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THE LEADER IN RESOURCE RECOVERY

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Celebrating a bright new future

A comprehensive range of services with a common commitment

Partnership the key to resource recovery – page 5

1919 to 201192 years of history

SITA Australia – The Leader in Resource Recovery

2011 marks a particularly special

year for SITA Australia.As the SITA

Environmental Solutions brand celebrates 10 years in Australia this year, we can reflect on the many successes and milestones throughout our company’s history.

Most recently these achievements have included the acquisition of the NSW government-owned WSN Environmental Solutions, the official opening of our showcase advanced resource recovery facilities in Kemps Creek, NSW and Neerabup, WA, and being the inaugural winner of the Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Waste Management Company of the Year Award.

We are proud of what we have achieved in the past, but we are even more excited about the opportunities we see in the future.

Sustainable development is at the heart of our business strategy as we focus on delivering innovative sustainable resource recovery management solutions.

This strategy is reflected in SITA’s ambition to break away from the traditional brands of the waste management industry through the introduction of a new, vibrant and distinctive identity to the market. You will see our brand new identity showcased in this edition of WME.

At the same time as the dynamic visual look is unveiled, SITA will also change its brand name from ‘SITA Environmental Solutions’ to ‘SITA Australia’.

We are shaping the future of resource recovery.

We look forward to sharing this future with you.

Celebrating a bright new future

92 years of SITA

ERIC GERNATHManaging DirectorSITA Australia

OUR BRANDS ANDSPECIALISED OPERATIONS

National brand for SITA’srecycled organic products.

National medical wastecollection, treatment, recoveryand disposal business.

Resource recovery andalternative fuels facilities inSouth Australia and Victoria.

Paper and cardboard recyclingfacility in Western Australia.

Organics processing andcomposting facility in WesternAustralia.

Skip bin services in SouthAustralia and Western Australia.

Landfill in Western Australia.

Our integrated services include:• domestic, commercial & industrial

and construction & demolitionwaste collection;

• resource recovery and recyclingoptions;

• processing of organic materialsinto compost;

• production of alternative fuels toreplace fossil fuels as greenenergy;

• waste audits and assessments;• benchmarking and environmental

reporting; • medical and clinical waste

collection, treatment and resourcerecovery;

• autoclaving; • niche services; • thermal destruction treatment;• industrial liquid and hazardous

waste collection, transport andtreatment;

• engineered landfill services; and• product destruction.

SITA AUSTRALIA –THE LEADERIN RESOURCERECOVERYWE ARE LEADING THE CHANGE FROM TRADITIONALWASTE DISPOSAL TO ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLERESOURCE RECOVERY SOLUTIONS.

WITH OPERATIONS ACROSS ALL LEVELS OF THE WASTEMANAGEMENT VALUE CHAIN, SITA OFFERS BESTPRACTICE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS FORCOLLECTION, RESOURCE RECOVERY, RECYCLING ANDSAFE DISPOSAL OF NON-RECOVERABLE RESIDUALS.

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SITA formed in France

Acquired numerous assets including

Tiger Waste, Waste Management Australia and

KR & C Edwards (SYD), McMahon Waste Disposal (ADE, MEL), ACT

Trade Waste (CAN) and TNT Waste

Control (nationally)

Acquired SITA-BFI Australian

operations

Launch of the SAWT Advanced

Resource Recovery Technology (ARRT)

Awarded the inaugural Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan ‘Waste Management

Company of the Year’

Acquired MediCollect

Acquired WSN Environmental

Solutions (NSW)

Pacific Waste Management

formed in Australia

Awarded official provider of solid waste services for the Sydney

2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Brand change to SITA

Environmental Solutions

Acquired 50% of ResourceCo forming SITA-ResourceCo

Alternative Fuels

ARRT facilities opened at Kemps Creek (NSW) and Neerabup (WA)

Brisbane City Council waste and recycling contract

renewed for 8 years

SITA launches its new identity

The carbon what?Understanding the carbon scheme

Industrial ecology: A recycling park for the Hunter

Direct to drink: The case for direct potable reuse

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In Perspective: Green purchasing and carbon

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Annual Consultants Review28. Finding our wayEIANZ is reviewing its codes to ensure its principles, shared values and guidelines for ethical decision-making can be put into practice. By Alan Chenoweth.

30. Lock, stock and barrel liabilityConsultant WSP is changing the risk relationship with clients by offering to assume all liability for site remediation projects.

32. SKM sets carbon priceSKM has launched an internal Carbon Fund, where staff can nominate projects worthy of investment.

34. Planning makes perfectUnusually, the award-winning Logan Water Alliance covers everything from planning to project delivery.

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20. Carbon pricing down the lineThe pending carbon price gives business and industry ever greater incentive to strive for efficiencies as the cost of inefficiency escalates.

22. Product stewardship comes to lifeThe legislation has been passed. Now the Product Stewardship Advisory Group must determine priority products for future regulation.

Max Pichon reports on two on-site energy projects that will set new benchmarks for scale in Australia.

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Business + Strategy54. Rank and fileSustainability ratings are coming thick and fast, but how can we achieve order when both the questions and answers lack consistency?

56. Knowledge is not enoughIn this, the third in our series on behaviour change, Grahame Collier explores the relationship between knowing and doing, and provides some hints to help program managers.

Water + Wastewater59. Direct to drinkDirect potable water reuse offers a number of advantages over the more widely accepted indirect potable water reuse, including minimising energy use. By Stuart Khan and Sarah Herbert.

Waste + Resources62. Industrial ecology sparks Industrial ecology is all about ascribing different value to wastes such as wood, metals and food − and diverting it for reuse. Paula Wallace explains.

65. Playing the recycling gameRecycling typically runs on fine margins, so the carbon price could hurt

Energy + Carbon48. Carbon pricing comes cleanNorton Rose gives business a heads-up in this breakdown of the draft legislation underpinning the carbon pricing and clean energy scheme.

52. Scale up, then power up

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widen its scope to “address the ‘soft’ issues, which include social licence and community perception of manufacturing”.

In a covering letter to its submission, Australian Paper CEO Jim Henneberry writes that “assisting in establishing a supportive social envi-ronment… may well be the most significant contribution which the State Government can make to a more competitive manufacturing industry”.

He notes the paper industry, like most other large-scale industries, “suffers in the public eye because it inherently uses natural resources (albeit in our case renewable ones) and is a large scale ‘smokestack industry’ producing a product which is generally seen as having a quite short useful life before it is discarded”.

What seems to have really got up the nose of the country’s largest paper maker is shifting the battleground from blockading forests to pressuring consumer brands.

“Some NGOs, notably The Wilderness Society, are waging a campaign to have all State forest ‘locked up’ from commercial use of any kind and are giving voice to this protest through demonstrations at the premises of key paper customers,” wrote Henneberry.

For example, a range of groups have jumped on board a ‘No Harvey Norman No!’ campaign around its wood products. GetUp teamed with an new consumer-focused NGO, Markets for Change, to create a viral video parodying a Harvey Norman ad. It has had more than 100,000 hits on YouTube.

In August there were actions in stores across the country and another NGO, The Last Stand, unveiled a 60 metre long banner in a logged Tasmanian coupe that read ‘No Harvey Norman No! Don’t buy forest destruc-tion!’. It even hired its own plane to provide aerial footage and photos.

The campaign has had some effect, with several councils formally supporting The Wilderness Society by banning the use of locally produced paper. Australian Paper’s unease over threats to its own social licence to operate goes deeper than this though.

“The issue of education, training and the image of manufacturing among students, parents and teachers is a key issue,” writes Henneberry, calling for a greater focus on winning over “hearts and minds” in the community to reverse a decline in the popularity of the sector more broadly.

It is an interesting proposition. Is there a risk the cumulative impact of these consumer campaigns will see manufacturing in general lose its legitimacy in the public eye?

Just finally, congratulations to SITA Environmental Solutions on clocking up 10 years of service in Australia’s waste sector. Here’s hoping for another fruitful decade ahead.

Richard Collins(Editor)

The ‘Inquiry into a more competitive Victorian manufacturing industry’ is not the place you would typically look for insights into social licence to operate. But in a sign of the mainstreaming of these issues, Australian

Paper has urged the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission to

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“The paper industry suffers in the public eye because it inherently uses natural resources… and is a large scale ‘smokestack industry’ producing a product generally seen as having a quite short useful life

WME: For many SITA is perceived as the quiet achiever. Its heritage includes Trans Waste, Pacific Waste Management, BFI and more recently the acquisition of the NSW government owned waste service, WSN Environmental Solutions. The bright, colourful character of the new brand looks like a change of pace – why the change?Lee: The vibrancy and dynamism of the new brand is a reflection of the future of sustainable resource recovery management in this country. As the Australian leader in this reorientation of waste being viewed as a resource, we want SITA to stand out and be instantly recognisable. We are proud of our strategic positioning.

WME: SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT and Sembcorp Industries are included as part of the new brand. Why have you included them in the logo and how are they relevant to the Australian market?Lee: Both of our parent companies are clear leaders in their respective fields. Their significant experience and knowledge is drawn upon as required to support and enhance the leadership positioning that SITA has attained. Both companies are well respected, and although not necessarily well known in Australia, through the new brand this will change. As we forge new partnerships with our customers, they too can draw upon this considerable global knowledge and asset base.

WME: The new brand is strong on resource recovery. You refer to SITA as ‘The leader in resource recovery’ and ‘Shaping the future of resource recovery’. Both bold statements. What’s behind those statements?Lee: For several years, we have quietly built up a portfolio of strategic resource recovery assets.

We own and operate six of Australia’s 13 composting advanced resource recovery technology (ARRT) facilities in Australia (sometimes referred to as AWTs) – none of our competitors have more than one. We also have the only alternative fuel ARRT facility in Australia that manufactures renewable fuels from mixed waste feedstocks that we on-sell to existing furnaces – our showcase Adelaide SITA-ResourceCo facility.

If you add the seven open-air organic

resource recovery facilities we have around Australia, we will process over 800,000 tonnes of organic feedstocks this year, producing in excess of 500,000 tonnes of composted products for home gardens, sporting fields, horticulture and agriculture. That is a leading position.

We are also increasing our national portfolio of transfer stations and product destruction units, which are expanding their activities to become feeder resource recovery facilities, separating mixed waste streams, and providing feedstocks to our ARRTs and MRFs.

Finally, we are developing a strong platform of resource recovery in niche services such as medical waste, liquid waste and sludges, e-waste and other hazardous material streams. All these niche services complement our core service offerings, so that we can divert an ever increasing amount of waste from landfill into recovered, reusable products that close the loop on resource efficiency.

This is why we confidently make the statement that we are ‘the leader in resource recovery’.

For areas where we do not currently have the resource recovery infrastructure or where the economic drivers for increased recovery are yet to be established by governments, we have engineered landfills for the safe disposal of these residual streams, all with sophisticated gas capture and electricity generation.

WME: How long until we’ll see the new brand on trucks and bins?Lee: The brand roll-out will begin on August 22. With over 1,000 vehicles, tens of thousands of bins and over 90 sites and facilities around the country, the roll-out will be staggered. All our sites and trucks will be rebranded by December 31, with bins and on-site machinery to be branded afterwards.

WME: Are you concerned that as you roll out the new brand your customers and partners will see it as ‘just a new logo’?Lee: We are actively engaging with our customers – both commercial and municipal – to develop long-term partnerships. The successful establishment of such partnerships requires understanding the needs and capabilities of both parties. Our new brand is a reflection of our capability, both today and into the future. If certain customers see it as

‘just a new logo’, then there is more dialogue to occur.

WME: What’s the main message you’d like your Council partners to take away from the new brand launch?Lee: We built our reputation on service excellence – that will not change. But the sophistication of service offerings is increasing. The timeframe for advanced resource recovery processing can be up to 25 years. That requires confidence in the ability of the processor to deliver a robust system that achieves the outcomes agreed to. And if the processor is also the collector – as SITA is – then the system is even more robust. We have consistently proven our capability to the market as evidenced by our growing infrastructure asset base. We have achieved strong partnerships with our existing council customers. We look forward to establishing partnerships with those councils that are considering increased, integrated resource recovery solutions.

WME: And your industrial customer and waste industry partners – what’s the main message for them?Lee: It is essentially the same. As sustainable development in corporate boardrooms moves towards active programs, SITA’s market position allows it to provide a one-stop solution. Through the active dialogue we are having with some of our customers, they are now challenging us to provide even higher resource recovery outcomes. That is just the type of challenge we want to engage in.

WME: Simon, you keep coming back to a focus on partnership. That’s easy to say. Are you confident you can deliver on the partnership promise?Lee: We are because we have delivered already. There have been challenges and we fully expect there to be more in the future. What we are confident of is being able to actively listen. To develop an understanding of the pace and breadth of service delivery, provide a package of collection, resource recovery and disposal solutions that exceeds our partners expectations.

WME: Thanks Simon, all the best with the new SITA brand launch.

ahead of sIta’s new brand launch, simon Lee spoke to WME to explain what the change represents. according to Lee, what you see on the surface is the tip of the iceberg. the real work has been done behind the scenes, building the systems, teams and scale to provide its commercial and municipal partners with sustainable resource recovery management solutions.

SITA leadership believes partnership is the key to sustainable resource recovery solutions

General Manager, Strategy & Sustainable Development, Simon Lee sees it as SITA’s responsibility as the industry leader to be active in raising the profile of resource recovery.

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The modelling wars continue around the impact of the carbon pricing package, with some voices questioning the validity of Treasury estimates and others arguing it is too conservative.

Early Treasury modelling, based on a $20-a-tonne carbon price and no complementary measures, forecasts emissions cuts of 58 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2-e by 2020.

ClimateWorks Australia analysed the full package and predicted it could cut 133 Mt by 2020, meaning only 17 per cent of the emissions reductions required to achieve the target of five per cent below 2000 levels would come through international permits.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is slated to achieve 12.1 Mt of abatement, the proposed National Energy Savings Initiative for energy efficiency another 12 Mt and the closure of brown-coal power stations 11.9 Mt.

ClimateWorks puts the Carbon Farming Initiative down for more than 50 Mt in savings, though a government paper released by Treasury puts it at just 7 Mt.

“Our report found that the carbon price improves profitability for these actions by making it more cost-effective for business to reduce emissions,” said ClimateWorks executive director Anna Skarbek.

Treasury also released two independent reports on the sector specific impacts. Modelling by ROAM consulting and Sinclair Knight Mertz MMA, based on a $20 price, found the scheme would not drive major change in electricity generation until after 2020. The renewable energy target is a bigger reformer of the sector.

ROAM said “NSW’s generation capacity would double by 2050,

with wind, new coal generation with carbon capture and storage, and gas-fired power gradually taking over from the black-coal plants”. This would seem to run counter to NSW Government commissioned analysis that found 31,000 jobs would be lost by 2020.

The Treasury reports found Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and Gippsland region would not shrink economically because they are well-positioned to shift to wind and solar.

But economist Henry Ergas has taken issue with Treasury macro-assumptions in a series of articles in The Australian. Among the ones he questions are that of unlimited access to cheaper overseas permits, that there will be a “harmonised world carbon price” even without a US trading scheme, and the viability of emitters borrowing large volumes of permits from the future.EMN.net.au search: Price

As mining companies crunch the numbers on the carbon package, a real-world picture is starting to emerge from the advocacy-based modelling.

Australia’s biggest magnetite producer, Grange Resources, said in an investor update it expected to pay almost $10 million a year in carbon tax and lose a further $1 million as a result of the Federal Government’s move to cut the diesel fuel rebate. That represents a five per cent increase in costs.

Barrick Gold figured the carbon tax was likely to have a US$12 an ounce impact.

“It is not insignificant, but it is manageable,” said Barrick’s regional president, Gary Halverson.

On the other hand, AngloGold Ashanti Australasian executive VP Graham Ehm said the tax would become increasingly painful.

“Coming in at $23 a tonne, it’s going to be about US$20 an ounce [extra on our costs]. It does escalate over three years. When it moves into an emissions trading scheme, we’re going to be looking at US$40/ounce to US$60/ounce,” he said.

Gold is selling for about US$1,746 an ounce.

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Numbers don’t tell a coherent story when it comes to the carbon tax, neither on its reach nor business reaction.

The Federal Government won’t list or contact the organisations it claims will be liable under the carbon tax. The Australian cited a letter from Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to Opposition counterpart Greg Hunt saying, in effect, firms should figure it out for themselves because the government can’t reveal sensitive information.

After initially claiming 500 companies would have facilities that top the threshold of 25,000 tonnes of CO2-e a year, the government shifted to 400, then

back to 500.Business surveys

also show wildly differing views. The Sustain Group surveyed 347 business leaders and found 58 per cent agreed the carbon price provides certainty.

“What we are now seeing is a trend develop where more people believe that

certainty as a result of a price on carbon is at least a good outcome from the announcement,” said CEO Matthew Tukaki.

On the other hand, business solutions provider MYOB found 65 per cent of the 3,500 business owners polled online believe the tax will have a negative impact on their business.EMN.net.au search: Combet

“New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) has started smoothly,” according to the first report on its performance.

It has “performed to expecta-tions”, contributing to a significant cut in the country’s greenhouse emissions and creating a boom in renewable energy, with 11 new projects contributing 1,340MW, five times the national average increase before the scheme was introduced.

However, Fonterra CEO Andrew Ferrier told the Australia-New Zealand Climate Change &

Business Conference the company should be exempted from the ETS, which will expand to include agri-culture in 2015. He said it would force food production offshore.

Also, Fonterra has signed a Sustainability Covenant with EPA Victoria to drive innovation and environmental improvements in the local dairy industry. One of the commitments is a three per cent a year reduction in water and carbon intensity and waste to landfill across Fonterra sites for years two and three of the deal.EMN.net.au search: Fonterra

The Federal Government has moved towards a new regulatory regime for energy labelling and minimum energy performance standards, releasing a consulta-tion paper on a proposed bill.

The legislation would introduce measures − developed with state and territory governments − designed to boost the effective-

ness of the scheme and extend its reach into new product areas.

It also introduces new enforce-ment measures, including infringe-ment notices and injunctions, and obliges manufacturers and importers of registered products to provide annual sales data. Comments close August 26.EMN.net.au search: MEPs

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The Boomerang Alliance has walked out of discussions about creating a national container deposit scheme, citing a “rigged” outcome.

The discussions, hosted by the Environmental Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), began in June last year. Last month, the NGO boycotted the talks. Spokesman David West said the broader packaging study now agreed to by the forum was biased by the inclusion of cardboard, of which 75 per cent is recycled compared to 47 per cent of glass and 34.5 per cent of plastic containers.

“Instead of deciding whether the one million-odd tonnes of containers require action, we are studying four million tonnes of packaging, three quarters of which are cardboard boxes with excellent recycling rates,” he said.

Kate Carnell, the chief executive of the Australian Food and Beverage Council described it as a “stunt”.EMN.net.au search: Containers

AGL Energy produced the best sustainability report in 2010, clearly explaining the impact of sustainability on the company, disclosing key material risks and providing a good overview of governance systems. It also linked clear targets with strategic indicators.

AGL took the top gong at the awards by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. VicSuper was runner-up, showing good integra-tion of sustainable development into business strategy.

Along with the obvious reporting on perfor-mance against targets, the judges singled out specific aspects of their favoured reports.

Fuji Xerox Australia won the award for the consumer and business sector and was praised for identifying its key audience and disclosing the engagement mechanisms for each stake-holder group.

Amcor was recognised for its discussion of lifecycle assessments and demonstrating an integrated sustainability framework.

Stockland showed how trends and issues are embedded into the planning process and how sustainability issues impacted its value chain, especially in contracts.

Transurban disclosed its formal material-ity review with internal stakeholders, while Woolworths documented the expectations of each stakeholder group.

Consultant Banarra provided good information relevant to human capital.

Despite these, the judges’ report outlined four key areas for future improvement: external assurance, report completeness, incorporating content online and stakeholder inclusion.EMN.net.au search: agL

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Helping Victorian businesses reduce waste and supporting innovators in councils and the recycling industry are the top picks in a draft statement re-prioritising the way the state’s landfill levy funds are used.

The levy, which last year pulled in $43.4 million, was ramped up in the May budget from $30 a tonne to $44 a tonne.

Environment Minister Ryan Smith in June told a waste industry conference he was keen to “prevent investment in waste recovery from stalling” and criticised the former Brumby Government for under-investing levy funds back into the waste industry.

The brief priority statement also suggests the levy-backed Sustainability Fund should finance “value for money projects” and work on removing obstacles to recovering commercial value from otherwise abandoned material.EMN.net.au search: smith

Queensland’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Bill has finally been tabled in Parliament, but immedi-ately ran into trouble after Environment Minister Vicky Darling said it “will drag Queensland’s waste sector out of the dark ages”.

Queensland generates the most waste per capita of any state and has one of the worst recycling rates in the country. Darling said the legislation would help the government meet its 10-year plan to halve waste to landfill.

The centrepiece is a landfill levy of $35 per tonne on building and business waste, though, significantly, not for municipal solid waste. It will start on December 1 and by mid-2014 raise about $338 million for reinvestment into council waste schemes.

The Australian Council of Recycling welcomed the bill, with chief executive Rod Welford saying it “provides a significant new foundation for increased levels of recycling in Queensland”.

Waste companies are less impressed. Australian Landfill Owners Association chief Max Spedding said the differential levy meant “the industry will be in chaos”.

Rick Ralph, head of the Waste Contractors & Recyclers Association of Queensland, said exemptions for council, self-haul and community

clean-up wastes have the “potential… to distort the market”.

“The government had promised to work through the regulations with us; they haven’t. We’re now advised that we won’t get the regula-tions until the legislation has been passed − we consider that unacceptable.”

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A peer reviewed study by NSW Government coastal specialist Phil Watson sparked controversy last month when The Australian said it threw doubt on prevailing climate change science.

The analysis of tidal records during the last century revealed a “consistent trend of weak decel-eration” from 1940 to 2000, which the newspaper said raised questions about CSIRO and others’ sea-level predictions.

However, the deputy chief executive of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Simon Smith, released a letter to the editor saying the link to climate change had misrepresented the research paper.

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and it is not what Mr Watson told your journalist. Mr Watson’s research looked only at measure-ments of historical data. It specif-ically did not consider predicted linkages between sea level rise and global warming predicted by climate models,” he wrote.

The CSIRO’s Dr Kathleen McInnes also rejected Watson’s treatment of the data, despite being peer-reviewed, writing that the findings are “a function of the particular length and interval of data he used. Based on CSIRO’s longer record of global average sea level data from 1880 to 2010, sea levels demonstrate an accelerating trend, with the largest rate of rise over the past two decades.”

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Chris Parratt of energy advisory firm ERM Power recently toured the US, where utilities are given considerable incentives to save electricity.

“US regulators have provided capacity payments of up to US$300,000 ($271,000) per megawatt. This level of incentive has increased participation from end-users and suppliers of demand response services,” he said.

The Australian Energy Markets Commission is reviewing system conditions in the face of spiralling elec-tricity costs.

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Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has recommended new houses in the Glenelg region on the state’s southwest coast be ‘relocatable’ due to risk from sea level rise.

A spokesperson for the minister’s office said they “believed the Glenelg decision is a Victorian first, but the minister wants to fully consider the recommendations of the Coastal Climate

Change Advisory Committee report before any state-wide decision is taken”.

While not mandatory, the reloctability clause would be “assessed as part of the planning permit application process”. The minister’s office took control of planning and permit appli-cations in the area in April to ensure “fairness and certainty to land owners”.

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Total water-cycle management principles underpin the ‘Murray drainage and water management plan’, which covers more than 375km2 between the Peel Inlet and the Darling Ranges in WA.

The plan provides a framework for future planning and development proposals and their associated site-specific water management strategies and plans.

It notes, “WSUD as a response to total water-cycle management has been a development requirement for some time; however, any

proposals in this plan area would have to consider more carefully how water in the landscape is managed and a new benchmark would have to be established”.

It recognises the challenge of the region’s shallow groundwa-ter reserves and suggests the Department of Water may need to investigate managed aquifer recharge.

“This will allow water that was previously thought to be unusable, to be stored for later redistribution using a fit-for-purpose principle,” the Murray drainage plan says.

An Australian-first rainwater harvesting system is to be installed at The Wharf arts precinct in Sydney next month. The innovative rainwater harvesting, storage and reticula-tion system designed by Sinclair Knight Merz is the first of its size and scale in Australia and one of only a few in the world.

Rain is captured from the 5,740m2 roof area of The

Wharf and stored in a 50cm diameter pipe suspended below the pier. It will run 500m underneath the building, with an even distribution of weight across the entire structure.

It is expected to save about 11.3ML of potable water a year by providing all the non-potable water requirements for the Sydney Theatre Company and other organisations at Pier 4/5.

South Australian electricity generator ETSA Utilities has signed an agreement with Zero Waste SA to explore ways to further improve its energy, waste and water management.

SA Environment Minister Paul Caica touted the collabora-

tion as a new model for other businesses to follow.

ETSA Utilities, one SA’s largest organisations, is already working towards a target of recycling 60-70 per cent of its waste, but the agreement sets out new actions for the year.

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The National Water Commission (NWC) is to be independently reviewed for its effectiveness and continuing appropri-ateness. The review, to be conducted by David Rosalky, one of the Australian National University’s (ANU) leading experts on science and public policy, is mandated in the founding National Water Commission Act.

“Given the national significance of managing Australia’s water resources wisely, this review is a very timely opportunity to consider what roles and functions will assist the ongoing process of water reform,” said the Parliamentary secretary for urban water, Don Farrell.

The NWC was established in June 2004 with the purpose of implement-ing national water reform. During the past 12 months, it has ramped up the temperature around urban water reform, releasing a series of studies into topics ranging from alternative sources to pricing and industry structure.

NWC chair Chloe Munro welcomed the review, saying in a statement it “presents an opportunity to consider water reforms achieved

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Investa Property Group won the NSW Premier’s Award for Sustainability Excellence for Australia’s first ever tri-generation precinct, centred on Coca-Cola House in North Sydney (more WME, 7/11).

According to Investa sustainability lead Craig Roussac, “we’ve achieved commercial success by treating environ-mental and business priorities as one and the same”.

Lighting company enLighten Australia took home the Excellence in Energy award and the Environmental Innovation award for its multi-function LED light the ‘Chamaeleon’, which is capable of delivering 93 per cent energy savings.

Dunlop Flooring won the waste category for its solution in diverting carpet waste from landfill by collecting scrap materials when delivering the finished goods. In 2009−10, it diverted more than 6,500 tonnes of used carpet underlay from landfill.EMN.net.au search: Investa

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Up to one million tonnes of waste would be diverted from landfill each year at a world-first $400 million recycling plant planned for the Lower Hunter in NSW.

The privately funded Hunter Industrial Ecology Park at Weston plans to recycle products that, at the moment, are only partially recycled or not recycled at all.

The project’s proponent, Weston Aluminium founder Garbis Simonian, said when the three-stage park is given the green light to build on 40 hectares at Weston’s site, it could employ more than 400 people and recover up to a million tonnes of waste, with less than five per cent ending up as landfill.

“Recycling as we know it in Australia is a piecemeal process. We want to revolutionise the process with science and technology,” Simonian said.

So far, 12 companies have expressed interest in recycling waste at the ecology park. It would take in products such as electronic and chemical waste, coal wash residue, power station ash and carpet cut-offs and turn out products for use in road, rail and

drainage construction, the building industry and fuels. The park would also generate much of its own energy as a by-product of its various specialist recycling operations. Water would be recycled on site. (More Pg 62)Courtesy: Inside Waste Weekly

Western Australia Environment Minister Bill Marmion has appointed Peter Fitzpatrick as chairman of the Waste Authority.

He joins several new faces at the authority and a new focus on moving WA towards best practice in waste management, including the orderly planning for waste facilities.

Fitzpatrick has many years’ experience as the CEO of two peak WA industry bodies, the Law Society and the Motor Trade Association.

He has developed innovative environmental programs and has previous waste industry experience, having served on the former Waste Advisory Board and State Recycling Advisory Committee.

Fitzpatrick, a highly regarded business figure in WA, currently lectures in corporate governance for the Australian Institute of Company Directors and in the business school at the University of Western Australia.

Longer droughts for south-east Australia were predicted at a workshop in Canberra that explored the latest climatic models from the multi-agency South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative (SEACI).

Program director David Post said the three-year, $9 million project aimed to assess the impacts of climate variability and change across south-east Australia to better inform water resource planning and management.

“While 2010 brought welcome rains for much of south-eastern Australia, there is growing evidence from SEACI research that a long-term trend towards a drier climate is taking place. We now also have a better understanding of the drivers behind these variations in rainfall,” said Post.

These included the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), the Southern Annual Mode (SAM) and the sub-tropical ridge (STR).

SEACI’s initial report, ‘Climate variability and change in south-eastern Australia’, found the dry spell since 1996 was the driest 13-year period in the past 110 years of reliable climate records.

“South-eastern Australia is facing a future climate which will likely be characterised by longer droughts, so SEACI will provide water managers and policy-makers with improved seasonal forecasts and longer term climate projections to better plan for the future,” the report said.EMN.net.au search: sEaCI

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Plastics converted to fuelCanadian company JBI has developed a process that uses plastics as a feedstock and turns them into fuel.

The Plastic2Oil process starts by feeding a variety of unwashed post-commercial and industrial non-recyclable plastics through a shredder and granulator. The system can handle up to 816.5kg at a time.

It is then heated in a process chamber, after which it proceeds into the main reactor where a reusable catalyst is used to crack the plastics’ hydrocarbons into shorter hydrocarbon chains that exit the plastic in a gaseous state.

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Munching through organic wasteUS company Ecologico-Logic has created a system, called The Muncher, which can convert organic waste into mulched and liquid compost in less than an hour.

Currently in the prototype stage, it mechanically shreds pre-separated organic garbage to both reduce its volume and increase its surface area. Aerobic microbes within the system, aided by a chemical treatment, break the matter down.

Not only is the organic waste kept out of landfills but it also takes up less space. The company says one tonne of organic garbage can be converted to roughly 272kg of solid cake mulch and liquid effluent.

Ecologico-Logic is currently looking at industrial-scale Munchers that could process up to 50 tonnes of waste per day.More: http://tinyurl.com/3sd3z5f

Dim the lights on quiet streetsThe Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology is experimenting with a new streetlight system equipped with motion sensors that dim the lights to 20 per cent power when no people or vehicles are moving near them. Researchers hope to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 80 per cent.

The illumination comes from LED bulbs, which are triggered by motion sensors. As a person or car approaches, their movement is detected by the closest streetlight and its output goes up to 100 per cent.

Because the lights are all wirelessly linked to one another, the surrounding lights come on at the same time, and only go back down to 20 per cent illumination once the commuter has passed through.More: http://tinyurl.com/3btm2wz

‘Erutan’ puts wool back in the frame A research team from Spain’s Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Austria’s University of Graz have come up with a new type of wool carpet they say is cheaper and lighter than traditional products and can be completely composted when worn out.

The research project is called ‘Erutan’, which is ‘nature’ spelled backwards.

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Phase change material made in ChinaA new material that retains and releases heat according to specific temperature requirements could make a significant difference to the cost of heating and cooling buildings.

Researchers at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) are working on a phase change material with a larger energy storage capacity and faster thermal response than existing materials.

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An end to internal combustion?Dr Norbert Müller from Michigan State University is working on a new form of combustion engine called The Wave Disc Generator, which he says can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 95 per cent in comparison to the conventional internal combustion engine.

Müller engine is in the form of a spinning metal disc with precisely calculated radial channels.

The design does away with many of the moving parts and circulatory systems of conventional combustion engines, which combine to reduce their fuel use efficiency by 15 per cent. Müller is obtaining efficiencies of 60 per cent with the wave disc design.

“Our goal is to enable hyper-efficient hybrid vehicles to meet consumer needs for a 500 mile (800km) driving range, lower vehicle prices, full-size utility, improved highway performance and very low operating costs,” says Müller. More: http://tinyurl.com/3rybrpv

Cell technology bags double recorda double record has been achieved by university of NsW solar cell research-ers, which promises to deliver substantial efficiency gains at minimal extra

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In May, they tipped the benchmark at 19.3 per cent efficiency and in June, lifted that result to 19.4 per cent. the previous record was 18.9 per cent.

Dr Matt Edwards of the school of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, said “it’s another step closer to solar power costing the same as coal-fired electricity”.

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Look out, it’s super sand…scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand into a “super sand” with five times the filtering capacity, a potential boon for developing countries where more than a billion people lack clean water.

Dr Wei gao from Rice university in texas said the product “combines coarse sand with functional carbon material that could offer higher retention for those pollutants, and at the same time gives good throughput”.

another team member, Dr Mainak Majumder from Monash university in Melbourne, said it was cheaper than other technologies.

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Japan will create a nuclear safety agency under the Environment

Ministry, overtly separating the current Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency from the industry ministry.The European Wind Energy Association claims wind could meet 18.4% the EU’s electricity requirements by 2020, up from 5.3% now. It also called on the European Commission to impose a target for renewable energy beyond 2020. (EMN: EWEA)A 1-in-100 year drought has hit Texas, with other states similarly gripped, said the weekly US Drought Monitor. La Nina has seen 94.27% of Texas in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought.Mexico City has hit 82% of its target reduction in greenhouse emissions, cutting 5.7 Mt of CO2-e since 2008. Most of it has come through the transport sector, along with reforestation, energy conservation and waste separation. (EMN: Mexico)US container recycling is lagging, with a report by non-profit As You Sow claiming only 29% (by weight) of the 224 billion beverage containers sold each year is recycled. But it noted opposition to container deposit systems was falling. (EMN: Sow)A new Indian environment protection will see different national institutions frame and monitor zonal disaster management plans, says Hindustan Times. Some $1.05b was invested in US cleantech firms between April and June, says an Ernst & Young update. It is well down on the year before but it expects a bump in the next few months.The International Maritime Organisation has mandated energy efficiency ratings for the international shipping fleet, which emits around 3% of global emissions. It signals a key shift in the regulatory landscape of shipping, which is growing at 3-4% a year.Emissions of most air pollutants fell across the EU-27 in 2009, said the latest annual emission inventory by the European Environment Agency. Some, such as sulphur oxides (SOx), fell significantly, mainly due to the recession.Oracle has new software extensions designed to allow companies to track environmental data more quickly and efficiently. Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting provides standardised methods for computing environmental impacts and footprints. (EMN: Oracle)

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An eco-hero passes onOne of the sustainability movement’s real icons, Interface founder Ray

anderson, has died of cancer at the age of 77.anderson launched the carpet company in 1973 and some 20 years later

had his famous “spear in the chest” revelation that the company needed to revolutionise its business model to make it truly sustainable.

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China confirms trading A Chinese powerbroker has again said the country will pilot a carbon trading scheme and gradually build a market for emissions trading, though there is still no launch date.

“To get the scheme going, Beijing will widen the difference in electricity tariffs between power-intensive sectors and other industries,” said Xie Zhenhua, vice-minister of China’s economic planner the National Development and Reform Commission.

In April the NDRC said China would pilot six emissions trading schemes by 2013, and set up a national trading platform by 2015. Last month, it reiterated a ban on favourable power tariffs for energy-intensive sectors.

Performance and perception Toyota, 3M and Siemens have topped Interbrand’s first ‘Best Global Green Brands’ report, which combines internal (brand performance) and external (consumer perception) criteria.

“We believe the strongest green brands lie at the intersection of performance and perception: their ability to build stronger connections with consumers as a result of actionable and credible environmental practices,” said Interbrand’s Jez Frampton.

It evaluated each brand’s perceptions in the 10 largest global markets then engaged Deloitte to develop an environmental sustainability performance methodology based on public data.

L’Oréal, Nokia, and HSBC all scored significantly higher in performance than perception, while McDonald’s, GE and Coca-Cola were the reverse.EMN.net.au search: Interbrand

Green bank to get greenbacks?A green bank is on the cards in the US after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed the Clean Energy Financing Act.

If supported in the full Senate, the bill would establish the Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA), an independent

institution providing affordable financing for clean energy technologies.

It has the support of the US Chamber of Commerce and the American Energy Innovation Council, which has made several recommendations, including creating an independent national Energy Strategy Board and more than tripling investment in clean energy innovation to US$16 billion a year.

Think on climate, then actAlcoa and Siemens are among the handful of companies launching the multi-industry Next Practice Collaborative, focused on integrating long-term thinking about climate change into business strategy.

“What we’re trying to do now is raise the bar for what it means for a company to be a leader on climate,” said Samantha Putt del Pino of the World Resources Institute (WRI).

The seven companies will first focus on internal capital (aligning investments with sustainability) and developing products and services (including how to finance and get them in the marketplace). Other next practices include full transition to clean energy and climate adaptation strategies.EMN.net.au search: WRI

Integrity in science, coverage The US EPA has released a draft Scientific Integrity Policy to promote scientific ethical standards, public communications, the use of advisory committees and peer review, as well as the responsibilities of a new Scientific Integrity Committee.

Meanwhile, the BBC is to revamp its science coverage after an independent review concluded journalists boosted the apparent controversy of news stories such as climate change and GM crops by giving too much weight to fringe scientific viewpoints.

Steve Jones, emeritus professor of genetics at University College London, found the practice created a “false balance”, which made some scientific debates appear more controversial than they actually were.EMN.net.au search: Integrity, BBC

Payback not in the cloudsBy 2020, large US companies that use cloud computing technologies can cut annual energy costs by US$12.3 billion ($11.3b) and CO2-e emissions by 85.7 million tonnes, says a study for the Carbon Disclosure Project.

“Companies plan to accelerate their adoption of cloud computing from 10 per cent to 69 per cent of their information technology (IT) spend by 2020,” said the report by research analysts Verdantix.

Stuart Neumann, senior manager at Verdantix, added “the study analysed the business impacts of transferring an essential business application − human resources − to the cloud and shows such an investment could give a payback in under one year”.EMN.net.au search: Verdantix

US buys into e-waste scheme The US Government has launched the ‘National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship’, which mostly seeks to use its purchasing power to drive industry “toward more sustainable products and practices”.

It aims to establish “a policy on used federal electronics that maximises their reuse and ensures that all federal electronics

are processed by certified recyclers. The government will also ban its e-waste from entering landfills”.

Functional equipment will be donated or sold, while non-functional equipment will be taken to third-party certified recyclers or returned to manufacturers.

Unlike Australia’s incoming e-waste scheme, the US agreement is purely voluntary and has no recycling targets.EMN.net.au search: Dell

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EU airspace program “illegal”, says USIs this the opening salvo in green trade wars? us airlines and government departments have let fly at Eu plans to expand its emissions trading scheme to all airlines flying through European airspace.

the industry told a Congressional hearing the controversial measure would cost us airlines more than us$3 billion by 2020.

John Mica, chair of the House transportation and Infrastructure Committee, was blunt: “the message from Congress and the us government is loud and clear: the us will not participate in this ill-advised and illegal Eu program.”

the association of European airlines has also warned of competitiveness impacts, but the Eu has shown no signs of backing down.

Oil back on the riseGlobal oil consumption jumped 3.1 per cent in 2010 to an all-time high of 87.4 million barrels per day, reveals a new ‘Vital Signs’ online report from the Worldwatch Institute.

Oil remained the largest source of primary energy use worldwide in 2010, but its share fell to 37 per cent. Worldwatch also noted “the momentum of future market growth has moved to the developing world”.

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Green purchasing is about more efficient buying. In an era of economic constraint it is about buying smart, buying to last, buying to reduce

operational costs and even buying to achieve long-term market changes.

The introduction of a price on carbon gives a bit more impetus to the efficiency imperative by penalising inefficiency. The rising cost of energy is not new. In fact, smarter organisations have been working to drive down running costs for some time through greener buildings, smarter plant and equipment and more efficient fleet, among other things.

Energy prices are on the increase regardless of a price on carbon. As a result of costs such as infrastructure investment, bills will rise by about 10 per cent per annum; the price on carbon is additional to this.

While the Federal Government has eased some of the pressure through free permits to some industries, it should be remembered that these will be phased out over time and the price on carbon will most likely increase above its initial price of $23/tonne (Treasury is predicting $29/tonne by 2020).

So anyone buying potentially high emission materials or products should be asking their suppliers for carbon footprint data on those supplies and what the organisation’s plans are for carbon abatement action into the future.

A price on carbon creates opportunities for energy efficient operators to save increasing amounts of money, improving financial performance compared to their competitors. Organisations that use the most energy have the most to gain by shifting to more efficient practices or a more carbon efficient supply chain.

Hidden costs will climbBecause the price on carbon will impact prices across every sector of manufacturing and business, companies should expect increases in the costs of all their input goods and services. These ‘hidden’ costs of the price on carbon could be substantial, depending on the carbon intensity of the supply chain and the level of government assistance provided.

Work by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research (NIEIR) for the Brotherhood of St Lawrence identified the impact of carbon pricing on different areas of consumption (assuming a carbon price of $25/tonne). The research found half of the carbon consumed by Victorian households is embodied in the goods and services they buy, with the other half coming from the direct consumption of electricity, gas and fuel.

The same impact will apply on an organisational level, though they do not have the same level of financial protection that households do through tax reductions offered by the Federal Government’s ‘Clean Energy Plan’.

Again, the opportunity exists for progressive organisations to get ahead of the game by shifting their purchasing to more environmentally preferable and

low carbon products and services, where carbon price-related cost increases will likely be lower.

Among other environmental attributes, ‘green’ products and services generally have lower energy needs and therefore lower greenhouse emissions, becoming increasingly cost competitive, especially over the full lifecycle.

If you buy carbon intensive products such as electrical goods and IT equipment, locking in contracts for greener alternatives will enable you to capture the lower price and emission benefits.

So all organisations should be asking themselves the following questions:n Do we understand where the main carbon impacts are in our supply chain?n What is the scope for reducing the carbon footprint and reducing costs through green procurement?n Do our suppliers have comprehesive carbon management plans in place?

n What actions should we be putting in place now to develop our capability and capacity in this area?

Now is the opportunity to start developing both a better understanding of the carbon intensity of your supply chain and your organisation’s green procurement capability. In doing so, you will reap the financial benefits of low carbon purchasing.

ECO-Buy and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply are jointly hosting the National Sustainable Procurement Forum in Melbourne on September 7−8. More at www.cipsaconferences.com.au

Carbon pricing down the lineThe pending carbon price gives business and industry ever greater incentive to strive for efficiencies as the cost of inefficiency escalates.

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FACT FILE: AN UPDATE ON PAPER AND WOODA leading guide to purchasing forestry-based products has been updated in response to an increased demand for products of legal origin,‘Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products’ is a toolbox designed to help corporate managers understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world’s forests.It comes amid growing conflict over forest sourcing and certification. Locally, Australian Paper is locked in a tussle over its Forest Stewardship Council certification and Fuji Xerox Australia in July cut ties with Indonesia logger Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL).The guide is produced by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute. They expanded the publication’s ‘Guide to the guides’ to help cut through the clutter of varying projects, rating systems and procurement policies, and ramped up the focus on the legality of forest products to reflect developments such as the 2008 amendment to the US Lacey Act and the passing of the EU Illegal Timber Regulation in 2010.Download at www.wbcsd.org. More in WME’s ‘Essentials Guide to Paper & Printing’ at www.wme.com.au/magazine

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On 22 June, the Parliament passed the Product Stewardship Act, which provides the umbrella provisions for product stewardship in Australia.

The detail of product-specific schemes such as the proposed e-waste scheme will be contained in the underlying regulations. The e-waste regulations are out.

The act sets out a national legislative framework for product stewardship schemes, which may cover any number of types of products.

It requires liable parties to be members of an approved “arrangement”, a set of measures implemented to meet the product stewardship obligations and requirements of that liable party or group.

It gives the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities powers to assess and approve these arrangements, as well as monitor and enforce compliance by applying both civil and criminal penalties. Liable parties can appeal specified decisions.

The act sets out three tiers of product stewardship schemes − voluntary, co-regulatory and mandatory.

The first of these provides an accreditation avenue for purely voluntary schemes. The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (SEWPaC) has indicated the tyre industry is being targeted as appropriate for an industry-led scheme, while existing voluntary schemes such as the mobile phone industry’s MobileMuster may seek accreditation.

A co-regulatory approach involves a mandatory requirement for liable entities to join product stewardship schemes and the use of government regulation to set outcomes and consistent requirements and targets for those schemes. Liable entities will, however, have some flexibility in how those outcomes, requirements and targets are met. The proposed e-waste scheme will be a co-regulatory scheme.

Under a mandatory approach, regulations will be more prescriptive than the co-regulatory approach and dictate both the outcome/requirement and how that will be met.

Products to be coveredThe act is silent on the specific products that may be regulated, but “product stewardship criteria” help determine whether certain classes of product should be regulated. The criteria are satisfied if: 1. The products are in a national market; and 2. At least one of the following applies: (a) The products contain hazardous substances; (b) There is the potential for conservation of materials or energy or resource recovery benefits; (c) There is the potential to significantly reduce the impact that the products (or the substances they

contain) have on the environment or the health or safety of humans.

During consultation, some stakeholders raised concerns the criteria were too broad, creating uncertainty for business. The legislation was passed with amendments that required the Minister to publish annually a list of classes of products proposed for regulation in the next financial year, and established the Product Stewardship Advisory Group to advise the Minister on the list.

In preparing the list, the Minister may have regard to any relevant matter including whether the product stewardship criteria are satisfied, the cost to governments, consumers’ willingness to pay, and any business opportunities.

Penalties for non-complianceThe act contains provisions for civil penalties, enforceable undertakings and infringement notices. For example, if a liable party fails to join an approved co-regulatory arrangement, it may be fined up to $22,000 (for an individual), $110,000 (for a corporation) or an amount equal to the total value of any benefits obtained from the failure to join an arrangement.

The maximum penalty payable may be increased by 10 per cent for each day that the liable party fails to comply. The Minister may accept a written undertaking as an alternative to civil penalty proceedings or criminal prosecution. They may also apply for an injunction restraining the breach of the act or requiring a party to comply with the act.

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FACT FILE: STEWARDSHIP FUTURESVoluntary product stewardship is not new in Australia. Consumers are familiar with MobileMuster, South Australia’s container deposit scheme or council e-waste ‘take back’ schemes.The act, however, lays the foundation for product stewardship on a much larger scale. This has the potential to irrevocably change the way waste is managed in Australia, affecting importers, manufacturers, waste service providers and governments at all levels.The success of product-specific schemes will depend on many factors, including whether they are voluntary, co-regulatory or mandatory, the willingness of consumers to participate and the ability of arrangements and waste providers to recover or dispose of particular products.The development of product-specific schemes is likely to depend on the success or failure of the e-waste scheme. It will be interesting to see what and how many products make the first priority product list for regulation.

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John Cole has always had a knack for asking the awkward question that

reveals the heart of an issue. After a 20-year career in sustainability circles – inaugural CEO of the now-Sustainable Business Australia, a founding executive director of the Queensland EPA and now director of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development – he brings the perspective of those years but has never lost the ability to question the orthodoxy.

“The fundamental question is this: We have been in the environmen-tal business for about 50 years, since Rachel Carson wrote her book Silent Spring, and we must ask ourselves, are we winning,” Cole said.

“By any performance measure at a macro level, you’d have to say the human quest for sustainable develop-ment has failed on all major counts.”

Cole has been invited to focus his contrarian sights on the environmen-tal consulting sector as chair of the upcoming EIANZ national conference. He’s promising some probing questions.

“In that [macro] context, how does the environmental management profession stack up? Are we just bar stewards on

the Titanic or are we really making a strategic impact through our work?”

“Are we using our expertise and science and insight to make a difference positively, equipping our clients to be proactive and problem solving in this space, rather than simply providing us with a lucrative ongoing retainer because the environmental problems are intractable?”

The questions are rhetorical. Cole argues too many in the profession have settled for the comfortable status quo. He is not suggesting solutions – it is up the EIANZ and individuals to decide what the profession wants to be – but is keen to spark some soul searching.

“What I want the older aspects of the association to hear from the younger ones is passion, enthusiasm and a sense of end game, because I think

we lose a little bit in our managerialist approach to things,” he said.

“We tend to put things into a holding pattern and account for projects such that they conform with the law, that they are in compliance. This is under-standable because that is part of the system, but culturally as a profession we need to invigorate ourselves every now and then.”

The art of collaborationClimate change. Population growth. Resource peaks. Biodiversity extinction. Society is tentatively starting to grapple with these big-picture, systemic issues, so where do environmental consultants fit in the conversation?

Cole believes too many are dabbling at the margins and, as a result, risk margin-alising themselves.

“It is not that the industry has to be activist; it just has to be more proactive,” Cole said.

The pragmatic response is to wonder how to make a dollar out of tackling systemic issues with no clear client and possibly no clear recognition of the presenting problem.

“You would only do it if you could make it work, but you may have to experiment a bit, you might have to evolve in your processes and internal discussions, to loosen up your thinking,” Cole said.

One pitch is for a new model of collaboration. ClimateWorks Australia executive director Anna Skarbek is a keynote speaker at the conference. She sees the need for innovative new delivery models.

“What I mean by delivery models is getting these solutions to the market, getting clients to undertake the solutions. Where I see the need for innovation is in one-stop shop solutions, in making it easy for clients,” she told WME.

ClimateWorks partners widely to research opportunities in carbon abatement, but it doesn’t leave the issue there. It drills down to the specific barriers for each sector.

“We hope to provide a framework, a lense through which sector experts can look at this and apply their creativity and innovation to unlocking the barrier that is most prevalent in their sector,” Skarbek said.

Still, she acknowledges the difficulty

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in working out the commercial model in such work. The London investment bank she worked for did a lot of work in “market development” to bring down barriers and unlock capital around clean energy, but it is a long-term play and requires deep pockets.

“The challenge for consultancies is that it takes time and effort to do that sort of policy work and there is not necessarily any money in it. So creativity in who might support that work, or fund it, is going to be required,” she said.

Cole urged the EIANZ to take up the mantle of bringing the consulting sector together around broader projects. It could engage other industries with a stake in an issue, approach government in a more sophisticated way and establish a leadership position.

Skarbek adds two other models. Consultants with different skill sets could come together to tackle holistic problems, while partnering with inde-pendent groups such as ClimateWorks is useful in helping avoid accusations of commercial interest.

Developing holistic perspectiveCole expects consultants to become more “systems-capable”, with a broader, multi-disciplinary capacity evolving over time in response to broader issues.

“We are seeing this systems focus now in the concept of cumulative impact. Well I’d like to see it turned into this concept; cumulative possibility. Turn it on its head and think about what are the alternatives rather than the narrow technical solution,” he said.

“Coal seam gas is a good example. At the moment they are talking about either reinjecting the water into the ground or beneficial reuse, which has got people talking about ways to get rid of large volumes of water cheaply and quickly.

“What I think we should be doing, and what I’d like to see a consultancy doing, is looking at the region 30 years out and thinking how can this resource be used most effectively to enable the long-term sustainability of the region.

“One idea I’ve heard of is growing particular crops that would be pyrolised and used for biochar, and for the output of the water being used for the long-term productivity of soils in the region.

“That is not the kind of thinking you get from a commercial consultant looking for an expedient, short-term fix.”

Cole has brought in some heavyweight speakers to illustrate the key challenges he sees for environmental consultants. Former Brisbane City Council CEO Jude Munro knows something about negotiating complex outcomes and dealing with conflicting aims and people

having worked for a Liberal mayor with a Labor majority.

Dr Jamie Pittock is director of inter-national programs for the Australian National University’s UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He’s all about holistic and deliverable solutions.

And Ellen Sandall, the national director of the Australian Youth Coalition for Climate Change, will provide some insights into a key cultural challenge for what Cole considers a conserva-tive industry – engaging and enthusing Generation Y.

It promises to be one of the most interesting conferences for a long time.

‘Facing the future – Actions for the Environment Profession’ is on the Sunshine Coast on September 28-30.

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Ethics are personal, even where codes of practice have been institutional-

ised with risk management measures and corporate accountability. When a choice is required between alternative courses of action, and the choice has a moral dimension, our individual responses are based on values and experience.

A Code of Ethics, such as that of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ), provides a concise framework that represents the shared values of environment professionals. These values are a combination of environmental ethics – our responsibility to act and advise in ways that benefit the environment – and professional ethics to use our skills in ways that maintain the trust placed in trained professionals by the community.

The shared values of the environment professions, which form the basis for a common code, have some overlap with other disciplines and institutions, including science, public service, business, law and medicine. Despite that, there are different perspectives in culture, in due process and what constitutes ethical behaviour.

We share with science and law a funda-mental reliance on truthfulness and genuine opinions in reporting.

A great deal of community and government agency trust depends on main-tenance of these standards. Environment practitioners also promote and achieve responsible environmental management, conservation and sustainability and, in this respect, combine their professional and environmental ethics.

However, this balance is not always appreciated by advocates of environmen-tal action, nor of clients and colleagues presented with environmental constraints.

The media presents simplified and sometimes contradictory community standards of ethics.

Nonetheless, it does provide a useful test when deciding between how options might be perceived: could I explain my actions if they were highlighted in the newspaper?

Another benchmark is the test provided by legal proceedings: could my advice withstand scrutiny in court?

Options, impacts and benefitsOne of the strengths of environmental practice is its multi-disciplinary approach to resolving complex problems, involving a range of options, impacts and benefits. However, this also creates ethical dilemmas associated with team collaboration and the commitment to project outcomes, especially where issues are identified after key decisions have been made.

Environmental experts are highly valued by clients and agencies when their assessments and reputation support prior decisions, gain approvals or facilitate development, but not when they identify problems. However, avoidance of difficult issues or obfuscation in reporting (greenwash) can be counter-productive for clients and projects in the long term.

False and misleading information is both unethical and unlawful and among its consequences are loss of reputation and certification. Corporate risk management procedures, a robust code of ethics and a strong professional association provide support in dealing with such situations, but decisions are ultimately personal.

Early identification of potential dilemmas, guidelines for ethical decision-

making, regular workplace discussion and mentoring are all part of good environ-mental practice. Young practitioners in particular will benefit from opportuni-ties to seek guidance from more senior mentors, both within and outside the workplace.

Hypothetical scenarios are valuable training tools that help break the barriers to conversations about ethics and provide essential practice for the analysis and personal reflection required in decision-making. Errors in judgment are less likely to occur if we have had practice in recog-nising and resolving ethical dilemmas.

The Certified Environmental Practitioner scheme, an initiative of the EIANZ, places considerable emphasis on ethical under-standing and conduct in its certification process. EIANZ has also embarked on a comprehensive review of its Code of Ethics, with a new draft Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct currently under consideration by members.

It expands the previous one-page code into a supportive document with principles, shared values and guidelines for ethical decision-making as a framework for addressing the dilemmas often faced in practice. The draft code will be put to the institute’s AGM at the ‘Facing the Future Conference’ in late September.

Alan Chenoweth is on the EIANZ Working Group on the Code of Ethics and doing a PHD on environmental ethics at Griffith University. This is based on a paper to an EIANZ (SEQ) forum on ethics.


EIANZ is reviewing its codes to ensure its principles, shared values and guidelines for ethical decision-making can be put into practice. By Alan Chenoweth.

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Keynote Plenary 1: At the crossroads: the great lessons of environmental protection and conservation since 1960 and the challenges to be addressed by the environmental profession in the decades ahead

Dr Barry Carbon FEIANZ: Former head of Commonwealth, QLD and WA EPADr Peter Ellyard FEIANZ: Chairman, Preferred Futures Institute

Keynote Plenary 2: Environmental Professionals: Dealing with Complexity in Translating Policy into Practice

Ellen Sandell: National Director, Australian Youth Climate CoalitionDr Morgan Williams HFEIANZ: Former New Zealand Commissioner for the Environment

Keynote Plenary 3: Low Carbon Future – making economics & technology work for effective transformation

Anna Skarbek: National Director - ClimateworksMatthew Wright: Executive Director, Beyond Zero EmissionsDr Jamie Pittock: Australian National University

Keynote Plenary 4: Environmental Professionals – Taking Science into Practice through Community Engagement

Dr Linda Selvey: CEO GreenpeaceJude Munro AO: Former Chief Executive, Brisbane City Council

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Keynote Plenary 1: At the crossroads: the great lessons of environmental protection and conservation since 1960 and the challenges to be addressed by the environmental profession in the decades ahead

Dr Barry Carbon FEIANZ: Former head of Commonwealth, QLD and WA EPADr Peter Ellyard FEIANZ: Chairman, Preferred Futures Institute

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Ellen Sandell: National Director, Australian Youth Climate CoalitionDr Morgan Williams HFEIANZ: Former New Zealand Commissioner for the Environment

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Anna Skarbek: National Director - ClimateworksMatthew Wright: Executive Director, Beyond Zero EmissionsDr Jamie Pittock: Australian National University

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Dr Linda Selvey: CEO GreenpeaceJude Munro AO: Former Chief Executive, Brisbane City Council

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Mr Regulator, we brought in an independent expert and everything. But there is nothing just-for-show about the environmental liability solutions being touted by WSP Environment & Energy. The global consultancy firm is offering to assume all the liability for a site remediation project, letting the client off risk-free – in perpetuity.

Called Active Transfer, the mechanism was developed in the US in the mid-1990s but has rarely been used outside the country. In the past two years, WSP has worked up several projects in the UK and has been laying the groundwork in Australia.

Paul Burke, WSP’s principal director for land restoration and planning in Australia, sees it as a potential game-changer here.

“In terms of WSP, it is a big differen-tiator in terms of how we behave as a company and our ability and desire to share in the risks with our clients,” he said.

In a sign of how seriously the company is taking the product, the sales job is being spearheaded by WSP’s global MD, Stuart McLachlan. He said the financial robustness of the concept delivers certainty to the often uncertain quantification of contamination liabilities.

“We are the acknowledged experts in this subject, so why should we ask our clients to take the risk?” he told WME.

For a fixed upfront price, the environ-mental risk and obligation for all known and unknown liabilities are transferred to WSP. It holds the funds in trust and takes out an “insurance wrap” through a US broker to defray the risks, including long-term contamination exposure, short-term clean-up costs, regulatory reform and more.

It comes at a cost, of course. McLachlan

puts it at a 10−20 per cent premium, but against this he makes two points. One is an interesting “claw back” provision in the mechanism, where if the project comes in below cost then WSP shares any savings. He says Kodak got back a swag of money after the clean-up of a site in Liverpool, UK came in well under budget.

The other point is broadening the definition of value, because up-front project costs are just part of the package. There is also value in certainty, in being able to focus on core business and in a consultant with some skin in the game.

Familiarity breeds understandingAccording to Burke, the environmental liability solutions (ELS) concept alters the relationship between companies and their consultants.

“It really does change the nature of discussion with clients and also the indi-viduals within client organisations who you have conversations with,” he said.

“In the past, you would typically expect

individuals from our contaminated sites team to talk to similar people within client organisations, such as the environmental manager. With this, it might be myself or other commercial managers talking with CFOs and risk and compliance people, really understanding the commercial drivers.

“There are no new technologies here. It is all about the mechanism you set up and the risk sharing that goes on.”

That mechanism also contractually ties the parties together for a long time, while the potential profit share for a project coming in beneath the cost cap further meshes the commercial interests.

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Consultant WSP is changing the risk relationship with clients by offering to assume all liability for site remediation projects. Richard Collins reports.


It really does change the nature of discussion with clients and also the individuals within client organisations who you have conversations with– Paul Burke, WSP“

WsP reckons it can help unlock contaminated sites for new uses.

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“It really brings together the client, the prospective [property] buyer even, and WSP, all aligned to achieve the same outcome, which, to be frank, is an interest-ing and different scenario than we are used to,” said Burke.

It is also seeing WSP establish an internal team for the ELS section, both to ensure they have the right skills but also to ensure it is set up commercially independent of WSP’s profit and loss sheet.

Active Transfer in actionActive Transfer has potential benefits for anyone involved in the supply chain for cleaning up contaminated land, including sectors such as manufacturing, property development, finance, local planning and state government.

Burke has been talking to them all and hopes to have the first project signed in the next six to 12 months.

“We are talking to [an industrial] company at the moment who has a large portfolio of potentially contaminated sites. They are in the process of acquiring or divesting of sites at any one time,” he said.

“The concept we have put to them is we can use an ELS approach and create

a vehicle to initially address the envi-ronmental liabilities around their existing redundant sites and potentially leave that vehicle in place to feed redundant sites in and out as they hit the radar.”

He’s also talking to property developers.“For developers, a real key is it provides

certainty and timing to a project. But more importantly, it allows them to put forward a proposition to a lender, which

can facilitate them getting debt funding for the contamination clean-up,” he said, noting the tight lending market in recent years added to the attractiveness of Active Transfer.

While a clean-up liability of more than $2 million is probably the minimum for the full Active Transfer model, other factors come into play if a property trans-action is involved. WSP is developing a proposal for a $1 million project but rolling in fewer bells and whistles.

“We’re working on a proposal that caps the cost and provides some limited insurance, not around the project costs but around the unknowns, so some [Pollution Legal Liability] insurance to cover potential groundwater issues and also any legislative changes moving forward.”

Burke is also talking to private equity players about ways to take environmental liabilities off the table when they are trying to buy and flip companies.

“The big challenge for us is just around visibility and understanding. The concept is well proven and there are no legal or legislative barriers that would stop us doing it,” he said, though they’ve had to develop a variation of the mechanism for jurisdictions with polluter pays models, such as NSW.

“This is not a solution for everyone. There needs to be the right criteria in terms of size and complexity, but also the risk appetite of the client… This is for companies who really don’t see this as core business, who don’t want to invest the time and effort.”

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There needs to be the right criteria in terms of size and complexity, but also the risk appetite of the client“


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Having already cut its carbon emissions by 35 per cent per capita, Sinclair

Knight Merz (SKM) has launched its own Carbon Fund to invest in innovative solutions to further reduce or offset its remaining carbon emissions.

In February, the company decided to apply an internal price to its carbon emissions and looked to the international Clean Development Mechanism as the benchmark. At $15/tonne of CO2-e, it expects to accumulate $320,000 this financial year.

SKM has invited staff to identify projects worthy of investment by the fund. It sees three main avenues: capital investments in client projects, provision of consulting and advice in return for a capital or carbon reduction stake in a client project, and

investing directly in carbon credits.Renewable energy initiatives, such as

biomass, wind and solar power projects in developing countries are expected to be high on the list.

According to its managing director Paul Dougas, the launch of the Carbon Fund is the next phase in SKM’s ongoing commitment to sustainability.

“We want to be a proactive party in this, not just to continue to buy green energy but to go further and proactively develop clean energy sources and sustainable solutions that have widespread benefits,” he said.

The company is expecting collateral benefits, such as strengthening client ties by taking an equity stake in projects and also using any insights from the fund for

the benefit of clients.SKM chief sustainability officer Nick

Fleming added, “we are looking for ways where we can make investments in emissions reduction that may also generate revenue, so the Carbon Fund could become self-sustaining”.

In 2008, the firm committed to cutting its emissions by 30 per cent per capita in three years. It has passed the goal, cutting carbon emissions from some 5.7 tonnes per person to 3.7 tonnes.



SKM has launched an internal Carbon Fund, where staff can nominate projects worthy of investment. By Richard Collins.

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Amid the confusion surrounding the structure of water retailing in south east Queensland

was a ray of light last month – Allconnex Water’s Logan Water Alliance took out the Infrastructure Project Innovation Award at the Queensland Water Awards.

The alliance of Allconnex and engineering services providers Tenix, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Cardno is one of the largest water infrastructure delivery programs of its type in Australia.

“What is novel about our alliance, what sets us apart from others, is that planning is included in the scope of works,” said alliance manager Christian Truscott.

While the top level strategic planning remains with Allconnex and the State Government, the alliance handles everything under that, from master-planning down through to catchment planning, from project identification to capital delivery.

“We swim a lot further upstream than most program alliances around the place. Our ability to work in the planning space and collectively use the knowledge of all the partners of the alliance

in planning lets us deliver some really good value for money solutions,” Truscott told WME.

In fact, ‘Unlocking value through planning’ is a mantra around the place. As an example, Truscott points to the Slacks Creek to Loganholme Wastewater Trunk Main project. The original plan had been for a major pump station at the WWTP, but the alliance team took a step back and adopted a whole-of-catchment approach. The solution, which involves the delivery of wastewater using 7km of pres-surised rising mains, is expected to halve whole-of-life costs.

Shared risks and rewardsThe rate of growth in the corridor south of Brisbane, combined with council amal-gamations in 2008, saw Allconnex Water’s projected capital investment in the Logan district jump from about $30 million a year towards $100 million.

In addition, the scope of works was complex and uncertain, making an integrated alliance that shared the risks and rewards the preferred option.

That required building a culture pretty well from scratch. The first year of the alliance saw a significant investment in human resources management, relationship development and culture building activities to bind the 110 staff.

“We had a focus on change management and building the team at the start of the alliance,” Truscott said.

“We sat down with each person and asked them their aspira-tions and what they wanted out of the alliance. That allowed us to structure the team so they would be able to add most value.”

After a few months, they ran a two-day foundation workshop to develop the alliance values and charter. The value around program delivery, for example, was “deliver the right projects for the right costs in the right timeframes”.

There has been a suite of culture building efforts, including regular internal communications, the Icebreakers social committee and quarterly “health check surveys” on the culture. The Australian Water Association award suggests they’ve got it right.

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PLANNING MAkES PERfECT

We sat down with each person and asked them their aspirations and what they wanted out of the alliance

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the planning team did a detailed audit of the regions planning needs and identified priority tasks.


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Stephenson Environmental Management Australia (SEMA) and Odour Research Laboratories Australia (ORLA) are leading Australian owned consultancies, established 28 years ago by Peter Stephenson and Margot Kimber. Together with a very experienced team of scientists and engineers, we continue to provide independent monitoring services and value added advice and solutions in the areas of emissions, air quality, odour and associated emission control technologies.

Both SEMA and ORLA are ISO 17025 NATA accredited.

We carry state-of-art emissions monitoring technology for stack emissions, ambient air quality, workplace exposure and odour monitoring and have the capacity in technology and human resources to undertake simultaneous multiple point source testing including mobile labs for continuous monitoring.

We specialize in independent review of both monitoring and emission control technologies to optimize the efficiency for your specific process requirements.

With offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth the following services are offered throughout Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia and China:

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Since 1998 EnviroCom has provided expert consultative services for the development and implementation of strategies and programs that support and achieve community or organisational behavioural change in the areas of Waste and Resource Recovery, Water Conservation, Catchment Management, Energy Conservation, Natural Resource Management and Environmental Health.

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IOLAR Pty Ltd is a firmspecialising in providing wasteand resource managementconsultancy services to privateand government organisations.The company is founded uponextensive experience in the wastemanagement industry across allsectors, including consultancyservices, waste and resourcerecovery facility management andcontractingwithinprivateandlocalgovernment entities. This alsoincludes international experiencefromEurope.

IOLAR provides a wide range ofwaste and resource managementservicesincluding:

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environmental consultingTotal Earth Care’s (TEC) Environ-mental Consulting Division providesexperience ranging from singleallotment residential development toassessments for proposed land usechanges associated with residentialand industrial subdivisions, assess-ments & plans of management forparksandreserves.

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www.ecositesolutions.com.auEcoSTEPS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.ecosteps.com.auEcosure • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NSW Qld www.ecosure.com.auEcoSustainAbility • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld (07) 4055 8132 Ecotone Ecological Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ecotoneconsultants.com.auEcovantage • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 SA Vic www.ecovantage.com.auEdge Environment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.edgeenvironment.com.auElement Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.elementsolutions.net.auElemetrics • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Vic www.elemetrics.com.auElgin Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Tas Vic www.elgin.com.auEncycle Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.encycle.com.auEnergetics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National 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• • • 1-9 Qld www.enviroengineeringsolutions.com.auEnvirolab Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NSW WA www.envirolab.com.auEnviron Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Vic WA www.environcorp.comEnvironment & Natural Resource Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW 0401 518 443 Environment Australia • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.enviromanager.com.auEnvironment Business Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.ebs-enviro.comEnvironment Essentials • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld Vic www.enviroessentials.com.auEnvironment North • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.environmentnorth.com.au

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CM Jewell & Associates • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.cm-jewell.com.auCNF & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW WA www.cnfa.com.auCodyHart Environmental • • • 1-9 Qld www.codyhart.com.auCoffey Environments • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.coffey.comConsult Australia • • • 1-9 National www.consultaustralia.com.auConsulting Earth Scientists • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.consultingearth.com.auContaminated Bulk Water Treatment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld www.acidsolutions.comCOOE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 SA WA www.cooe.com.auCQ Consulting Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld www.cqenviro.com.auCRC Care • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.crccare.comCullen & Couper • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.cullenc.com.auDallywater Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.dallywater.com.auDesign Flow Consulting • • • • 1-9 Qld SA Vic www.designflow.net.auDHI Water & Environment • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld WA www.dhigroup.comDingle Bird Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 WA www.dingbird.com.auDiomides & Associates • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic (03) 9842 2000 Doug Small Environmental & Agricultural Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic (03) 5852 1748 Douglas Partners • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National www.douglaspartners.com.auDuke Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.dukenviro.com.auEarth Systems • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld Vic www.earthsystems.com.auEastern Environmental Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.easternenviro.com.auEBG Environmental Geoscience • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ebgroup.com.auEcCell Environmental Management • • • 10-49 Intl www.eccellenvironmental.comEco Change Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.ecochangeconsulting.com.auEco Logical Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National www.ecoaus.com.auECO Marketing • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA 0413 750 681 Eco Productions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.ecoproductions.com.auEco Waste • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ecowaste.com.auECO2Sys • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.eco2sys.comEcoedge Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.ecoedge.com.auEcologia Environment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 WA www.ecologia.com.auEcology & Heritage Partners • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic www.ehpartners.com.auEcosite Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ecositesolutions.com.auEcoSTEPS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.ecosteps.com.auEcosure • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NSW Qld www.ecosure.com.auEcoSustainAbility • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld (07) 4055 8132 Ecotone Ecological Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ecotoneconsultants.com.auEcovantage • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 SA Vic www.ecovantage.com.auEdge Environment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.edgeenvironment.com.auElement Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.elementsolutions.net.auElemetrics • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Vic www.elemetrics.com.auElgin Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Tas Vic www.elgin.com.auEncycle Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.encycle.com.auEnergetics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National www.energetics.com.auEnergy & Technical Services • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 National Intl www.energyts.comEnergy Rating Agency • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW SA (02) 9025 3788 Energy Return • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.energyreturn.com.auEntech Industries • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.entech-industries.com.auEntura • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.entura.com.auEnviro Action • • • • • 1-9 SA www.enviroaction.com.auEnviro Marine Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.enviro-marine.com.auEnviroAg Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld www.enviroag.net.auEnviroCom Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld Vic www.envirocom.com.auEnviroDyne Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.envirodynegroup.comEnviroease • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.enviroease.com.auEnviroEngineering Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.enviroengineeringsolutions.com.auEnvirolab Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NSW WA www.envirolab.com.auEnviron Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Vic WA www.environcorp.comEnvironment & Natural Resource Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW 0401 518 443 Environment Australia • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.enviromanager.com.auEnvironment Business Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.ebs-enviro.comEnvironment Essentials • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld Vic www.enviroessentials.com.auEnvironment North • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.environmentnorth.com.au

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.erm.comExis • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.exis.com.auFactor UTB • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.factorutb.com.auFibreCell • • • • • 1-9 SA (08) 8239 1973 Fishace • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 ACT Qld SA www.fishace.com.auFlinders Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 Qld www.flindersgroup.com.auFMG Engineering • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 SA Vic www.fmgengineering.com.auFootprints Environmental Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld (07) 3410 8812 Fox-Lane Consulting • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.foxlaneconsulting.com.au FRC Environmental • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld www.frcenv.com.auFSA Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld Vic www.fsaconsulting.netFWR Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.fwrgroup.com.auGainsford Environmental Consulting • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.gainsford.com.auGeo-Processors • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Intl www.geo-processors.comGeoLINK Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.geolink.net.auGeolyse • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.geolyse.comGHD • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.ghd.comGHEMS Revegetation Environmental • • • • • • • • 10-49 WA www.ghems.com.auGIS Environmental Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ecology.net.auGlobal Scene Environmental Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.globalscene.com.auGlobal Scene Products • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.globalscene.com.auGolder Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.golder.comGondwana Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Qld Vic www.gondwanaconsulting.com.auGraham A Brown & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.grahamabrown.com.auGreen Environmental Consultants • • • • • • 1-9 SA (08) 8276 9338 Green Ochre • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.greenochre.com.auGreenloaning Biostudies • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW (02) 6622 6668 Habitat Enviornment Mangement • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.habitat.net.auHarrison Grierson Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld www.harrisongrierson.comHayes Environmental Consulting • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.hayesenviro.com.auHelen Lewis Research • 1-9 NSW 0419 010 158 Highlight Consulting • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.highlightconsulting.com.auHRL Technology • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld Vic www.hrlt.com.auHyder Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 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Landform Research • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA (08) 9397 5145 Landserv • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.landserv.com.auLane Piper • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic www.lanepiper.com.auLaterals Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.laterals.com.auLaura Burden • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Vic www.environmentalmanagementsystem.com.auLBW Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.lbwenvironment.com.auLeeder Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National www.leederconsulting.comLESSWASTE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.lesswaste.com.auLife Cycle Strategies • • • • 1-9 Vic www.lifecycles.com.auLinchpin Communications • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.linchpincommunications.com.auLinchpin Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.linchpinenvironmental.com.auLiquid Pacific • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW SA www.liquidpacific.comLloyd Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.lloydconsulting.com.auLloyd Environmental Engineering • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA (08) 9371 6018 Low Ecological Services • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NT www.lowecol.com.auMACH1 Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.mach1environmental.com.auMark Rigby & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.mraenvironmental.com.auMDW Environmental Services • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.environmentalservices.com.auMeinhardt Infrastructure & Environment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National www.meinhardtgroup.comMike Haywood’s Sustainable Resource Solutions • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.mikehaywood-srs.com.auMike Ritchie & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.mraconsulting.com.auMillin EMS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Tas Vic www.millinems.com.auMitchel Hanlon Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.mitchelhanlon.com.auMolino Stewart • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.molinostewart.com.auMonarc Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic (03) 8809 1800 MS2 - Martin Stewardship & Management Strategies • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.ms2.com.auMWH • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.mwhglobal.comNet Balance • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.netbalance.comNGH Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 ACT NSW WA www.nghenvironmental.com.auNoel Arnold & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.greencap.com.auNolan Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic 0410 099 314 Obliqua • • 1-9 Vic 0400 310 188 OceansESU • • • • • • • 1-9 ACT SA www.oceans-australia.comOdour Research Laboratories • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National (02) 9737 9991 Odour Technologies • • • • • • 1-9 Qld Intl (07) 3287 7020 One World Enviornmental Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.owes.com.auOneSphere • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.onesphere.com.auOrigin Energy • • • • • 10-49 National www.originenergy.com.auOTEK Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.otek.com.auOzEnvironmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW 0419 271 819 PAEHolmes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National www.paeholmes.comPangolin Associates • • • • • • • • 1-9 ACT NSW SA www.pangolinassociates.com.auParsons Brinckerhoff • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.pb.com.auPeter J Ramsay & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Vic www.pjra.com.auPhil Hawley & Associates • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.philhawley.com.auPitney Bowes Business Insight • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National Intl www.pbinsight.com.auPlanCom Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.plancom.com.auPlanet Ark Environmental Foundation • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Vic www.planetark.orgPlanit Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NT NSW Qld www.planitconsulting.com.auPlanning 4 Sustainable Development • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld Intl www.planning4sd.comPlastic Waste Solutions • • • • 1-9 Vic www.plasticwastesolutions.comPractical Ecology • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Tas Vic www.practicalecology.com.auPrempac Recycling Solutions • • • • • • 1-9 Qld (07) 3203 5452 ProAnd Associates • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.proand.com.auRawtec • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 SA www.rawtec.com.auRCA Australia • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NSW www.rca.com.auRecycled Organics Unit • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.recycledorganics.comRedstone Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.redstone-environmental.com.auReeds Consulting • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.reedscon.com.auResource Advisory • • • 1-9 NSW Qld www.resourceadvisory.com.auResource Recovery Management • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Qld www.resrecovery.com.auRisk Strategies • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld Vic www.riskstrategies.com.auRPS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.rpsgroup.com.au

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Rural Solutions SA • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 SA www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.auRW Corkery & Company • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld www.rwcorkery.comS&N Environmental Engineers & Contractors • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW 0413 420 002 S3 - Sustainable Strategic Solutions • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.s3consulting.com.auSandra Bennett • • • • 1-9 SA 0421 066 031 Saprolite Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.saprolite.com.auSEE Sustainability Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.seesustainability.com.auSEMF • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National www.semf.com.auSentinel • • • • • • 10-49 ACT www.sentinelpl.com.auSenversa • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic www.senversa.com.auShape Our Future • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.shapeourfuture.org.auSimtars • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.simtars.com.auSinclair Knight Merz • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.globalskm.comSLR Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.slrconsulting.comSMEC Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.smec.comSolutions-in-Store • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.solutionsinstore.com.auSRK Consulting • • • • 50-200 NSW Vic WA Intl www.srk.com.auSRS Australia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.srsaustralia.com.auStephenson Environmental Management • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National (02) 9737 9991 Strategic Sustainable Development • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld 0439 727 417 Subterranean Ecology • • • 10-49 WA www.subterraneanecology.com.auSustainable Business Managment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 National www.sustainablebusinessmanagement.com.auSustainable Environmental Assessment & Management • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Tas www.seam.com.auSustainable Solutions Consulting • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.sustainablesolutionsglobal.comSustainometrics Consulting • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic www.sustainometrics.com.auSydney Environmental & Soil Laboratory • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.sesl.com.auSynergetics Environmental Engineering • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic WA www.synergetics.net.auSyrinx Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic WA www.syrinx.net.auT Issues Consultancy • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.tissues.com.auT&T Projects • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.femco.com.auTetra Tech • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Vic WA Intl www.tetratech.comThe 3rd Degree • 1-9 NSW www.the3rddegree.com.auThe Environmental Edge • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 WA www.eedge.com.auThe Institute for International Development • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 ACT Qld SA Intl www.iid.orgThe Odour Unit • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Qld WA www.odourunit.com.auThe Systems 3 Group • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld Vic www.s3g.com.auThomson Environmental Systems • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW WA www.thomsonenvironmentalsystems.com.auTKG Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.tkgconsulting.com.auTonkin Consulting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 NT Qld SA www.tonkin.com.auTotal Earth Care • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW www.totalearthcare.com.auTotal Training & Performance Soultions • • • 1-9 NSW WA (02) 9484 7975 Tristar Auditing & Assessments • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 WA www.tristar1.com.auUBM Ecological Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.urbanbushland.com.auUniBusiness Consulting • • • • 1-9 NSW www.unibusiness.com.auURS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.urs.com.auVantage Environmental Management • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.venv.com.auVaranas Services • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Qld www.varanas.com.auWaste Audit & Consultancy Services • • • • 1-9 NSW Qld Vic www.wasteaudit.com.auWaste Solutions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 Qld www.wastesolutions.com.auWater + Waste Innovations • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW SA (08) 8271 0839 Water Conservation Group • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW Qld Vic www.watergroup.com.auWater Data Services • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 SA www.waterdata.com.auWatt Utilities • • 1-9 Qld www.wattutilities.com.auWhitehead & Associates Environmental Consultants • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10-49 NSW Intl www.whiteheadenvironmental.com.auWinkfield • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Vic 0418 869 812 WorleyParsons • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 200+ National Intl www.worleyparsons.comWright Corporate Strategy • • • • • • • • 1-9 NSW www.wrightstrategy.comWSP Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50-200 National Intl www.wspenvironmental.comYarramine Environmental • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1-9 Qld www.yarramine.com.au

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The implications of the Federal Government’s vast climate change

legislative package are far reaching. Business should start considering the range of commercial and compliance issues.

The exposure draft legislation released in late July is made up of 14 separate legis-lative instruments, with the Clean Energy Bill the primary instrument implementing the carbon pricing mechanism.

Businesses will be keen to consider whether their expectations of future carbon liabilities and frameworks, as set out in the policy announced on July 10, have been satisfied in the legislative package and whether particular areas of uncertainty have been dealt with.

The key areas where there have been

changes in policy, new detail released or detail deferred until release in regulations, include:n The setting of rolling five-year emissions caps in regulations;n The setting of default caps;n The operation of the “price collar” in the first three years of the fixed price period;n The auctioning of carbon units;n The Jobs and Competitiveness Program;n Further regulations under the pricing mechanism; andn The imposition of an “equivalent carbon cost” on transport fuels.Let’s consider each of these points in turn.

Carbon pollution capsPollution caps for flexible charge years will

be set in regulations, which will include international and domestic considerations in specifying a pollution cap for each financial year, expressed as a total quantity of greenhouse emissions. They will also be informed by the recommendations of the Climate Change Authority.

The Climate Change Minister must take all reasonable steps to ensure regula-tions specifying the pollution cap for the first five flexible years of the mechanism (2015−16 through 2019−20) are tabled in Parliament no later than May 31, 2014. The regulations cannot be made or tabled if the deadline for each year is not met.

As expected, the regulations for pollution caps will be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny, which adds an additional political layer to the usual regulation-making process that only requires the government consult with “affected persons and organi-sations likely to be affected”.

Default cap settingUnder the ‘Securing a Clean Energy Future’ policy, the default cap setting arrangements to be set out in primary

CArbON pricing comes clean


Have business expectations of future carbon liabilities been satisfied in the legislation?

Norton Rose gives business a heads-up in this breakdown of the draft legislation underpinning the carbon pricing and clean energy scheme. By Elisa de Wit.

energy + carbon

legislation were to “ensure a five per cent reduction in emissions below 2000 levels by 2020” and thereafter a reduction “consistent with the annual reduction in emissions implied by the five per cent emissions reduction target”.

The Clean Energy Bill implements this by stating that if no cap regulations are in place for the flexible charge year beginning July 2015, the cap will be the total emissions numbers for the eligible financial year beginning on July 2012, minus 38 million.

If no cap regulations are in place for any subsequent flexible charge year, it will use the carbon pollution cap number for the previous flexible charge year minus 12 million.

This legislative detail adds significant certainty to the policy position. It is also important to note that if there has been a period of cap tightening under regulations that is in advance of the five per cent by 2020 target, the default position will pick up from the previous year’s cap, not revert to the less onerous cap.

This will provide critical certainty for investors by ensuring that, without fail, caps will reduce by at least 12 million carbon units per year.

The price collarThe initial policy announcement noted from July 2015 a price ceiling and price floor would be imposed for three years in order to manage costs and create market certainty.

The price ceiling would be set out in regulations by May 31, 2014 at $20 above the expected international price for 2015−16, rising by five per cent in real terms per year, with a price floor starting at $15 and rising by four per cent in real terms per year.

The key remaining area of uncertainty is how the price floor will operate upon the surrender of international carbon offsets for compliance. These provisions are to be regulated under the Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill, which says a charge is to be applied to the surrender of international units in the first three years. The amount of that charge however is to be “ascertained in

accordance with the regulations in relation to the eligible financial year”.

Effectively this means continued uncertainty surrounding the investments and arrangements around international offsetting projects and credits, until further details are released in the regulations.

Commercially this is not likely to be a significant issue because international offsetting investments are unlikely to be made in significant numbers until after the legislation is passed through Parliament and regulations tabled.

Auctioning carbon unitsThe Clean Energy Bill empowers the Regulator to issue carbon units through auctions and outlines some matters relevant for the design of an auctioning system for carbon credits.

The detailed policies, procedures and rules for the conduct of auctions are to be determined by the minister through a subsequent legislative instrument, which will be finalised following consultation.

Given the government has announced its intention to have limited advance auctions of future vintage carbon units in the fixed price period (to assist the development of forward price signals), it is


The regulations for pollution caps will be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny, which adds an additional political layer“

CASE STUDYEnergy Australia LearningCentre Trigeneration System

SPECIFICATIONS

CO-GENERATION SYSTEM120kW Cogeneration System Daily electrical output 1,800 kWhDaily Thermal output 2,445kWhABSORPTION CHILLER98kW Absorption ChillerDaily Thermal (cooling) output 1,470 kWh

Urban Energy Australasia Pty Ltd1/10 Anella Avenue Castle Hill NSW 2154Ph: 1300 66 99 81 Fax: (02) 8850 [email protected] www.urbanenergy.com.au

or

Planting 2,635 trees per year

Taking 117 cars offthe road per year

Parallel Grid connected 120kWnatural gas cogeneration systemand waste heat recoveryabsorption chiller (Trigeneration).

The system utilises a sophis-ticated Cogeneration system andwaste heat recovery AbsorptionChiller to efficiently generate aproportion of the electricity usedby the centre and efficientlygenerate cooling. This system isdesigned to operate for 15 hoursof the day over the peak andshoulder electricity tariff periods.

By installing this efficient alternativeenergy electricity generation andwaste heat hybrid system, EnergyAustralia has reduced the runningcosts of the centre and savedsignificant quantities of carbondioxide, the main contributor toglobal warming. Estimated Saving of527 Tonnes CO2 per year comparedwith a Purchasing electricity from thegrid and buying Gas to generate heat.

This new Trigeneration systemreduces the CO2 output of theCentre by an estimated 40% as wellas reducing the running cost of thefacility by 35%.

Urban Energy’s Tri-generation systemscan reach efficienciesof 95% and achievefull synchronisation tothe grid in around 45seconds. Shown hereis a simple energyschematic tographically showhow a Trigenerationsystem operates.

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Fuel Electricity

Heat

Cooling

Heat

The new Energy Australia Learning Centrewill be the country’s largest electricallearning centre and will be home to the nextgeneration of front line energy workers. TheLearning Centre will also become theheadquarters of the electricity provider’ssmart grid operations and energy efficiencycentre.

Urban energy was engaged to design,project manage, supply and install anefficient alternative energy system to thefacility in order to reduce the electricityusage and reduce the running costs for thecentre and to provide an efficient source ofcooling and heating for the centre. The

system installed is a high life expectancygrid paralleled Cogeneration system andwaste heat cooling system. This system isillustrated and described below.

System Design

1. Creates electricity for use within thefacility

2. Creates heat for use in the hot watergeneration of the Centre

3. Creates cooling for the centre

Both the hot water and chilled water areproduced for “free” from the waste heat ofthe Trigeneration Plant.

Project Scope

expected the legislative instrument will be in introduced in the short term.

Jobs and Competitiveness ProgramUnder the Jobs and Competitiveness Program (the ‘rebadged’ Emissions-Intensive Trade-Exposed sector assistance program from the CPRS), assistance will be provided to entities that conduct emis-sions-intensive trade-exposed activities through the issuance of free carbon units early in each compliance period.

The Clean Energy Bill outlines in broad terms what the program may cover and includes a range of reporting and compliance provisions, as well as details of inquiries by the Productivity Commission into the program.

It also includes provisions relating to the cancellation or buyback of certain unused free-carbon units. However, the bill leaves it to regulations to formulate the details of the program, including what is to be considered an emissions-intensive trade-exposed activity (except that extraction of coal is explicitly excluded in the bill) and the processes for allocating free carbon units to those industries.

Further regulationsThe Clean Energy Bill leaves a number of specific issues to be defined or detailed in regulations, which is likely to create some uncertainty in the interim.

For example, some of the details on attributing greenhouse emissions to waste accepted prior to July 1, 2012 for the purposes of calculating legacy emissions are to be detailed in regulations.

The majority of other regulation-making powers under the bill relate to matters that one would ordinarily expect to be developed through regulations. These include a number of administrative matters relating to the Regulator and a range of other operational and compliance aspects of the legislation, such as regula-tions to outline record keeping require-ments and to make further provisions in relation to infringement notices.

The bill also contains a broad over-arching regulation-making power allowing regulations to be made for matters “necessary or convenient” for giving effect to the legislation.

Transport and other fuelsThe Fuel Tax Legislation Amendments (Clean Energy) Bill confirms the mechanism will extend to most emissions from business transport and the non-transport

use of liquid fuels. The only exclusions will be light vehicles, households and, in some circumstances, the agriculture, forestry and fishery industries.

The bill amends the Fuel Tax Act so a fuel tax credit entitlement under that Act is reduced by an amount equivalent to the carbon price on the fuel emissions, if those emissions were subject to a carbon price. The “amount of carbon reduction” is worked out through the following equation: Quantity of fuel x Carbon price x Carbon emission rate.

The carbon emission rate of all fuels has been specified, with ethanol, biodiesel and renewable diesel not incurring fuel tax credit reductions or changes to excise.

The amount of the carbon reduction will be nil, however, to the extent that the fuel is used:n In agriculture, fishing operations or forestry; orn In a vehicle with a gross vehicle mass of more than 4.5 tonnes and travelling on a public road; orn Otherwise than for combustion.

It should be noted that the inclusion of the words “to the extent that” will require operators to make an assessment of the actual use of the fuel in order to accurately claim an exemption. It is not clear at this stage what parameters may be applied to such an assessment.

The government had signalled it intended to pursue extending the mechanism to heavy on-road transport from July 2014, but the bill does not envisage this inclusion. It remains to be seen if it will be included.

The Commentary on Provisions for the Clean Energy Bill maintains the Productivity Commission will be commis-sioned to undertake a review of fuel excise and taxation, with any changes to be implemented after three years. This review is expected to include an examination of the merits of a regime based explicitly on the carbon and energy content of fuels.

Differences from the CPRSOverall, there is much that is identical with the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill, but there are significant differences too.

A 2050 emission reduction target of 80 per cent based on 2000 emission levels has replaced the 60 per cent target.

It now excludes any reference to a 2020 target, where the range of 5−25 per cent had been identified. In reality, with the regulations setting out the five-year caps, any decision about a tighter 2020 target will probably need to be made prior to May 31, 2014.

Caps will only apply once the flexible price period commences. If regulations are not made or are disallowed (or are repealed upon a change in government), there is a default position set out in the Clean Energy Bill that reflects the five per cent by 2020 target.

Unlike the CPRS, there is no gateway mechanism. Forward price curves will now be restricted to actual knowledge of the caps proposed for a five-year period, with estimates going forward based on the 2020 and 2050 targets.

Under the CPRS Bill, the liable entity was the controlling corporation, meaning the parent company of the corporate group member that had control over the specific facility.

The Clean Energy Bill places liability directly on the operator of the facility, although there is still the ability to transfer liability between members of a corporate group. A threshold of 25,000 tonnes of direct emissions still applies, with a lower threshold of 10,000 tonnes applicable to certain landfills.

The bill also introduces arrangements for joint ventures, such that each participant becomes a liable entity if no individual participant could be said to have “opera-tional control” over the facility.

In terms of the compliance and enforce-ment provisions, there is little difference between the two bills, with the exception of the addition of the ability for the Regulator to issue infringement notices. The penalties remain the same, with the maximum penalty for an infringement being $1.1 million.

Submissions are due by August 22. The government will introduce the legislation in the spring session of Parliament.

This is an edited version of the full analysis by elisa de Wit and other norton rose lawyers. more at www.nortonrose.com.au.


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any decision about a tighter 2020 target will probably need to be made prior to May 31, 2014.

Forward price curves will now be restricted to actual knowledge of the caps proposed for a five-year period

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CASE STUDYEnergy Australia LearningCentre Trigeneration System

SPECIFICATIONS

CO-GENERATION SYSTEM120kW Cogeneration System Daily electrical output 1,800 kWhDaily Thermal output 2,445kWhABSORPTION CHILLER98kW Absorption ChillerDaily Thermal (cooling) output 1,470 kWh

Urban Energy Australasia Pty Ltd1/10 Anella Avenue Castle Hill NSW 2154Ph: 1300 66 99 81 Fax: (02) 8850 [email protected] www.urbanenergy.com.au

or

Planting 2,635 trees per year

Taking 117 cars offthe road per year

Parallel Grid connected 120kWnatural gas cogeneration systemand waste heat recoveryabsorption chiller (Trigeneration).

The system utilises a sophis-ticated Cogeneration system andwaste heat recovery AbsorptionChiller to efficiently generate aproportion of the electricity usedby the centre and efficientlygenerate cooling. This system isdesigned to operate for 15 hoursof the day over the peak andshoulder electricity tariff periods.

By installing this efficient alternativeenergy electricity generation andwaste heat hybrid system, EnergyAustralia has reduced the runningcosts of the centre and savedsignificant quantities of carbondioxide, the main contributor toglobal warming. Estimated Saving of527 Tonnes CO2 per year comparedwith a Purchasing electricity from thegrid and buying Gas to generate heat.

This new Trigeneration systemreduces the CO2 output of theCentre by an estimated 40% as wellas reducing the running cost of thefacility by 35%.

Urban Energy’s Tri-generation systemscan reach efficienciesof 95% and achievefull synchronisation tothe grid in around 45seconds. Shown hereis a simple energyschematic tographically showhow a Trigenerationsystem operates.

CARBON DIOXIDE AND COSTSAVINGS OF SYSTEM ARE

EQUIVALENT TO

Fuel Electricity

Heat

Cooling

Heat

The new Energy Australia Learning Centrewill be the country’s largest electricallearning centre and will be home to the nextgeneration of front line energy workers. TheLearning Centre will also become theheadquarters of the electricity provider’ssmart grid operations and energy efficiencycentre.

Urban energy was engaged to design,project manage, supply and install anefficient alternative energy system to thefacility in order to reduce the electricityusage and reduce the running costs for thecentre and to provide an efficient source ofcooling and heating for the centre. The

system installed is a high life expectancygrid paralleled Cogeneration system andwaste heat cooling system. This system isillustrated and described below.

System Design

1. Creates electricity for use within thefacility

2. Creates heat for use in the hot watergeneration of the Centre

3. Creates cooling for the centre

Both the hot water and chilled water areproduced for “free” from the waste heat ofthe Trigeneration Plant.

Project Scope

The University of Queensland has switched on what it says is Australia’s

largest solar photovoltaic installation, a 1.2MW system that spans 11 rooftops at the St Lucia campus.

The UQ Solar Array, which effectively coats four buildings with more than 5,000 polycrystalline silicon solar panels, will generate about 1,850MWh a year.

“During the day, the system will provide up to six per cent of the university’s power requirements, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1,650 tonnes of CO2-e per annum,” said Rodger Whitby, the GM of generation for renewables company Ingenero.

It also underpins a number of cutting-edge research projects in diverse fields, according to Professor Paul Meredith, who oversaw the design and installation of the solar array.

“A major objective of our array research program is to provide a clearer under-standing of how to integrate megawatt-scale renewable energy sources into an urban grid,” said Professor Meredith, of the School of Mathematics and Physics and Global Change Institute.

“Mid-size, commercial-scale renewable power generating systems like UQ’s will become increasingly common in urban and remote areas. Addressing the engineering issues around how these systems can feed into and integrate with the grid is essential so that people can really understand and calculate their value as we transition to lower-emission forms of energy.”

Electricity retailer Energex contributed $90,000 to the research project through state-of-the-art equipment to allow high-quality monitoring and analysis of the power feed.

Another key research project addresses one of the most common criticisms of solar

power: that it cannot replace baseload grid power. Through a partnership with Brisbane electricity storage technology company RedFlow, a 200kW battery bank will be connected to a 339kW section of the solar array.

“The RedFlow system uses next-gener-ation zinc bromine batteries,” Professor Meredith said. “These are more efficient

than the lead-acid batteries that have been more common to date, and being filled with water rather than acid, they are much, much more envi-ronmentally friendly.”

Ingenero also donated a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) array, which concen-trates the sun’s rays 650 times using mirrors and optics.

Mackay’s sweet dealMackay Sugar is edging closer to having Australia’s biggest co-generation project, signing G&S Engineering to erect the plant and major machinery at

its Racecourse Mill in Queensland.Mackay Sugar CEO Quinton Hildebrand

said the $120 million plant will be able to provide up to one-third of Mackay’s elec-tricity needs by making use of bagasse, a

fibre waste left over from crushing cane.“By using this by-product for electricity

production, Mackay Sugar will help reduce our region’s greenhouse gas emissions by 200,000 tonnes equivalent carbon dioxide each year, as well as add more value to the crops grown by our local farmers,” he said.

“Mackay Sugar will store bagasse on site to ensure the plant will operate year-round, supplying energy to the community and the Mackay Refinery even during the non-crush period.”

The project will surpass the $45 million, 21 MW co-generation plant plastics maker Qenos is building at its Melbourne facility (more in WME, 05/11).

Preliminary site works were completed in May, including a new control system for Racecourse Mill’s Boiler No. 3 and the demolition of Boiler No. 1.

The next stage of the project will commence in August, with G&S Engineering installing a high pressure boiler capable of powering a 37.25 MW turbine, along with all related piping and auxiliary equipment. Commissioning is due to start by the end of 2012.

The co-generation plant is part of Mackay Sugar’s 20-year Diversification Plan, which outlines various projects based around its existing infrastructure and renewable energy goals.

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In the future, corporate sustainability ratings need to be financially viable,

forward-looking and transparent, according to the fourth and final phase of a research program into 21 sustainability ratings.

Published by UK strategy consultancy SustainAbility, it seeks to answer questions such as how can you tell which indexes to trust, how do you know they’re measuring the right things and how can the ratings process be made better?

SustainAbility examined the sustainabil-ity industry and produced the ‘Rate the Raters’ report, which was published in four instalments during the past 15 months.

To put things in perspective, in just a decade, the number of sustainability ratings has climbed from 21 in 2000 to 108 last year.

“While the surge of ratings in the market-place, from Newsweek’s Green Rankings to the S&P/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index, is a sign that sustainability indexes are going mainstream, the growth also has a

downside,” notes SustainAbility in the last instalment.

“We launched ‘Rate the Raters’ because we see great promise in this mainstream-ing, yet we observe too many ratings failing to live up to expectations.”

SustainAbility VP Michael Sadowski, in a post for The Guardian, wrote, “The

belief among raters that they have in some way cracked the code and built a ‘better’ or ‘different’ rating leads to its proliferation. Our research shows we need to rethink how the overall ratings system works”.

Despite the report’s name, the company

did not in fact rate the raters, a decision the researchers acknowl-edged raised some eyebrows. Instead, it used its analysis of 21 ratings to determine best practices and formulate recommendations for the industry (see Fact File).

“One of the most frequent questions we received about this work was, ‘why didn’t you actually rate, and rank, the raters?’” they noted in the final report.

“As we’ve maintained throughout, we made the deliberate choice to review a variety of ratings types − consumer-focused, investor-focused, single issue etc − and thus do not believe that putting them in rank order would be a meaningful exercise.”

Make it meaningfulAustralia’s institutional investment community broadly agrees companies have a right to expect consistency and predict-ability in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) data they are being asked to provide.

The Financial Services Council (FSC) and Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) have just released the ‘ESG Reporting Guide for Australian Companies’, which acknowledges the

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Sustainability ratings are coming thick and fast, but how can we achieve order when both the questions and answers lack consistency? By Max Pichon and Richard Collins.

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The belief among raters that they have in some way cracked the code and built a ‘better’ or ‘different’ rating leads to its proliferation– Michael Sadowski, SustainAbility“

reasonable expectation that reporting obli-gations not impose undue costs, competi-tive disadvantages or other commercial burdens on those being assessed.

But responsibility is two-way. ACSI chief Ann Byrne said despite the uptake of reporting in recent years, more than half of ASX 200 companies still provides no meaningful information on their ESG risks.

“Over the past four years, our research in sustainability reporting has shown that

while many companies have made progress on ESG risk reporting, most still struggle to grasp the concept of ESG risk exposure, how to measure it and how to manage it,” she said.

Even where there is reporting, there is very little consistency as to what is reported and how it is structured, which undermines its value to investors.

She hopes the guide “will bridge that gap in understanding that ESG reporting

is not just a ‘nice to have’ but an essential indicator of the stability of your business”.

Developed in consultation with fund managers, superannuation funds and research houses, it outlines the informa-tion and data investors need to accurately price, analyse and manage ESG risks. It brings together requirements from a range of existing reporting standards and outlines what ESG information should be disclosed, why it is necessary to investors and how it should be reported.

For starters, it recognises companies will have different material issues, but supports the ‘if not, why not’ approach in the ASX Corporate Governance Principles, where companies should disclose why reporting an ESG issue is not required.

In determining the materiality of an issue, it recommends companies consider both the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the ‘Redefining Materiality’ guide developed by AccountAbility. In essence, factors should include the company’s own positions, industry norms, regulatory requirements, stakeholder concerns and societal expectations.

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FACT File: Six FeATuReS oF SuCCeSSFul RATingS1. Viability: Many ratings are not financially sustainable, but must become financially viable. There is currently too little demand and funding for the number of ratings that exist today.2. Consolidation: There will be greater demand for fewer, higher quality ratings that provide increased transparency. Those that thrive will have greater resources to invest in people, training, quality management and other areas.3. All in the analysis: Ratings providers should compete on data analysis, not data. Raters currently compete on the most commoditised part of the value chain, but SustainAbility predicts in time only a handful of players will specialise in data compilation, with others competing on research and analysis, and a third group packaging it into ratings and related products.4. Value add: The ratings that thrive will be those that add the most value to all parties involved in the ratings process. With companies being inundated by ratings, they will increasingly focus their attention on the ratings that bring the greatest insight and best recommendations.5. Focus on the core: Ratings should focus on core impacts and issues, such as ethics, compliance, risk management and financial performance. Leading ratings in the long term will have these operational measures at their core.6. Evolutionary: Future ratings must find the right balance between being consistent and adaptive. The ratings need to recognise that users and companies require a steady goalpost, but also that issues and expectations of companies evolve over time.

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It is just so easy for all of us to get caught in the knowledge trap. The more we want to promote change, the more

tempted we are to tell people about the issue, to give them more and more facts and help them to learn more. That will certainly get them to change, we think. If they just understood that… then surely they must change?

Even when we know there is a limited causal link between what people know and what they do, we are still inclined to provide more facts, increase their awareness, grow their under-standing.

We want our efforts in the cognitive to impact on their behaviours in the real world − the trouble is that it often does not work that way. Sometimes, it is even counter-productive. Every behaviour change expert and every piece of research is clear; there is no absolute causal link between knowledge and behaviour. We know that and still we sell knowledge, alone. Why?

Well a part of the reason is we want there to be a link between what people know and what they do. It appeals to the logicality of our intellect, the rationality we pride ourselves on, the orderliness of our view of the world. Our limited and highly rational minds just can’t conceive that the link is much less than absolute.

It is a bit like scratching a mosquito bite. It feels like it should work, but it doesn’t.

The fact is, of course, that sometimes knowledge is a precursor to behaviour and this only clouds the situation. Why doesn’t it work all the time, or none of the time, is a reasonable question. How do I get it to work more often and with greater certainty?

The theorists would tell you the changes you want to make happen have to be ‘do-able’ and ‘of value’. For example, Rosenstock, from the late 1970s onwards, and Glanz et al more recently, argue people will take preventive action for their health (and it can be assumed this will occur for the environment as well) if:n They believe they are at personal risk of contracting illness (or personal susceptibility of environmen-tal degradation/climate change);n They are convinced the changed behaviour will be effective in reducing the impact (or risk); andn They decide the proposed changes are do-able for them.

Smart program managers will develop behaviour messages

that are personal, do-able and credible and that clearly have an impact on the problem.

use the tipping pointPaul Gladwell in his invigorating writing on the ‘tipping point’ argues people on the edge of change can be tipped to make a change. Often, in these circumstances, the use of a salient fact or two will tip them towards making that change.

If they are not at the tipping point, the focus on facts and knowledge is confusing and unwelcome. For these people, too much reliance on transmitting facts is often a deterrent to change.

So what is the verdict then? Of course we have to increase knowledge and raise awareness. If we do, we can also increase

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In this, the third in our series of articles on behaviour change, Grahame Collier explores the relationship between knowing and doing and provides some hints to help program managers.


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and behaviour. We know that and still we sell knowledge,

contracting illness (or personal susceptibility of environmen-

They are convinced the changed behaviour will be effective

They decide the proposed changes are do-able for them.Smart program managers will develop behaviour messages

the extent of its possible impact by a number of smart strategies.

Good knowledge and behaviour change programs are not just about ‘hanging’ the knowledge related to various behaviours out there and hoping they will be enacted. They involve smart struc-turing of the knowledge alongside the related and desirable behaviours.

How to ‘tip’ behavior changeSo what are the keys to driving behaviour change if knowing is not enough. Here are my tips.

Relate increased knowledge to pledges and commitments sought from partici-pants/the target audience. For example: “Because I know this… I am going to do that… by… [date].”

Always emphasise the behaviour you are promoting. For example, at the end of a workshop, ask participants to say and/or write down what they are going to do. In a brochure, state the three things that can be done when they’ve read it.

Relate improved knowledge to a list of actions they can start tomorrow. For example: “I need to get a water tank

installed as soon as possible. I want to connect it to the toilets in my house. Tomorrow I am going to call these three plumbers and get quotes.”

Expect knowledge to prompt behaviour every time and always present it this way. For example: “Now you know more about… you can…”

Follow up commitments to change behaviour. For example, if you are delivering a series of workshops, at the start of each session ask what changes people made as a result of the last one. You can even do this in one-off sessions by seeking changes made in the past three months in sustainable behaviour.

Relate improved knowledge to a buddy who will oversee/assist people carry out the behaviour that relates to their knowledge. For example: “John is my buddy relating to my decision to install a water tank. He will call me every

fortnight to check on my progress. He won’t nag, just check and help me. He’ll ask if there is something he can do.”

Relate improved knowledge to a real reward. For example: “When I have got my water tank installed [before 30 June], my reward to myself will be a weekend away at the beach.” It helps if the reward is desirable, do-able, not seriously expensive and is time-framed.

Provide facts in a ‘did you know’ format; keep them short and sharp and ensure they are pushing people at the tipping point. Avoid long sentences, jargon and wordiness.

Provide facts in simple terms. For example: “By connecting your water tank to your cistern you can save… bathtubs full of water in a week.”

Relate the knowledge you are increasing only to behaviours where people have a high level of capacity to control the situation. For example, for those in multi-unit dwellings, promote shorter showers rather than water tanks.

grahame collier is the principal of T issues consultancy. more at www.tissues.com.au


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With various parts of Australia either experiencing drought or recovering

from devastating floods, the provision of potable water supplies remains on the agenda as one of the key environmental, social and political issues in Australia of the past 10 years.

Indirect potable reuse (IPR) schemes have been considered as viable alternative water supplies. In an IPR scheme, highly treated reclaimed water is returned to an environmental ‘buffer’ such as a river, lake or aquifer, where it mixes with other environmental waters before being re-extracted for drinking water treatment and potable use.

Planned IPR schemes have been used as valuable alternative water sources for at least 40 years globally. However, they can be very energy intensive and involve treatment and water transportation steps that add to both the cost and carbon footprint. In the current economic and political climate in Australia, issues such as carbon footprint and energy consumption are critically important.

Direct potable reuse (DPR) is another water supply alternative, where highly treated reclaimed water is introduced

directly into the drinking water system without environmental retention. DPR schemes have several advantages over IPR schemes in regard to minimising energy use, as an emergency water supply and, in some cases, improved mitigation of downstream flooding events.

However, DPR schemes have not been seriously considered by the decision-makers influencing Australia’s water supply, largely due to an assumed negative public perception and regulatory obstacles.

environmental buffer zonesMajor IPR water supply schemes have been largely developed in Queensland and Western Australia to augment water supply in those states. Nonetheless, their full implementation is yet to be realised due to state government imposed management restrictions and/or the need for improved characterisation and validation of the performance of the ‘environmental buffer’.

Transporting water to a surface water catchment almost invariably involves pumping water long distances and up-gradient. One example is the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project

(WCRWP) in Queensland, where the treated water will be pumped to its release point in Lake Wivenhoe, more than 40km upstream of the drinking water treatment plant at Mt Crosby. Clearly, a DPR scheme would alleviate the need to pump the reclaimed water this additional distance.

In fact, with a DPR scheme, pumping water even further north-west to the off-take for Tarong Power Station could cease and the power station could resume pumping water from the upper-reaches of Lake Wivenhoe. This water consumption would be offset with the direct use of potable recycled water. Accordingly, the distance required to pump water would be reduced in the order of 100km.

In addition to the expense associated with constructing such pipelines, the energy associated with pumping water over such long distances presents significant additional operational costs and greenhouse gas implications compared to schemes that may require less pumping.

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direcT To drINkDirect potable water reuse offers a number of advantages over the more widely accepted indirect potable water reuse, including minimising energy use. By Stuart Khan and Sarah Herbert.


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Queensland’s Western Corridor Recycled Water Project could send water straight to the tap.

DPR schemes that are very relevant at the moment. Among the least recognised, but potentially most important, advantages of DPR over IPR is that it may provide an emergency high quality water supply.

Traditional surface water reservoirs are known to be subject to periods of diminished water quality as a consequence of environmental and other impacts. A DPR system that delivers consistently high quality water direct to a drinking water treatment plant and distribution system would provide a valuable alternative and protected source of drinking water.

IPR does not share this advantage, since it would involve mixing the high quality reclaimed water with the potentially compromised traditional water supply.

Secondly, many reservoirs used for drinking water supply also play an important role in preventing or mitigating downstream flooding events. Optimum use for flooding control requires reservoirs to be maintained at relatively low levels, whereas a drinking water supply requires large volumes of water to be stored to buffer seasonal and annual variations in supply and demand.

Unlike IPR, careful management of DPR

could enable reservoirs to be maintained at a lower level, enhancing flood control while maintaining certainty of supply for drinking water. For example, it has been calculated that use of DPR would enable about a 30 per cent increase in the volume of Lake Wivenhoe that can be reserved for flood mitigation in Brisbane.

Fit for public consumptionThe most significant limitation on the implementation of DPR schemes in Australia appears to be the negative public perception of this technology.

However, the public perception of potable water recycling in general appears to be steadily improving now that schemes such as the WCRWP have made it clear the concept is viable and can be practically and safely implemented.

Nonetheless, considerable efforts will be required from both governments and water utilities to develop, and effectively communicate, the evidence in support of

direct potable reuse.The primary technical arguments

against DPR, in favour of IPR, tend to be framed around the importance of the environmental buffer in ensuring public health. However, there appears to be little benefit to an environmental buffer, which is cost and energy intensive, when carefully controlled engineered processes can produce superior water quality and use less energy at lower cost. Furthermore, a number of additional benefits, suggesting enhanced public health protection and flood mitigation, have been identified for DPR schemes compared to IPR.

Any movement towards DPR in Australia will be necessarily slow and fraught with many social and political obstacles. However, there appear to be sufficient potential advantages of DPR over the more widely accepted IPR that the initiation of broad public discussion is now warranted.

dr stuart khan is a senior lecturer at the Water research centre, university of nsW. sarah herbert is a patent attorney with sydney-based shelstonip. Based on a paper to ozwater 2011.


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only better use resources but also make a shift change in how we value and manage waste streams. The recent conference hosted by Australia’s Industrial Ecology Network provided a forum to discuss these issues. It also unveiled plans for the nation’s first industrial ecology park, to be located in the lower Hunter Valley.

“It’s fortunate that increased waste generation is being matched by increased recycling, but the waste generation increases represent a substantial challenge for us. But also an opportunity,” said Mark Gorta from the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage.

NSW generates 5.4 million tonnes of commercial and industrial (C&I) waste, of which 52 per cent or 2.8 million tonnes is currently recycled.

“These are opportunities, specifi-cally food, wood, timber and paper and cardboard. Those waste streams contain many thousands of tonnes of potentially recyclable materials [that is] available for industrial ecology opportunities,” Gorta told the conference.

A critical question, though, is just how available the wastes really are, given that a 2008 audit of commercial waste in Sydney found nearly half of the C&I waste comes from mixed small to medium businesses with less than 200 employees.

“Most of the waste produced by these businesses is not sorted, it’s disposed of as mixed waste, making recovery of the potentially recyclable material difficult,” said Gorta.

“The waste companies that service those SMEs have the ability or potential to influence and help those businesses recycle and perhaps make available over a million tonnes of waste for

industrial ecology opportunities.”He added that the current review of the

NSW energy from waste (EfW) policy is a “major opportunity for the future”.

Garbis Simonian, chair of the Australian Industrial Ecology Network, also welcomed the EfW review and flagged a number of specific issues he would like the State Government to consider.

“Planning laws are needed to create recycling zones… By having a dedicated recycling zone, you can cut out a lot of these studies, you just do it upfront for the whole park,” he said, as well as calling for consistency across state boundaries in the definition of waste.

“This is really low-hanging fruit, and I know it’s difficult and there’re all sorts of reasons why it can’t be done, but they’re not convincing as far as I’m concerned.”

Sorting and streaming wasteFor Simonian, one of the most urgent matters to be addressed from a regulatory point of view is diverting hazardous

materials from the waste stream.“Today in this state you can throw paint

and chemicals in our rubbish bin and it’s quite okay… You can throw your e-waste in. And what it really does is cause a problem down the line, it makes it very difficult to segregate it,” he said.

“Once you take this stream out of the system, guess what, recycling becomes a whole lot easier.”

Rod Welford, chief executive of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR), said they were working to ensure the Federal Government understands the National Waste Policy is not just about general resource recovery.

“It’s not just about diverting things from landfill… [Landfill levies] are one instrument that the government can use, but a pretty blunt one, and we need to get a whole lot more sophisticated around how we look at the whole system of resource recovery and reuse than we have in the past. Industrial ecology provides a unique opportunity for us to


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Industrial ecology is all about ascribing different value to wastes such as wood, metals and food − and diverting it for reuse. Paula Wallace explains.

NSW recycles just 52 per cent of its 5.4 million tonnes of waste a year.

look at that system in a new way and look at it in a holistic way.”

ACOR is engaging government at a national level in capturing some better data around the economics of recycling industries and the contribution they make in both social and financial terms.

“We’re looking at the issue of accredita-tion so that we develop quality systems for resource recovery and recycling and so businesses can be recognised by government as having a credible and reputable process for resource recovery and recycling, or within an industrial ecology environment,” said Welford.

industrial eco-park, a firstWeston Aluminium is spearheading the development of the Hunter Industrial Ecology Park. Simonian, its managing director, said it’s already “70 per cent committed”.

“Our plant is in the middle, Weston Aluminium, but around it you have 40 acres of land and our dream is to build this park that will include an energy recovery plant and a whole range of other businesses.

“Already, a number of businesses have expressed an interest to partner and participate in this project. What we want to do is to select recycling processes and companies that complement each other.”

At a cost of about $400 million, the development is being guided by a management team from Weston Aluminium. They have adopted a number of key principles.

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“If it works here for the Hunter, there’s no reason it can’t work in other parts of Australia.”

Those waste streams contain many thousands of tonnes of potentially recyclable materials [that is] available for industrial ecology opportunities– Mark Gorta, Office of Environment“


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Depending on who you speak to, the recycling game is either looking up

or is staring down the barrel of even tighter margins under a carbon tax, adding to pressure from price sensitive export markets and competitive imports.

With some recycling activities still only at the fledgling stage in Australia, they are subject to the vagaries of gate fees and international markets and, in some cases, require the financial support of levies or incentives to remain profitable.

One industry impacted in recent years is tyre recycling, with several companies going bust, including softfall surface supplier Reclaim Industries.

“Globally, the tyre recycling industry requires a gate fee to cover the high cost of reprocessing tyres into new recycled products,” said Dean Beckman from Tyrecycle.

“Australian gate fees have been steadily decreasing, creating a disincentive to new investment.”

Tyrecycle processes more than 100,000 tonnes of whole tyres a year, converting them into a rubber powder that goes into road surfaces to reduce potholes, decrease braking distance and lower noise.

“Yet Australia continues to send tyres overseas to be burnt,” said Beckman, referring to the shipping of tyres (often illegally) to China for use as fuel.

He’s keen on the proposals for an industry-led product stewardship scheme for tyres, which would come under the umbrella Product Stewardship Act passed by Parliament in June.

There’s another view though. Andrew Howard is CEO of Carbon Polymers (CBP) and, having recently acquired Reclaim Industries, is clearly bullish about the sector.

He’s cautious about any self-regulated stewardship scheme – “the industry has shown that it doesn’t do that” – and argues a big part of the competitiveness problem is that tyre recyclers use slow machinery adapted from other industries,

while they must also do more to develop new market opportunities.

Reclaim targeted the retail market, which loads up costs such as for instal-lation, where CBP focuses more on a wholesale market by supplying products to the adhesives producers.

While Reclaim was relatively small, turning out about 500−600 tonnes of product per month compared to CBP’s 3,000 tonnes, it will help CBP strike national collection agreements with tyre retailers and launch into the untapped mining sectors in West and South Australia.

Collecting and processing costs“The market alone will not change some of these things,” said Rod Welford, chief executive of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) at a recent industry conference, referring to recycling generally.

“The difficulties of launching innovation in a market that has a long history of existing practice is not easy and so getting the market transformation requires more input from governments.”

He believes a carbon price could have adverse initial impacts on operating costs,

because collecting and processing materials is energy intensive.

“The devil will be in the details of how the market responds to the carbon price – whether the carbon price acts as a real incentive to change business processes or simply becomes a pass through cost of existing operations,” said Welford.

Hugh Cotton, who runs operations for Tyrecycle and has spent many years in plastic and metals recycling, doesn’t expect any winners among local recyclers without a carbon tariff on imported products.

“I don’t see how there can be, because most recycled products are internationally traded commodities – aluminium, steel, etc – and you are adding on extra costs locally and they can’t pass on those costs,” he said.

“I’m not anti a carbon trading scheme; I think it’s important globally, but it needs to be fair for those working in international markets.”

Cotton said the plastic recyclers, in poly-propylene and polyethylene, are already competing with imports of recycled plastic pellets, aided by a high Australian dollar.

He acknowledged the carbon scheme will drive some increase in demand for low-carbon recycled pellets but added, “in the current market conditions, price is definitely the determining factor”.

It’s not just plastics and tyres. Any recyclers trading on international markets will take a hit under a carbon price.

“International steel mills can buy it from anyone; it all depends on where the price is best,” said Cotton.

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Recycling typically runs on fine margins, so the carbon price could hurt, writes Paula Wallace.

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Local recyclers are struggling to compete with offshore options for tyres and other materials.

Globally, the tyre recycling industry requires a gate fee to cover the high cost of reprocessing tyres into new recycled products– Dean Beckman, Tyrecycle“

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It provides a simple and inexpensive method to monitor the effectiveness of dust collectors by detecting the level of particles passing through their filter due to leaking filter elements and porous or ruptured bags. The monitor detects the electrical charge developed by the dust particles. A probe is inserted into the airflow and the electrical charge is collected and amplified by the electronics within the probe housing.

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Tsurumi submersible aeratorAustralian Pump Industries has announced the 40kW Tsurumi submersible aerator, which has an air flow rate of 528 cubic metres per hour. Designed for wastewater and sewage applications, the big aerator can operate from depths of 6m with up to eight outlets.

Called the Tsurumi 150TRN-440-52, it is a self-aspirating submersible aerator with an integrated semi-open impeller. The impeller draws air through the intake, mixes it with the liquid being aerated and discharges at a high pressure. This leads to highly efficient aeration, offering a number of advantages over conventional aeration.

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Long lasting and sturdy, the floodlight reduces maintenance and replacement costs. The new floods are IP65 rated, giving protection against the ingress of dust and against standard water jets with a nozzle, and have a long lifetime of up to 50,000 hours.

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Ground control to major mining clients?Watson-Marlow Bredel (WMB) has launched its cased drive pumps with Profibus control, targeting the mining industry. The company says the fieldbus system addition to its toughest cased-drive pumps allows real-time communication between minesite operations personnel and the pump.

The pumps provide high end performance, accuracy and reliability and have proven valuable in the mining industry for flocculent and reagent dosing and slurry sampling applications. The new control system is integrated so that installation is easy with no complicated wiring, allowing for reduced hardware and engineering costs.

Profibus control is available on WMB’s 500 Series cased-drive pumps for flows up to 3.5 litres/minute, 600 Series to 18 litres/minute and the 700 series up to 33 litres/minute. All of the pumps are rated to IP66 environments with their corrosion-resistant housings.

The pumps also have good levels of functionality, with on-screen menus, a large high visibility display, easy-to-use tactile membrane keypad and Loadsure tubing elements, which cut maintenance time to less than a minute.

Tank cleaning nozzles on rotationSpraying Systems’ new TankJet D26984 Tank Cleaning Nozzles can optimise tank cleaning operations. The nozzles feature three rotating flat sprays to effectively clean and rinse tanks up to 20 feet (6m) in diameter. They reduce cleaning chemical costs as the wide range of spray coverage allows only the area of focus to be cleaned, minimising liquid consumption.

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Mediburn suits small medical facilitiesBullbeck Envirosolutions has recently launched its medical waste incinerators (MWI), called Mediburn. The company bills it as a safe and simple solution for the disposal of up to eight cubic feet of infectious and pathological waste for the small medical facility.

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Treat your corrosive surfaces to MetaltreatWA company Merus Australia has combined two systems to offer industry an alternative to standard protective coatings and the chemical dosing of water systems. Its exterior corrosion control system is a lanolin-based treatment that has two components, Metaltreat and Metaltreat Xtreme.

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The Metaltreat system is effective as corrosion prevention or corrosion control in extreme environments. It has been applied in mineral sands mining, salt mines, iron ore and gold mines – even acids can be contained by Metaltreat.

The technology has been proven to deal with various types of rust and bacteria in technical water systems. For example, calcium and limescale deposits are softened and flushed through after a few weeks, and iron bacteria is reduced in bore water, which means considerable energy savings and improved water quality.

Get four years’ life from Altair gas detectorsMSA Australia has announced its next level of advanced technology in portable gas detection, the Altair 4X Multigas Detector with MSA X-Cell Sensor Technology.

The Altair 4X is a multigas detector that measures O2, H2S, CO and combustible gas. The housing provides excellent durability, including the ability to withstand a 6m drop test on to concrete. And with large, glove-friendly buttons and a high-contrast display, the multigas detector is easy to operate in any work environment, even in low-light conditions.

Exclusive safety features like the optional glow-in-the-dark case, standard MotionAlert and InstantAlert make the multigas detector ideal for applications like confined space entry.

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Micro-electronics inside the sensor also lead to faster response and calibration times.

How to scrub the tough spotsTecpro Australia has released the Breconcherry CW75, a conical wash head system for the targeted cleaning of difficult to reach areas. The unit features a specially modified Turbodisc wash head for use in agitator tanks and ribbon mixers, where it is undesirable or impossible to use fixed or retracting spray heads.

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Pump performance from Hydro InnovationsAvailable from Hydro Innovations, the Gorman-Rupp Ultra V Series of self priming pumps combines solids handling with high head performance and high efficiency.

Available as a single stage (V Series) or two stage (VS Series) version for high head applications, Ultra V self priming pumps feature heavy duty balanced impellers of semi open ductile iron to provide maximum life. The pump out vanes on the back shroud reduce foreign material build up behind the impeller, to minimise pressure on the seal and maximise bearing life.

Gorman-Rupp’s double floating, self aligning, oil-lubricated mechanical cartridge seal is specifically designed for abrasive material and trash handling applications. The silicon carbide faces and extra large seal oil chamber provide optimal dry-run capability.

All Ultra V Series self priming pumps come standard with anti-rotation ribs within the seal chamber area to reduce internal wear and maximise seal life.

More gas for your buckIndustrial Scientific has announced the availability of new 116-litre gas cylinders. It says the cylinders, used in the calibration of portable gas detectors, provide better cost per litre pricing, lower maintenance costs and reduced environmental impact.

The 116L cylinders are only slightly larger in size than the 58L version, despite holding twice the volume of gas. Depending on the customers’ calibration gas usage, the 116L cylinders provide a better cost per litre value than the smaller option.

Additionally, the less frequent changes with the larger cylinders further reduce costs and maintenance time. Existing users of 58L cylinders will not need to purchase new gas regulators as the new cylinders use the same regulators.

Thermal images a hot topic?Bestech Australia has launched the new TIM160 USB ‘plug and play’ thermal imaging camera systems for R&D, failure and fatigue diagnostics and process monitoring applications.

Designed to capture, record and monitor thermal images at 100Hz in real-time, the USB thermal imagers are supplied with software that can record the data streaming via the USB cable to a computer.

The software can be used as a run time application, enabling the user to program and configure a customised environment including multiple monitoring windows, hot spot localisation, alarms, line profiles and other parameters.

The TIM160 finds application in solar panel R&D, thermal analysis of mechanical components under test, extruder monitoring, hot roll mill monitoring and quality control laboratories.

The thermal imagers, from Micro-Epsilon, can operate in temperature measurement ranges from -20ºC to +100ºC for a basic model up to a 250−900ºC range in the advanced model. Spectral ranges are 7.5−13µm and system accuracy is ±2% or ±2ºC.

Product: Gorman Rupp V series pumpsFrom: Hydro InnovationsPhone: (02) 9647 2700Web: www.hydroinnovations.com.au

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Battery operated forklifts with benefitsPowerlift Material Handling has released the Nissan TX series 1.25 to 2.0 tonne battery electric forklifts, which are designed for diverse materials handling applications.

The forklifts feature full AC control, with AC traction and hydraulic pump motor for higher level performance, lower electricity consumption and reduced maintenance costs. Five regenerative functions are provided for lower power consumption.

Built for higher durability, safety and comfort, the battery electric forklifts come with optional features. The double rear wheel design facilitates greater stability and load capacity, while the power steering feature operated via an AC hydraulic motor eliminates the need for a third motor.

Key features include a fuzzy logic acceleration control drive system with automatic slow down; mast lock and transmission lock system via seat sensor; a six-disc wet-type brake for reduced maintenance costs; automatic power-off after a preset time if the operator leaves the seat; and driver parameter settings for up to five drivers.

Easy and accurate flowmetersAMS Instrumentation & Calibration has introduced the new Katronic KATflow 200, 230 and 150 ultrasonic clamp-on flowmeters, all equipped with the Audible Sensor Positioning Assistant.

The assistant uses acoustic signals and graphic instructions to indicate the correct position of the sensors during installation on the pipe.

In combination with the intuitive instrument setup wizard, this technology enables even inexperienced users to install the sensors and carry out measurements within a matter of minutes.

Where other instruments offer no support by leaving correct sensor positioning mainly to estimation, the Katronic flowmeters help with instrument setup and sensor installation until the start of the measurement.

Compressed air without the oilBasil V R Greatrex has released the BEKOKAT Oil Free Compressed Air compressor.

Oil free, compressed air is often required in industries including the pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverage, medical technology, surface technology and the packaging sector.

Hydrocarbons can be introduced into the compressed airline either by the use of oil in a lubricated compressor or ingested into the air intake of the compressor. The BEKOKAT, however, utilises a catalytic converter to ensure total oxidation of all these potentially harmful hydrocarbon contaminants.

The catalytic process converts hydrocarbons into water and carbon dioxide, totally eliminating oil contamination from the compressed airline and ensuring that the condensate is safe for the environment.

Other key features include certification to ISO 8573 Class 1, absence of hazardous waste, a three year catalytic bed life and internal valves that shut air supply down instantaneously on any rise in oil level.

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This year’s EIANZ conference will focus on the increasingly complex role of the environmental professional and looks towards the future of environmental management.

It is set to be a challenging event under the chairmanship of former Queensland government environment supremo John Cole. Keynotes include former NZ Sustainability Commissioner Morgan Williams, Greenpeace CEO Linda Selvey, leading futurist Peter Ellyard and Brisbane City Council CEO Jude Munro.

Debate will be structured around four themes: dealing with uncertainty; managing country holistically and sustainably; engaging people in ways that matter; and future directions.

Businesses have typically viewed water as a minimal operational cost rather than a strategic issue.

While Australia has had some relief through a couple of wet years, the long-term prediction is for more severe droughts. The relief from water as a critical issue for both corporations and the public sector is only temporary.

Corporate Water Strategies provides up to date information on global water issues and describes how companies can not only address these challenges but also implement high value water strategies.

It talks about how to develop a strategy to manage water as a key business issue and capture its real value.

And it covers new concepts such as embedded water and virtual water and shows how they are forcing companies to think differently about how they use water in manufacturing.

In understanding water accounting, companies must first explore what comprises water risk and why water accounting includes both footprinting and risk mapping.

name: Actions for the Environmental Professionorganiser: EIANZDetails: Sunshine Coast – September 28-30Web: www.eianz.org

Defining the environmental manager of the future

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resourcesreviewsSePTeMBeR4-7 EcoGen 2011; Brisbane. Great Southern Press. Details at ecogen2011.com5-9 Stormwater NSW Conference; Hunter Valley. Stormwater Industry Assoc (NSW). Details at gemsevents.com.au/siansw20117-8 The 1st CIPSA/Eco-Buy National Sustainable Procurement Forum; Melbourne. CIPSA and Eco-Buy. Details at cipsaconferences.com.au7-8 WIOA Victoria; Bendigo. Water Industry Operators. Details at wioa.org.au28 Facing the Future – Actions for the Environment Profession; Sunshine Coast, Queensland. EIANZ. Details at eianz.org

oCToBeR4-5 Enhanced ESG Analysis Conference; London, UK. GTQ International. Details at gtqinternational.com7 AGIC National Conference; Melbourne. Australian Green Infrastructure Council. Details at agicconference.com12-13 All-Energy Australia 2011; Melbourne. All-Energy Events. Details from [email protected] UNEP FI 2011 Global Roundtable; US. The UNEP Finance Initiative. Details at unepfi.org

Why water is a corporate riskTitle: Corporate Water StrategiesPublisher: Earthscan PublishingPurchase: www.earthscan.co.ukPrice: £49.99

Hand’s up anyone who hasn’t suffered from Conference Guilt. I’m not talking about the morning after the conference dinner. I’m not even talking about the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you get back to work and realise skipping 70 per cent of papers in favour of ‘networking’ on the golf course may not have been the brightest idea.

As real as these are for Modern Dilemma – don’t ask about the 2006 Essential Energy conference in far north Queensland – I’m on a different plane here.

Can I really justify, wonders the nagging little creep on my shoulder, the small cumulonimbus of carbon involved in flitting off to Cairns, holing up for two days in an artificially lit conference cave and sucking down a hyper carbon-rich diet? All to learn about how to save the planet?

Plenty of you must have felt that feeling, because the event industry has jumped on the ‘green event’ agenda like scandal on a rugby league star.

Just look at the sprouting of conference centres with “world first 22-star ratings”

or something – Adelaide is not far behind Melbourne in opening its own high-priced, green-hued convention palace.

But the question murmuring incessantly in my ear is, does a few energy efficient light bulbs tip the balance, or should I just wait for the webinar?

And then there’s the whole question about the hidden emissions involved in running a computer. One study puts it at 226 grams of CO2-e for every hour, and that’s excluding the IT infrastructure to deliver the webinar.

Maybe I’ll stay home after all.

Dutch drivers kill 133 billion insects a month, reveals a “splash teller” study by Wageningen University, which signed up 250 motorists to wipe their license plate daily to tally the bug count. It’s no joke though. Biologist Arnold van Vliet told Reuters insects are key plant pollinators and food sources.

Here’s a side effect of the recession: with people buying less, garbage bins in California are emptier these days. The amount of rubbish landfilled has dropped 28 per cent from 2005-06, reaching its lowest level since data collection started in 1989.

Adolescent girls need special climate change consideration, says Plan International in its ‘Weathering the Storm’ report. It says girls in developing countries bear the greatest burden, from forced marriages to the curtailment of education, and calls for better integration of their needs in adaptation programs.

Sam Kekovich won’t be happy. A US study of the eco-impacts of 20 protein types found lamb is the worst of the lot. Lentils are best, reckons the non-profit Environmental Working Group; otherwise, eat local, grass-fed, antibiotic-free meat.

Do as I say, not as I conference

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PlAnning + inFRASTRuCTuReWME in its September edition will delve into the environmental and social issues involved in planning and infrastructure development, whether linear (road, rail, pipeline) or site-specific (green field development, mines, major waste facilities).Economic growth, population pressures, climate change and a sensitised community are driving the need for not just new infrastructure, but new thinking around infrastructure.How do we lighten the local footprint of the assets and the wider footprint of society? How do we measure and monitor performance? How do we build long-term infrastructure with the future in mind?

SiTe ReMeDiATionSite remediation has always been driven by regulatory and commercial factors. Regulation is getting ever tighter, while funding has been tight since the global financial crisis put an end to cheap debt avenues, but the fundamentals remain the same: careful processes and clever technologies, with a clear outcome in mind.The Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation (CERAR) at the University of SA estimates there are 100,000 polluted sites in Australia and puts the clean up cost at more than $5 billion. Unprecedented scrutiny of the mining industry, including mandatory post-closure requirements, means it too must consider the legacy of its activities. In the September issue, WME will explore best practice clean-up case studies and the range of emerging techniques being employed to remediate soil and groundwater, from thermal techniques to soil washing to chemical injections.

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HOw MUCH InVesTMenT neeDeD FOR ResOURCe ReCOVeRY, AnD wHeRe wILL THese new FACILITIes Be COnsTRUCTeD?While state based landfill diversion targets sets the scene for infrastructure planning, The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 also considers performance in the context of what is currently being achieved in real world conditions and provides details of current performance in each jurisdiction across each of the key source sectors, as well as by material stream.Find out how these figures were established and discover further estimates in The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012.

HOw VALUABLe Is AUsTRALIA’s wAsTe AnD ReCYCLInG seCTOR?Some households have an idea about the cost of domestic waste management, thanks to council rate notices, but The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 shows the scale of the activity beyond the domestic sector. There is a lot more detail on the value of activity around waste and recycling in Australia contained in The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012.

HOw ARe LOCAL GOVeRnMenTs ORGAnIsInG wAsTe ACROss AUsTRALIA?The Inside Waste Industry Report Local Government survey, undertaken in April of this year, captured information from a range of metropolitan, rural and regional councils and established important benchmark data that can be used to assess the future and current requirements of local government in this country.

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The new carbon policy features a range of stimulus mechanisms for renewable energy. As a result, the sector now possesses a much greater degree of certainty for investors. Before the period of expansion gets underway in earnest, The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 will be a handy tool for anyone wishing to get a quick but comprehensive handle on the waste management and resources recovery sector in Australia.

The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 provides all stakeholders both within and with an interest in the Australian waste sector with vital information on the state of play within the industry right now. Some key questions on the waste industry are addressed in this 130+ pages book.

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Total waste generation in NSW is estimated to be 16.3 million tonnes, of which 6.6mt is disposed to landfill

while 9.7mt (59%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source sector are

shown in the table below.

7.4 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN NSWNSWMSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)

Generated 4,435 5,632

6,717 16,785

Landfilled 2,501 2,715

1,845 7,060

Recovered 1,935 2,918

4,872 9,724

% Recovery 44%52%

73%58%

Landfill gate-fees for MSW range from about $120−200/t in metropolitan NSW (representing 71% of the

population based on ABS data), and about $60−80/t in rural regions. The weighted average cost of landfill

disposal across the state is estimated at $140/t.Gate-fees at AWT plants are in the order of $200−220/t, with an additional charge usually applied to

account for the landfill levies paid on disposal of residuals. With the landfill levy applicable to 30−50% of

feedstock, this equates to an additional $20−35/t for metro operators in 2010−11, and informs an estimated

AWT processing cost of $245/t.The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly variable, depending on prevailing commodity

prices and risk sharing arrangements between reprocessors and customers. Some councils receive rebates

(possibly up to $20−40/t), while others pay a gate-fee up to $40/t. An average gate-fee of $10/t for metro

councils and $40/t for regional councils is assumed.Average processing costs for greenwaste are in the order of $70−90/t. Results of the Inside Waste Industry

Report 2011-2012 survey suggest approximately 40% of NSW council resource recovery comes through

The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly

variable, depending on prevailing commodiTy prices and risk sharing arrangemenTs

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Total waste generation in South Australia is estimated to be 3.3 million tonnes, of which 1mt is disposed

to landfill, while 2.3mt (68%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source

sector are shown in the table below.

7.10 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIASouth Australia MSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)

Generated724

768 1,840 3,332

Landfilled328

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484 1,403 2,282

% recovery55%

63%76%

68%

The gate-fee charged for MSW at South Australian landfills is estimated to be about $100/t in Adelaide and

$75/t outside of the metropolitan region. With 72% of the state’s population base classified as metro by the

ABS, the average landfill disposal charge across the state is estimated to be $93/t.

The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly variable, depending on prevailing commodity

prices and risk sharing arrangements between reprocessors and customers. South Australia’s 30-year history

of Container Deposit Legislation also impacts the cost of kerbside recovery in the state; while there is less

container material in the household bin, proponents of CDL claim this leads to reduced glass contamination

of recovered paper (increasing its value) and the value of unredeemed deposits bolsters the value of kerbside

collected materials.In South Australia, there is also a significant focus on organics recycling. The average cost of resource

recovery from the MSW stream is estimated to be $30/t across the state.

South AuStrAliA’S 30-yeAr hiStory of ContAiner DepoSit legiSlAtion AlSo impACtS the CoSt of kerbSiDe reCovery

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Total waste generation in Queensland is estimated to be 9.6 million tonnes, of which 5.5mt is disposed to

landfill, while 4.1mt (43%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source


7.8 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN QUEENSLANDQueensland MSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)


3,838 9,564

Landfilled 2,182 710

2,572 5,464

Recovered 1,845 989

1,266 4,100

% recovery 46%58%

33%43%

The cost of landfill disposal in Queensland is low, especially in the highly populated south-east of the state,

where there is intense competition between several high volume landfills and apparent operating costs

are in the order of $30/t. The average landfill gate-fee charged for MSW waste across the state is estimated

to be $40/t.The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly variable, depending on prevailing commodity

prices and risk sharing arrangements between reprocessors and customers. Cheap landfill disposal costs in

Queensland also flow through to reduced operating costs for recycling facilities compared to other states, as

the cost of disposing residual wastes (generally 10−15% of incoming volumes to a recycling facility) are lower

in Queensland than in other eastern states.Only 52% of the Queensland population lives in metropolitan regions (as defined by the ABS) and there is a

significant cost to transport recyclable material from some regional areas back to the main reprocessing hub

in the state’s south-east. Overall, the estimated average cost of resource recovery from MSW is $40/t.

The cosT of landfill disposal in Queensland is low, especially in

The highly populaTed souTh-easT of The sTaTe, where There is inTense compeTiTion

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CH: 2 AUSTRALIA’S WASTE INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

INDUSTRY REPORTCH: 2 AUSTRALIA’S WASTE INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT



Waste quantities can generally be considered as a function of population multiplied by per capita waste

generation. The combined impact of global population growth and increasing waste production per person

has therefore seen a large increase in global waste volumes, presenting a major challenge for countries

seeking sustainable development. This chapter highlights key comparative areas between four developed economies and one developing

economy; Australia, the European Union, the United States, New Zealand and China. The indicators used to

compare performance include solid waste generation and percentage of waste landfilled versus recovered,

either through recycling or energy recovery systems. The five economies compared in this chapter all have goals to reduce waste, but have adopted different

approaches and priorities.

From Waste to Resource: World Waste Survey 2009, Professor P. Chalmin and C. Gaillochet. Cyclope, February, 2011. And The National Waste Report, Chapter 2.1 page 27.

AUSTRALIAThe 1992 National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development set a range of long-term goals, including

improved efficiency of resources, reduced environmental impact of waste disposal and better management

of hazardous waste. However, waste generation has continued to grow, with a 31% increase from 2002−03

to 2006−07.The National Waste Policy released in 2010 therefore includes a focus on reducing the amount of waste

generated per person, as well as reducing the proportion of this waste that is disposed to landfill. It also

recognises that better management of waste can provide benefits in terms of reducing greenhouse gas

emissions and conserving energy and water.

Australia’s National Greehouse Accounts. National Inventory Report 2007 Volume–2. Department of Climate Change © 2009.As shown in Figure 2.2, Australia continues to have a strong reliance on landfills for waste disposal.

In 2001, 19 million tonnes of waste was disposed to landfill. This increased by 12% to 21 million tonnes

in 2006-07 (representing 48% of all waste generated) as Australia’s population and per capita waste

generation increased. As outlined in the Volumes & Values chapter of this report, it is estimated that 22.7 million tonnes of waste

was disposed to landfill in 2007-08, representing 48% of all waste generated.UNITED STATESIn 2005, the US set a long-term national recycling target of 35% for municipal solid waste, encouraged via

voluntary initiatives. The aim was to create a recycling culture by emphasising the importance of recycling

and building appropriate infrastructure.

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HOW MUCH INVESTMENT NEEDED FOR RESOURCE RECOVERY, AND WHERE WILL THESE NEW FACILITIES BE CONSTRUCTED?While state based landfill diversion targets sets the scene for infrastructure planning, The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 also considers performance in the context of what is currently being achieved in real world conditions and provides details of current performance in each jurisdiction across each of the key source sectors, as well as by material stream.Find out how these figures were established and discover further estimates in The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012.

HOW VALUABLE IS AUSTRALIA’S WASTE AND RECYCLING SECTOR?Some households have an idea about the cost of domestic waste management, thanks to council rate notices, but The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 shows the scale of the activity beyond the domestic sector. There is a lot more detail on the value of activity around waste and recycling in Australia contained in The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012.

HOW ARE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ORGANISING WASTE ACROSS AUSTRALIA?The Inside Waste Industry Report Local Government survey, undertaken in April of this year, captured information from a range of metropolitan, rural and regional councils and established important benchmark data that can be used to assess the future and current requirements of local government in this country.

INDUSTRY REPORT 2011-2012ESSENTIAL kNOWLEDGE

The new carbon policy features a range of stimulus mechanisms for renewable energy. As a result, the sector now possesses a much greater degree of certainty for investors. Before the period of expansion gets underway in earnest, The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 will be a handy tool for anyone wishing to get a quick but comprehensive handle on the waste management and resources recovery sector in Australia.

The Inside Waste Industry Report 2011-2012 provides all stakeholders both within and with an interest in the Australian waste sector with vital information on the state of play within the industry right now. Some key questions on the waste industry are addressed in this 130+ pages book.


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Total waste generation in NSW is estimated to be 16.3 million tonnes, of which 6.6mt is disposed to landfill

while 9.7mt (59%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source sector are

shown in the table below.

7.4 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN NSWNSWMSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)


6,717 16,785

Landfilled 2,501 2,715

1,845 7,060

Recovered 1,935 2,918

4,872 9,724

% Recovery 44%52%

73%58%






AWT processing cost of $245/t.The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly variable, depending on prevailing commodity



councils and $40/t for regional councils is assumed.Average processing costs for greenwaste are in the order of $70−90/t. Results of the Inside Waste Industry

Report 2011-2012 survey suggest approximately 40% of NSW council resource recovery comes through

The fee charged for processing comingled recycling is highly

variable, depending on prevailing commodiTy prices and risk sharing arrangemenTs

NEW SOUTH WALES NSW

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councils and $40/t for regional councils is assumed.Average processing costs for greenwaste are in the order of $70−90/t. Results of the

survey suggest approximately 40% of NSW council resource recovery comes through

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Gate-fees at AWT plants are in the order of $200−220/t, with an additional charge usually applied to






councils and $40/t for regional councils is assumed.Average processing costs for greenwaste are in the order of $70−90/t. Results of the

survey suggest approximately 40% of NSW council resource recovery comes through


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Total waste generation in South Australia is estimated to be 3.3 million tonnes, of which 1mt is disposed

to landfill, while 2.3mt (68%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source


7.10 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIASouth Australia MSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)

Generated724

768 1,840 3,332

Landfilled328

285 437

1,050

Recovered396

484 1,403 2,282

% recovery55%

63%76%

68%

The gate-fee charged for MSW at South Australian landfills is estimated to be about $100/t in Adelaide and

$75/t outside of the metropolitan region. With 72% of the state’s population base classified as metro by the

ABS, the average landfill disposal charge across the state is estimated to be $93/t.






collected materials.In South Australia, there is also a significant focus on organics recycling. The average cost of resource

recovery from the MSW stream is estimated to be $30/t across the state.

South AuStrAliA’S 30-yeAr hiStory of ContAiner DepoSit legiSlAtion AlSo impACtS the CoSt of kerbSiDe reCovery

SOUTH AUSTRALIA SA







In South Australia, there is also a significant focus on organics recycling. The average cost of resource




In South Australia, there is also a significant focus on organics recycling. The average cost of resource

container material in the household bin, proponents of CDL claim this leads to reduced glass contamination INDUSTRY REPORT

CH: 7 VOLUMES & VALUES

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Total waste generation in Queensland is estimated to be 9.6 million tonnes, of which 5.5mt is disposed to

landfill, while 4.1mt (43%) is recovered. Estimated waste disposal and resource recovery rates by source


7.8 WASTE & RECYCLING TONNES IN QUEENSLANDQueensland MSW (’000t) C&I (’000t) C&D (’000t) TOTAL (’000t)


3,838 9,564

Landfilled 2,182 710

2,572 5,464

Recovered 1,845 989

1,266 4,100

% recovery 46%58%

33%43%








in Queensland than in other eastern states.Only 52% of the Queensland population lives in metropolitan regions (as defined by the ABS) and there is a



The cosT of landfill disposal in Queensland is low, especially in

The highly populaTed souTh-easT of The sTaTe, where There is inTense compeTiTion

QUEENSLANDQLD








Only 52% of the Queensland population lives in metropolitan regions (as defined by the ABS) and there is a



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CH: 2 AUSTRALIA’S WASTE INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

INDUSTRY REPORTCH: 2 AUSTRALIA’S WASTE INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT



Waste quantities can generally be considered as a function of population multiplied by per capita waste

generation. The combined impact of global population growth and increasing waste production per person

has therefore seen a large increase in global waste volumes, presenting a major challenge for countries

seeking sustainable development. This chapter highlights key comparative areas between four developed economies and one developing

economy; Australia, the European Union, the United States, New Zealand and China. The indicators used to

compare performance include solid waste generation and percentage of waste landfilled versus recovered,

either through recycling or energy recovery systems. The five economies compared in this chapter all have goals to reduce waste, but have adopted different

approaches and priorities.

From Waste to Resource: World Waste Survey 2009, Professor P. Chalmin and C. Gaillochet. Cyclope, February, 2011. And The National Waste Report, Chapter 2.1 page 27.

AUSTRALIAThe 1992 National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development set a range of long-term goals, including

improved efficiency of resources, reduced environmental impact of waste disposal and better management

of hazardous waste. However, waste generation has continued to grow, with a 31% increase from 2002−03

to 2006−07.The National Waste Policy released in 2010 therefore includes a focus on reducing the amount of waste

generated per person, as well as reducing the proportion of this waste that is disposed to landfill. It also

recognises that better management of waste can provide benefits in terms of reducing greenhouse gas

emissions and conserving energy and water.

Australia’s National Greehouse Accounts. National Inventory Report 2007 Volume–2. Department of Climate Change © 2009.As shown in Figure 2.2, Australia continues to have a strong reliance on landfills for waste disposal.

In 2001, 19 million tonnes of waste was disposed to landfill. This increased by 12% to 21 million tonnes

in 2006-07 (representing 48% of all waste generated) as Australia’s population and per capita waste

generation increased. As outlined in the Volumes & Values chapter of this report, it is estimated that 22.7 million tonnes of waste

was disposed to landfill in 2007-08, representing 48% of all waste generated.UNITED STATESIn 2005, the US set a long-term national recycling target of 35% for municipal solid waste, encouraged via

voluntary initiatives. The aim was to create a recycling culture by emphasising the importance of recycling

and building appropriate infrastructure.

2.1 MUNICIPAL WASTE GENERATED AROUND THE WORLD

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