In our inaugural 2022 Climate Report, that was recently released as a part of our greater FY22 Sustainability Reporting Suite, we shared information that was released from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. This information explained how our actions over the next decade will determine whether global warming is limited to 1.5…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century is climate change. With climate change comes threats of more frequent and intense droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans, which can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc…
3 June 2022 marked 30 years to the day, (3 June 1992) that the Australian High Court delivered the Mabo decision. This decision challenged the legal fiction of ‘terra nullius’ (land belonging to no one) and recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Australia and the Torres Strait…
Milperra has operated a non-ferrous cable granulator since its first commissioning in 1990. The granulator shreds the cable into granules, which liberates the plastic from the copper. Then the granulator separates these elements so that the copper can be sold and the plastic disposed of. The granulator was not efficiently liberating the plastic and copper…
The shredder in Redwood City, California, received an upgrade on its downstream processes in FY21, adding a new vibratory, zero-spill conveyor system. This reduces spillage and dust from our processing operations, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, as vibratory conveyors are typically more energy efficient than belt conveyors.Read more here.
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…