Net Zero Newsletter - A World Without Waste

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“One of the things that we’ve also done is put in an internal carbon price. We’ll be using that in modelling all our CapEx decisions and strategy to understand the impacts of various decisions on our targets and the financial return. The CFOs of our businesses saw immediately how that process could help us achieve our goals and what their responsibility was in terms of making that happen, and the contribution that they could make towards delivering this critical outcome for Sims.

The carbon price was a new way of helping our people connect to our purpose of delivering a world without waste. We make a lot of asset decisions, such as buying material handlers. They’re long-lived pieces of capital equipment. If we buy a diesel one today, we’re going to be offsetting that in 2030.”

In our latest episode of the?Driving Net Profit with Zero Emissions?show, we speak with?Blaise Porter, Group Director Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility of Sims.?Sims Limited?is a global leader in metal recycling and circular solutions for technology, as well as an emerging leader in renewable energy.?In the interview, Blaise and I talk about the sustainability journey of Sims Limited and how Sims plays an important role in closing the loop and enabling a circular economy, thus minimising greenhouse gas emissions.

"A world without waste, with Sims Limited” is now available?on our?podcast page?and your favourite podcast players, such as?Spotify,?Google Podcasts,?Stitcher,?Apple, or?Amazon Music.?

In other news, we are proud to share that?Angela Cooney, our Queensland Region Manager, spoke at?an?Emerging Professionals in Infrastructure Queensland (EPIQ)?event on 21 September?in Brisbane. The panellists discussed the true meaning of sustainability, net zero and climate positive.?Sharing?some snippets of this event below. Angela is the second from the right in the first picture.

Speaking of engagements, I am excited to visit?Queensland in October and?November with Patrick and Angela. First up, we'll be in Brisbane, delivering a capacity-building session on net zero. This will be followed by a three-day trip to?Central Queensland to deliver a master class on net zero to businesses based in Mackay, Emerald and Gladstone. I’m looking forward to these events, which are?sponsored by?AusIndustry.?I will post more about these speaking engagements in the coming weeks on my?LinkedIn page.

I’ve mentioned?the AWARE Conference in Melbourne in our previous newsletters. At that conference, I?will talk about the role of circular economy in reaching?net zero, with the inspiration of our latest podcast episode with Blaise Porter of Sims Limited, a global leader in this industry. You can still register for this event by visiting:?https://www.wasteandrecycleconference.com/.

Launch of our new webpage!

Behind the scenes, we have been working hard on the new look and feel of our webpage. It's been a while since it was last updated, and so I am super excited to share the new design with you!

When you go to our new home page, you will see the?image above,?which expresses our vision of a world in which all organisations will be powered from renewables and have zero emissions. The webpage allows easy access to our?Driving Net Profit with Zero Emissions?podcast and diagnostic (as mentioned in our previous communication with you). We've also?streamlined our service offerings to show you how we can support you in your journey to net zero.?

New podcast episode

In this?podcast episode, we speak with Blaise Porter, Group Director Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility of Sims Limited, a global leader in metal recycling and circular solutions for technology, as well as an emerging leader in renewable energy. Blaise shares how important reusing and recycling materials are to prevent emissions from entering the atmosphere and how Sims Limited plays an important role in closing the loop and enabling a circular economy.

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