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ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... core skillset for a CSO." Other priorities included reducing negative environmental impacts and waste reduction and recycling initiatives, promoting diversity in the workplace, and managing regulatory impacts. Respondents from organisations that were ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... 7.8% from tri-generation and 0.3% from renewable sources. "We are actually doing better than we might have thought in recycling our waste, and I think we're doing better in terms of equity and diversity than perhaps we'd previously appreciated," Magner ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... concrete targets or goals for their direct operations, with the majority focused on reducing water use or increasing water recycling/reuse to reduce freshwater dependence. But in the report, CDP says that type of approach may be an insufficient response ...

Water risks threaten growth of metals, mining companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Royal Bafokeng Platinum of South Africa identified higher water prices as a risk and said they are increasing water recycling usage by building water treatment plants. Lonmin, also of South Africa, identified reputational damage as a risk, and said that ...

UCA Funds Management holds first investor briefing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, with global operations and thus exposure to the US market recovery. However, as a metal recycling company, Sims is actively reducing carbon emissions and preserving natural resources, environmental characteristics that UCA ...

GBCA: Green Star buildings more efficient, less wasteful

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... well, GBA noted. Green-Star certified buildings also have reduced waste. The average new construction project has a 58% recycling rate. By comparison, Green Star - As Built certified buildings recycled 96% of their construction and demolition waste. ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... citation, and a 17% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 25% reduction in paper usage, and an increase in paper recycling of 63%.

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... manufacturing tobacco sorting machines. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director TOMRA manufactures reverse recycling machines and sorting systems for recycling quality control but last year bought a company that manufactures tobacco sorting ...

City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... city's commercial building owners and high-rise apartment residents to reduce water and energy usage and manage waste and recycling and Cr Wood also pointed to initiatives such as the 1200 Buildings program and environmental upgrade agreements as means ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... internal to an operation and can be used to benchmark water efficiency. It provides consistency around what we define as recycling and reuse. That is more useful for internal use." In 2011, the MCA board of member companies decided to adopt the phase ...