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Your Business and the Carbon Pricing Mechanism

The Carbon Pricing Mechanism, (also referred to as the CPM or Carbon Tax in the media), is an Australian Government initiative that will put a price...

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NSW Environmental Report Hotline

SITA has established a dedicated Environmental Hotline for anyone living or working close to our sites in NSW. This service is available 24/7. To find out more...

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SITA sponsors KABNSW EnivroMentors Program

SITA Australia is the proud sponsor of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW EnviroMentors education program.

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NSW Waste Acceptance & Charges Brochure

Your guide to recycling charges, opening hours and waste acceptance criteria at our NSW Resource Recovery sites.

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Achievements in Sustainability

As the Australian leader in resource recovery, making the world sustainable is at the heart of our business.

SITA has implemented a number of positive environmental actions across our company that demonstrates our ongoing commitment to sustainable development.

SITA is the largest producer of waste-to-energy in Australia

We are committed to implementing measures to capture landfill gas, as the emission of greenhouse gases from decomposing organic waste in landfill is our largest sustainability challenge.  Our continual investment in landfill gas capture technology has reduced emissions and seen an increase in the production of renewable energy from our sites. In 2009-2010 enough renewable energy from landfills was generated to power over 42,000 homes.

Turning our truck fleet green

SITA continues to introduce the use of soy biodiesel across our collection fleet.  In 2009, SITA’s Wetherill Park Service Centre in Sydney, NSW, was the first to introduce soy biodiesel vehicles. Since then, SITA has introduced soy biodiesel collection vehicles at Campbelltown and Shoalhaven in NSW, Hume in Canberra and Dandenong South in Victoria.

The use of 20% soy biodiesel in the collection vehicles’ fuel reduces emissions of air pollutants such as (carcinogenic) particulate matter, smoke, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, reducing impacts on the community and the environment.

In South Australia, we run Australia’s largest dedicated fleet of CNG (compressed natural gas) trucks.

Advanced Resource Recovery Technology

SITA invests heavily in research and technology in order to continually increase resource recovery opportunities from the waste we collect – we aim to divert as much waste as possible away from landfill. Across Australia we own 7 Advanced Resource Recovery Technology (ARRT) Facilities and 7 Organic Resource Recovery Facilities.

Management of consumer packaging

As a signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, SITA has made a commitment to improve the sustainable management of consumer packaging in Australia. SITA’s Australian Packaging Covenant Action Plan 2011-2015 can be viewed on the Australian Packaging Covenant website.