Sims Limited businesses in Australia have recently become members of Supply Nation, an Australian leader in supplier diversity. This membership reinforces our commitment to diversity in both our workforce and procurement processes, by connecting us to Indigenous suppliers to help build a vibrant and prosperous Indigenous business sector. As an Australia-based company, Sims Limited is…
The Sims Group is moving to Meridian’s 100% Certified Renewable Energy product for all its operations in New Zealand, backed by the NZ Energy Certificate System’s (NZECS) Renewable Energy Certificates. Sims plays a key role in New Zealand’s circular economy, with 10 sites providing metal and electronics recycling to consumers, businesses, governments and communities across…
Sims Limited is proud to have ranked 87 on the Carbon Clean 200 list and to be recognized as a company that is helping move the world onto a more sustainable trajectory. As we continue down the path toward a sustainable, low-carbon economy, support for these initiatives continues to increase worldwide. There are currently more…
World’s largest sustainability initiative aims to encourage awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour,…
Two thousand twenty-one marks 27 years of celebrating America Recycles Day. Since the very first America Recycles Day in 1994, recycling and composting rates have grown from 28% in 1990 to 32.1% in 2018 (the most recent year of available data). But Americans are also producing more waste than ever before – from 4.74 to…
The introduction of the Sustainable Markets Initiative. In 2020, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, HRH Prince of Wales formally announced the 10-Point Plan and Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), a collaboration between him and the World Economic Forum, that was created with the intent to offer the basis of a recovery plan to 2030…
The Sims Purpose: Create a world without waste to preserve our planet. Sims Limited puts sustainability, an important business approach for creating long-term value, at the heart of its business. By considering how we operate in the ecological, social and economic environment, we can address gaps and grow our competitive advantage. This expanded view of…
In honor of the Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we sat down with Cheyenne Li, Risk, Controls and Security Global Process Owner (GPO) at Sims Limited to learn more about her role and what it means to be Asian-American. Xiaoyang “Cheyenne” Li, Risk, Controls and Security Global Process Owner, has been with Sims Limited for more than two years. She brings more than 15 years of…
Kara Napolitano oversees one of the most in-demand field trips in the greater New York City area – a tour of the Sims Municipal Recycling material recovery facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Why the popularity? “For one, it’s free,” says Napolitano, the facility’s education and outreach coordinator, with a laugh. In 2019, 8,000 visitors came through the facility’s…
When we drop an empty plastic bottle or yesterday’s newspaper into our curbside recycling bin, few of us think of ourselves as an essential supplier to a global, multibillion-dollar value chain. But the actions we take to sort our recyclables in our kitchens is the first step in the path toward ensuring that our used…