information provided to us from the State Health Department. If Wanless Management makes a decision directing a worker to say away from the workplace they will ensure all employees will have access to entitlements in line with Fairwork Ausralia, their employment contact / enterprise
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In addition to assessing individual cases the following immediate measures are to be implemented as mandatory on all Wanless sites and workplaces: – All work required international and intersate travel is suspended as of 18/03/2020 until further notice. – Any Wanless worker who has been overseas in the las 14 days mus: o Not attend work. o Self isolate from others for 14 days from the day you returned or arrived from overseas. o Contact your direct manager or the contact lised below. o Monitor yourself for symptoms. – Any Wanless worker who has been in contact with a confrmed case mus: o Not attend work. o Self isolate from others for 14 days from the time you were made aware. o Contact your direct manager or the contact lised below. o Monitor yourself for symptoms.
– Any Wanless worker who has been in contact with a person identifed as a “close contact” of another person with confrmed COVID-19 infection: o May attend work (you do not need to self-isolate although the “close contact” does). o Report the information to your direct manager or the contact lised below. o Communicate with the “close contact” daily to determine their satus – if the close contact develops symptoms and is confrmed as a COVID-19 case you mus self-isolate from others for 14 days from the time you were made aware. – Any Wanless worker who has acute cold/fu-like symptoms or is unwell and not ft for work mus: o Not attend work. o Contact your direct manager or the contact lised below. o Seek medical advice as appropriate and according to direction from the State Health Department. – Any Wanless worker who is in contact with someone under mandatory isolation due to recent overseas travel or close contact with a COVID-19 carrier mus: o Report the information to your direct manager or one of the contacts lised below. o To the bes of their ability:
Maintain a safe disance from that person at all times but support them as much as possible to maintain their selfisolation. Stay in a diferent room from other people or be separated as much as possible. Wear a surgical mask when you are in the same room as another person. Use a separate bathroom, if available. Monitor their symptoms and take appropriate action according to the State Health Department. Practice good hygiene and clean household surfaces regularly. – Within all Wanless workplaces: o Social disancing will be in efect where possible. All employees are to attempt to keep a disance of 1.5 metres between themselves and other people, avoiding shaking hands, hugging etc. o Avoid moving between workspaces unnecessarily, communicate via phone, mobile phone, email or UHF.
Return to Work For any Wanless employee who has been insructed to not attend work, if you do not have any symptoms within the mandated isolation period and are completely well you may contact your manager to discuss your return to work. Wanless employees mus be aware that under some circumsances additional tesing or clearances may be required before returning to work. NOTE: If you develop a fever or respiratory symptoms, please: – Call your doctor or healthdirect on 1800 022 222. When you call, tell them where you have travelled or if you have been in contact with a confrmed case. If your symptoms are severe: – Visit your local Emergency Department. When you arrive, immediately tell saf where you have travelled or if you have been in contact with a confrmed case.
Other Recommendations for Wanless Worksites – Practice good hand hygiene, clean your hands frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds, or an alcohol-based hand rub. – If you think a surface may be contaminated, clean it with a common household disinfectant to kill the virus and protect yourself and others. Clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. – Avoid touching your face, eyes, mouth, or nose. – Practice cough/sneeze etiquette, cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing with tissue or a fexed elbow. – Avoid close contact with anyone with cold or fu-like symptoms. – Practice good operational practices – clean and sanitise work areas, ofces, breakroom areas, and food preparation surfaces. All workers have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and to not adversely afect the health and safety of others.
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Wanless Wase Management will provide workers with a point of contact to report their conditions, discuss their concerns, and access to support services, including employee assisance programs. For further information please contact Peter Toole – Landfll Manager on 0408 278 439.
Wanless Employee Responsibilities Under WHS laws, workers and other people at Wanless workplaces are required to comply, so far as they are reasonably able, with a reasonable insruction given by their employer to allow Wanless to comply with the WHS laws. This means that workers are required to comply with a direction by Wanless Management, including, to remain away from their usual place of work, if they were reasonably able to and the insruction was reasonable in the circumsances. A worker has the right to cease work if there is a reasonable concern that they would be exposed to a serious risk to their health and safety from an immediate or imminent hazard. As an employee of Wanless Wase Management you are responsible for informing management as soon as you can that you have ceased work. Any workers who have ceased work mus also, under consultation with Wanless management be available to carry out suitable alternative work. If any employee requires assisance or has any further quesions do not hesitate to contact Wanless Management. Managing Director: Dean Wanless Date: 18/03/2020
General Information About COVID-19 According to the World Health Organisation, COVID-19 is a new srain of Coronavirus that has not been previously identifed in humans. It is spread from someone infected with COVID-19 virus to other close contacts through contaminated droplets spread by coughing or sneezing, or by contact with contaminated hands, surfaces or objects. Person to person spread of Coronaviruses generally occurs between people who are close contacts with one another. A “close contact” is typically someone who has been face to face for at leas 15 minutes, or been in the same closed space for at leas 2 hours, with a person that was infectious. The time between when a person is exposed to the virus and when symptoms frs appear is typically 5 to 6 days, although may range from 2 to 14 days. For this reason, people who might have been in contact with a confrmed case are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days. Mos COVID-19 cases appear to be spread from people who have symptoms. A small number of people may have been infectious before their symptoms developed. According to the World Health Organization, it is not certain how long the virus that causes COVID-19 survives on surfaces. Studies sugges that coronaviruses may persis on surfaces for a few hours or up to several days. This may vary under diferent conditions (e.g. type of surface, temperature or humidity of the environment).
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What is the Diference Between COVID-19 and the Flu? The frs symptoms of COVID-19 and infuenza (fu) infections are often very similar. They both cause fever and similar
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The circular economy | Thinking beyond recycling
COVID has underlined the deep mutual connection and reliance we have with the natural world. It is also showing that our current socio-economic sysems don’t work. But what else do we have to work with? Well, people are looking to the Circular Economy for answers
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A circular economy is an economic sysem aimed at minimising wase and making the mos of resources. In a circular sysem, resources, wase, emissions, and energy leakage are lowered by reducing consumption and production. It’s about long-lasing design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and eventually, recycling. This approach is in contras to what we have now, which is a ‘take, make, dispose’ model of production.
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Let’s sart by adding “slow” to the term “circular economy”, because language matters. For our economy to be resorative and generative, not jus cycling more and more resources around faser and faser, we
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need to both: slow the fow and close the loop by reducing production and consumption. This means reversing the wase hierarchy and putting “refuse” (as in, “don’t want it”) and “reduce” at the top of the lis. This allows us to tackle consumerism, overconsumption and overproduction head-on while quesioning the notion of growth altogether.
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common feature of businesses and organisations and facilitate a slow circular economy As the pandemic forces us to slow down our routines and lifesyles, let’s also reimagine how to slow down our consumption patterns and adapt our production models. This crisis has given us the opportunity to rethink and reinvent our future and the sysems that underpin our economy. Edited version of article by Paula Tejón Carbajal, Global Campaign Strategis for Greenpeace International Tags: circular economy, recycling
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Repurposing, recycling… and reaping the rewards
Wanless is invesing big in recycling wase into new products ranging from cars and mobile phones to road-base and building products, says Glen Norris in The Courier-Mail. In these current turbulent times, it is more important than ever to protect our environment.
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Here is Norris’s report: Three soreys up in a bullet-proof control room, Artur Michta is monitoring old car engines, hot water sysems and
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roofng material moving up a conveyor belt into a huge $20 million sate-of-the-art hammer mill. Using a joy-sick, Michta is able to adjus the speed of the tonnes of scrap being ofoaded from the belt into huge hammers and crushers in the heart of the machine. Like a giant cheese grater the machine shreds the scrap, collected from factories, demolition sites and junk yards, into small pieces for processing. “I am always on the lookout for gas bottles or fuel tanks that could explode,” says Michta, adding the reason he operates in a booth encased to protect him in case something fies out of the machine.
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Coopers Plains-based Action Metal Recyclers, part of the wase business founded by Ron Wanless more than 50 years ago, is invesing big in the so-called circular economy where an increasing amount of wase will be recycled by manufacturers into new products, ranging from cars and mobile phones to road-base and building products. A circular economy that reuses all wase could create a $4.5 trillion commercial opportunity worldwide, support new jobs and reduce greenhouse emissions. Now run by Ron’s son Dean, Wanless is planning a $50 million recycling park at a dormant coal mining site at Ebenezer, near Ipswich, that will recycle everything from timber to plasic. Recycling is becoming high-tech as demand for certain recycled materials such as copper and cardboard increases. In the pas two years, the Coopers Plains facility has added computerised sorting and crushing machines that replace much of the hard-scrabble work that used to have to be done by hand.
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Each year, Wanless in south-eas Queensland produces enough scrap metal to make the equivalent of 100,000 news cars. That includes 130,000 tonnes of ferrous scrap and 30 tonnes of non-ferrous scrap, including copper and aluminium, all of which is exported to smelters in India, China and other nations across the region. The hammer mill shredder is able to sort non-ferrous material such as copper, tin and plasics using 3D imagery and colours. “Once a type of material such as copper or foam is identifed, a jet of air is used to blow it of the conveyor belt and it is sent to another area to be processed,” Carlile says. In another part of the depot, thousands of computer boards are piled high waiting to be processed to extract their valuable copper. Next to that, a mountain of electronic wiring is waiting to be recycled. “We break down everything so there is nothing left,” Carlile says. Dean Wanless concedes the recycling sector is sill in its early sages of its development and there has to be further invesment in infrasructure. CSIRO data shows that of the 90 billion tonnes of primary material extracted and used globally only 9 per cent is recycled. While 60 per cent of recycled paper is turned into cardboard in Ausralia and 90 per cent of metal is reused jus 12 per cent of plasics are recycled. “You have to have an end-use for the product,” Dean Wanless says. “Like any commodity, demand ebbs and fows. At the moment there is a glut of cardboard while metal prices remain fairly sable.” Wanless predicts there will eventually be greater integration between recycling and manufacturing. “Two decades ago, manufacturing and recycling were worlds apart,” Wanless says. “But now driven by coss and the need to source local materials, we have Apple dismantling their own iphones and recovering the components.” At Carole Park-based Century Yuasa, the country’s larges battery manufacturer, 60 per cent of the lead the company purchases is recycled. Century Batteries national marketing manager Andrew Bottoms says the company also used 100 per cent recycled packing material in its disribution network. Dean Wanless says the move towards corporate social responsibility also was driving recycling and reuse policies. “There is an ethical focus at the moment on the environment with bushfres and concerns about plasic in the oceans,” he says. “We used to deal with purchasing managers at companies but now we are dealing with environmental managers who have to report to their boards – everything is now audited and we will produce recycling reports that might say a company is now recovering 40 per cent of wase as opposed to 20 per cent a year ago.” China’s decision las year to ban the importation of 24 types of recyclable materials has put enormous pressure on the recycling sector in Ausralia to fnd end uses for wase material.
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Creating Wanless’ next recycling park in Queensland
At Sydney Recycling Park up to 80 per cent of the wase we receive is diverted from landfll. That’s above our nation’s resource recovery rate of 62 per cent. It’s well above the 48 per cent rate recorded for Queensland, where we plan to roll out our next recycling park.
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The Wanless Recycling Park is a proposed resource recovery, recycling and landfll precinct on an indusrial site 12 kilometres southwes of Ipswich in Queensland. There we aim to use the same tried and tesed model from Sydney
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Recycling Park to transform the degraded site into a productive precinct. Wanless already has a connection to this part of the country through its family hisory. In the late 1950s, long before recycling was a priority, Wanless sarted automotive and metal recycling in the Ipswich and wesern Brisbane regions. Since that time, the company has undersood the value of working with the local community to minimise adverse impacts and share the economic and environmental benefts.
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practices to recover and recycle as much as possible, we have signifcantly reduced the amount of wase going to landfll.
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At the new Queensland site, we have an opportunity to integrate various resource recovery and reuse activities that will generate many more employment and training opportunities for the local community than landfll operations. We also have the space to build and operate an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge and new markets for recovered materials open up. In early December, Wanless is holding drop-in community information sessions in the Ipswich area to share preliminary information about the proposed development with residents. For further details, email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au or regiser to attend here.
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Six bins proposed as way out of recycling crisis
Victorian households would get up to six bins to better sort their recycling as part of a proposed solution to the sate’s
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of recycling being sent to landfll. However, the proposal could prove divisive with a key wase group arguing community education is a better way to
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reduce contamination in recycling. Over the pas 18 years, the amount of wase that Victorians have produced has doubled, rising from 7.4 million tonnes in 2000 to 13.4 million tonnes in 2018. The Andrews government commissioned Infrasructure Victoria to reform the sate’s wase sysem after the disasrous collapse of recycling giant SKM.
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The company’s closure sent the recycling sysem into chaos and resulted in thousands of tonnes of recycling being sent to landfll. The catasrophe forced a major rethink of Victoria’s recycling sysem.
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Paper recycling – what goes in, and what should say out
Ofce paper and cardboard is one of the simples products to recycle and by maximising our reuse of this material we can all reduce the number of virgin trees being felled to create new products. But there’s often a lot of confusion regarding what exactly goes in this bin. Pizza boxes, yes or no? Window-faced envelopes?
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The paper trail Following a thorough onsite assessment by a Wanless account manager, under-desk boxes can be introduced for saf to place their unwanted printing and general scrap paper.
Wanless Recycling is often approached by ofces with concerns regarding scrap paper disposal. Following a thorough onsite assessment by a Wanless account manager, under-desk boxes can be introduced for saf to place
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larger 240ltr paper recycling bins. The benefts of this sysem is three-fold. One, saf can easily and correctly dispose of scrap paper where they sit.
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Two, landfll is then naturally reduced. Three, the large paper recycling bins are collected by a separate vehicle and returned to the recycling facility, reducing the number of general wase bins and the subsequent collection. Staf efciency + environmental win + money saved. This jus one extra way that companies can support their recycling performance, with minimal efort and no reduction in saf efciency.
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Sydney Recycling Park in action | Check out our new drone footage
Want to see our Sydney Recycling Park in action? Check out this awesome new drone footage of our shining recycling jewel in Wesern Sydney suburb of Kemp’s Creek.
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We undersand that whils wase avoidance is the ideal solution there are always going to be residual inert wases that need a disposal desination in Sydney, where wase is handled in an environmentally responsible manner with resource recovery and re-use at the forefront of its operations. To provide this assurance to our cusomers, we srictly adhere to local legislation and EPA guidelines managing our facility to the highes work place safety and environmental sandards; currently operating two active engineered landfll cells in the southern section.
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Sydney Recycling Park’s current wase capacity is 250,000 cubic metres which will be further enhanced through the mining of clay and shale materials over the next two years. With the fnal land formation being taken into consideration, the design airspace remaining is 1,000,000 cubic metres with an esimation for completion in 2043. It is also the blueprint for the Wanless Recycling Park, a proposed resource recovery and recycling precinct at Ebenezer, about 12 km southwes of Ipswich CBD in Queensland. Wanless plans to consruct and operate an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge. The company’s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community. Tags: COVID-19, washroom services
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Wanless Recycling Park remains committed to working through community concerns
In a recent article published by The Queensland Times, Wanless’s commitment to working through community concerns about its proposed Wanless Recycling Park facility in Ebenezer came under scrutiny. The council has received 60 submissions, however CEO Dean Wanless said the proposed project would be a “signifcant
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say,” he said. “Wanless is logically and carefully working through the issues raised in the submissions, and we expect to address all the concerns and have a response to council in the next month. “Some of the concerns, such as ones related to the engineering design or specifc environmental assessments, require additional invesigations and input from specialis teams working with us on the proposed development. “This may take additional time, but we want to ensure we’re providing accurate and detailed information.” Wanless submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park to Ipswich City Council in December las
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year. It is esimated about 300 jobs will be created to consruct the facility on Coopers Rd in Ebenezer on a former mining site. “Our vision is to transform this old vacant, derelict mining site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community,” he said. “Our focus is on resource recovery and recycling. Our invesment in the site will lead to employment, training and other positive impacts that come from setting up an innovative recycling and resource recovery precinct. “One of our genuine hopes is that by introducing this model to the Ipswich community, we raise the sandards of governance, compliance and world’s bes practice in wase management services.” You can read the full sory here, or click here for all the updates regarding the Ebenezer Recycling Park.
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Wanless Recycling Park faces objection with rival calls to return site to mining
Wanless’s $50 million proposal expected to create 300 jobs for Ebenezer, in southeas Queensland, is facing objection with some arguing the site could better used by returning it to mining, reports a recent article in The Courier Mail.
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From Bundaberg to Ebenezer: Queensland’s recycling sars
Recycling sarts young in the Owen family. Nine year old Owen is already a recycling role model for many others in the Bundaberg region in Queensland. So far he’s recycled almos 30,000 items, saving the proceeds to buy his frs car when he’s old enough. Owen’s
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Owen’s mum, Tahlee Taylor, said her son sarted noticing litter when he was as young as three. She said the Containers for Change program,
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“I like going to the beach, camping and fshing. I jus don’t get it,” Owen said referring to people who threaten the lives of wildlife by throwing empty cans and bottles and other plasics into the region’s waterways. Owen encourages others to do the right thing and protect the environment – to donate your cans to Owen and to arrange a collection visit his Facebook page, Owen’s Recycling. It’s a message shared by the proposed Wanless Recycling Parking in Ebenezer, Queensland. The company’s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community. This is a model they have tried and tesed at Sydney Recycling Park, where up to 80% of wase is now diverted from landfll. The innovative resource recovery hub’s development application has been submitted to council. Here’s the full sory on Owen Taylor’s excellent recycling skills, and check out thelates Wanless Recycling Park
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The Queensland Times runs sory on Wanless Recycling Park
Bringing resource recovery and recycling to the fore and seeking to correct some misinformation circulating in the community about the proposed recycling park at Ebenezer, Wanless CEO Dean Wanless was recently featured in an article in the The Queensland Times.
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The ofcial public notifcation period for this development closed on Friday 5 June 2020, but Wanless welcomes feedback from the community at any time. The article dispelled some myths regarding the new recycling park, and
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confrmed Wanless’s commitment to invesing in resource recovery and recycling. “Some people in the Ipswich region have referred to Wanless’ proposed facility at Ebenezer as a ‘dump.’ This ignores the fact that the bulk of the invesment and employment at the site is in resource recovery and recycling. We have committed to a 45 per cent recycling rate across the site, and we will target wase materials currently sent directly to landfll, recovering resources that are currently buried,” Dean Wanless says. “We see this as jus the beginning, and we know, based on a business model tried and tesed in other parts of the country, that over time we can build up to diverting up to 80% of wase at full operations. To make this possible at Ebenezer, we will bring in world’s bes technology and bes practice in recovery and recycling, so that we can reduce the amount of wase going to landfll.”
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In 2019, before Wanless lodged its development application with the Ipswich City Council and before it was required to publicly talk about its plans for the Wanless Recycling Park, the company was already sharing information with the community. “We made our plans available and openly invited the community to connect with us if they had any quesions or concerns. We spent time lisening to local people at community information sessions and resident group meetings and over the phone and email before submitting our development application. Based on the community and Council feedback, we have made changes to the design of the site, site access and the proportions and types of material we’ll accept. “Unfortunately, with COVID-19 resrictions, Wanless couldn’t hold information sessions in the community during the current public notifcation period, but again we have openly asked the community for feedback. “We’re a family-owned business from this region, and we’ve put to our name to this facility because we believe it is the way forward in wase management. “We know how important it is to keep the locals up to date and we’re working to
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Job opportunities for local people “Our vision is to transform this degraded site at Ebenezer into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for local people. We want to maximise the local economic benefts so that this recycling park has a fow-on efect for local businesses and becomes an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge,” says Dean Wanless. “Resource recovery and recycling require more invesment and employ more people than landfll. They involve physical processes like sorting and the operation of machinery to separate, screen and classify wase, for example. New technologies and practices also create the need for additional training. This indusry is evolving fas, and we want to make sure the Ipswich region has an opportunity to lead the way.”
Using old mining voids “We know the Ebenezer site has been disurbed by hisorical coal mining activities and includes three retained voids. Wanless has accelerated the remediation works for the old mine site. We have also undertaken what has been described by experts as the mos detailed and extensive invesigation for a project of this type in Ausralia’s hisory. “As part of the exising Environmental Authority across the site for the mining operation, there are limited rehabilitation requirements. As part of our development application, we propose to refll and rehabilitate the mining voids. “The team have also identifed koalas on site, and we’ve made sure our proposed design avoids disurbance to their habitat,” Mr Wanless said. Download the full sory here.
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Creating Wanless’ next recycling park in Queensland At Sydney Recycling Park up to 80 per cent of the wase we receive is diverted from landfll. That’s above our nation’s resource recovery rate...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities South Eas Queensland dedicates room to Wanless
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fundraising initiative with a dedicated room at its South Brisbane House. Ronald McDonald House Charities South Eas QLD has been supporting children and their families for over 27 years. It srives to keep loved ones together during
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Meeting Ausralia’s 70 per cent plasics recycling target
Fires, foods, global pandemic – now more than ever, focus needs to be on susainability and how we can help our environment. A Plasics Recycling Results Roadmap is set to be produced following a roundtable meeting hosed by Assisant Wase
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The roadmap will also explore market demand and policy options for reaching the target, including tax incentives, public procurement requirements, minimum recycled content quotas, infrasructure requirements, improved Ausralian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) monitoring, product specifcations and defnitions/implementation of the Council of Ausralian Government’s export ban.
The realities of plasics recycling The Plasics Recycling Roundtable, which took place in late Augus, was attended by 27 representatives from 19 organisations involved in the plasic supply chain and lifecycle. Future policy challenges and opportunities in plasics recycling, including the fragmented nature, current conditions and
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realities, as well as APCO’s plasics recycling targets. Achieving the 70 per target requires policy innovation, such as providing direct incentives for the purchase of products with recycled content. We sill use around 3.3 billion plasic bags, 2.6 billion cofee cups, 2.4 billion plasic sraws and 1.3 billion plasic bottles each year. Numbers that have only gone up since COVID-19.
Wanless’s commitment to Plasic Wase Recycling To help turn the tide on plasics littering Ausralia’s ocean and beaches, Wanless provides cusomers with a range of services to recycle soft, fexible plasics like pallet wrap, shrink wrap and other fexible and recyclable packaging (LDPE Low-density polyethylene). Plasic on collection is taken to a local recycling facility where it is sorted, cleaned, shredded and turned into granular pellets for further reuse in manufacturing creating new plasic products like builders wrap, packaging and even hard plasic products like furniture and wheelie bins. For more information the Plasics Recycling Results Roadmap, go to Wase Management Review. Tags: plasics recycling, plasics recycling results roadmap
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Cockroach farms in China minimise food wase and feed livesock
A farm in China has found an ingenious way to manage food wase and keep livesock well fed using cockroaches.
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The hangars are kept in perfect condition for cockroaches – dark, warm and flled with food wase – and contained by a moat flled with hungry fsh. The sprawling felds around the cockroach farm already have pigs, ducks, chickens and
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goats that are feeding on the nutrient-rich cockroach mix. Each of the 60 small rooms contains 20 million cockroaches each. That’s over one billion cockroaches, that every day eat 50 tonnes of kitchen wase.
Benefting the ecological cycle What sarted as an experiment to deal with food wase has blossomed into a commercial operation. Head of the project, Li Yanrong, hopes it will be proftable in the long term.
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“If we can farm cockroaches on a large scale, we can provide protein that benefts the entire ecological cycle,” says the head of the project, Li Yanrong. “We can replace animal feeds flled with antibiotics and insead supply organic feed, which is good for the animals and the ground soil.” Largely seen as a pes to be eradicated elsewhere, cockroaches are lucrative money-earners for an esimated 100 cockroach farmers across China. The Good Doctor Pharmaceutical Group in Chengdu, grinds up billions of roaches each year for use in Chinese medicine, going by their scientifc name Periplaneta Americana in various types of Chinese medicine and some medical cosmetics. They are said to be mainly useful in helping heal scars, while some people eat or drink crushed cockroach medicines that,
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Food wase in Ausralia Food wase in Ausralia largely ends up in landfll – more than 7 million tonnes each year, according to Ausralian Government fgures. The farming process of giving food wase to cockroaches to feed animals for human consumption could help. This is extracted from an ABC News sory by China Correspondent Bill Birtles. Tags: cockroaches, food wase
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Wanless and CJD in Wase Management Review magazine
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By 2040, wase generation in NSW is expected to increase from 21 to 31 million tonnes a year. The trend refects sructural
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changes to the sate’s economy from population growth, shifts in dwelling types and indusry composition. According to the NSW Government’s 20-year Wase Strategy issues paper , if current trends continue, the sate will not meet esablished targets to divert 75 per cent of wase from landflls by 2021. To proactively change course, the sate government has committed to building resource recovery capacity across the sate – outlining opportunities and srategic direction for expanded wase and recycling infrasructure.
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“We’re not in mining or excavation, we’re in recycling, and while it’s an old business, it is changing dramatically, and
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we need to be on top of that,” he told Wase Management Review. With foundations in auto recycling, Wanless explains that the family run business dates back 60 years. “Starting as an auto recycling company, we soon ventured into metal recycling and then naturally into wase management,” he says. “We now operate everything from metal recycling, landflls, collections and resource recovery centres, such as WWM’s Sydney Recycling Park.” Located 56 kilometres wes of Sydney’s CBD, WWM’s 11-hectare Sydney Recycling Park accepts wase from the city’s commercial, indusrial and demolition markets. The northern aspect of the park operates as a comprehensive recycling facility, where recovered materials are screened, processed, treated and recovered for local re-use. The facility processes up to 220,000 tonnes of wase per annum, with approximately 85 per cent of incoming material diverted from landfll.
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Wanless outlines long-term partnership with CJD Equipment in Wase Management Review To support WWM’s operations, Wanless says the company have fosered a long-term working relationship with CJD Equipment. For the las decade, CJD has supplied WWM with a wide range of Volvo wheel loaders and excavators, which work to boos operational efciency and help the company maintain its high recovery rates. Machinery supplied by CJD includes three EC300D excavators, one EC140C, three EC220D’s and another ECR58D compact excavator. Additionally, WWM operates two L120F wheel loaders. CJD’s Volvo EC300D excavators provide faser cycle times via increased power and digging force. To maximise durability, the boom and arm are reinforced in critical areas to equally disribute mechanical sresses. WWM’s additional excavators ofer similar reliable performance, with the EC220D utilising eco-technology to facilitate a 10 per cent improvement in fuel efciency, compared to previous models. Likewise, the L120F wheel loaders ofer power, speed and operator comfort, while next generation Volvo HTE 200-transmissions provide smoother shifting and lower fuel consumption. Volvo’s unique TP-linkage provides high breakout torque and parallel movement throughout the entire lifting range. Precision-seering and pilot-operated fngertip control of the load-sensing hydraulics gives operators complete control of their movements, enabling safety and faser work cycles. CJD’s relationship with Volvo extends more than 20 years, with the srategic partnership providing businesses throughout Ausralia with access to Volvo’s ever-expanding line of wase and resource recovery equipment. According to Wanless, the Volvo name has weight across the wase sector for good reason. “We’ve changed brands over the las 40-50 years but have suck with Volvo over the las decade because the product itself is continuously improving,” he says. “Volvo works to say ahead of the pack, which is very important.”
Importance of cusomer-centric business models While Wanless highlights the quality of Volvo equipment – notably low maintenance coss and susainable fuel consumption – he says the rationale behind the ongoing relationship with CJD is largely saf driven. “We have very long-term employees who are quite autonomous. We have a lot of trus in our people, and they want to operate Volvo equipment,” Wanless explains. He adds that excavators have been a key component of WWM’s process since they become a saple of the recycling indusry in the 1970s. “We’ve owned jus about every type there is, and we recognise that our team members are bes placed to undersand how they operate and what the benefts are,” Wanless says. “If our team is requesing Volvos, then that’s the product we’re going to purchase. It gives the team control over their day-to-day operations and fosers a productive working environment.” CJD have a similar team ethos, Wanless says. He adds that the company work to always ensure its client’s needs are meet. “The relationship sarted with one machine purchase and that went really well, and its continued to grow from there. CJD are fantasic to deal with,” he says. Wanless explains that as with any long-term partnership, there have been issues along the way. “However, what’s more important than the issue itself is how it’s dealt with, and CJD are committed to prioritising their cusomer’s needs and making you feel heard and important,” he says. “CJD take their cusomers seriously and problems are always dealt with urgently. “They undersand the importance of long-term business relationships and turning up.”
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Gold Coas City Marina, QUT Centre for a Wase Free World and Wanless collaborate
Wanless recently met with Gold Coas City Marina (GCCM) and QUT Centre for a Wase Free World . The purpose of the visit was to introduce the GCCM team including management Luke McCaul to the QUT Wase Free World Team. The QUT team in attendance was Professor Leonie Barner (Director for a Wase-Free World), Professor
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QUT were on site to help GCCM create a better environment, fuel innovation and fnd more susainable solutions to its wase needs. The collaboration between a Gold Coas City Marina tenant, the QUT team and Wanless Wase Management including General Manager Peter O’Malley provided clear and susainable ideas, repurposing, recycling and reducing the tenant’s wase comprising 90% textiles.
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Wanless is proud to support Ronald McDonald House Charities South Eas Queensland, an independent, not-for-proft organisation dedicated to providing vital programs for families with seriously ill children. Ronald McDonald House Charities South Eas QLD has been supporting children and their families for over 27 years. It
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Ausralian Goterra farmer-scientis tackles food wase with maggots
Olympia Yarger, founder of Goterra, frs sarted
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involved. In seeking answers, she developed a hightech solution in which maggots in robot-run automated capsules turn food wase into animal feed
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and fertiliser. In a recent Forbes article, Goterra, which was named after the “got” in maggot and “erra” in Canberra,
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launched as a decentralised biotech wase management service. And despite its client base evolving throughout COVID-19 from resaurants and hotels to supermarkets and hospitals, Goterra is on track for phenomenal growth. The Canberra sartup is upscaling from managing 10 tonnes to 45,000 tonnes of food wase per week by 2021.
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It ofers a maggot-based process of decomposition that’s fully automated in self-contained capsules; you pour in your food wase, shut the lid, and forget about the res. “Then, the machine conveys the wase from that hopper, processes it, heat treats it and moves it into the robotic sysem where the insects are moved from their place on the shelf to the feeding sation and back again. That process of them feeding every day is where we get the production of the products,” Yarger explains. As the black soldier fy larvae eat their way through food wase, they create a high-quality soil fertiliser, frass, as a byproduct, and the maggots themselves become protein-rich animal feed. These automated wase management capsules can be placed wherever food wase is created in high volumes – returning value to the communities managing the wase. They’re insalled at farms, resaurants, hotels, hospitals, supermarkets, SMEs, and they also service city councils.
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Goterra’s maggot method not only solves the food wase problem while creating low-cos animal feed, it also tackles a major environmental polluter. Globally, one-third of food produced for human consumption, 1.3 billion tonnes, goes to wase. It releases an esimated 3.3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent as it decomposes in landfll. But with Goterra’s automated capsules, the process of inter consumption is so rapid that it prevents those gases being released, reducing CO2 emissions for each tonne of food wase by 98%. Goterra may be a biotech genius on the rise, but Yarger says it had to overcome more than its fair share of obsacles this year: “We had bushfres surrounding Canberra, we had ongoing droughts, then fooding and hail, and now we have Corona.” Yarger remains undefeated. She’s committed to her vision of seeing high-tech food wase management capsules insalled across the globe, and envisions a future in which the world has taken dramatic action to change the trajectory of climate change. She says that for Goterra, “growth is seady, it’s ongoing – we’re going from zero to hero.” Check out Forbes for the full sory.
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The future of recycling | Cleaning Up Our Act
The NSW Government recently conducted a survey on recycling and plasic wase, Cleaning Up Our Act: Redirecting the Future of Plasic in NSW Discussion Paper March 2020. It ofers a comprehensive series of actions for managing plasics that will help align NSW alongside international
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jurisdictions, and perhaps even lead the nation when it comes to tackling the challenge of plasic wase. Once complete, Cleaning Up our Act will sit alongside the 20-Year Wase Strategy with a focus that is centred on:
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Plasic usage and management improvements are undertaken with the leas adverse impacts on consumers, including coss, and plasic reuse and recycling initiatives realise the economic opportunities available. “Plasic has vasly improved the quality of our lives and allowed us to pursue unparalleled advances in technology, transport, communication, healthcare, safety and education,” said Matt Kean Miniser for Energy and Environment. “However, it has also become synonymous with the global consumer economy and underpins our use and dispose mentality. The plasic that is littered today will sill exis in hundreds or even thousands of years’ time – possibly longer. “If we don’t improve how we manage plasic now, plasic pollution will only increase, causing more damage to our environment and increasing the risk to human health, now and for generations to come. We are facing a global plasic pollution crisis that requires a comprehensive and bold response. This is not jus about banning one product; this is about changing how our economy uses, reuses and disposes of plasic.”
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Reduce plastic waste by phasing out key single-use plastics. Harness people power to create a fundamental shift in the way we use plastic including setting design standards for plastic consumer items. Make the most of our plastic resources by tripling the proportion of plastic recycled in NSW across all sectors and streams by 2030. Make producers of plastic items more responsible for collecting and recycling. A mandate 30% minimum recycled content in plastic packaging. Reduce plastic litter items by 25% by 2025. Invest in infrastructure that can better manage plastic before it causes harm, including setting up a NSW plastics research network. Click here for the full paper.
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Centre for a Wase-Free World to drive environmental change
Queensland University of Technology‘s (QUT) newly esablished Centre for a Wase-Free World is consolidating the nation’s eforts to minimise wase and drive environmental change. On average, 2.7 tonnes of wase are generated per year per person in Ausralia.
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The three research programs tackle issues across the wase spectrum, from reduction and elimination srategies, through to recycling and fnding new value in wase products:
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New economies for waste Catalysts for systemic and behavioural change Technologies and processes Research insitutes such as The Centre for a Wase-Free World will continue to beneft from the National Environmental Science Program (NESP), which recently announced an invesment of $149 million by the Morrison Government for its second phase. NESP is Ausralia’s fagship research program delivering applied scientifc knowledge, decision tools and practical management options to support environmental commitments.
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This next phase builds on pas achievements and will focus on: • The Resilient Landscapes hub will draw together a wide range of expertise to provide advice on increasing the resilience of our natural landscapes and biodiversity at continental, regional and local scales. The hub will provide national leadership on threatened species and will play a crucial role in bushfre preparedness and recovery of biodiversity and habitat. • The Marine and Coasal hub will integrate our national temperate and tropical marine research capacity. It will deliver research on our marine, coasal and esuarine environments and address challenges like how to protect communities from sorm damage and sea level rise while maximizing opportunities for blue carbon.
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Lithium Ausralia and Envirosream recycle batteries into fertiliser for farms
An Ausralian recycling company is recycling old batteries and turning them into fertiliser for crops, in an efort to sop
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Lithium Ausralia, in a press release. “Our plan is not only a signifcant sep towards worldwide environmental management of the issue but could also have a powerful infuence on the susainability of disposable batteries.” The batteries are frs crushed, then fltration and purifcation processes remove toxic elements like mercury and nickel. Trace elements are purifed and put safely back into nature as fertiliser and other products for farming. Zinc for example, which is present in many alkaline batteries, helps plants produce chlorophyll. 97% of alkaline batteries in Ausralia are not recycled, the type used in remotes, kids toys and torches. And those that are, are melted down with extreme heat to be used again, desroying the micro-nutrients in the process. A similar company in Finland, Tracegrow, has had some success with such battery-powered (see what we did there?)
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From trash to treasure | Landfll turned into solar farm
City of Newcasle Summerhill Wase Management Centre has become a renewable energy hub with a 5MW solar farm built alongside a 2.2 MW landfll gas generator and small wind turbine. Together with 10 solar insallations on the rooftops of the council’s public buildings, energy-efcient LED lighting,
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electric-vehicle chargers and cycling infrasructure, the solar farm will generate savings by reducing the council’s reliance on fossil fuels.
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It will also help Newcasle fulfl its Cities Power Partnership pledge to reduce its climate impact, while paving the way for future battery sorage and electric garbage trucks. The solar farm is making good use of a capped landfll site that was once part of the Wallsend Borehole Colliery. The solar farm was commissioned in 2019 and is expected to supply more than half the council’s annual energy needs. It has
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Wanless presses forward with proposed Ebenezer recycling park
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that now more than ever, community development and environmental awareness is crucial. The development application for Wanless Recycling Park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since this time, the formal information reques sage has commenced. What does this mean? Council and State Government was able to ask for further details regarding the proposed development, which
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Key points addressed were: Overall reduction to the maximum landfll height by 9m within the Ironbank and Lane’s Pit voids. Changes to the wase types to be received at the site to further promote resource recovery and recycling of the incoming wase sreams. Increase in the resource recovery rate from an overall rate of 35% to 45%. Further invesigations into a range of site access options which have confrmed Champions Way is considered the only viable site access arrangement.
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Redesign of the access from Champions Way to maintain the exising fow of water during food events external to the site. Identifcation of srategies to be considered in relation to trafc management during events at the Motorsports Precinct. Now it’s your turn: local residents and members of the Ipswich community can submit feedback on the proposal directly to Council for consideration in their decision-making process. Public notifcation will sart on 13 May 2020 and run to June 3 (15 business days). Unfortunately, we’re unable to hos information sessions at this time due to Covid-19 however, you can sill provide your feedback about the development application directly to Wanless by sending your comments via WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au. For more about Wanless Recycling Park and all our newsletter updates
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Decode your plasic | What do the recycle numbers mean?
1 Polyethylene Terephthalate
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Polyethylene This plasic type is known as HDPE is accepted in the majority of recycling programmes. HDPE plasics are highly durable, do not absorb liquid readily, and experience little degradation during the lifetime. Due to its durable properties, this plasic type is commonly used to hold liquids such as detergent or household cleaning products, milk cartons, and butter and yoghurt tubs. Almos a third (about eight million tons) of HDPE produced
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3 Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) This plasic type is commonly known as vinyl and is rarely recycled and commonly not accepted by recycling programs. PVC is usually used for medical grade plasic items and building materials, and is not typically used for household items that can be consumed as it can contain phthalates and is not considered safe when contact with food items.
4 Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) LDPE plasic type is usually found in soft plasics such as shopping bags, squeezable bottles, frozen food or bread bags. This plasic type is typically not accepted in local council collections for homes and businesses. However, LDPE plasics are accepted in many soft plasics recycling programmes, and when recycled, LDPE is commonly turned into plasic bags, clothing fbres and bottles.
5 Polypropylene (PP) PP is not accepted in council collections and is mos commonly used in the productions of plasic fbres for textile production (such as carpets and nylon fabrics), and used to make plasic sraws, condiment bottles and bottle caps. In recent years, polypropylene has grown to become one of the mos largely used plasic raw material, and from an
ecological perspective, this poses signifcant threats to the environment. The use of polypropylene in the beauty products and the textile indusry has resulted in microplasic fbre pollution in marine environments, which is having a detrimental impact on our oceans and the marine life which inhabit them.
6 Polysyrene ‘Styrofoam’ is usually found in carry-out containers, meat trays and take away cups and is typically not recyclable through council collection programmes. As with polypropylene, polysyrene plasic pollution in marine environments is a growing concern due to its adverse efect on marine life. Plasics comprised of polysyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride are the mos prevalent forms of plasic marine pollution and are spread through our oceans by surface currents, wind patterns at an average density of 1000 to 4000 pieces per square kilometre.
7 Mixed Plasics Plasic type 7 refers to plasics varieties that do not ft into the other varieties and is not accepted in council collections in Ausralia. While many biodegradable, photo-sensitive, and plant-based plasics ft in this category, so do potentially harmful plasics such as polycarbonate, BPA & Lexan. Source Sydney Environment Insitute, The University of Sydney
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The link between landfll greenhouse gases and bushfres The link between rising greenhouse gas emissions and increased bushfre risk is complex but, according to major science agencies, clear. Climate change does not create bushfres...
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Wase Plant for Southeas Queensland | The Courier Mail reports
A recent sory published in the The Courier Mail by Matthew Killoran focused on Wanless Recycling Park. Wanless plans to consruct and operate an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge. The company’s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities, a much needed injection into the local community and the wider Ausralian economy.
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landfll. The proposed resource recovery and recycling precinct at Ebenezer, about 12km southwes of Ipswich CBD in Queensland – is to ft into the government’s 20-year southeas Queensland City Deal. The southeas Queensland City Deal will be used to secure a recycling super centre for the region, with Ipswich being discussed as one of the preferred desinations.
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It is undersood money could be set aside in the Federal Budget if a plan can be worked up in time. Sunshine Coas Mayor Mark Jamieson, who heads the SEQ Council of Mayors, said no specifc desinations had been discussed with the Prime Miniser yet. But it is undersood the Federal Government is eyeing Ipswich as one of several options, as the wesern corridor has indusrial areas zones and room for a large facility. The ideal precinct would include an organics facility to turn compos into energy; turn tyres into diesel; plasics recycling; sorting facilities for recycling bins; and equipment for a potential container deposit scheme. Mr Morrison met with the SEQ Council of Mayors on September 18 amid discussions on the City Deal and Olympics. Cr Jamieson said the mayors were considering a regional approach to wase management. “There is currently noi committed funding for the delivery of this plan, but it could be considered as part of the SEQ City Deal negotiations,” he said.
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A wase management “slam dunk” | War on litter takes a creative turn
Josh Royle collects rubbish at the skate park every week and he is the face of Plasic is Drasic – a one-man litter squad targeting wase.
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colourful mural wrap for the bin. “Josh sarted his project las year as part of the Holloways Beach Environmental Centre’s Enrichment Program and he approached me to see if Council could help him with his eforts regarding the rubbish problem at Coaswatcher’s Skate Park,” Cr Olds said. “The result has been fantasic. Students from the Trinity Beach State School advanced art program completed a mural on the bin, so not only will the bin encourage kids to dispose of their rubbish properly, but it will showcase the talents of these young artiss as well.” Josh said his war agains litter was part of a larger campaign to protect the environment and Great Barrier Reef.
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Wanless on the TV! Watch 7News screen debut now.
Wanless recently gues sarred on a 7News report about The World’s Bigges Garage Sale , a community event where people donate their unused or unwanted household goods, which are then resold to create purposeful proft. On hand was Federal MP Trevor Evans, Assisant Miniser for Wase Reduction and Environmental Management and Yasmin Grigaliunas, CEO and co-founder of The World’s Bigges Garage Sale. Not to mention the sleek lines and bright
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Wanless is proud to be a small part of this incredible initiative, especially given its srong recycle and reuse credentials. The World’s Bigges Garage Sale provides community members with alternate ways to source and purchase high-quality products (such as clothing, antiques, furniture and whitegoods) at prices that are afordable. Donations from the profts of The World’s Bigges Garage Sale. go to Ausralian charity organisations as the The Courier Mail Children’s Fund, The Pyjama Foundation and ACT for Kids.
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What plasics to put into your yellow bin Source separation, rubbish sream, wase recovery - it’s all for naught without your help. Recycling begins at home. Granted, plasics can be a confusing lot...
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Introducing EVie, the future of rubbish collection The City of Fremantle in Wesern Ausralia has demonsrated its commitment to susainability through the trial of a new electric-powered rubbish truck. EVie the EV...
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Recycling bad habits cosing Ausralia $324 million Ausralia is squandering $324 million a year in value through a poor recycling sysem where even well-meaning households are forced to put glass, paper and...
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Landfll – your las wase disposal option Since Ausralia sopped incinerating rubbish in the middle of the 20th century, mos of our solid wase has ended up in landfll. Some 20 million tonnes of...
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How recycling is sorted By Jef Seadon, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology, originally published in The Conversation Recycling in Ausralia used to be fairly simple. Our older readers may remember...
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Wanless scoops the Mardi Gras prize for Bes (G)Litter Collector*
We’ve hung up our sparkle garbage pants for another year! Wanless helped keep Sydney’s sreets beautiful after the party to end all sreet parties – the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. With 191 foats sashaying down Oxford St, and over 12,500 participants, that’s a whole lot of confetti, glitter and sreamers to manage. The things you do for a front row seat…
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Rising Cos of Rubbish | Ausralia's wase problem The rising cos of taking out the trash will be a major challenge for corporate fnance leaders in the short term.
A recent report in Acuity magazine found that with China, India and Thailand clamping down on plasic wase imports, and developed countries needing to fnd another solution – ie, on-shore wase management and recycling – coss of wase services will rise in the short term. Rising garbage collection coss have already forced some local councils to raise rates paid by homes and businesses. In the year ahead, experts tip even higher disposal and recycling coss.
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In early 2018 when China’s National Sword Policy was suddenly invoked, resricting contamination levels on wase
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imports and impacting Ausralia, New Zealand and some 100 other countries, indusry players globally scrambled to fnd other nations willing to buy recyclable rubbish. Ausralia and New Zealand zoomed in on India and South-Eas Asia, in particular Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. But these srategies, founded in desperation, delivered only a very short-term fx. India banned the import of plasic scrap earlier this year, as Malaysia was preparing to return 100 tonnes of unclean plasic wase back to Ausralia, part of 3000 tonnes it promised to send back to where it came from. In May, 187 countries (but not the US) signed a treaty to regulate international trade in plasic wase.
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There’s now an increasingly loud call for wase to be processed onshore. The upshot is many wase indusry players mus
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economy approach, as recommended in Ausralia’s revised National Wase Strategy delivered late las year. Fundamentally, what’s changed with China’s National Sword policy is where and how the sorting needs to happen. Wanless and other wase management companies’ capacity for sorting varies from sate to sate, with much of it mechanised, and new sate-of-the-art facilities in Kemps Creek, Sydney and Ispwich, Queensland. Whils wase avoidance is the ideal solution there are always going to be residual inert wases that need a disposal desination in Sydney. Handling this wase in an environmentally responsible manner with resource recovery and re-use at the forefront of its operations is key. Wanless srictly adheres to local legislation and EPA guidelines managing its facility to the highes work place safety and environmental sandards. As a general rule, the more you can sort yourself the cheaper the cos. So for businesses, the bottom line charge depends on training saf to get the right rubbish in the right bin. And there’s morale-boosing potential in this: a previous Planet
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Fashion goes slow | How susainability and recycling is changing the way we dress
Swedish upcycling label Rave Review recently sent models down the Copenhagen Fashion Week AW20 catwalk dressed in your nana’s foral duvet and broken crockery earrings. It earnt rave reviews (sorry, we’re better with hazardous wase than high waiss).
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change. But you don’t need to have a front-row seat to Europe’s mos innovative fashion labels to make a diference. According to the World Economic Forum, in the las 15 years the indusry has doubled production, while the time clothing is worn before it is thrown away has fallen by around 40%. When it is thrown away, 73% will be burned or buried in landfll. What does get collected for recycling – around 12% – will likely end up being shredded and used to suf mattresses, or made into insulation or cleaning cloths. Less than 1% of what is collected will be used to make new clothing.
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Recycling has changed not jus how designers are sourcing and using fabric, but also society’s attitude to fashion. Op
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portal for syle-driven shoppers to nab a bargain and a look all of their own. Knitting is big. Sewing your own clothes
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even bigger. “The timeframe for averting the devasating efects of climate change on the planet and people is less than a decade, and we’re already witnessing its catasrophic impacts today,” says Cecilie Thorsmark, CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week. “All indusry players – including fashion weeks – have to be accountable for their actions and be willing to change the way business is done.”
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Bushfre cleanup and wase management
The NSWÂ Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is providing advice on wase management, disposal of animal carcasses, fre-afected asbesos, disposal of contaminated water and other issues that may arise from the current bushfre recovery.
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This information will assis farmers and animal owners in the safe and appropriate disposal of animal carcasses under local conditions, and should be read in conjunction with PIRSA advice. Dry rendering at an abattoir is the preferred method of carcass disposal, but following a bushfre this may not be possible and burial is the mos viable option.
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sored prior to disposal, sorage should occur on an impermeable surface and be covered to prevent leaching and further dispersal of ash to the surrounding environment. Do not dispose of CCA treated timber by burning or burying on site as the contaminants pose a risk to groundwater and surface water quality, human and animal health, and soil quality. Landflls are designed to address these risks and as such are the bes place to dispose of CCA treated timber and ash.
Damaged pesicide and chemical containers The chemicals present in the pesicide or chemical containers pose a risk to groundwater and surface water quality, human and animal health, and soil quality. Stock, pets and children should be excluded from afected areas to prevent ingesion of harmful chemicals. Small amounts of liquid and spills can be contained and collected using absorbent material such as sand, sawdus or other commercially available absorbent materials designed for spill kits. If burnt or damaged chemicals and their containers are to be sored prior to disposal, sorage should occur in a bin or container
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Fire-afected asbesos Asbesos-containing materials were used extensively in Ausralian buildings and sructures, usually found as cement sheeting (either fat or corrugated), vinyl foor tiles, water or fue pipes, and other asbesos-bonded products produced before 1980. Pieces of asbesos material and some fbres remaining in the ash and debris may present a risk if disurbed during clean up after a fre. Advice is available to handle fre-damaged asbesos The EPA is primarily responsible for the regulation of asbesos transport and disposal. For health and safety reasons, removal of fre afected asbesos-containing material should only be undertaken by a licensed asbesos removalis. It is recommended that you contact your local transfer sation or wase depot for specifc advice on disposal requirements.
Consruction and demolition wase/building rubble Building rubble from bushfres mainly consiss of brick, concrete, masonry and timber and should be disposed of to a resource recovery facility, wase transfer sation or licensed landfll. Building rubble can also be disposed on the landowners property so long as the material does not contain hazardous wase such as asbesos or chemicals. Disposal mus not cause environmental harm or site contamination and mus not afect surface or groundwater or create a future fre hazard, unsable geotechnical conditions or vermin infesation.
Septic tank assessment and wasewater disposal Damage to sandard septic tank and subsurface disposal sysems (underground concrete/metal septic tanks and soakage trenches) as a result of bushfre is unlikely to have occurred. Plasic septic tanks and aerobic sysems are likely to have been impacted and will require an inspection by the local council. In the event that a tank requires replacement, a licensed liquid wase contractor will need to be engaged to pump out the tank, prior to it being removed. Wasewater contained in tanks mus not be discharged to land or waters and mus be collected by a licensed liquid wase contractor for appropriate disposal to a facility licensed to receive that wase.
Disposal of water to watercourse, creek or dam Water in rainwater tanks may be contaminated with ash and residents may desire to drain and discard the water to a watercourse and clean the tank. It is important to drain the water at a slow rate to ensure that the hay bale or geotechnical material can efectively flter the ash, and also prevent erosion and the transport of ash to water sorages downsream. Need more information? Click here for the EPA’s further detailed bushfre wase management srategies.
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New Zealand’s Commitment To Being Carbon Neutral By 2050
New Zealand lawmakers recently approved a bill that commits the country to being carbon neutral by the year 2050.
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higher by 2035 as offshore oil and gas are phased out. New Zealand’s bill sets an ambitious target: to reduce all greenhouse gases (except biogenic methane, emitted by plant and animal sources) to net zero by 2050. When it comes to emissions of biogenic methane, New Zealand isn’t aiming for net zero. Instead, its goal is to reduce emissions by 10% below 2017 levels by 2030, and then by 24%-47% by 2050. Agriculture is the largest single source of greenhouse emissions in New Zealand, accounting for 48% of the country’s total in 2017. Methane emissions from ruminant animals made up 34% of its total emissions.”We have to start moving beyond targets. We have to start moving beyond aspiration. We have to start moving beyond statements of hope and deliver signs of action. That is what this government is doing and proudly so,” Ardern said last November. “We have made a choice that I am proud of, that will leave a legacy, and that I hope means the next generation will see that we in New
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Closing the Loop – The Ausralian Circular Economy in Action
There is a srong need for a platform in Ausralia that inspires and facilitates the collaboration and networking necessary for our transition to a circular economy. Planet Ark is taking the lead on creating the National Circular Economy Hub and Marketplace, launching in 2020, which will be Ausralia’s leading platform to accelerate our transition to a circular economy.
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The circular economy is defned as an economic sysem aimed at eliminating wase and the continual use of resources. It is borne out of crisis, and the realisation that traditional indicators of economic success like gross domesic product (GDP), are fawed due to the fact earth does not have infnite natural resources to fuel traditional take, make, and wase behaviour.
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at the expense of unbalanced proft or sruggle within the parts.
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Almos 17 years ago, Planet Ark and Close the Loop began a very successful collaboration with printer and copier manufacturers called Cartridges 4 Planet Ark. I sill remember Paul Klymenko, now Planet Ark CEO, saying in his jovial way, “you’re mad Steve”, when I suggesed the landmark product sewardship program would have a ‘zero wase to landfll’ brand promise. That single commitment has driven signifcant innovation at Close the Loop including eWood, a plasic timber made from rigid plasics like ABS, HIPS, and PP. Other notable innovations include perhaps the world’s frs ever recycled pen, including recycled ink, sill a user favourite, and the funky brand Lousy Ink, developed by Melbourne sreet artiss Mike Eleven and Oli Ruskidd. The sar of this article, however, is TonerPlas – the highly publicised asphalt additive developed by Close the Loop in partnership with Downer over more than 7 years of intense R&D, lab tesing, road trials, and monitoring. In fact, the real sar of the article is the circular supply chain model developed to turn plasic wase into a high performance asphalt road. The partners in this project include : Cartridges 4 Planet Ark (C4PA), Close the Loop (CtL), Redcycle, and Downer.
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Wase is a huge and growing problem. It has been esimated that we need the equivalent of 1.7 Earths to replenish the consumed resources and absorb the pollution generated by consumer goods suppliers. Wase is a global challenge, and there are numerous problematic wase sreams such as plasic, textiles, food, agriculture
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Las year, Cadbury sold a whopping 1.7 million Cadbury Creme Eggs. This year, the Cadbury factory based in
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A new choice Australia’s climate for growth November 2020
A new choice
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Choosing change for Australia
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Creating a new growth recovery
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Big – but not new – ideas for a new growth recovery
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Creating new growth in recovery
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Like catching a falling knife
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Economics of a warming world will hinder recovery
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Australia feels the heat
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Time to get on with it
Economic disruption risk as the world changes
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There is a high price for Australia to pay
There no such thing as green – just good
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The economic climate will change
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How the economic climate changes 31 Today’s generation of Australians will experience the worst impacts of a warming world 35 Losses compound over time as temperature rises
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Foreword While economic growth is sometimes treated as preordained, in reality it is not. Our understanding of economics has changed over time, as we have understood better the role of markets, of regulations, of finance, of consumer preferences and, increasingly, the environment.
about climate change turns up a large cost of action with scant benefits from change. The economic baseline that we are conducting this debate against is fundamentally flawed. In its place, this report develops a baseline where unconstrained emissions are not consistent with unconstrained growth.
Economic models, at their core, have assumed a system of production where unconstrained greenhouse gas emissions sit alongside unconstrained economic growth. A virtuous and unconstrained model of growth has underpinned the vast bulk of economic thought and economic modelling.
Deloitte Access Economics has constructed a view of the Australian economy where the physical damages to the environment cause damage to the Australian economy if there is inaction, or mis-action, in preventing climate change. This is Australia’s economic trend without global or domestic change.
This linear and unsophisticated view of the world has come up against science, which tells us that the current system of economic production as we know it is generating physical changes in the climate. In turn, these changes are negatively affecting the environment, putting at risk economic growth and our quality of life.
This report provides a basis for a more hopeful and useful debate about climate change – because Australia’s current debate no longer appropriately serves Australians, our economy or our decision makers. The policy choices over the next 2-3 years are the choices that will shape the next 10-20 – this is the narrow and unforgiving window of time we all have to choose the change that will prevent a warming world, and the devastating economic consequences that come with it.
With this knowledge, the assumption of unconstrained emissions and unconstrained growth is disrupted.
Our Chief Economist, Chris Richardson, has a saying that “…everyone has a second job in life – the job of leaving the world a better place…” Never has that been more true or apt than in the analysis and insights of this report in creating Australia’s climate for growth.
Yet, with climate change, the debate immediately, and almost exclusively, turns to a question of the costs of doing something about it. What this report reveals is a fundamental flaw in how we are viewing the debate on climate change; we are all missing the point. We view the costs of action against an economic future where the basic assumption is that the economy will keep growing with unconstrained emissions. It is no wonder, then, that any debate
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A new choice If climate change impacts were distinct from the health and economic crises caused by the global covid-19 pandemic, that would be easier for Australia. But both crises and their solutions are linked – and this means Australia has a new choice to make. Our world demands more from us all every day. Our economy is geared to produce more so we can consume. We need to learn new things to get, or keep, a job. And we now balance the needs of our public health in the face of covid-19 with those of the economy in a global recession. All the while technology changes daily, and the world stage continues to offer a series of economic and geopolitical plot twists.
As public and economic policy rapidly progress to create recovery from covid, the (in)consistency of our understanding of the economic impacts and consequences of climate change, and climate change mitigation policy, stand out. This last year has shown the consequences and costs of overlooking catastrophic risks. Thus, as we focus on recovery, we also need to do more to understand the economic impacts and consequences of that other big risk – climate change.
The pace and scale of change confronting us all in 2020 – while not equal or just – has been universal. And the global covid pandemic has demonstrated the consequences and costs of overlooking catastrophic risks.
Climate change is the next big risk we all face – so how do we account for it in recovery? Deloitte Access Economics believes that a ‘business as usual’ economic growth trajectory is innately miscalculated if it does not account for the damages and impacts of climate change.
The next big risk The risks of a warming world and a changing climate due to our economic activity, while more gradual, would be as great as those modelled by covid, if not worse. Not only is it increasingly clear that the costs of climate change are rising each year, the costs associated with reducing the risks from it are also rising with each year of delayed or insufficient policy action.
There is no ‘standard’ economic recovery from covid that Deloitte Access Economics can estimate that does not include the effects of a changing climate on Australia’s economy in the long-term.
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Economic risk today looks a lot like the risks of tomorrow
Deloitte Access Economics estimates that the top six industries: • Hit by covid – in looking at weekly ABS payroll data – represent 32% of all employed people in Australia.
The economic paradox that has gripped Australia for the past decade endures: the economic fundamentals that make Australia strong today, are equally what expose the economy to disruption and change in the future.
• Most exposed to the physical damages from climate change today, represent 46% of all employed workers.
Looking ahead, this paradox only becomes more wicked. Some of the most significant risks to Australia’s economic growth trajectory are the physical risks associated with a changing climate and the unplanned economic transition risk from the world’s response to this changing climate.
• Most emissions intensive in their output represent 23% of all employed Australians. Australia’s emissions intensive industries are vulnerable to disruption as the rest of the world changes – the world may not want what Australia has to offer. Taken today, on average, Deloitte Access Economics estimates that over 30% of employed Australians are exposed to economic disruption and risk from covid, climate change and unplanned economic transition as the world responds.
The analysis in this report shows that the Australian industries hardest hit by the pandemic, are also the most vulnerable to the effects of a warming world and climate change. Australia’s agriculture, construction, manufacturing, tourism related industries and mining sectors all feature consistently in the top industries exposed to the risks of covid, climate change and unplanned economic transition as the world responds.
While this is a significant number of jobs and growth at risk – enough to drive recessions – it is not all doom and gloom. The good news is that the remaining 70% of the workforce and Australia’s GDP is able to help create the change and a new economic trajectory for Australia in a post-covid world.
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Over the next 50 years, unchecked climate change will reduce Australia’s economic growth.
Doing nothing is a costly choice
Economic damage on this scale costs the economy 880,000 jobs by 2070. For people in their 20s, 30s and 40s today, those losses are experienced in their lifetime. For a generation of Australians, their economic futures, and that of their families and friends will be profoundly disrupted by the consequences of unchecked climate change. But the effects of this will not be uniform across Australia.
In an economic future where Australia and the rest of the world does not mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the world has an emissions pathway that produces global average warming of above 3°C by 2070. While this is a global average, the reality is that in parts of Australia it will be much hotter. We will, truly, be the sunburnt country. Over the next 50 years, unchecked climate change will, in average annual terms, reduce Australia’s economic growth by 3% per year and cost around 310,000 jobs per year.
This warming world is no joke. It will affect our ability work outside – building houses and infrastructure that we critically need. It affects our choices on where to live and holiday – as sea level rises and riverine flooding increase in intensity and impact. It affects our ability to play – hotter days means less outdoor playtime. We could even see the death of the Boxing Day Test and weekend club sport if things go on unchecked. That is a loss of the Australian way of life.
Deloitte Access Economics estimates by 2070, the economic cost of this will have doubled on average, shrinking Australia’s GDP by 6% – a $3.4 trillion loss in GDP in present value terms.1 Such economic losses are nearly equal to the impacts of covid on the Australian economy today, occurring by 2055. Let’s repeat that: by 2055 Australia will experience economic losses on par with covid, getting worse every single year due to unchecked climate change.
There is no free ride for Australia – while doing nothing is a choice, it is not costless.
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There is great opportunity for Australia to act on climate change today.
But the unprecedented global health crisis brings unprecedented opportunity
This is a new growth path. And this path can and should drive productivity in all the right places and facilitate deliberative disruption – out with the old drivers of growth and in with the new.
There are many choices that need to be made today to shape Australia’s economy for the future – and clearly doing nothing is not an option. Rightly, economies globally are all facing the same challenge: how to shift off an economic baseline that was already changing, and recover to a ‘new’ resilient economic path post-covid?
But a new growth future is not dreamland. Any structural adjustment to an economy has challenges as change occurs. But the technologies, policy options and ideas to create a new climate of growth in Australia that is resilient to future risks are available today – Australia needs to choose to change and get on with it.
Both government and private sector investment is needed to fill the chasm covid has left in the economy. This investment should be used to accelerate Australia’s inevitable shift to a low emission economic structure – one that avoids Australia running off another economic cliff in a few years’ time.
Choosing net zero is an economic necessity Australia pays a high price of a global failure to deliver new growth in recovery. Compared to this dismal future, Deloitte Access Economics estimates a new growth recovery could grow Australia’s economy by $680 billion (present value terms) and increase GDP by 2.6% in 2070 – adding over 250,000 jobs to the Australian economy by 2070.
Investing in the inevitable shift to a low emission economy for Australia is about providing jobs in high-growth industries, investment in the upgrade and replacement of Australia’s infrastructure, technological progress and emissions efficiency in traditional economic sectors.
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If we could spend today to prevent the next great recession from climate change, why wouldn’t we?
These are the gains, the opportunity, for Australia to claim by being a country that reaches net zero emissions, sooner rather than later, to limit global average warming to 1.5°C along with the rest of the world.
of delay or mis-action, makes this task that much harder and that much more expensive. In a new growth recovery, Australia is still feeling the effects of 1.5°C of global average warming and Australia’s economic structure is adjusting to reduce emissions intensity with the rest of the world. This creates a twofold economic effect: damages occur with any degree of warming to 2050, and the adjustment costs in the economy of mitigating this damage is worn as the transition to net zero occurs.
This would not just be an achievement of a target or goal for Australia. Limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, or no greater than 2°C, by 2050 is an economic must. A new growth recovery sees Australia’s economy growing and the creation of employment – where it otherwise is experiencing losses.
The economic costs of the ‘locked in’ global average warming that occurs and moving to net zero by 2050 is a 0.1% loss in GDP growth, on average, over the 30 years to 2050. This 0.1% loss in Australia’s GDP by 2050 is estimated to be $90 billion, in present value terms. Of this $90 billion cost of moving to net zero, $23 billion, or 26% is due to the locked in impacts of climate change. The remaining $67 billion, by 2050, represents the cost to the economy of reducing emissions to reach net zero in a new growth recovery.
Australia being part of – if not leading the way – in the global shift to net zero in a new growth recovery is in the national interest.
Pay today to stop the next great recession A net zero future, even limiting global average warming to 1.5°C by 2050, does not mean the world is climate change or damage free. The road to a better future is bumpy. To some extent, because meaningful action as not been taken to date, there is an extent of ‘locked in’ global warming which makes the costs of action higher than necessary. And every year
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program is costing the federal budget just over $65 billion this year alone – and this is the necessary price Australia is paying to minimise the worst economic consequences of covid.
But when policy action and investments are delayed while we wait for the world to change around us – and the global temperature goal remains – the world will change, and Australia’s inevitable transformation to keep up will cost more as we will need to do more with less time.
If we could spend today to prevent the next great recession from climate change, why wouldn’t we?
For a middling diplomatic and economic power, Australia has every incentive to drive the global agenda for the national interest.
In this together An economic feature of climate change is the shared nature of the problem – the climate does not care about geographical borders, geopolitical postures, or for ideological reasoning.
The analysis in this report is foundational to serving that purpose. The delayed COP26 forum in 2021 is critical for driving global action and steering economic recovery towards a resilient global economy.
The shared nature of the climate means that while steps can be taken to prepare for the risks of climate change – and to seize the opportunities of new markets that tackling climate change offer – the ultimate solution can only be co-ordinated global action.
Where Australia’s States and Territories, along with the Australian Government, can be armed with the analysis of the impact of climate change on their geographies and sectors – and the alternative pathways each want to pursue – Australia can quickly develop a strategy. This policy work is the bread and butter of governments at all levels – there are no excuses.
The reality for Australia is that we stand to lose the most from unanswered climate change, but also stand to gain significantly from action. The ultimate global objective is to limit warming – this requires transformation at a global level and in Australia, so we keep up competitively and do our fair share. 8
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In times of uncertainty, defining and realising the scenarios that mitigate risks to economic and social life is more critical than ever before.
Equally, this can be true for business. The analysis shines a light on the impacts of climate damages and the benefits of a new growth recovery.
This report provides a basis for business, industry and government to further consider such scenarios – to develop sector and business targets, to drive a policy and regulatory approach for a balanced transition of the economy and building resilient growth and jobs for the future.
This helps define the economic endgame that industry sectors need to play at to get their decarbonisation plans underway – because without an economy wide view, it is difficult to gauge the extent to which a sector or an organisation needs to play in reducing emissions.
It is the nature of the problem that its solution is found together, or not at all. Australians have already had enough risk for this decade – it is time to choose change and craft a better, more resilient and sustainable, future. It is time to get on with the task of preserving and enhancing Australia’s way of life for this generation and those yet to come.
In times of great uncertainty, defining and realising the scenarios that mitigate the greatest risks to economic and social life is more critical than ever before.
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Choosing change checklist:
1. Most to lose, most to gain: Australia needs to drive the global agenda for action to mitigate climate change in the national interest.
2. What gets measured, gets done: Australian governments need to understand the impact of climate change on their geographies and sectors. Understanding impact is the foundation for decision making.
3. Get on with it: Business, industry and government need sector, organisation and economy-wide strategies to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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Creating new growth in recovery As Australia cushions the economy to the effects of the pandemic and recovers, there is a need to think of resilient investments for recovery: good investments. Ones that make the economy robust to future challenges. In January 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its forecasts for global economic growth, predicting the global economy would expand by only 3.3% in 2020.2
on forecasting the impacts of the immediate pandemic – and determining the best course of action to protect public health, employment and livelihoods – the focus has begun to shift to forecasting economic recovery.
By the April 2020 update, the global economy was projected to contract sharply by –3% in 2020, and by June 2020, global growth was projected at –4.9% in 2020.3 The ‘Great Lockdown’ due to the fallout of the global covid-19 pandemic had taken a full effect.
Will the recovery be ‘V’ shaped? ‘U’ shaped? Maybe even a ‘W’? What will the path of economic recovery look like? While the January 2020 IMF global growth outlook was way off, they had one thing right: a cautioning that the continuation of the trends of climate change could inflict even bigger economic losses across more countries overtime.
Like catching a falling knife Forecasting economic outcomes and growth is difficult at the best of times, let alone in a global pandemic the likes of which modern economies have not experienced. Deloitte Access Economics’ own Chris Richardson said that economic forecasting in the time of covid was like ‘catching a falling knife’.
The prescription? That countries should position themselves to counter the next downturn by preparing in advance a contingent response that features a central role for investment in mitigating climate change, as well as investments that strengthen growth and ensure the gains are widely shared,
While economists, businesses and public health officials have all rightly been focused
2 World Economic Outlook, IMF January 2020 3 World Economic Outlook, IMF April 2020 and June 2020 11
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As governments and business put their balance sheets to work in economic recovery, there is a need to create new growth that mitigates the worst costs of climate change.
including education, health, workforce skills, and infrastructure.4
The choices to be made in recovery in the next 1–3 years will affect the next 10–20.
The economic crystal ball couldn’t predict back in January that the next downturn was merely weeks away, and countries would use all their fiscal and monetary fire power to minimise the losses from the sharpest economic contractions ever seen.
In choosing economic recovery pathways there is a need for long-term, universal policy that recognises the complexity and interconnectivity of climate change, technological disruption, and industrial transition. Moreover, this recognition extends to the understanding that the distribution of the costs and benefits will occur across generations and across all sectors of the economy. It requires a focus on competition and efficiency, developing pathways for new growth measures and prioritising the expansion of economic value creation – and the good jobs that come with it.
But as we look to estimate economic recovery trajectories and determine the brightest path for economic growth – we cannot lose sight of the ever-present risk of a changing climate from a warming world. A risk that pre-dates the worst impacts of covid-19, a risk that Australia was experiencing firsthand as we started the year with a ‘black summer’ that rattled the Australian psyche.
It requires everyone to choose change – and to plan for it, today.
The economic impacts of covid, the impacts of catastrophic tail risk, cement that Australia cannot afford – and does not want – ‘black summers’ and the worst costs of climate change to become the trend.
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Where it is accepted that human induced global warming causes climate change, it must also be accepted that a ‘business as usual’ growth trajectory is miscalculated if it does not account for climate change.
Economics of a warming world will hinder recovery
by more than in any other year on record. But a global pandemic and resulting economic crisis is not a sustainable approach for averting the worst impacts of climate change.
The current public health and economic crisis due to the impacts of covid-19 has revealed several lessons.
It has taken a global pandemic to demonstrate the consequences and costs of overlooking catastrophic tail risks. The risks as a result of a warming world and a changing climate, while more gradual, would be as great as those modelled by covid-19, if not worse.
Firstly, whatever you think is historically true in public policy and economics does not necessarily hold in a crisis. With apologies to Lewis Carroll, with a blink, what is up is down and what is down is up.
And as it becomes abundantly clear that not only are the costs of climate change rising each year, it is also evident that the costs associated with mitigating the risks are rising with each year of delayed action.
This taught us a second key lesson – Australia’s institutions work. Government, bureaucrats, the financial system, business and communities can step up and work together effectively in a crisis.
As public and economic policy rapidly progress to recovery – and the private sector realigns its outlook – consistency in our understanding of the economic impacts and consequences of climate change become more important.
Which has taught us the third – economic and policy problems of seemingly insurmountable odds can be solved. When our minds are open to new frames of thinking and there is confidence in our institutions – and the experts that run them – we deliver the types of policy outcomes business and communities crave.
Deloitte Access Economics believes where it is accepted that human induced global warming causes climate change, it must also be accepted that a ‘business as usual’ growth trajectory is innately miscalculated if it does not account for the damages and impacts of climate change.
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There is no ‘standard’ economic recovery that Deloitte Access Economics can forecast that does not include the effects of a changing climate.
The term ‘climate change’ represents the outcome of a complex interaction of physical, chemical, geological and biological processes as a result of higher concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Australia feels the heat
It is not currently known exactly how and when these interactions will play out (there isn’t a model big enough), but there are some well-established climatic changes that will have implications for Australia.
Australia’s climate and geography, its decentralised collection of regional economies and proportion of national income generated by natural resources, are fundamental economic strengths. However, these strengths are also what expose Australia to the economic impacts of the physical risks of climate change. Every region of the world is exposed to the physical risks of a changing climate, but just how exposed is Australia? While it is impossible to fully predict the effects of a changing climate on Australia, scientists have clearly established that Australia is highly exposed to just about all of the climatic risks that arise from a warming world: the research is conclusive in saying that warmer and more tropical climates are more likely to feel the effects of climate change.5
5 Batten, S. (2018), Climate change and the macro-economy: a critical review, Bank of England, Staff Working Paper No. 706 14
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Figure 1.1 How the climate will change Australia
Fewer frosts A substantial decrease in the frequency of frost risk days is projected by 2070
Rising sea levels Sea levels are rising around Australia, increasing the risk of inundation
Higher temperatures Maximum, minimum and average temperatures are projected to continue to rise
Warmer and more acidic ocean Sea surface temperatures are expected to increase and the ocean will become more acidic
Hotter and more frequent hot days – there is likely to be a substantial increase in the temperature reached on the hottest days, and an increase in the frequency of hot days and the duration of warm spells.
More intense rainfall events High variable in rainfall will continue. The intensity of heavy rainfall events is likely to increase
More drought By late this century, under a high emission scenario, it is likely that the south of the state will experience more time in drought
Harsher fire weather Climate change is likely to result in harsher fire weather in the future, reflecting fuel dryness and hot, dry, windy conditions
Source: Deloitte Access Economics using CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (2019)
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More frequent sea level extremes Higher sea levels will increase the risks of coastal hazards such as storm tide inundation
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Climate change is changing economic structures. Some industries will be forced to undertake significant transformations in when, how and what they produce.
The heat falls on the economy Climate damages will change economic structures – depending on their exposure to the changing climate and the impact this has on their productive capacity, each industry will be affected differently. Some industries will be forced to undertake significant transformations – changes in when, how and what they produce – while others will continue on a path that resembles today’s activity. Why is this? What is it about one industry that makes them more likely to be impacted than another? The Climate-Economy Disruption Map (on the following page) brings together these questions into one 2x2 matrix. It simplifies what is an extraordinarily complex relationship between the climate and the economy (as well as the economy today and tomorrow). For each industry, the extent of transformation required is a result of the physical risks of climate change and a sector’s response to these changes, both domestically and globally. The greatest economic transformation will be required in industries that: have a reduction in, or change in the nature of, the inputs necessary for production (e.g. water, energy)
or a reduction in, or change in the nature of, the productivity of these inputs (e.g. worker productivity). These industries will need to develop new ways of delivering goods and services in the future if they are to remain globally competitive. Industry change will also occur due to shifts in demand conditions. There are some industries which are not expected to see a substantial change in demand as the global economy transitions as a result of climate change.6 Some things are common to industries won’t experience a significant shift: they are fundamental to a growing economy, not highly tradeable, and have a number of sources of strong demand. The implications of the physical risks of climate change will be different for industries with strong underlying demand versus those with more variable demand. Sectors such as construction, transport, manufacturing and energy will be in demand, but must transform in response to climate change to remain economically relevant. While service sectors are in demand as population and economies grow, but are not directly affected by climate change in terms of how they operate and will transform relatively less in response to it.
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Figure 1.2 The Climate-Economy Disruption Map Climate change requires significant industry change Less demand, but big change needed
Greater demand, but big change needed
Agriculture Resources
Construction Tourism
Manufacturing Transport
Energy and utilities Climate change less likely to increase demand
Climate change more likely to increase demand
Health care
Other services Education Greater demand, but less change needed
Less demand, but less change needed Climate change requires limited industry change
Primary sectors (i.e. production of raw materials) Secondary (i.e. transformation of raw materials) Tertiary sectors (i.e. services industries) Source: Deloitte Access Economics
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Australia is not immune from the economic risks associated with climate change or the way the rest of the world responds to it.
Where there is risk today, there is risk tomorrow
Physical risks from climate change damages
The risks presented by covid and climate change are not mutually exclusive. Industries and workers that are at risk as the world fights covid, are the same ones that are exposed to the risks from a warming world.
Going forward, some of the most significant risks to Australia’s economic growth trajectory are the physical risks associated with a changing climate and unplanned economic transition risks from the response to this changing climate.
Economic risks and impacts from covid We all feel the uncertainty that surrounds our current economic trajectory – many people have lost their jobs; businesses have been forced to close their doors and industries have been curtailed by the disruption of global supply chains due to covid. The disruptions and risks are very real.
Australia’s vast and variable landscape means that it is particularly exposed to the physical impacts of climate change. Deloitte Access Economics estimates that the top six industries which are the most exposed to the physical damages from climate change today, represent 43% of all employed workers and 38% of GDP.
Economic disruption risk as the world changes
Deloitte Access Economics’ estimates that the top six industries hardest hit by covid – in looking at weekly payroll data7 – represent 32% of all employed people in Australia and 25% of GDP.
At the same time, Australia as an emissions intensive, resource-based economy that is highly integrated into global markets is not immune from the economic risks associated with climate change – and the way the rest of the world decides to mitigate the worst consequences of it.
And what is vulnerable today, is even more vulnerable tomorrow. While the world is feeling the current crisis, the more gradual consequences of climate change are occurring at the same time.
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Solar farm, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
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Regardless of what transition path Australia chooses (including choosing not to transition), there will be economic shocks as the world transitions to a lower, and ultimately net-zero, emissions economy. These global choices will be transmitted to Australia through trade, politics and changing consumer demand.
Deloitte Access Economics analysis shows that those industries hard hit by the pandemic, are also the most vulnerable to the effects of a warming world. The economic fundamentals that make Australia strong today, are equally what can expose the economy to disruption and change.
Deloitte Access Economics estimates that the top six industries that are the most emissions intensive in their output represent 23% of all employed Australian’s and 34% of GDP. These emissions intensive industries are vulnerable to disruption as the rest of the world shifts its preferences – changing what the world demands.
Agriculture, construction, manufacturing, tourism related industries and mining all feature consistently across the three risk categories: Covid economic risk, climate change risk and economic disruption risk.
Looking at how industries are exposed to covid risk, physical climate damages risk and economic disruption risk shows the share of jobs and economic activity that are exposed in Australia.
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of employed Australian’s are today, on average, directly exposed to economic disruption from covid and climate change
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Covid-19 risk Proportion of jobs and GDP in the top six industries that are most exposed during the global pandemic:
Accommodation and food services
Arts and recreation services
Agriculture
Proportion of jobs and GDP in the top six industries that are most exposed if Australia does not plan for a global transition to a low emission economy:
Energy
Rental, hiring and real estate services
Administrative and other services*
Mining
of
Services (includes tourism)
23% jobs
Mining
Construction
34% GDP
of
Agriculture
Construction
41% GDP
of
Economic disruption risk
Manufacturing
of
46% jobs
Proportion of jobs and GDP in the top six industries that are most at risk to the physical damages of climate change:
Trade
25% GDP
of
Agriculture
Physical damages risk
Manufacturing
32% jobs
of
Transport
Construction
* Administrative and other services includes administrative and support services, information media and telecommunications and other services. Source: DAE-CLIMATE; Australia’s National Greenhouse Accounts, National Inventory by Economic Sector, May 2020; ABS Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages in Australia, July 2020; ABS Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, May 2020; ABS Australian System of National Accounts, 2018–19. 21
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The risk is shared, but not uniform across Australia’s regions
23% of the Australian workforce is employed in emission intensive industries that are directly exposed to disruption if Australia does not plan for a global transition.
Where Australia has a relatively emissions intensive economic structure, and, emissions intensive employment, this exposes workers in these industries to the economic consequences of future transition decisions – particularly across Australia’s regional economies.
And this hits Australia’s regions harder than most. For Australia, the short-term costs of disruption and unplanned economic change tend to be local – and a failure to address them in a timely way can put future benefits out of reach for regional economies. It is both a risk of consequences and timing.
Emissions intensive industries are vulnerable to disruption as the rest of the world changes and their economic structures to move to net-zero emissions – this change may see the world not want what Australia has to offer.
This risk is would be further compounded where the rest of the world moves towards mitigation and low emission economies in recovery post-covid, and Australia maintains an emissions intensive status quo. For Australia, trade linkages and exports expose the economy to the impacts of inaction in response to the change, or mis-action.
Combined, Deloitte Access Economics modelling and the National Emissions Inventory 2018 by economic sector 8 determines the distribution of emission intensity by industry of employment. The distribution of emissions by industry informs the classification of the emission intensity ranges from Extremely Intensive as the highest, to Marginally Intensive as the lowest (see the figure over page and refer to the Technical Appendix for the full method).
This creates a need to mitigate: 1. Climate change and its consequences domestically, and 2. the risk and policy consequences of the global move to net-zero already underway.
8 ANZSIC 2-digit codes, noting some sub-industries are not available for reasons of confidentiality and do not sum accordingly. 22
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Where there is disruption, there is change. Change starts from the perspective of how people are affected, both positively and negatively, by the consequences of climate change. This starts with implications for jobs.
No matter the recovery or transition pathway chosen, an emissions intensive structure will not support a strong economic growth trajectory in Australia; the risk of stranded assets, industries, communities and workers is intensified. And the lessons of covid have demonstrated that such risks are too great a cost to wear. But the good news? This means 77% of Australia’s workforce is not directly exposed to the disruption of an unplanned response to a global transition. But this 77% is not without risk. While they may not be directly exposed to industry downturns and shifts if Australia’s economic response remains unplanned, they will indirectly feel the hit that the economy will inevitably take. No industry or worker in Australia will be untouched by the disruption caused from a changing climate and the global economy’s response. And where we can plan for it, that is the best weapon in Australia’s economic arsenal.
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23% of the Australian workforce is exposed in emissions intensive sectors Australian regions are more exposed to disruption and a failure to plan Over half of Australian regions have ‘emission intensive’ employment that makes up 20–60% of total regional employment.* Note: 23% of the Australian workforce work are in the top three ranges of emission intensive sectors as proportion of total employment. * Regions as at the SA4 level
0% 15%
30%
45% 60%
Marginally Intensive
• • • • • •
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Manufacturing (Textiles / Transport / Machinery / Equipment) Aquaculture, Fishing, Hunting and Trapping Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Support Services Arts and Recreation Services Other Services
44% of jobs
Moderately Intensive
• • • • • • • • • • •
Manufacturing (Food / Beverage) Wholesale and Retail Trade Rail Transport Accommodation, Food Services, Education and Health Services Gas Supply Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Services Finance, Insurance, Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Forestry and Logging, Wood, Pulp, Paper and Printing Building Construction Information Media and Telecommunications Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
34% of jobs
Intensive
• • • • • •
Mining and Quarrying (Metal and Mineral) Manufacturing (Chemical and Minerals) Waste Collection, Treatment and Disposal Services Air and Space Transport Administration (public and services) Construction Services Other Transport, Services, Postal and Storage
15% of jobs
Highly Intensive
• Manufacturing (Metal) • Road Transport
4% of jobs
Extremely Intensive
• • • •
4% of jobs
Electricity Supply Agriculture Oil and Gas Extraction Coal Mining
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A cost seen by some, is an investment to others. And it is not about ‘green’ investments or policy, it is about what is good.
There no such thing as green – just good
And where a ‘green’ recovery is adopted between 2021 and 2023, the IEA and IMF estimates the benefits of a $1 trillion p.a. investment (USD) – just 0.7% of global GDP – over the next 3 years, would see global GDP be 3.5% higher than it otherwise would be, with many ongoing structural benefits. Some 9 million jobs a year would be saved or created, and emissions would be 4.5 billion tonnes lower. 9
In economic recovery post-covid – there has been significant discussion on the need for ‘green growth’ and ‘green recovery’ policy. Recent analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the IMF has outlined a need for countries to address the core issues of the global recession and soaring unemployment – and doing so in a way that creates sustainable economic growth, while being founded on cleaner and more secure energy systems.
The dividends of such investment will not be surprising to many. Because while business has long been awake to the risks of climate change – of policy and regulatory risk, international trade risks, consumer risks, and investor risks – business has also been aware of the opportunity and the gains to be had from investing in the mitigation effort.
While governments design economic recovery plans, the decisions made today will shape economic and energy infrastructure for decades to come and determine whether the world meets its long-term energy and climate goals. A sustainable and ‘green’ recovery plan includes the acceleration of low-emission electricity sources, more efficient transport such as electric vehicles, the improvement in energy efficiency of buildings and appliances, the efficiency of production systems, and a boost to innovation. 9 IEA and IMF, 2020, Sustainable Recovery. 25
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Australia’s climate for growth requires good policy, good economics and good investments that mitigate risk and create returns to both business, society and the economy.
A cost seen by some, is an investment to others. And it is not about ‘green’ investments or policy, it is about what is good. Australia’s climate for growth requires good policy, good economics and good investments that mitigate risk and creates return to both business, society and the economy.
The Global Financial Crisis saw greenhouse gas emissions jump significantly as the world economy recovered, further stalling resilient economic progress. The Australian and global economy cannot afford this a second time round – cannot afford it economically, socially or environmentally.
And as Australia cushions the economy to the effects of the pandemic and recovers, there is a need to think of resilient investments for recovery: good investments. Good investments that make the economy robust to future challenges and avoids the economy running headlong into another economic wall in just a few years’ time.
All economies are recovering from covid off an economic baseline that was already disrupted and exposed to risk – because climate change and economic transition is not a scenario, it is the baseline.
Recovery from the pandemic is crunch time to put emissions in structural decline and mitigate the worst effects and risks from a changing climate.
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As Australia recovers, without greater policy efforts, our future includes a changing climate and a warming world.
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Climate change is not a scenario. It is the baseline for decision making.
But this baseline does not account for the economic consequences of unmitigated climate change or the world’s response to it – both due to damages, and/or inevitable policy responses to mitigate the impacts.
The growth in the global economic system is currently contingent on emissions intensive activity. Economic theories and models that provide the ability to understand emissions intensive activity and growth, are also maintaining society’s ‘business as usual’ approach to preventing climate change.
Climate change damages and mitigation policy are often modelled as a scenario due to the range of possibilities and future states. And this makes sense – to a point.
That is, the climate change economic paradox: the economic fundamentals that make economies strong on paper with emissions intensive production, are equally what expose economies to disruption from both the climate and economic transition. And because the economic fundamentals are strong, it prevents the necessary policy and economic change from taking place.
To leave the economic impacts of a changing climate out of economic baselines and decision making misses a trick. The Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), made up of 69 central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), this year released guidance the need to solve for this exact issue (and many others).10
Climate change is not an economic scenario, it is the baseline
Understanding and accounting for the longerterm effects of climate change on productivity, potential output and economic growth is critical to knowing the path of growth, and the distribution of the impacts of disruption.
And economic modelling is part of this wicked problem. Most current economic models and their trajectories of trend growth assume unconstrained emissions. This is economic baseline on which most decisions are made – government and business alike.
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The economy impacts the climate, and the climate impacts the economy – and the interactions of these impacts sets the economic baseline. This is true for Australia and the rest of the world.
3. Warming causes the climate to change and results in physical damages to the factors of production in an economy: the use of land, the way people work and capital flows.
While current economic modelling miscalculates trend economic growth and broader economic impacts in the long-term (by not accounting for the economic impacts of climate change), Deloitte Access Economics has adopted a framework that integrates the economic impacts of physical climate change into a baseline economic trajectory for Australia (refer to Technical Appendix for details).
4. These damages to the factors of production are distributed across the economy, impacting GDP. Any change in emissions and/or temperature overtime results in a change to these impacts – the economy impacts the climate, and the climate impacts the economy.
Put simply: 1. Model projected economic output (as measured by Gross Domestic Product) which causes emissions to reflect a Representative Concentrative Pathway (RCP) of emissions ranging between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 to the year 2100.11 Producing a projection of emissions intensive economic growth.
This understanding is incorporated in a modelling process, involving significant research on Australian specific climate impacts that act as inputs into Deloitte Access Economics’ in-house Regional CGE Climate Integrated Assessment Model, the DAE-CLIMATE model (refer to Technical appendix for more detail).
2. Increased concentration of emissions causes average global warming to rise above pre-industrial levels.
11 I nternational Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) adopted emission scenarios that reflect no significant additional effort globally to constrain emissions (‘baseline scenarios’), leading to emission pathways ranging between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5. Deloitte Access Economics presents results out to 2070 in this report. 29
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Figure 1.3 How the climate changes the economy
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the hotter conditions become a concern for workers health and safety and their ability to perform tasks.
Very few forces can impact the Australian economy like the damages associated with climate change; not when considering the scale, persistence and systemic nature of the impacts.12
As weather events become more severe and frequent, the costs to repair damaged infrastructure are funds that would be better spent on investments in new technologies, the deployment of existing technologies and research, and new infrastructure to support growing communities – all leading to long-term reductions in productivity growth.
Climate change, if left unmitigated, can erode the productive capacity of the economy.13 Changing how people work, what is produced and where it is produced, and shifting the preferences of what people buy.
The fundamental ‘driver’ of economic damages is rising temperature. As rising temperature induces climate change, economic output (as measured by GDP) is impacted through the physical damages that affect productivity and/ or stock of factors of production (Figure 1.3).
Industries that rely on people power, such as construction, will experience ‘hotter’ working environments that not only disrupt comfort levels, but as temperatures continue to rise
12 Climate Council (2019), Compound Costs: How Climate Change is damaging Australia’s economy 13 Ibid. 30
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How the economic climate changes
Where we live and work
How workers work Heat stress impacts on labour productivity
Sea level rise erodes productive land • Temperature rises are seeing landbased glaciers melt and water bodies experience warm. Put simply, the sea level is rising.
• As temperatures rise, heat stress on workers surpasses becomes a concern for the health and safety of workers and their ability to perform tasks.
• Sea level rise affects land through the erosion, inundation or salt intrusion along the coastline, impacting agricultural output.
• There is only so much heat stress the body can take.
• In low lying and sea coast urban areas, residential and commercial properties will incur damage, require significant capital costs for repair or see people no longer live there. The property sector will see sharp property value adjustments.
• Before serious health consequences are reached (heat strain/stroke or death), at lower levels of heat exposure workers are subject to diminished mental task ability, diminished capacity to work at their former level and are at a higher risk of accident.
Deloitte Access Economics accounts for lost productive land through sea level rise, and the level of productive activity on the land.
Deloitte Access Economics considers the ‘slowing down’ of workers and their ability to do their jobs results in lower labour productivity.
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What is built and how it is damaged
How we live
Capital damages from investing in repairs, not new infrastructure
Health damages on labour productivity
• As temperature rises, the increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather events damages infrastructure and capital, including dwellings, public infrastructure and machinery and equipment for business.
• Climate change can impact the range, abundance and spread of diseases. • As extreme weather events become more severe and frequent, there is risk of death and injury to people. • Climate change can affect air quality and diseases that result from air pollution – the recent summer of bush fires in Australia was a stark reminder of this.
• Investments have to go into repairing what is damaged, and not the new investments that support growth.
Deloitte Access Economics accounts for capital damages as a percentage of annual capital investment that is diverted to repair and replace damaged assets.
• Climate change may also affect human health indirectly, through changes in food production, water resources, migration and economic development.
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How we holiday
What and how we grow
Tourism damages on the flow of global currency
Agricultural damages from variations in crop yields
• The weather, and the climate, is a key consideration and driver of tourism around the world. But no more so than Australia.
• The agricultural sector is on the front line of climate change in Australia. Australia’s vast and variable geography means that one part of the country can be suffering from the worst drought in living memory, while other parts are experiencing devastating floods.
• Where and how people can holiday using natural assets and attractions will change – making attracting domestic and international tourists harder.
• Climate change means rising temperatures, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and different regional patterns of precipitation.
• Tourism is a pillar of many economies and without it, many regional economies would struggle.
• For agricultural production, this means fluctuations in growing conditions, water availability and the severity and frequency of extreme weather events; resulting in crop yield volatility and market uncertainty.
Deloitte Access Economics considers the scale of loss of tourism money circulating economies – and the impact on business, jobs and livelihood.
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The losses to the Australian economy by 2070 from unanswered climate change The industries hardest hit:
-$350 billion
-$330 billion
-$1.6 trillion
-$500 billion
lost in Mining
lost in Manufacturing
lost across the Services sectors
lost in Trade and Tourism
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For Australians in their 20s to their 50s today, the worst losses to the economy from climate change are experienced in their lifetime.
The economic cost of unanswered climate change risk
For people in their 20s, 30s and 40s today, those losses are experienced in their lifetime. Their economic futures, and that of their families and friends will be profoundly disrupted by the consequences of unmitigated climate change.
In an economic future where Australia and the rest of the world does not mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the world has an emissions pathway that reflects RCP8.5.14 This gives Australia an economic and emissions profile that produces global average warming of above 3°C by 2070.15
Looking earlier in the century to 2050, the year in which current policy commitments aims to achieve net-zero emission economies and limit global average warming to 2°C – the pathway of inaction or mis-action leads to economic losses of $1.1 trillion in present value terms by 2050 – or 3.6% of GDP. This loss sees almost 330,000 jobs lost by 2050.
As the global temperature gradually increases to the end of the century, Australia feels the heat.
Today’s generation of Australians will experience the worst impacts of a warming world
On average over the 30 years to 2050, that is a loss of 135,000 jobs per year and 1.8% of GDP. Most Australians in their 20s to their 60s today will witness the effects this loss in their lifetimes.
Deloitte Access Economics estimates by 2070, the economic losses to Australia from unmitigated climate change are $3.4 trillion in present value terms – or 6% of GDP. Such a loss results in 880,000 jobs lost in 2070 alone.16 On average over the 50 years to 2070, that is a loss of 310,000 jobs per year and 3% of GDP.
14 This puts the world on a trajectory to reach a global average temperature of above 4°C by 2100, aligned with RCP8.5. Refer to Technical Appendix for discussion on the use of RCP8.5 for modelling in DAE-CLIMATE. 15 T his analytical reference case assumes that countries do not meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the global economy broadly follows the emissions pathway RCP 8.5 (based on the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, 2014). 16 E mployment figures reported are reflective of the total headcount of employee jobs lost – both part-time and full-time equivalents. The ratio for conversion of full-time equivalents (FTE) (modelled by DAE-CLIMATE) to total headcount has used an FTE ratio based on 2016 Census data. 35
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Losses compound over time as temperature rises
Take for example, the trade industry that captures a lot of tourism related activity. Deloitte Access Economics estimates that by 2070, the industry experiences a loss of $495 billion (in present value terms) in Gross Value Added (GVA as a measure of the industries output). This loss sees almost 190,000 jobs lost by 2070.
Losses of this magnitude far surpass the devasting economic consequences we are all feeling today from the impacts of covid. By 2055, Australia will experience economic losses on par with covid due to unchecked climate change.
The weather, and the climate, is a key consideration and driver of tourism around the world. People can’t have a ski holiday when there is no snow cover and can’t enjoy the beach when it’s over 40 degrees and humid. Climate change means such consequences will be more common, making attracting tourists – both domestic and international – harder.
A loss of this magnitude is difficult to comprehend. And while these economic losses are occurring in a larger economy in the future, with more people, new industries and new types of work – it is not a loss that is comprehendible or comparable in contemporary economic data. All industries are hard hit, but some more so than others The worst effects of a changing climate are felt across every Australian industry – with some wearing the economic cost of climate change more than others. Nationally, the worst impacted industries are service sectors (both government and business), trade and tourism, manufacturing, and mining owing to their economic structure and the distribution of the impacts of the physical climate damages over time.
As the recent impacts of the global pandemic illustrate, tourism is a pillar of many economies. Without it, many regional economies would struggle. Tourism is one of Australia’s key economic assets. Australia’s tourism operators, both big and small, face changing demand preferences for travel destinations as temperatures rise.
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Unchecked climate change means Australian business, jobs and livelihoods are fundamentally at stake.
No state wants to come out on top of this list It is not the list any Australia state wants to compete in for first prize. While all Australian states experience significant disruption due to climate change, much like covid, this disruption has different regional impacts based on the way economies are set up. A global average temperature of above 3°C by 2070 means some parts of Australia will be warmer than this, and experience even greater losses.
The natural attractions on offer – like the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Kakadu National Park – underpin the success of the industry, both in terms of domestic and international demand. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park alone in 2019 hosted 2.1 million-day visitors.17 The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth and is already experiencing the effects of a warming world. The IPCC estimates that climate-induced impacts to coral reefs would see a projected decline in coral reefs by a further 70–90% at 1.5°C of warming, with larger losses at 2°C.18 Taking an unmitigated pathway means the global average temperature will exceed 2°C by 2050, which could make the Great Barrier Reef a major casualty of climate change.
Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory have the largest losses due to a changing climate. These states are the first to take the hit as both a consequence of their industry base, and their geography – and these losses are compounding over time. Their economies feel the brunt of warmer climates and the longer-term consequences of becoming uncompetitive against the states with comparatively cooler temperatures and industrial structures less dependent on the climate.
Indeed, a warming world and climateinduced damages will see many Australian environments become a casualty, with significant consequences for the tourism markets and regional economies that depend on them. Without the flow of tourism money circulating such economies – business, jobs and livelihoods are fundamentally at stake.
But these effects can be widespread, take for example – winemakers across Victoria and Tasmania. One of the oldest families
17 Australian Government (2020), Great Barrier Reef tourist numbers, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 18 IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5ºC (2018) 37
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Doing nothing about climate change is a policy choice that is made. Such a choice is far from costless to the economy.
• While doing nothing is a choice, it is not costless: a ‘no policy action scenario’ does not result in uninterrupted economic growth. A ‘no policy action’ pathway as the economy recovers – one that does not deliberately and rapidly mitigate climate change – results in significant economic losses. This is true in Australia, and the rest of the world.
of wine in Australia, and after more than 120 years in Victoria, Brown Brothers’ decided to move to Tasmania’s east coast, with the company deciding that climate change was the biggest future threat to business.19 Doing nothing is not costless Inaction or mis-action in recovery is an economic course that results in significant loss to Australia, with losses to industry, business, workers and communities at a level that disrupts the livelihoods of an entire generation. A failure to mitigate the worst effects of climate change as Australia decides on its economic future is a cost Australia cannot afford.
• There is no free ride: as the cause of climate change is global, so too are the effects. And Australia’s economic future and potential will not be isolated from the impacts of a warming world. While Australia may choose a pathway that does not mitigate climate change in line with the rest of the world, it will not be spared the economic cost if – and as – the world warms.
• The economic costs of climate change are the baseline: The damages from climate change are the baseline under any economic projection if climate change is not mitigated in a timely and effective way. While the scale and distribution of impacts will differ with the use of different parameters and choices, the order of magnitude of impacts are likely to show significant economic losses to Australia and the rest of the world due to unmitigated climate change.
19 Breen, F (2016), Rising temperatures spark ‘race to Tasmania’ for winemakers escaping heat, Landline, ABC, 5 June 2016 38
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The losses to Australia’s economic climate are significant By 2070... Western Australia
-9% -3.5%
in gross state product
in employment
The industries hardest hit:
Services
Mining
Trade and tourism
Northern Territory
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in employment
in gross state product
The industries hardest hit:
Services
Mining
Trade and tourism
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Tasmania
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0.5% 0.1%
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in gross state product
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Services
The industries hardest hit:
Trade and Manufacturing tourism
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Mining
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Trade and tourism
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The industries hardest hit:
The industries hardest hit:
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in employment
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Services
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Wind turbine, New South Wales.
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Choosing change for Australia
Choosing change for Australia When the problem is unconventional, so too the response. For the opportunity to realise new growth trajectories and avoid the worst costs of a changing climate, Australia requires big ideas and change.
change in the plural – of the economy simultaneously trying to reconcile the impacts of globalisation, technological and environmental changes.
The economic consequences and losses from unmitigated climate change are a clear cost Australia cannot afford. Australia – and the world – must recover the economy from covid differently to avoid the cost and the risks climate change poses to industries, workers and livelihoods.
While this change sees global shifts away from traditional economic dependencies and industry bases, it does not mean the end of growth or jobs in these areas. Growth and employment diversifies, or transforms entirely into new economic growth opportunities.20 This is the history of economies for centuries, and the future will be no different.
Change is a constant The global economic landscape was already one of constant change. A result of both powerful global and local forces: an ever rising Asia shifting the demand for what the world has to offer, demographic shifts unseen by current generations, the unstoppable march of urbanisation, technology and innovation, pressures and damages caused by the warming world and the unstoppable shift towards lower emissions through technology and new energy systems.
Finding a resilient ‘new normal’ Economies globally are addressing the same question: how to smoothly shift off an economic baseline that was already changing, and recover to a ‘new’ resilient economic growth path in recovery post-covid? The Great Lockdown and recession may have made a dip in emissions, but this has not stopped the world from warming.
What we were experiencing pre-covid, and will continue to experience post-covid, is
20 Productivity Commission (2017), Transitioning Regional Economies, Australian Government: December 2017 42
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A targeted new growth recovery will tick many boxes for the Australian economy – providing jobs in high-growth industries, investment in Australia’s infrastructure, technological progress and emissions efficiency in traditional sectors, and the creation of export opportunities for Australia – all while mitigating climate change domestically.
Creating a new growth recovery
The short-term emission reductions from covid related restrictions are almost negligible in in the long-term. Such a level of reduction would need to occur almost annually to shift the dial on climate change. This means that lasting effects will only arise if economic recovery strategies for the long-term are characterised by systematic action and decarbonisation of the economy.21
A new growth recovery that mitigates climate change will be in line with existing targets and the world’s renewed enthusiasm to invest in resilient economic pathways. Most global economies are seeking to reach net zero emissions by 2050, if not sooner, limiting global average warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – and Australia has to keep up if it is to remain competitive.
The unprecedented global health crisis brings unprecedented opportunity Both government and private sector investment is needed for economic recovery to fill the chasm covid has left in the economy. The global economy is at a fork in the road – and policymakers’ most important task is to reduce uncertainty while providing economic relief and stimulus to the hardest-hit sectors and individuals.
While a net zero emission pathway for Australia requires a structural and economic adjustment, the shift can be embodied by deliberate and balanced actions taken towards the development and deployment of lower emission technologies and processes across the economy. This change will be incentivised and supported by both government investment and backed by private capital. These investments are not only right type of fiscal stimulus needed today but are the investments that secure long-term economic growth in Australia.
This focus must be used to accelerate Australia’s inevitable shift to a low emission economic structure. A shift that will create a new and resilient economic growth path in recovery.
New growth that provides good jobs, productivity in all the right places and deliberate disruption – out with the old drivers of growth and in with the new – is Australia’s climate for growth.
21 Forster, P.M., Forster, H.I., Evans, M.J. et al (2020), Current and future global climate impacts resulting from covid-19, Nat. Clim. Change 43
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A new growth future is not dreamland. Any structural adjustment to an economy has challenges. But the technologies, policy options and ideas to create new growth in Australia are available today – Australia needs to choose to change and get on with it.
Australia’s climate for growth requires investment in the new drivers of growth that will build up Australia’s traditional economic base to be diversified effectively, remain competitive and put the existing skills of workers to work in well-paid jobs.
price down making complete or near decarbonisation of the grid a possibility. Indeed, over the past decade, the demand for electricity has grown. Much of this additional demand has been successfully met by renewable sources.22 • The continuing uptake of renewable energy in Australia – spurred by policy support, falling costs and increasing cost competitiveness – will help decouple the electricity grid from emissions intensive activity. Such change wouldn’t just lower electricity emissions, it is also the cornerstone of decarbonisation across other sectors in the economy, such as transport, much of Australian industry and Australia’s fugitive emissions, to further the emissions efficiency impact.
Make the switch Technological progress and emissions efficiency are at the heart of achieving net zero emissions for an economy. It determines how hard and how fast technological change is embedded in the economy to drive emissions reduction for businesses, industry and households, and how this reduces the cost to the economy of achieving emissions targets. • Renewables were recognised as an important part of the effort to reduce emissions 30 years ago. However, there was also scepticism over the role they could play in the short term given their relatively high-cost, intermittency, and the level of investment that would be required to achieve widespread adoption.
• The generation of renewable energy is a mature technological solution, and while on-going developments must continue to account for intermittency (i.e. in large-scale battery storage), it is well-positioned for widespread deployment.23 The timing has never been better to consider the future of Australia’s energy infrastructure and invest in the switch.
• Fast forward to the present and advances in renewable electricity generation technologies, like solar and wind have brought their
22 Climate Works (2020), Decarbonisation Futures: Solutions, actions and benchmarks for a net zero emissions Australia 23 Climate Works (2020) 44
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There is large export potential for Australia as the low emission transformation occurs globally. Change creates the opportunity for new jobs and new industries, but only if Australia chooses to change today. The world must want what Australia has A decisive and timely economic transformation to net zero emissions presents an opportunity for Australia to emerge as globally competitive in a low emissions world.
Where Australia is currently a major exporter of energy, in a global economy where emissions intensive energy is replaced by energy from renewables, Australia can be a global source of secure and reliable renewable power. Countries such as Japan, South Korea and Germany have already come to Australia asking for us to export renewable hydrogen for their own domestic energy consumption.25 The opportunity to remain competitive and make sure Australia has what the world wants is there.
Australia is a historically emissions intensive, and resource-rich trading nation – and actions taken by our global trading partners have a large bearing on the domestic economy. If Australia continues along an emissions intensive economic trajectory while the global economy is taking strong mitigation action, Australia’s current competitive advantages will end.24 But Australia doesn’t have to lose advantage in a low-emissions world. By choosing to change to a new growth path and seizing the opportunity in front of us, Australia’s covid recovery trajectory can be resilient to the economic impacts of a warming world and economic disruption.
24 Garnaut, R (2019), Super-power: Australia’s low-carbon opportunity, La Trobe University Press 25 Garnaut, R (2019) 45
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Big – but not new – ideas for a new growth recovery
growth multipliers. Over the long-run, renewables require less labour, but this frees up labour just as the economy returns to capacity and the dividends of other jobcreating policies bear fruit.
For the opportunity to realise new growth trajectories and avoid the worst costs of a changing climate, steps must be taken by global and individual economies alike. The good news? Most of the big ideas that create the change required to grow Australia’s economy in recovery, while mitigating climate change, already exist.
• Get the baseline right and define the economic endgame: There are many calls for economic reform to drive Australia’s covid recovery. But there is inconsistency and confusion in the discussion from different sectors, or regions, on what the calls to reform are for – and what the economic endgame is. Whether it is the view of business, government or communities, there needs to be a unified view on the economic baseline going forward, and that the baseline includes structural change, transition and new global demand profiles – whether from climate change or other global forces. Getting the baseline right requires an acceptance that the future is fast moving and dynamic – and decision making must keep up with this. Where the baseline is understood, the economic endgame must also be defined. Growth for growths sake is not a recovery pathway that will provide the resiliency and outcomes that Australians crave.
Deloitte Access Economics sees several characteristics that define a new growth recovery in Australia: • When the problem is unconventional, so too the response: Fiscal recovery policies that mitigate climate change have advantages over traditional fiscal stimulus that better suit the problems of this crisis. Take the issue of needing to address unemployment now, while equally maintaining public health measures and social distance. There is a time lag, a mismatch and big health and safety trade-offs. But looking to renewable energy, it generates more jobs in the short run during construction when jobs are scarce in the middle of a recession. This lifts spending and increases short-run economic
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A new growth recovery creates the opportunity to remain competitive and make sure Australia has what the world wants.
• Smoothing the inevitable transition: Low emissions growth doesn’t stop with renewables. There are countless other low emission and future-proof infrastructure investments to be made, such as grid modernisation, storage (importantly including hydrogen) and the electrification of Australia’s urban areas all offer returns. Public investments – in their own right or alongside private investment – will reduce the costs of the inevitable economic transition to a low emission world and support Australia’s ability to maintain competitive advantages.
capital is cheap, investment is needed, and the world wants it. All that’s left is the will and the way…or, in some instances, for governments of all levels to get out of their own way. • Targeting the training system: Reducing unemployment and securing standards of living will be the major focus of any government policy action in recovery – and rightly so. Where large investments in education and training are made to address employment impacts from covid, they can equally be targeted to address existing economic disruption and future risk from inaction or mis-action on climate change. All workers have valuable skills, knowledge and experience which are transferable to other areas of the economy as it changes. Australia’s recovery must ensure that these skills are put to good use. Setting, and investing, in an economic recovery pathway that maximises traditional economic strengths, and the skills of today’s workers, is critical to ensuring workers are prepared for a low emission economy.
• Shovels and strategies are ready: most states and regions have net-zero emission economy or emission reduction target – and pre-covid, 2020 was on track to be catalytic for the private sector push to mitigate their businesses and balance sheets against the risks from climate change. This means many projects, investments, infrastructure and plans are ‘shovel ready’ to roll out as it is safe to do so. From energy efficiency retrofits of commercial buildings to developing green space – and transforming entire industries to net-zero emissions. Projects and strategies exist to support employment, and the incentives are there:
Australia’s climate for growth is the opportunity to remain competitive and make sure Australia has what the world wants.
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What creates a new growth recovery?
Energy system transformation and fuel switching The decarbonisation of the electricity grid is a key enabler of fuel switching across the economy, and within industries, as firms and households substitute away from emissions-intensive fuel sources towards renewable electricity.
Technology advances driving emissions efficiency Emissions efficiencies required for a net zero economy are driven by technological innovations; a result of incentives produced by a concerted effort by government to support a net zero transition. Emissions efficiency improvements
Current state Production Technology
Production
Processes
New technology and new processes
Economic output
End state Altered production New technology
New processes
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A global sustainable recovery Policy makers around the world have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to simultaneously boost economic growth, create sustainable jobs, build more resilient and cleaner energy systems and to steer global emissions into structural decline.
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By 2070...
New South Wales
Victoria
South Australia
2 growth in GSP
2% growth in GSP
5.3% growth in GSP
Over 50,000 jobs added
Over 30,000 jobs added
Over 150 jobs added
NSW has a complex path to new growth. But gains in manufacturing, tourism, transport and services grow after net zero is reached.
VIC has less to gain in new growth as it has less to lose from climate change due to its location. Strong job growth in renewables, transport and services shape the economy.
SA sees job growth in renewables, construction and services – but high employing industries like tourism and agriculture still feel damages of 1.5ºC.
%
Queensland
5% growth in GSP Over 185,000 jobs added QLD suffers irrevocable losses from climate change. As a diversified economy, new growth offers relief from climate damage and opportunity in manufacturing, transport, services and saves tourism jobs.
Western Australia
Tasmania
1% growth in GSP
3% growth in GSP
Around 10,000 jobs are disrupted
Around 10,000 jobs are not additionally created
WA continues to structurally adjust from a concentrated resource-based economy.
TAS sticks out as a relative ‘winner’ as the world warms due to its colder climate, making it a relative ‘loser’ in new growth. But it is still growing. Just relatively less as it has less to lose from climate change. This is a good thing.
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5% growth in GSP Over 5,000 jobs added NT has a lot to lose from climate change. New growth offers jobs in industries like manufacturing, tourism and transport.
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Australia always has and always will be an economy made up from the strength and diversity of its states, regions and endowment of natural resources. This can be true as regional economies adjust in transition, but only if we choose change today.
A new growth recovery in Australia
As this transformation occurs, Australia’s traditional economic strengths begin to adjust – some industries such as mining and agriculture are forced to adjust as the world does not want what we traditionally have. But the diversity and strengths of Australia’s economic fundamentals supports structural adjustment to reach net zero by 2050. After all, Australia’s mining industry is bigger than coal.
Like any economic change, simultaneously delivering a new growth recovery and a net zero economy can be susceptible to the challenges of structural adjustment. No adjustment of this scope and scale is without complexity – but decisive and collectively agreed efforts to make the change can generate a positive return for economies like Australia’s in a relatively short timeframe.
And once Australia makes the change, the economic gains of a new growth recovery take shape.
And it is this decisive change that can take Australia from strength to strength, particularly where economic recovery repairs the damage inflicted by the pandemic, while putting the economy on a strong future footing.
Net zero is an economic necessity The cost to Australia of a global failure to deliver a new growth recovery is -6% of GDP and over 880,000 jobs are lost by 2070. Compared to this dismal future, Deloitte Access Economics estimates a new growth recovery grows Australia’s economy by $680 billion (present value terms) and increases GDP by 2.6% in 2070. This new growth path adds over 250,000 jobs by 2070.
Taking Australia from strength to strength A new growth recovery for Australia delivers a system-wide transformation of Australia’s energy sector to meet net zero emissions; the adoption of technology across all sectors creating emissions efficiency; and global fiscal policy settings establish a sustainable and net zero recovery. These domestic and global transformations result in fuel switching to renewable sources, investments in technology that create productivity gains and higher long-term economic output.
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While over 250,000 jobs are added to the Australian economy by 2070 under a new growth recovery, over 880,000 jobs could be lost due to unanswered climate change. This would not just be an achievement of a target or goal for Australia. Limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, or no greater than 2°C, by 2050 is an economic must. A new growth recovery sees Australia’s economy growing and the creation of employment – where it otherwise is experiencing losses the likes of which covid can only compare. Australia being part of – if not leading – the global shift to net zero in a new growth recovery is in the national interest.
the economy of mitigating this damage is worn as the transition to net zero occurs. The economic costs of the ‘locked in’ global average warming that occurs and moving to net zero by 2050 is a 0.1% loss in GDP growth, on average, over the 30 years to 2050. This 0.1% loss in Australia’s GDP by 2050 is estimated to be $90 billion, in present value terms. But of this cost, 26% is due to locked in damages from a warming world. The remaining $67 billion, by 2050, represents the cost to the economy of reducing emissions to reach net zero in a new growth recovery.
What if we could pay today to stop the next great recession? A net zero future, even limiting global average warming to 1.5°C by 2050, does not mean the world is climate change or damage free. With each passing year as emissions increase and global average warming with it, Australia still feels the heat. There is an amount of economic loss in Australia due to climate change that is now ‘locked in’.
A $67 billion economic cost to transform the economy by 2050 is a small price to pay, relative to the size of our economy. In dollar terms, for comparison, the current JobKeeper program is costing the federal budget just over $65 billion this year alone – and this is the necessary price Australia is paying to minimise the worst economic consequences of covid.
In a new growth recovery, Australia is still feeling the effects of 1.5°C of global average warming and Australia’s economic structure is adjusting to reduce emissions intensity with the rest of the world. This creates a twofold economic effect: damages occur with any degree of warming to 2050, and the adjustment costs in
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Agricultural field, Morphett Vale, South Australia.
Australia can choose a long-term economic pathway that delivers reduced emissions and offers resilient economic growth.
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There is no winner in a warming world – but there are economic choices that minimise the downside and kickstart the upside.
There is a high price for Australia to pay from doing nothing
Australia needs ‘good’ economics to recover from covid
Unchecked climate change in Australia, creating a $3.4 trillion loss to Australia’s economy by 2070, is a cost we clearly cannot afford. And where the cost of complete inaction is so high, delayed action is also very costly.
In thinking about what a post-covid world looks like, there has been discussion on the need for ‘green growth’ and ‘green recovery’ policy – decisions that recover economies from covid, while mitigating the worst consequences of climate change and unsustainable economic structures.
This warming world is no joke. It will affect our ability work outside – building houses and infrastructure that we critically need. It affects our choices on where to live and holiday – as sea level rises and riverine flooding increase in intensity and impact. It affects our ability to play – hotter days means less outdoor playtime. We could even see the death of the Boxing Day Test and weekend club sport if things go on unchecked. That is a loss of the Australian way of life.
There is no need for green, just good. As Australia cushions the economy to the effects of the pandemic and recovers, there is a need to think of resilient investments for recovery: this is what most risk managers would simply call ‘good’ investments. And a cost seen by some, is an investment to others. It is not about ‘green’ investments or policy, it is about what is good – good policy, good economics and good investments that mitigate risk and creates returns to both business, industry, society and the economy.
These costs are further compounded by Australia not keeping up with the rest of the world as it responds to climate change. There is no winner in a warming world – but there are economic choices that minimise the downside and kickstart the upside.
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Becoming net zero is in Australia’s national interest
geographical borders, geopolitical postures, or for ideological reasoning.
Australia alone cannot stop global climate change – and nor should it. But Australia has the most to gain from first mover advantages to transition to a low emission economy, and the most to lose economically from delay. This is where the ‘good’ economics comes in.
The shared nature of the climate means that while take steps can be taken to prepare for the risks of climate change – and to seize the opportunities of new markets that tackling climate change offer – the ultimate solution is co-ordinated global action.
Creating new growth in recovery can reduce emissions and solve for existing economic disruption already occurring – skills shortages, mismatches in regional labour markets, ailing productivity, low (or no) wage growth, and shifting global demand for what Australia has to offer.
The reality for Australia is that we stand to lose the most from unanswered climate change, but also stand to gain significantly from action. For a middling diplomatic and economic power, Australia has every incentive to drive the global agenda for the national interest. The analysis in this report is foundational to serving that purpose. The delayed COP26 forum in 2021 is critical for driving global action and steering economic recovery towards a resilient global economy. Where Australia’s States and Territories can be armed with the analysis of the impact of climate change on their geographies and sectors – and the alternative pathways each want to pursue – along with the Australian Government, Australia can quickly develop a strategy. This policy work is the bread and butter of governments at all levels – there are no excuses.
Australia’s economy could be $680 billion larger in 2070 – adding over 250,000 jobs – by being a country that reaches net zero emissions, sooner rather than later, to limit global average warming to 1.5°C along with the rest of the world. Australia being part of – if not leading the way – in the global shift to net zero in a new growth recovery is in the national interest.
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Equally, this can be true for business. The analysis shines a light on the impacts of climate damages and the benefits of a new growth recovery. This helps define the economic endgame that industry sectors need to play at to get their decarbonisation plans underway – because without an economy wide view, it is difficult to gauge the extent to which a sector or an organisation needs to play in reducing emissions.
1. Most to lose, most to gain: Australia needs to drive the global agenda for action to mitigate climate change in the national interest.
2. What gets measured, gets done: Australian governments need to understand the impact of climate change on their geographies and sectors. Understanding impact is the foundation for decision making.
In times of great uncertainty, defining and realising the scenarios that mitigate the greatest risks to economic and social life is more critical than ever before. This report provides a basis for business, industry and government to further consider such scenarios – to develop sector and business targets, to drive a policy and regulatory approach for a balanced transition of the economy and building resilient growth and jobs for the future.
3. Get on with it: Business, industry and government need sector, organisation and economy-wide strategies to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
It is the nature of the problem that its solution is found together, or not at all. Australian’s have already had enough risk for this decade – it is time to choose change to make life easier for us all. It is time to get on with stopping climate change and creating Australia’s climate for growth.
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Cape Peron at sunset, Shark Bay, Western Australia.
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Emissions intensive employment Deloitte Access Economics’ uses in-house modelling and the National Emissions Inventory 2018 by economic sector26 to determine the distribution of emissions intensive employment in Australia and across industries. Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions are mapped to industry employment, using the ANZSIC 2-digit level, noting some sub-industries are not available for reasons of confidentiality. As a consequence, some industries present as greater than the sum of their available parts. The distribution of emissions by industry informed the classification of the emission intensity ranges: from Extremely Intensive as the highest, to Marginally Intensive as the lowest. Table A.1 below shows the ranges of carbon dioxide27 emissions, measured in Gigagrams (Gg).
Table A.1 Emission intensity ranges Emission intensity ranges (Gg) Marginally Intensive
—
1,000
Moderately Intensive
1,001
4,500
Intensive
4,501
13,000
Highly Intensive
13,001
30,000
Extremely Intensive
30,000
30,000+
Source: Deloitte Access Economics modelling using Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSIC classification and the National Emissions Inventory 2018 Economic Sector classification.
Each industry falls into one of the above ranges, based on the emission levels of the industry. Table A2 below shows the industries within each emission intensity range.
26 A NZSIC 2-digit codes, noting some sub-industries are not available for reasons of confidentiality. As a consequence, some industries present as greater than the sum of their available parts. 27 Comprised of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide and Other. 57
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Table A.2 Emission intensity ranges by industry Marginally Intensive
• Professional, Scientific and Technical Services • Manufacturing (Fabricated Metal; Textile / Leather / Clothing / Footwear; Transport / Machinery / Equipment; Furniture) • Aquaculture • Fishing, Hunting and Trapping • Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Support Services • Arts and Recreation Services • Other Services.
Moderately Intensive
•Manufacturing (Food Product /Beverage / Tobacco) • Wholesale and Retail Trade • Rail Transport • Accommodation, Food Services, Education and Health Services • Gas Supply • Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Services • Finance, Insurance, Rental, Hiring and Real Estate • Forestry and Logging • Wood, Pulp, Paper and Printing • Building Construction • Information Media and Telecommunications • Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction.
Intensive
• Metal Ore and Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying • Manufacturing (Basic Chemical/ Polymer/Rubber; Non-Metallic Mineral Product; Petroleum and Coal) • Waste Collection, Treatment and Disposal Services • Air and Space Transport Administration, Public Administration and Services • Construction Services • Other Transport, Services, Postal and Storage.
Highly Intensive
• Manufacturing (Primary Metal/Metal) • Road Transport.
Extremely Intensive
• Electricity Supply • Agriculture • Oil and Gas Extraction • Coal Mining.
Source: Deloitte Access Economics modelling using Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSIC classification and the National Emissions Inventory 2018 Economic Sector classification.
Table A.3 Emission intensity ranges Industry employment numbers, from Deloitte Access Economics’ modelling, at the regional SA4 level has been used to calculate the number of jobs in each emission intensity range, within each SA4 region. The degrees of intensity map in Chapter 1 shows the
employment numbers in the highest three emission intensity ranges – Intensive, Highly Intensive and Extremely Intensive – as a proportion of total employment within each SA4 region. The distribution of these emissions intensive employment proportions informs the colour legend of the heat map (Table A.3).
Emission intensity ranges (Gg) 1
0%
15%
2
15%
30%
3
30%
45%
4
45%
60%
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Deloitte Access Economics’ views and approach to modelling damages from climate change as the baseline To date, most macroeconomic models and economic policy modelling is done on a ‘baseline’ that assumes economic growth will occur unhindered by the increasing emissions intensity of economic output. Models inherently assume that as emissions grow, the economy grows, and everyone’s standard of living rises. Deloitte Access Economics believes this viewpoint does not hold true in practice – particularly in the long-run – and therefore economic analysis and public policy making is informed through a dated theoretical framework. Climate change impacts should not be imposed as a ‘scenario’ on the baseline – because in the absence of fundamental societal and economic shifts, it is the baseline. To leave the economic impacts of a changing climate out of economic baselines and decision making misses a trick. The Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), made up of 69 central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), this year released guidance the need to solve for this exact issue (and many others). Understanding and accounting for the longer-term effects of climate change on productivity, potential output and economic growth is critical to knowing the path of growth, and the distribution of the impacts of disruption. Deloitte Access Economics has significantly invested in developing an in-house Regional CGE Climate Integrated Assessment Model (DAE-CLIMATE). DAE-CLIMATE – which has been tested in Australian state jurisdictions – is a modelling method and policy analysis
technique that seeks to ‘correct’ the typical business as usual baseline in modelling. DAE-CLIMATE is built on an economic modelling framework that accounts for the economic impacts of climate change and establishes a reference case, which can be modelled for policy analysis out to the year 2100. The DAE-CLIMATE process and logic is summarised as follows: 1. Modelling a projected economic output (as measured by Gross Domestic Product) which causes emissions to reflect a Representative Concentrative Pathway (RCP) ranging between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5.28 2. Increased concentration of emissions causes global warming above pre-industrial levels. 3. Warming causes anthropogenic climate change and results damages to the factors of production. 4. These damages to the factors of production are distributed across the economy, impacting Gross Domestic Product. To translate this concept into a modelling process, it involves understanding three models which link to each other through three key outputs. Deloitte Access Economics’ approach extends methods adopted by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and academia. The method is extended by necessity for practical public policy purposes and our modelling is regionalised – allowing results and insights to be produced at the regional level (such as Australian Bureau of Statistics statistical areas or local government boundaries).
The modelling process is summarised below: 1. Deloitte’s in-house regional Computable General Equilibrium model (DAE-RGEM) is used to produce a projected path for economic output and emissions that align to reflect a decided RCP range between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5. 2. This emissions pathway is modelled in our climate change model (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change – MAGICC) for the assessment of the physical damages which follow from projected shifts in global and regional temperatures. 3. These then feed into a damage function to inform how shifts in temperature may play out in terms of impacts on the productivity of labour and capital in each sector/region. Unlike most other models, we model a broad range of damages, including capital damages, sea level rise damages to land stock, heat stress damages on labour productivity, human health damages to labour productivity, agricultural damages from changes in crop yields, tourism damages to net inflow of foreign currency and damages to energy demand. Deloitte Access Economics has also invested and developed techniques to extend DAE-CLIMATE results into our macroeconomic and labour market modelling.
28 IPCC scenarios without additional efforts to constrain emissions (‘baseline scenarios’) lead to pathways ranging between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5. 59
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DAE-RGEM
Damage functions
MAGICC
Our in-house CGE model is used to produce a projected path for economic output and emissions that align to reflect a decided RCP range between RCP6.0 and RCP8.5. Our model has a calibrated emissions database.
Is a peer reviewed climate model which takes the projected change in emissions from DAE-RGEM and produces a projected change in temperature. The physical changes from MAGICC are calibrated as an input into DAE-RGEM which is then translated into damages.
Concentration of GHGs: causing global warming above preindustrial levels
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Are used to translate a given temperature increase into economic damage by sector, region and over time. The parameters of the damage functions are an input, developed by DAE in consultation with climate science experts and translated to regionalised economic impacts.
MAGICC
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MAGICC
Changes to radiative forcing and temperature
01 Emissions: reflective RCP ranging between RCP 6.0 and RCP 8.5
MAGICC
DAE-CLIMATE
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05 Economic impacts: impacts as damages are distributes across the economy
The loop Macroeconomic forecasts can also be calibrated back into DAE-RGEM to generate a new emissions starting point – for example, a new macroeconomic baseline including covid-19 impact. Noting, as DAE-CLIMATE runs to 2100, trend and timing are the greatest consideration here.
Damage functions
Physical climate damages: to the factors of production
DAE-RGEM
Macroeconomy The regional changes in economic outputs and structures as dictated by DAE-CLIMATE under a damages baseline and mitigation scenarios can be translated into macroeconomic changes. This is used to forecast a consistent macroeconomic view and scenarios – for example, macroeconomic forecasts and labour market forecasts accounting for damages or a net zero emissions economy to 2050.
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Temperature as the fundamental driver of damages The fundamental ‘driver’ of economic damages is rising temperature. As rising temperature induces climate change, economic output (as measured by GDP) is impacted through the physical damages that affect productivity and / or stock of factors of production (Figure A.1). Figure A.1 ‘Two-stage’ economic damages relationship Stage 2
Stage 1 Change in average temperature in region
Changes the climate and causes damages
Impacts the use of land, the way people work and capital flows (GDP)
Heat stress damages on labour productivity Workers can often feel uncomfortably hot during their working hours, particularly those heavily exposed to the heat and sun. Think of the farmers working out in the paddocks under the harsh Queensland summer sun, or those working where air-conditioning isn’t available. As temperature continues to rise, hotter working environments become the new normal and heat stress on workers surpasses the point where it is only a concern of comfort levels; it becomes a concern for the health and safety of workers and their ability to perform tasks. Heat strain and heat stroke can have serious health consequences, and they are also important factors when considering labour productivity.a
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This study includes six regionalised damages to Australia: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Heat stress damages on labour productivity Human health damages to labour productivity Sea level rise damages to land and capital stock Capital damages Agricultural damages from changes in crop yields Tourism damages to net inflow of foreign currency.
The following section outlines each damage and how they impact the economy.
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Climate change will see rising temperatures but also the shift of the distribution of daily peak temperatures and relative humidity, making heat waves more frequent and extreme.b While acclimatisation and adaption are all factors to be considered, physiologically, there is only so much heat stress the body can take. When the human body is physically working, heat is produced internally and needs to be transferred to an external environment, to avoid body temperature increasing. If body temperature exceeds 39°C, heatstroke can develop, and a temperature of 40.6°C can become fatal. Before these serious health consequences are reached, at lower levels of heat exposure, workers are subject to diminished mental task ability, diminished capacity to work at their former level and a higher risk of accident.c
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When faced with higher levels of heat exposure, a worker will instinctively react to reduce their work intensity and/or increase the number of breaks taken. Some workplaces, under occupational health management interventions, may even enforce a reduced work intensity. This ‘slowing down’ of work results in reduced ‘work capacity’ and lower labour productivity.d When considering the different level of heat-exposure and labour intensity across sectors, the impacts on labour productivity will vary. Those working in agriculture and manufacturing will be more exposed to heat stress and resulting reduced levels of work capacity compared to those working in services sectors. It is in such ways that heat stress is considered a significant damage to labour productivity and is incorporated into this study. Human health damages to labour productivity The impacts of climate change on human health are many and complex.e Increasing temperatures can increase both heat and cold-related health problems, particularly those with pre-established cardiovascular and respiratory disorders.f Climate change can impact the range, abundance and spread of species carrying diseases. Studies show that the prevalence of mosquito-borne malaria will increase as temperatures rise, and other vector-borne diseases may increase or decrease.g Developing countries, and those with immunologically-naïve populations and unprepared medical systems will bear the brunt of the spread of diseases; with food-and waterborne diseases (e.g. cholera and diarrhoea) potentially being the most problematic.h
As extreme weather events become more severe and frequent, so does the risk of floods and storms killing and injuring people. Climate change can affect air quality, and all diseases resulting from air pollution – the recent summer of bushfires in Australia was a stark reminder of this. Climate change may also affect human health indirectly, through changes in food production, water resources, migration and economic development.i This study considers an increased incidence of mortality and morbidity on the working population, and the associated reduction in number of hours worked, resulting in lower levels of labour productivity.j Sea level rise As temperature continues to rise and the world continues to warm, land-based glaciers are melting, and water bodies are experiencing thermal expansion. These factors combined cause the phenomenon of sea level rise (SLR). SLR affects the land stock (an economic factor of production) through the erosion, inundation or salt intrusion along the coastline.k The share of land which may be lost depends on several country-specific characteristics, such as the composition of the shoreline (cliffs and rocky coasts are less subject to erosion than sandy coasts and wetlands), the total length of the coastline, the share of the coast which is suitable for productive purposes (i.e. in agriculture or urban land), and the vertical land movement.l,m As productive land is lost through SLR, so too is the level of productive activity on the land. Agricultural output will be impacted by erosion, inundation or salt intrusion.
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In low lying and seacoast urban areas, residential and commercial properties will incur physical damages and require significant capital costs for repair. As the risk of physical damage becomes too high, and the cost of insurance becomes unobtainable, migration inland of low-lying communities may occur. The residential sector will see sharp property value adjustments. Capital damages This study considers in addition to sea level rise, the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that likely cause damage to capital, including dwellings, infrastructure and machinery and equipment. The climatic events that cause capital damages in this study include riverine flooding, forest fires, subsidence, high wind speeds (excluding cyclones) and extreme heat. The methodology is based upon data produced by XDI modelling of climate change impacts on Australia’s physical capital stock.n The estimated damages produced by this research can be interpreted as a percentage of annual capital investment that is diverted to repair and replace damages assets. Including capital damages in this way represents the largest departure from existing economic impact modelling and integrated assessments of climate change. In some cases, capital damages are included but at a highly aggregated level that limits regional analysis. The availability of XDI data provides a unique opportunity to include this damage function that can be specified using cutting edge probabilistic climatic-spatial modelling of the Australian capital stock. International capital damages are scaled based on data from ‘The International Disaster Database’ (EM-DAT) managed by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
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There is large export potential for Australia, as the low emission transition occurs globally, providing the opportunity for new jobs and new industries; but only if Australia chooses change. There are opportunities for Australia’s exports if we export the same amount of energy globally, except in the form of renewable energy.
Data on the economic cost of climaterelated natural disasters is used as a proxy for exposure to capital damaging climate change for developed and developing countries relative to Australia. Despite the inclusion of this damage estimate, it is noted that the exclusion of the most extreme natural disasters from this study – due to extreme ranges to the end of the century – ensures that the damage estimated included can be considered conservative. Agricultural damages from variations in crop yields The agricultural sector is on the front line of climate change in Australia. Australia’s vast and variable geography means that one part of the country can be suffering from the worst drought in living memory, while other parts are experiencing devasting floods. These extremes can even happen simultaneously within Australia. Climate change means rising temperatures, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and different regional patterns of precipitation.o For agricultural production, this means fluctuations in growing conditions, water availability and the severity and frequency of extreme weather events; resulting in crop yield volatility and market uncertainty.p But there are many factors at play when looking at the impacts of climate change on agriculture. Varying levels of agronomic and economic adaption exists in the agricultural sector; farmers can adjust crop rotation, crop selection, sowing times, how they grow a particular crop, the amount of fertilisation due to higher CO2
concentration and the actual level of water available for irrigation, and irrigation techniques.q,r When faced with unmitigated climate change, even with adaption, there are limits to what farmers can do. This study considers damages to agriculture as variations in crop yields to be a significant impact. Tourism damages The weather, and the climate, is a key consideration and driver of tourism around the world. People can’t have a ski holiday when there is no snow cover and can’t enjoy the beach when it’s over 40 degrees and humid. Climate change means such consequences will be more common, making attracting tourists – both domestic and international – harder. As the recent impacts of the global covid-19 pandemic illustrate, tourism is a pillar of many economies. Without it, many regional economies would struggle. Tourism is one of Australia’s key economic assets. The natural attractions on offer – like the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest – underpin the success of the industry, both in terms of domestic and international demand. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park alone in 2019 was hosted 2.1 million-day visitors.s The changing climate will see these environments become a casualty, with significant consequences for the tourism markets and regional economies that depend on them. Without the flow of tourism money circulating such economies – business, jobs and livelihoods are fundamentally at stake.
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Valuing the future It is inherently difficult to ‘discount’ the future, particularly concerning an issue as socially and economically complex as climate change. But it is important to recognise the intergenerational impact of climate change and in doing so, account for the tendency of people to preference short term economic flows over longer term-flows. The question becomes, what discount rate is appropriate to embody these preferences? Greenhouse gas emissions have a long residence time in the atmosphere, which means that the value of the impacts of today’s emissions must be considered for future generations:t •
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The use of a high discount rate implies that people put less weight on the future and therefore that less investment is needed now to guard against future costs – meaning we would be kicking the can down the road. The use of a low discount rate supports the view that we should act now to protect future generations from climate change impacts. In other words, more importance is given to future generations’ wellbeing.u
A discount rate of 2% has been used by Deloitte Access Economics in this analysis, after considering the differing perspectives within the literature. The results of a survey of economists (the sample contains over 200 academics who are defined as experts on social discounting by virtue of their publications), published in 2015, indicates that most favour a low discount rate: with more than threequarters comfortable with a median discount rate of 2%.v
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RCP8.5 for modelling in DAE-CLIMATE In recovering from the impacts of covid, the long-term pathway of growth is one that includes a changing climate. And if this change is unanswered the physical damages of a warming world will take effect. In an economic future where Australia and the rest of the world does not mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the world has an emissions pathway that reflects RCP8.5. This gives Australia an economic and emissions profile that produces global average warming of above 4°C by 2100.29 As the global temperature gradually increases to the end of the century, Australia feels the heat. What is more likely, is that there is a range of possible ‘no policy action’ baseline outcomes, and the majority of which would result in lower future emissions as technology generally improves, supply chains get more efficient and renewable energy increases in its cost competitiveness overtime (for example).30 This report has used RCP8.5 to understand and calibrate the unmitigated damages baseline in Australia for several key reasons:
• The economic outcomes that occur globally, and in Australia under these parameters most appropriately reflects a ‘no policy action’ scenario that is most suited to act as the reference case for other specified policy actions that may mitigate, or create, alternative economic futures. Acting as a more literal ‘no policy action’ reference case allows for the policy action scenarios to be tailored to Australia’s policy options and more easily be compared for analytical purposes – in particular, where the policy action scenarios have similar constraints to SSPs. • The no policy action baseline of economic outcomes, global average temperature and emissions profile under RCP8.5 – while high with no view to likelihood attached – best supports the integration (and analysis) of regionalised damages to Australia (by state) where it is estimated that Australia would experience an above-average global temperature increase in the absence of mitigation. For example, by 2050, Queensland’s temperature could rise by 2.6 degrees (above the average temperature levels between 1986-2005), when global average temperature is set to increase by 1.9 degrees over the same period.w
• Standard macroeconomic models and analysis used (across both the public and private sector) for forecasting, scenario analysis and specific economic policy analysis are configured to parameters that understand the current cost base of the modern economy to be founded on industrial and commercial processes that result in emissions – largely as function of energy consumption, and that energy works to improve productivity and technology. It is also a function of how, as a society, we have collectively understood what supports economic growth and improved living standards – more emissions, more growth. Where this report seeks to understand the economic consequences of this relationship for Australia and how this creates physical damages due to a changing climate, RCP8.5 provides an appropriate depiction. • As Australia’s economic structure is highly emissions intensive and highly exposed to the physical damages of a changing climate, understanding the reference case as an outcome of the consequences of an RCP8.5 pathway demonstrates the orders of magnitude of impact well for analytical purposes.
As the fallout of the global pandemic and resulting global recession continues, with economic recovery pathways for economies in their early stages or having not yet begun – no economic future modelled over the long-term is certain. In this context, this report does not seek to predict or assume probability for an economic baseline and associated ‘business as usual’ outcome. There is no business as usual pathway. 29 This analytical reference case assumes that countries do not meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the global economy broadly follows the emissions pathway RCP 8.5 (based on the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, 2014). Deloitte Access Economics presents results out to 2070 in this report. 30 I n contemporary climate change economic impact modelling, increasingly a new set of future scenarios are now used in replacement of RCPs – the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) – which offer a broader view of what the range of ‘no policy action’ scenarios might look like. 64
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New growth recovery This report includes analysis of an economic future under an economic recovery (from covid) and net zero mitigation pathway for Australia and the world. This section steps through the three key drivers of economic change under the new growth recovery scenario. Power system transformation and fuel switching The decarbonisation of the electricity grid is a key enabler of fuel switching across the economy, and within industries, as firms and households substitute away from emissionsintensive fuel sources towards renewable electricity: • Over the past decade, the demand for electricity has grown. Much of this additional demand has been successfully met by renewable sources.x The continuing uptake of renewable energy in Australia – spurred by policy support, falling costs and increasing cost competitiveness – will help decouple the electricity grid from emissions intensive activity. Renewable energy is a mature technological solution, and while on-going developments must continue (i.e. in large-scale battery storage), it is well-positioned for widespread deployment.y
• The shadow price formed in DAECLIMATE drives decarbonisation of the electricity grid through a transition to renewables across all Australian states and territories, with their share of generation rising, reaching around 90% by 2050. Fuel switching occurs across all industries in the economy; including transport and other emissions-intensive industries. • Just as this technical switch is calibrated in DAE-CLIMATE for industries, there is an equal assumption that households also receive the signal of a net zero transition and like firms, choose to make the switch of their energy sources away from emissionsintensive sources. For instance, opting for a carbon neutral option offered on their private electricity plan.31 • Additionally, the power system transformation occurring in DAE-CLIMATE reflects the level of investment, and technological development required to transform Australia’s power system for an affordable, secure, reliable and decarbonised energy future.
Technology advances driving emissions efficiency Not all emissions can be removed through fuel-switching or similar types of firm and household behavioural change. Some are a function of industrial processes and emissions efficiencies (and inefficiencies) which aren’t easy to change. Emissions efficiencies required for a net zero economy are driven by technological innovations; a result of incentives produced by a concerted effort by government to support a net zero transition (Figure A.2). Both the immediate accelerated deployment of mature technologies and the rapid development and commercialisation of emerging technologies are required to decouple emissions intensity from those harder to abate industries. Specific technologies for specific sectors and emissions are not modelled in the scenario. Rather, a general view as to how emissions efficiency could evolve overtime is modelled in line with research. In the new growth recovery scenario, the clear and coordinated global effort toward net zero sets a signal to firms, households and the scientific community, working in conjunction with the shadow-price, to achieve emissions reductions,
Figure A.2 Technology change and emissions efficiency relationship for scenario modelling Emission efficiency improvements
Current state Production Technology
Processes
Economic output
Production New technology and new processes
Future state Altered production New technology
Emissions efficiency output
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leading to emissions efficiencies, especially in areas where current technologies are limited. The modelling is such that in Australia, this transition is managed in an orderly and equitable way. It will require embracing a pro-growth low emissions economy and embracing opportunities to facilitate adaptation and mitigation in existing industries as well as supporting the development of nascent industries. There is no doubt that such a transition will require an active role of government but will also require buy-in and coordination across firms and community stakeholders in driving change. In order to model a pathway towards net zero emissions, a representative emissions profile is adopted, implying a technology and policy pathway for the acceleration and deployment of mature and demonstrated technologies. This representative pathway largely reflects that described in the Decarbonisation Futures Report, published by Climate Works Australia.z A global fiscal sustainable recovery Policy makers around the world have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to simultaneously boost economic growth, create sustainable jobs and to steer global emissions into structural decline.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has produced a Sustainable Recovery Plan that outlines a three-year action plan. The plan focuses on cost-effective measures that could be implemented globally, during 2021–2023. It targets six key sectors – electricity, buildings, transport, industry, fuels and low emission technologies. The plan accounts for both national and international objectives for long-term growth and sustainable jobs.aa Based on analysis conducted with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Sustainable Recovery Plan has three main goals: boosting economic growth, creating jobs and building more resilient and cleaner energy systems. The spending associated with this plan is around $1 trillion (USD) for each of the next three years globally.ab Investment of this magnitude will have lasting benefits to the global economy as investment in new infrastructure, such as electricity grids and more energy-efficient buildings and industries, would improve the overall productivity of both workers and capital.ac To this end, DAE-CLIMATE has implied productivity dividends stemming from investment in technological developments globally – reflective of a global sustainable recovery.
As policy makers are designing economic recovery plans from covid, a combination of policy actions and targeted investment taken today can sustainably shape key industries across economies for decades to come – to take the path of economic recovery which enables a new global growth trajectory and the realisation of long-term global climate goals.
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DAE-CLIMATE scenario results summary This section presents a summary of the key results for the damages baseline and new growth recovery scenario (in comparison to the damages baseline) across the modelled period. The economic cost of unmitigated climate change – the damages baseline Table A.4 Summary of results under the damages baseline: Australia’s states and territories
Temperature °C (above pre-industrial base) Change in Australian emissions (% change from 2020)
2050
2070
2.4
3.3
10
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GDP impacts (% deviation reduction in that year, in reference to an economy with no damages) Australia
-3.6
-6.3
New South Wales (+ Australian Capital Territory)
-2.2
-4
Victoria
-0.3
-1.2
Queensland
-8.4
-13.9
South Australia
-3.2
-5.3
Western Australia
-5.2
-8.8
1.2
0.7
-8.1
-12.1
Tasmania Northern Territory
Employment impacts (headcount reduction in that year, rounded) Australia
-330,000
-880,000
-65,000
-175,000
-15,000
-55,000
-180,000
-470,000
South Australia
-20,000
-40,000
Western Australia
-45,000
-115,000
1,500
500
-8,000
-20,000
New South Wales (+ Australian Capital Territory) Victoria Queensland
Tasmania Northern Territory
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Chart A.1 GDP deviation to 2070 in Australia’s states and territories (% deviation) under the damages baseline 2 0 Deviation in GDP (%)
-2 -4 -6 -8 -10 -12 -14 -16 2020
2025
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2055
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2060
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Chart A.2 Employment deviation to 2070 in Australia’s states and territories (% deviation) under the damages baseline 1
Deviation in employment (%)
0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 2020
2025
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New growth recovery in Australia Table A.5 Summary of results under the new growth recovery scenario: Australia’s states and territories 2050
2070
Temperature °C
1.6
1.6
(above pre-industrial base) emissions (% change from 2020)
-78
-87
GDP impacts (% deviation reduction in that year, in reference to an economy with no damages) Australia
0.8
2.6
-0.2
1.8
Victoria
0.3
1.9
Queensland
2.1
4.9
3
5.3
Western Australia
1.1
0.9
Tasmania
1.5
3.1
Northern Territory
3.4
4.8
New South Wales (+ Australian Capital Territory)
South Australia
Employment impacts (headcount reduction in that year, rounded) Australia
-22,000
256,000
New South Wales (+ Australian Capital Territory)
-30,000
50,000
Victoria
-21,000
30,000
Queensland
45,000
185,000
South Australia
-6,000
150
Western Australia
-5,000
-10,000
Tasmania
-7,000
-10,000
Northern Territory
2,000
5,000
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Chart A.3 GDP deviation to 2070 in Australia’s states and territories (% deviation) under the new growth recovery scenario 6
Deviation in GDP (%)
5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 2020
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Chart A.4 Employment deviation to 2070 in Australia’s states and territories (% deviation) under the new growth recovery scenario
Deviation in employment (%)
4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3
2020
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2055
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Appendix endnotes
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Kjellstrom, T.; Kovats, S.; Lloyd, S.; Holt, T. & Tol, R (2009), The Direct Impact of Climate Change on Regional Labor Productivity, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 64:4, 217-227, DOI:
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Wanless Wase Management has submitted a development application for the Wanless Recycling Park at 304 Coopers Road & 350 Coopers Road in Ebenezer, approximately 12 km southwes of Ipswich CBD. It is proposed that Wanless Recycling Park will accept household; commercial and indusrial; and demolition and consruction wase. This integrated facility will focus on recovery and reuse and will work with partners who prioritise recycling. The facility will also
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Development Application Progress The development application (DA) for Wanless Recycling Park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. A reques for additional information has subsequently been issued by Council to Wanless in January 2020. A copy of the development application (application number 10674/2019) can be found through City of Ipswich Council PDOnline at pdonline.ipswich.qld.gov.au • If it is your frs visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. • Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then enter the application number 10674/2019 into the appropriate boxes on the frs line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required.
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SEEKING to correct some misinformation circulating in the community about the proposed recycling park at Ebenezer, Wanless CEO Dean Wanless talks about the company’s plans. The official public notification period for this development closed on Friday 5 June 2020, but Wanless welcomes feedback from the community at any time.
Wanless is proposing a new resource recovery and recycling development at Ebenezer, about 12 km southwest of the Ipswich CBD.
Investing in resource recovery and recycling “Some people in the Ipswich region have referred to Wanless’ proposed facility at Ebenezer as a ‘dump.’ This ignores the fact that the bulk of the investment and employment at the site is in resource recovery and recycling. We have committed to a 45 per cent recycling rate across the site, and we will target waste materials currently sent directly to landfill, recovering resources that are currently buried,” Mr Wanless said. “We see this as just the beginning, and we know, based on a business model tried and tested in other parts of the country, that over time we can build up to diverting up to 80% of waste at full operations. To make this possible at Ebenezer, we will bring in world’s best technology and best practice in recovery and recycling, so that we can reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. Working with the community “In 2019, before Wanless lodged its development application with the Ipswich City Council and before it was required to publicly Wanless boss Dean Wanless (above with his father talk about its plans for the Wanless Recycling Park, the company was already sharing infor“Resource recovery and recycling require mation with the community. “We made our plans available and openly more investment and employ more people invited the community to connect with us if than landfill. They involve physical processes they had any questions or concerns. We spent like sorting and the operation of machinery to time listening to local people at community separate, screen and classify waste, for examinformation sessions and resident group ple. New technologies and practices also cremeetings and over the phone and email be- ate the need for additional training. This fore submitting our development application. industry is evolving fast, and we want to make Based on the community and Council feed- sure the Ipswich region has an opportunity to back, we have made changes to the design of lead the way. the site, site access and the proportions and Using old mining voids types of material we’ll accept. “We know the Ebenezer site has been dis“Unfortunately, with COVID-19 restrictions, Wanless couldn’t hold information ses- turbed by historical coal mining activities and sions in the community during the current includes three retained voids. Wanless has acpublic notification period, but again we have celerated the remediation works for the old mine site. openly asked the community for feedback. “We have also undertaken what has been “We’re a family-owned business from this region, and we’ve put to our name to this facil- described by experts as the most detailed and ity because we believe it is the way forward in extensive investigation for a project of this type in Australia’s history. waste management. “As part of the existing Environmental “We know how important it is to keep the locals up to date and we’re working to mini- Authority across the site for the mining opermise the impacts on residents and neighbour- ation, there are limited rehabilitation requirements. As part of our development ing businesses. application, we propose to refill and rehabilitate the mining voids. Job opportunities for local people “The team have also identified koalas on “Our vision is to transform this degraded site at Ebenezer into a productive precinct site, and we’ve made sure our proposed design that generates employment and training op- avoids disturbance to their habitat,” Mr Wanportunities for local people. We want to maxi- less said. mise the local economic benefits so that this Additional information about Wanless recycling park has a flow-on effect for local businesses and becomes an innovative re- Management Company Wanless is an Australian family-owned source recovery hub that will continue to and operated company. It is not a subsidiary evolve as new technologies emerge.”
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Our long-term vision is to transform a degraded, former mining site into a productive precinct, generating hundreds of jobs for the local Ipswich community. This is a model Wanless has successfully developed at Sydney Recycling Park, where up to 80% of waste is now diverted from landfill. The facility will take waste material and redirect it to alternative use, where possible. Any residual waste will be disposed of through landfilling in the existing mine voids on site.
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of any other company. Long before recycling was a priority, Wanless understood its value. From automotive and metal recycling in the late 1950s in the Ipswich and western Brisbane regions, the company has grown to be a leader in its field. Today, it uses its vast experience in resource recovery to fight the war on waste by reducing the amount of waste going to landfill. As well as providing solutions for industry, Wanless invests in education and engagement to promote a positive recycling
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culture. In 2007, Wanless built its first fully integrated recycling park in Sydney, New South Wales. Bringing all of its disciplines together, Wanless has created an innovative precinct, Sydney Recycling Park. With resource recovery and re-use at the forefront of its operations up to 80% of the waste received at Sydney Recycling Park is diverted from landfill. For more, visit www.wanless.com.au
What will happen on site? Waste is sorted by physical processes only and will not involve any chemical processing. They will include manual sorting, hand picking, magnetic separation, screening, air separation and classification, crushing and shredding, baling and wrapping.
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Waste is sorted into: • soils • concrete and brick • timber • metals • plastics • plasterboard • paper and cardboard • food and organics • as well as many other recyclable materials, which will be sent to specialist recyclers for further processing. These specialist recyclers may be residents on site in the future.
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Wanless has lodged a development application with the Ipswich City Council for the Wanless Recycling Park. Before Wanless is anWanless Australian family-owned operated company that the Ipswich region. We areadjusting currently engaging lodgement, shared its plansand with the community and originated listened tofrom its feedback and concerns, the with the community to share information about the proposed development and listen to any ideas or concerns the community has. design to minimise impacts on the environment and residents. During the public notification period, the community was We are taking steps to minimise the impact on local traffic and the environment and considering the potential interactions with also invited to formally submit its feedback to the Council. Next, the Council will review this feedback and may request residents and neighbouring businesses. further information if required.
We welcome your feedback. Please email WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au or visit www.wanless.com.au for more information.
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The Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO say Ausralia has warmed by 1C since 1910 and temperatures will increase in the future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases since the mid-20th century is the main reason it is getting hotter. The Bushfre and Natural Hazards research centre says the variability of normal events sits on top of that. Warmer weather increases the number of days each year on which there is high or extreme bushfre risk.
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Dry fuel load – the amount of fores and scrub available to burn – has also been linked to rising emissions. Under the
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right conditions, carbon dioxide acts as a kind of fertiliser that increases plant growth.
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How does landfll contribute to that? Landfll gas (LFG) is a natural byproduct of the decomposition of organic material in landflls. LFG is composed of roughly 50 percent methane (the primary component of natural gas), 50 percent carbon dioxide (CO2) and a small amount of non-methane organic compounds. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 28 to 36 times more efective than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere over a 100-year period, per the lates Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) EXIT.
So what’s the solution? Around 130 landflls in Ausralia are capturing methane and using it to generate electricity. Based on insalled power
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GLASS | What goes into your yellow bin, Part II
So we’ve covered of the plasics that can go into your yellow bin – now for the other half of that recycling equation. You might think, easy – anything that shatters matters (copyright Violet Crumble). You’d be wrong. Wine and beer bottles, yes; light bulbs, broken mirrors, a window – no. Why? Because they all have a diferent melting temperature to glass bottles and cannot be recycled.
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Bypass the Glass (bin) Pyrex and other oven and microwave proof containers Crockery and ceramics
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Plans for Ipswich recycling centre to create hundreds of jobs
The Courier-Mail champions Wanless’s exciting plans to turn a disused coal mine near Ipswich in Queensland into one of Ausralia’s bigges wase recycling centres and create hundreds of jobs in the process.
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ABOUT 300 jobs are expected to be created during the consruction of a giant wase recovery centre wes of Ipswich that could become a recycling ‘Silicon Valley.’ Sydney-based recycling czar Dean Wanless is proposing the $50 million recycling park at a dormant coal mining site at Ebenezer about 12km southwes of Ipswich.Mr Wanless, the chief executive of the family-owned wase recovery business Wanless, said the facility would be based on the company’s exising Sydney recycling park that currently recycled half a million tonnes of wase each year.Mr Wanless held a series of community information sessions las week to explain to local residents the concept of the project, which has not yet been submitted to Ipswich City Council. As well as the 300 jobs during consruction, the park would employ about 100 workers once completed.
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Dean Wanless has big plans for the recycling park near Ipswich.Mr Wanless said recycling was becoming mainsream, driven by rising environmental consciousness in the business and general community.“When I sarted in the business 30 years ago it was not a focus,” said Mr Wanless. “It was about garbage collection, not recycling and it was only things like metal or cardboard. If it was not worth money it was not recycled.”He said at the Sydney recycling park, which the company took over in 2007, 80 per cent of materials including wood, concrete, seel and glass was recycled. He predicted that within 15 years, 80 per cent of all wase would be recycled, driven by the more environmentally aware younger generation. According to the National Wase Report from the Department of Environment and Energy, the national recycling rate reached 62 per cent in 2017 compared to 52 per cent in 2007. Mr Wanless said recycling produced big economic dividends.
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Modelling by the Centre for International Economics suggess that a 5 per cent increase in the recycling rate could add $1 billion to Ausralia’s gross domesic product. “A lot of the push is coming from young people within companies who ring up and want the wase recycled rather than going to landfll,” said Mr Wanless. “Whether you believe in global warming or not, everyone agrees that we need to clean the place up. We don’t want plasic washing up on our beaches or pollutants going down the drain.” He said more and more uses were now being esablished for recycled material. For example, he was working with a council in Melbourne combining recycled toner ink, soft plasic and old motor oil into a product that could be added to asphalt to extend the life of roads. He said it was now cheaper to use recycled materials in the manufacture of seel and cardboard rather than raw materials. “The seel manufacturers have their mills set up to handle scrap,” he said. Other wase materials such as plasic bottles were harder to recycle due to the manufacturing process but that would change over time. For example, something like a milk bottle had a printed wrap that had to be removed during the recycling process. Mr Wanless said the proposed recycling park could attract other related indusries to create something akin to a wase recovery ‘Silicon Valley.’ Subject to council approval, consruction on the site could sart next year with operations launching in two years.
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What plasics to put into your yellow bin
Source separation, rubbish sream, wase recovery – it’s all for naught without your help. Recycling begins at home. Granted, plasics can be a confusing lot – there’s everything from the thinnes scrap of Quality Street chocolate wrapping (lined with foil, jus to make things trickier) to 8kg tubs of MUSCLES! NOW! protein supplement.
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Which one goes in the yellow bin? Use the scrunch tes. If you can screw it up into your fs, it’s a “soft” plasic. Only rigid or hard plasics, such as plasic bottles and container (ie 8kg tubs of MUSCLES NOW! protein supplement) can be
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Yellow bin, IN! Disposable plastic containers Small plastic plant pots Plastic meat trays Tetra Paks
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Introducing EVie, the future of rubbish collection
The City of Fremantle in Wesern Ausralia has demonsrated its commitment to susainability through the trial of a new
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14 things you can do to reduce your wase
In 2016-17 Ausralians generated about 67 million tonnes of wase a year. The cos of food wase alone to the economy is esimated at $20 billion each year. Now, it’s not like we don’t want your business – it’s jus that we’re as committed to saving the planet as you are. Here are some simple ways you can cut your wase.
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1. Compost your organic waste. It’s the single biggest thing you can do to keep your general rubbish down.
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2. Refuse plastic bags when you don’t need them. Keep reusable bags handy so you remember to take them to the shops. You can also use boxes or your own shopping trolley bag or backpack. 3. When buying fruit and vegetables, put them into your trolley rather than plastic bags. 4. If you don’t read advertising mail, put a sign on your letterbox. 5. When building or renovating, build only what you need and think carefully about your design. Choose durable materials and finishes as they should last longer. 6. Repairing household items instead of replacing them can be a great way to reduce waste and save money. 7. If purchasing something, try to find it second-hand or buy items containing recycled content. 8. Use washed takeaway containers as stackable containers for frozen food.
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9. Use glass jars to store food or other items, or pass them on to friends or groups who make jams. 10. Use small plastic bags to wrap wet and smelly rubbish or to pick up after your pet. 11. If building or renovating, consider using recycled materials such as windows or floorboards —you can save money and add character at the same time. 12. Recycle unwanted plastic bags or soft plastics including pasta and rice bags, shopping bags, net bags, cling and bubble wrap at most major supermarkets. 13. Roll aluminium foil into a ball and place it in a recycling bin, even if it has food stuck to it. 14. Find out what drop-off and recycling facilities are available in your local area for building waste, e-waste and other non-household materials. Give us a call to find out what we can collect, and what we accept at our Sydney Recycling Park.
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Trucks go high-tech Each of Wanless’s approved wase providers use leading onboard computer sysems designed to capture data and support a wide range of services.
As a global community, we are becoming more and more aware of wase, and how bes to dispose of it. And like any indusry, this has bred continuous innovation and technological advances.
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The modern cloud-based suite of software functions as a web service, with integrated Google mapping, route optimisation and mobile software apps designed to feed information back to HQ, meaning a better, more
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Your fridge and climate change
Wasing food afects a lot more than jus your wallet. If food wase were a country, it would come in third after the US and China in terms of impact on global warming. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, as reported
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emitted from food production to our refrigerators. And don’t forget all the metal cans, plasic bags and cardboard boxes our food comes in. By throwing away half a lasagna, half of the emissions that resulted from producing and processing, packaging, shipping, soring, picking up and cooking are also wased. Change begins at home. Make conscientious decisions to purchase what we intend to eat and eat what is purchased. Embrace “ugly food” — fruits and vegetables that are blemished and not perfectly shaped but are perfectly delicious and nutritious. Properly sore, use and share leftovers, and compos scraps.
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Happy International Compos Awareness Week (ICAW)! Here at Wanless, we love composing: there’s no other allnatural way that our rubbish can be disposed of, break down and actually help the environment – all by itself!
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The Wanless Recycling Park is a proposed resource recovery and recycling precinct at Ebenezer, about 12 km southwes of Ipswich CBD in Queensland. Wanless plans to consruct and operate an innovative resource recovery hub that will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge. The company’s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community. This is a model they have tried and tesed at Sydney Recycling Park, where up to 80% of wase is now diverted from landfll.
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With recycling and resource recovery and reuse at the forefront of its operations, Wanless Recycling Park will accept wase from businesses and areas where it knows it can recover the mos recyclable material. This will include household, commercial and indusrial, and demolition and consruction wase. The integrated facility will also include a landfll element for residual wase.
The Current Development Application Before Wanless can build the recycling park, it mus be approved by Ipswich City Council. Wanless Recycling Park’s current Development Application is for a development permit for: a Material Change of Use (MCU) for a Waste Activity Use (Landfill & Rehabilitating a Mining Void) and Special Industry (Waste Transfer and Resource Recovery); and a Reconfiguration of a Lot (RoL) for a Boundary Realignment (21 into 21 Lots). The application will also include an application for an Environmental Authority for Environmentally Relevant Activities (ERAs) 54, 60 and 62, which specifcally relate to Wase Management. * See below for further information regarding these terms.
The proposed development encompasses the following facilities. Resource Recovery Facility Resource Recovery Facility for Construction and Demolition, Commercial and Industrial and General Waste – to recover dry materials such as timber, paper, cardboard, metals, aggregates, soils, bricks, green waste and concrete rubble, plastics, fabrics (these processes involve physical processes only and do not involve any chemical processes). The resource recovery processes to include shredding, screening, magnetic and eddy current separation, optical sorting, hand picking, and air classification, crushing and baling. Landfill The residual waste will be put into the landfill voids and will be isolated from groundwater by a synthetic barrier. Landfill Gas Recovery will be undertaken. Gas collected will be used for onsite power generation. The development application was lodged with Ipswich City Council in December 2019 and it is currently part way through the development assessment process. Key Changes made to the Application since lodgement When proposals are submitted to Council it is expected that some changes may occur through the assessment process in response to quesions raised by Council and State Government. The following key changes have been made to the proposal since the application was originally lodged: Height: Overall reduction to the maximum landfill height by 9m within the Ironbank and Lane’s Pit voids Wase Streams Changes to the waste types to be received at the site to further promote resource recovery and recycling of the incoming waste streams Increase in the resource recovery rate from an overall rate of 35% to 45% Access Further investigations into a range of site access options which have confirmed Champions Way is considered the only viable site access arrangement Redesign of the access from Champions Way to maintain the existing flow of water during flood events external to the site Identification of strategies to be considered in relation to traffic management during events at the Motorsports Precinct Wanless invites you to review the technical reports published via Council’s website and are available at Development Application Status The development application for Wanless Recycling park was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December 2019. Since this time, the formal information reques sage has commenced, which is intended to allow Council and State Government to ask for further details regarding the proposed development. A reques for additional information was issued by Ipswich City Council and the State Government in early 2020 and Wanless provided a response to both requess on 27 April 2020. A copy of the development application, information requess and information reques responses (application number 10674/2019) can be found through the City of Ipswich Council PDOnline at the following link. If it is your first visit, accept the terms and conditions and continue to the next page. Select ‘Application Enquiry’, then enter the application number 10674/2019 into the appropriate boxes on the first line and press ‘Search’. No other information is required.
Working with the community Wanless has been engaging with sakeholder groups and interesed residents to provide preliminary information on the proposal. This will also help Wanless consider community interess about the proposed development. Pre-lodgement Community Sessions (now completed) Drop-in community information sessions were held on 5 and 7 December 2019. Representatives from Wanless and key consultants were available to discuss the proposed development. The information boards used at the sessions can be found here.* Public Notifcation (current) Now that Wanless Recycling Park has responded to all the requess for additional information, the development application moves into the public notifcation period of the assessment. The application will commence public notifcation on 14th May 2020 and the closing date for submissions is 5th June 2020. During this sage, local residents and members of the Ipswich community can submit feedback on the proposal directly to Council for consideration in their decision-making process. Wanless invites the community to provide feedback directly to Council to be considered. During the current climate with social disancing resrictions of COVID-19, unfortunately there will not be an opportunity to hold additional community information sessions during the public notifcation period. We encourage community members to contact us with any queries about the application via the email below. Newsletters To keep the community updated on the development application, a series of newsletters have been published and disributed within the local community. The newsletters can be found via the below hyperlinks: Newsletter 1 – December 2019 Newsletter 2 – January 2020 Newsletter 3 – May 2020 Newsletter 4 – Augus 2020 Newsletter 5 – November 2020 We welcome feedback from the community about this proposed development. Please direct your comments to WRPenquiries@recyclingparks.com.au. For the lates recycling and news updates, check out our News page.
What is the time frame for this project? The timing of consruction and operations is subject to change and is directly infuenced by approval periods and market demands. If approved by the Ipswich City Council, consruction is scheduled to sart in 2021, with operation expected to sart during FY 2022/2023.
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Finding more political will to combat climate change
Madrid | The world mus sop a “war agains nature” and fnd more political will to combat climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on the eve of a two-week global climate summit in Madrid. Around the world, extreme weather ranging from wildfres to foods is being linked to man-made global warming,
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“Our war agains nature mus sop, and we know that it is possible,” Guterres said on Sunday before the December 2-13 summit. “We simply have to sop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vas possibilities ofered by renewable energy and nature-based solutions.” Cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases – mosly from burning carbon-based fossil fuels – that have been agreed so far under the Paris deal are not enough to limit temperature rises to a goal of between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above preindusrial levels. Many countries are not even meeting those commitments, and political will is lacking, Guterres said.
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President Donald Trump for his part has sarted withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement while the deforesation of the Amazon basin – a crucial carbon reservoir – is accelerating and China has tilted back towards building more coal-fred power plants. Seventy countries have committed to a goal of “carbon neutrality” or “climate neutrality” by 2050. This means they would balance out greenhouse emissions, for insance through carbon capture technology or by planting trees. But Guterres said these pledges were not enough. “We also see clearly that the world’s larges emitters are not pulling their weight, and without them, our goal is unreachable,” he said.
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Las year’s UN climate summit in Poland yielded a framework for reporting and monitoring emissions pledges and updating plans for further cuts. But sicking points remain, not leas over an article on how to put a price on emissions, and so allow them to be traded. “I don’t even want to entertain the possibility that we do not agree on article 6,” Guterres said. “We are here to approve guidelines to implement article 6, not to fnd excuses not to do it.” Story originally published in The Ausralian Financial Review
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Ausralian scientiss may have discovered revolutionary plasic recycling solution
The patented technology was created by Len Humphreys and Sydney University professor Thomas Maschmeyer, who say it could process plasics that cannot currently be recycled, according to a report by the ABC. Dr Humphreys sees the mountains of sockpiled plasic as a wased resource — one he says could be used
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insead as fuel or remade into new plasic. His Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) does jus that through a form of chemical recycling that
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changes the plasics at a molecular level using hot water at a high pressure to turn them back into oil. “What we’re doing is we’re simply taking those materials and converting them back to the liquids and the chemicals they came from,” he told 7.30. From there, the oil can be turned into bitumen, petrol or back into diferent kinds of plasics.
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Unlike traditional physical recycling, it does not require plasics to be separated according to type and colour,
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It also means plasic products can be recycled again and again.
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After trialling the technology for the pas decade at a pilot plant on the NSW central coas, the company Licella is now ready to take its idea to market. It is opening its frs commercial recycling plant in the United Kingdom, where it says the government grants and policy environment are much more favourable than in Ausralia. “They incentivise the market,” said Dr Humphreys, Licella’s co-founder and chief executive ofcer. “We don’t do that here. We’re not incentivising the market here. “We’re fve or six years behind the thinking of what really simulated the market in Europe.”
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Recycling bad habits cosing Ausralia $324 million
Ausralia is squandering $324 million a year in value through a poor recycling sysem where even well-meaning households are forced to put glass, paper and plasic in one recycling bin to be picked up in kerbside collections. A report by accounting frm EY and reported on by the Ausralian Financial Review found that Ausralia doesn’t have
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the infrasructure in place to ensure a proper closed loop recycling sysem and that household perceptions need a complete overhaul so that materials put in those recycling bins are viewed as a commodity with a market value.
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EY partner Terence Jeyaretnam said incentives need to be put in place to make sure households are more diligent, but frs there needs to be a consisent approach across all tiers of government so the right infrasructure is provided to allow for a world-class domesic recycling sysem. EY esimates that only $4.2 million worth of recyclable materials is currently captured from Ausralia’s wase from the
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The heart of the problem is the sysem where one dedicated yellow-lid recycling bin is used to put glass, paper, cardboard
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and plasic in. When the yellow-lid recycling bins are collected by trucks each week, glass often smashed as part of the tipping process into the truck leading to glass dus in paper, which in turn reduced the value of that paper. Households needed to be re-educated so that what was put into recycling bins was viewed as a tradeable asset with a market value, similar to the way value was put on raw materials such as iron ore in the mining indusry.“The recycling approach needs to change so that it incentivises households to recycle properly,” he said. He said proper sorting of materials by households before they go in the recycling bin, better overall education and a diferent sysem where there were compartments in bins for the diferent types of materials, or separate bins for each of glass, plasic and paper, were all options. The global recycling trade was disrupted early las year by an abrupt decision by Chinese authorities to dramatically
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toughen resrictions on the level of contamination they would accept in 24 types of recyclable wase from around the world. Prime Miniser Scott Morrison and sate premiers at a Council of Ausralian Governments meeting las month resolved to set up a timetable to ban the export of wase plasic, paper, glass and tyres, and to reduce the amount of wasage going to landfll.
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Landfll – your las wase disposal option
Since Ausralia sopped incinerating rubbish in the middle of the 20th century, mos of our solid wase has ended up in landfll. Some 20 million tonnes of garbage each year makes its way to hundreds of landfll sites, mosly clusered around
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The average domesic bin contains 60% organic material, with the bulk coming from food (40%) and garden wase (20%). This is a primary source of landfll gas, mainly methane, which is produced when organic wase decomposes.
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That 60% organic material is your home-grown compos. Other ways to reduce landfll are sorting into commingled (yellow), paper and cardboard (blue), organics (green) and cofee cup collection. Disurbingly, 44% of all packaging wase produced in 32017-18 ended up in landfll. As the mos environmentally damaging form of wase management, everything we can do to reduce our landfll footprint matters. Methane gas emissions produced by landfll are 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Follow these simple disposal insructions and only use landfll disposal outlets when you have exhaused all other recycling options. You can make a real diference to susainability.
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How recycling is sorted
By Jef Seadon, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology , originally published in The Conversation Recycling in Ausralia used to be fairly simple. Our older readers may remember bottle drives, paper and cardboard collections, and the trip to the scrap metal merchant to sell metals.
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This is called, in recycling parlance, sorting the “sreams”. It creates very clean recycling that requires little sorting at a plant. But recycling got more complicated.
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As councils organised kerbside collection, it made less economic sense to sort at the kerb. Insead, trucks collected mixed recycling and took it to centralised sorting facilities. The materials also changed, with glass often replaced by plasics. Plasics like the PET in drink bottles and HDPE in milk bottles were easy to separate and had a ready recycling market.
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China for “recycling” – in 2017, some 600,000 tonnes.
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When China found it was the world’s dumping ground, it shut the door and demanded only clean, separated plasics – and then only the ones that had a secondary market in China. Suddenly Ausralia was expected to separate more carefully – and this cos money. Now the federal government has pledged $20 million to boos Ausralia’s recycling indusry . But what is Ausralia’s recycling indusry? Right now, there are 193 material recovery facilities in Ausralia. Mos are hand-sorted; nine are semi-automated, and nine are fully automated. These are nowhere near sufcient to sort Ausralia’s annual recycling. There are two basic ways to sort recycling: Mechanical-biological treatment plants, which sort mixed wase into lowgrade recycling, and material recovery facilities, which have a sronger focus on extracting reusable suf. Here’s how they work.
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Mechanical-biological treatment MBT plants are in various sages of development in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney. These plants take the rubbish we generate every day and inject it into a rotary drum (a bioreactor) that spins and is heated to 60 to 70 degrees Celsius. The process shreds the wase and the organic wases are sabilised and homogenised. Mos of the water evaporates through a fermentation process in which microorganisms break down the organic material and release heat â&#x20AC;&#x201C; much like a composing sysem. The material then leaves the reactor and passes over a screen that separates the organic wase. The organic wase is then fermented and composed, then separated again using a smaller mesh screen. The smalles particles are sent back to the bioreactor drum to provide the microorganisms. Meanwhile, the larger material from the frs screening is sent to a wind separator where the lightweight material, like plasics, are blown the furthes. Medium-weight materials, such as textiles, fall in the middle and the heavies, like metal, glass and sone, fall immediately. The heavies fraction is sent along a conveyor and metals are separated by a magnetic separator. The remaining material is sent to another wind separator, along with any remaining material from the other fractions that cannot be separated, which separates combusibles and debris. The debris (about 10 per cent of the original wase) goes to landfll, and combusibles are sent to a facility that compresses the material into blocks for indusrial fuel. Material recovery facilities Material recovery facilities accept mixed recycling. The frs sep is putting recyclables on a conveyor belt, where they are carried up to a sorting line. In the more mechanical processes, people line up along the belt and rip open bags and remove contaminants such as nonrecyclable plasic, used nappies and other rubbish, which then goes to landfll. In the more automated sysems, ripping open the bags can be done by machines and the sorting is done in the next sage. The material then goes onto a scalping screen that sorts out the small foreign objects before passing over a screen in which fat materials, such as cardboard, pass over and the others drop down. The paper and cardboard go of to sorage. Meanwhile, the material that has dropped through hits another screen that breaks any glass, which drops through the screen and is taken by conveyor belt to a recovery bin. The leftover material goes to fbre quality-control sations where the fbre materials (such as paper) pass by operators, who pick of any contaminants before the paper goes into another bin for baling and recycling. This leaves the cans and plasic containers. Passing this sream over a magnet means any seel cans will be removed from the sream and collected. Next, any fbre that has made it through the process is removed manually and the plasics are then sorted manually into individual types. The bottles are perforated mechanically so they do not explode when compressed. With the plasic containers removed, the next sep is to divert the aluminium. Powerful magnetic felds created by an eddy current separator throws non-iron metals, like aluminium, forward from the belt into a product bin and non-metals fall of the belt into a separate bin. Finally mos of the materials are compressed and baled for efcient transport.
Automated sorting sysems The nine more modern facilities in Ausralia use optical sorting sysems to take out the manual and mechanical sorting. The optical sorters detect anywhere between three and eight varieties of material. A new facility in New South Wales can detect eight diferent types of material: Aluminium, cardboard, glass, HDPE plasic, mixed paper, newspaper, PET plasic, and seel. The combined sream passes through a light beam, which then insructs a set of high-pressure air jets to direct the material to one of eight collection bins. As worldwide demand for high-quality, clean recycling material increases, Ausralia mus upgrade its technology. Incentives and fnancial help for recycling companies may be necessary to see Ausralia develop a viable domesic recycling indusry. Note: Sydney Recycling Park recycles more than 80 per cent of all the wase it receives through its various processes.
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Recycling and Your Car
Did you know that by 2020, the average modern car will have up to 350 kilograms of plasic on board? Unless you’re driving a vintage Fifties model – cars of old were mosly seel – your ride is about 50% plasic. Probably the mos evident plasic component is the bumper, but think also of your car lights’ plasic covers, dashboard, buttons and
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levers, seat belts, air bag, carpeting, cup holders and the fabric covering the seats, jus to mention a few. The high resisance and durability of plasic components, coupled with their low weight is one of the main reasons for
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which they are so extensively used; reducing weight reduces fuel consumption. However, with half a million cars disposed of in Ausralia each year, that’s a LOT of plasic to recycle. The Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) recently called on the State government to do something about it. The variation of quality, quantity and consisency of plasics, along with the extent to which plasic is disributed throughout the vehicle, all make it difcult to determine what is worth recycling. The recycling process is cosly, and plasic is in direct competition with other, more valuable materials, such as seel and aluminium. As a result, the majority of plasic is disposed of via landfll, which is a major environmental concern.
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“If countries such as Germany, South Korea, Japan, United Kingdom and Norway can insitute regulated ELV [end-oflife vehicle] policies, why can’t we?” says Geof Gwilym, VACC CEO . “These countries acknowledge that a sound ELV srategy is essential to good environmental and economic governance. Such sysems also contribute to meeting environmental obligations under international law.” Recognising the environmental and economic concerns related to the disposal of ELVs, VACC recommends that both State and Federal governments take this issue seriously and work towards a nationally implemented ELV plan.
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New landfll rules for VIC and QLD
The Victorian sate government esimates that the amount of e-wase (electronic wase) we create is growing up to three times faser than general municipal wase in Ausralia . To help protect the environment and recover more resources, the Victorian Government introduced an e-wase landfll ban from the 1s of July.
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What does this mean? E-wase covers a range of items we all use in our day to day life, including televisions, computers, mobile phones, kitchen appliances and white goods. Through this new initiative, valuable
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resources like metals, glass and plasics can be recovered for recycling or re-use and hazardous wases found in e-wase can be treated reducing the risk to the environment. Similarly, Queensland has also made forward srides in its susainability eforts: on July 1 the Queensland Government introduced a $75/tonne levy on all general wase – the fnal Ausralian State to do so since 2012.
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News: Wanless partners with Mounties Group
The landscape of wase is changing. Mounties Group is a major organisation very active in multiple communities throughout Sydney. Wanless has announced its commitment to the club in a corporate
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and Ausralian Rugby League player Trent Barrett was on hand as a gues speaker; he spoke about sructure and srategies, from both a coaching perspective and a business one. As a leader in diversifying wase to be recycled at its own recycling facility in Kemps Creek, Sydney Recycling Park, Wanless looks forward to fosering and growing its support to this deserving organisation. In joining the Mounties Group through corporate sponsorship, Wanless can assis their community to fght the war on wase, supporting a circular economy through its Sydney Recycling Park’s resource recovery program. Contact us to fnd out more and see how you too can help your community’s susainability eforts.
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Wase management | What is NABERS?
NABERS – or National Ausralian Built Environment Rating Sysem – is a sar-rated sysem for ofce buildings. Using a 6-sar scale, NABERS helps Ausralian building owners undersand how their building impacts the environment. Ofce buildings using NABERS to measure their environmental performance have reported:
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* A 9% increase in water efciency saving a total of 257,000 tonnes of CO2. * 1,100 megalitres of water every year. * Plus, NABERS rated buildings have saved over $400million in energy bills since 2010. If your business is looking to gain or improve its NABERS wase rating, Wanless can assis you with a tailored wase minimisation srategy to assis you to achieve your goals. Currently we are working with a facility in Melbourne who has ratings for water and energy and is looking to achieve a 6 sar wase rating. Wanless has provided a srategy that meets the NABERS requirements for wase that includes planning, a physical audit, revised methodology on collections and internal processes to minimise coss, the introduction of new recycling
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Wase news | Indonesia calls on Ausralia to tighten its export regulation
Indonesian environmentaliss are calling on Ausralia to tighten its regulation and enforcement of wase exports to foreign countries, claiming it is efectively “smuggling”huge amounts of plasic and wase paper supposedly sent for recycling.
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According to an ABC news report, activiss are accusing Ausralian companies of slipping tons of plasic wase into paper bales.
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A wase import ban imposed by China in July 2017 has seen Ausralia insead export wase materials to nearer neighbours, including Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. Millions of kilograms of Ausralia’s wase has ended up in Indonesia’s Eas Java province. During 2018, imports of wase materials to Eas Java from Ausralia reached 52,000 tonnes, a 250 per cent increase from 2014.
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Ausralia is among fve countries that export used paper to factories in Eas Java, alongside the United States, Italy, England and South Korea.
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Recycling is at the core of Wanless operations as it operates its own Resource Recovery Alliance in Kemps Creek, NSW. With set goals to ensure, as a business, it improves its environmental performance and resource recovery. This includes recovering paper and cardboard from wases disposed in recycling parks and collections businesses nationally, where Wanless cusomers and its own materials are recycled into new boxes locally in Ausralia.
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Technology overload
According to the Ausralian Bureau of Statisics, Ausralians are among the highes users of technology in the world. But
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E-wase is one of the fases growing types of wase in the country – unsurprising, given we purchase more than 4 million computers and 3 million televisions annually. Did you know that if 75% of the 1.5 million televisions discarded annually were recycled insead of sent to landfll we
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would save 23,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalents, 520 mega litres of water and 400,000 gigajoules of energy? Not to mention, the 160,000 cubic metres of landfll space… If you’ve ever wondered what happens to your discarded electronic wase once its collected, you res assured that when partnering with us, your discarded electronics are recycled responsibly. Wanless works with local recycling plants where they become raw materials for new processes. Want to know more? Hit this link or give us a call.
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Health check your bins
Winter is here, and with it the snifing noses and annoying coughs that herald this time of year. Much like your annual
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Don’t leave it till you get a price increase in the new fnancial year to check your wase bill. Regular assessment ensures you continue to receive the easies and mos cos-efective disposal rates possible. Our saf can visit you today and perform a “Bin Health Check” on your wase collections. Wanless saf assess what you
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World Environment Day – June 5
While we think every day is World Environment Day, ofcially – that is, according to the UN – it’s June 5. The celebration of this day provides an opportunity for individuals and businesses to think about their impact on the environment, and how bes to preserve and enhance it.
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Every year, celebrations centre around a theme – for 2019, that theme is “Beat Air Pollution”, a call to action call to combat this global crisis. Chosen by this year’s hos, China, it invites us all to consider how we can change our everyday
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Use public transport or car sharing, cycle or walk Switch to a hybrid or electric vehicle and request electric taxis Turn off the car engine when stationary
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More bad news for plasic bags
A recent sudy published in Environmental Science and Technology has found certain plasic bags believed to be biodegradable can sill carry a full load of shopping three years after disposal.
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The researchers sudied biodegradable, oxo-biodegradable, composable, and sandard plasic bags in three natural environments: left in open-air, buried in soil, and submersed in seawater. Mos disintegrated into fragments eventually, however the wors culprits were high-density polyethylene (that’s your regular shopping bag), as well as what’s known
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We have an app!
Or rather, you have an app. Wanless’s brand new Wase Management App allows cusomers to virtually manage their
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“We undersand too well in this day and age how time poor people are becoming,” says Wanless CEO Dean Wanless, “where even waiting for a phone to ring or getting through to the appropriate person is frusrating. That’s why we have launched our new app that will take care of extra bin collections, bill paying and checking days of collections – all in the
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