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Sustainability

Recycling is the easy part. Proving it is the work.

Every tonne we take is diverted from landfill and returned to production. What customers actually need from us is the evidence — tonnage, destination, methodology and a signature — in a format their auditor will accept.

Four documents that cover most requirements

If your client, your board or your certification scheme asks for something we don’t already produce, tell us — most of it is already in the weighbridge data.

Diversion report
Tonnage received by stream, percentage diverted from landfill, and residual sent to disposal. Issued per site or per project.
Destination & chain of custody
Which mill or refinery each parcel went to, when it left, and the docket trail connecting it back to your gate. The record that survives an audit.
Certificate of destruction
Issued against a serialised asset list for equipment, data media and branded product. Destruction can be witnessed on site or recorded on video.
Avoided-emissions data
Calculated per tonne by material type against primary-production baselines, with the methodology and emission factors stated so your assurance provider can check the working.

Secure destruction

When it has to be gone, and provably gone

Recalled product, branded stock, failed components, decommissioned plant and data-bearing equipment — destroyed under controlled conditions with a certificate issued against the list you provide.

  • Witnessed on site, or recorded on video
  • Serialised asset register reconciled line by line
  • Drives physically destroyed, not just wiped
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Licensing and accreditation

Scrap metal buying in Queensland requires a second-hand dealer licence, and metal recovery above threshold volumes is an environmentally relevant activity requiring an environmental authority.

Not yet published

Licence numbers, environmental authority references and any management-system certifications will be listed here once issued. We would rather show nothing than claim an accreditation we don’t hold — if you need current documentation for a procurement pack, ask and we’ll send exactly what exists.

Circular economy

Where your metal actually goes

Nothing disappears. Ferrous is baled or sheared to mill specification and moves to electric arc furnaces. Non-ferrous is sorted, sampled and sold to refiners and secondary smelters. We name the destination on every report.

Steel
Electric arc furnaces domestically and through the port. Recycled steel needs a fraction of the energy of primary production and can be recycled repeatedly without losing structural properties.
Aluminium
Secondary smelters producing billet and casting alloys. Recycling uses roughly 5% of the energy of smelting from bauxite — the single biggest energy saving in the industry.
Copper
Refiners producing cathode and rod. Demand is climbing hard with electrification, and secondary supply is the fastest route to meeting it.

Need reporting in a specific format?

Green Star, Infrastructure Sustainability, NABERS or a client's own template — send us the requirement and we'll tell you honestly whether the weighbridge data supports it.