Sustainability Stories - Waste Management Ideas in Australia

  When you are in the game of constructing big buildings, or demolishing them, one of the keys to sustainability, as well as keeping your costs low, is how well you manage your business waste. Let’s explore that. Not many people would consider that waste management matters much, given that it is a small part of most businesses, but from a construction perspective, it matters big time. When you consider that many large contracts, particularly government infrastructure projects, require some sort of environmental reporting as a condition of engagement, this starts to become clearer. But what sort of reporting? How is it measured? And how do we implement systems that get it right? And how to we encourage our people to use these systems in a way that means they will deliver the result we need? All good and fair questions. Lets look at a typical construction site. They will use a variety of materials, many of which are recyclable, if separated into individual waste streams. T...

  Does your business have sites all over the country? Perhaps one in the main State and Territory capitals? When a business grows it’s footprint, to the point where there are multiple locations, there are two main paths they follow. Many start by leaving control over suppliers at a branch level. And while this can be very effective at building strong relationships, as well as good local control over service quality, it does pose challenges for the business as a whole. These challenges often take time to manifest, and usually only get noticed when a business tries to measure performance nationally. Without standard terminology and providers, it gets difficult to apply standards across different states as the benchmarks are all different. It also often means that the business struggles to leverage the best prices from suppliers as it is not using its full procurement footprint to drive costs down. The flow on effects from these two elements are reduced quality control, as wel...

  We are often asked questions exactly like this. The way these questions are posed varies a little from day to day. People might ask for where can I find a company that does Document destruction Brisbane , for example. And what this might mean will vary too. You might have a box or two of documents that you would need shredded. Or you might have several pallets in a warehouse of non current forms and contract blanks that you need to make sure don’t get used, so you want them destroyed. Which makes complete sense. A more common need however is for a reliable service, on a schedule, for something like a 240 litre wheelie bin change over for secure documents. Why would this even be a concern, some people ask. Simples. If you are putting information into the waste bins that has your customer or supplier details on it, this can cause a range of issues if it were to end up in the wrong location. Imagine your sensitive documents blowing around in the breeze at a landfill. Or blowi...

When you are running a food business, such as a restaurant, or a hospitality business, perhaps a hotel or a pub, it’s always go go go. There are a lot of moving parts in both, different expectations from a very diverse group of stakeholders that must be met. These stakeholders are not just the business owners. They are yur Brisbane neighbours. The regulators. The customers. The employees. And even the contractors. And the expectations might be equally diverse. The owners might want profit and minimal complications. The neighbours – well they would likely want peace and quiet. Or at least a minimum of issues. Best practice waste management is often expected - so a good environmental services company is the way to go! The regulators want their license fees paid and for the business to be legally compliant with all laws and regulations . The employees want to be paid, and want to have a safe and relatively pleasant working environment. The contractors to, have similar expectations, in al...