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Signal has had 5 great years of success under the leadership of Micheal Bolderoff and Allen Bolderoff and we look forward to the next 5 years.
It was our challenge to encourage and promote waste minimisation and recycling programs in line with Zero Waste SA’s strategic plan of reducing waste to landfill by 25% within 10 years.
2006 was a big year for us, it was the year that we fine tuned our environmental policy and it was the year that we rolled out the ‘Landfill Diversion Challenge Program’. We had now become South Australia’s first front lift waste company to divert waste from landfill by the RTF (resource to fuel) method. What started out as 100% of our waste to landfill in 2005 has now in 2010 reduced to just 67%. That’s a reduction of 33% to landfill in 5 years. We have also increased cardboard and steel collection by seven fold.
With the launch of our new product ‘Mixed Recyclable Collection’ to the market our goal for the next 5 years is to reduce our C & I to landfill by another 17%. This means that if we want to achieve these targets we will need to extract more resources out of the waste stream.
Signal Waste & Recycling will invest over 2 million dollars in equipment and a new recycling facility over the next 5 years to achieve this target.
With the ever increasing EPA Waste to Landfill Levy now is the time to look at all your internal waste and recycling streams and how best to reduce these. Here are a few tips on recycling methods to help cut these upcoming costs.
Recycling Tips
- Is your service provider proactive on recycling or are they only interested in sending more tonnage to their privately owned landfills?
- Are you sorting your product on site? The labour content in the recycling industry is by far the biggest cost to our industry. By extracting metals, cardboard, paper, plastics, timber, green waste, food waste, bottles and cans, bricks and concrete into their own receiving containers you will be saving on outsourced labour costs and any future increase on the EPA waste to landfill levy.
- Get a ‘Mixed Recyclable’ service where your product is taken offsite and sorted. Although it is an increase in cost due to outsourced labour you can still avoid the EPA waste to landfill levy.
- Investigate ‘Free Services’. Some of your product has value. Will a recycler remove or even pay to remove your product? Some recycling centres have free drop off facilities for food, mobile phones, cardboard, paper, plastics and pallets. You can even call your local charity.
- Most importantly get some qualified advice.
