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CR&S 2010<br />
Climate<br />
and our<br />
environment<br />
Waste and materials<br />
Managing waste efficiently enables us<br />
to reduce our environmental impacts<br />
and save costs related to waste disposal.<br />
We aim to reduce and reuse our waste,<br />
rather than sending it to landfill. Waste<br />
management is particularly important<br />
in our Commercial Property business,<br />
where we have a high degree of influence<br />
in helping to reduce waste and manage<br />
the use of materials.<br />
Our Commercial Property business has<br />
set targets to reduce waste to landfill.<br />
For our operating assets this includes<br />
a target of 20 per cent of waste being<br />
diverted from landfill for our retail assets<br />
and 70 per cent for our office portfolio. We<br />
achieved the target for retail (26 per cent<br />
of waste was diverted from landfill) but<br />
unfortunately not for our office portfolio<br />
(66 per cent) in FY10. This was due to a<br />
number of issues at a small number of<br />
office sites. We will work closely with our<br />
waste management providers to improve<br />
this in FY11.<br />
In our Residential business we have<br />
collected waste data from our contractor<br />
activities for the first time. The data shows<br />
that 94 per cent of waste from our civil<br />
and landscaping contractors is diverted<br />
from landfill.<br />
Commercial Property waste<br />
management<br />
We now collect waste data on a monthly<br />
basis for 100 per cent of our office sites,<br />
where we have operational control over<br />
waste, and 100 per cent of our retail sites.<br />
Our industrial tenants manage their own<br />
waste and we do not have any visibility<br />
over their reporting.<br />
We have continued to increase the<br />
number of recycling facilities in our office<br />
and retail sites. In the second half of<br />
FY10 we introduced recycling bins at our<br />
retail centres, which enable customers<br />
to recycle paper and cardboard and<br />
co-mingled waste (aluminium, glass and<br />
plastic). We hope these bins will lead to<br />
further reductions in waste to landfill at<br />
our retail sites.<br />
Waste audits were conducted on three of<br />
our assets this year – two office buildings<br />
and one retail centre. The findings from<br />
the audits indicate that our current<br />
processes are good but that higher<br />
recycling rates are attainable. To help us<br />
achieve this, we will continue to increase<br />
the availability of recycling facilities at our<br />
assets and to provide information to our<br />
tenants, customers and cleaners on how<br />
they can reduce waste.<br />
Operational waste (tonnes)<br />
Office<br />
Office FY10 Office FY09 Retail FY10 Retail FY09<br />
Total waste 2,781 4,038 12,058 8,546<br />
Total waste to landfill 947 1,401* 8,956 7,203<br />
Total waste recycled 1,834 2,637 3,101 1,343<br />
Diversion from landfill (%) 66 65 26 15<br />
Percentage of portfolio reporting (%) 100 90 100 81<br />
Boundary: We are reporting against the same National Greenhouse and Energy<br />
Reporting Act (NGERA) ‘operational control’ boundary that we use for energy and water.<br />
We report on all properties within this boundary, with the exception of some properties<br />
where our tenants run their own waste contracts. We also report on a small number of<br />
additional properties that fall out of our NGERA boundary, but where we manage the<br />
waste contract for service provision purposes. Data provided by waste contractors is<br />
based on estimates (bin volumes converted to tonnes rather than weighed).<br />
* Error in calculation in FY09 report.<br />
Development waste (tonnes)<br />
Office FY10 Office FY09 Retail FY10 Retail FY09<br />
Total waste 291 12,120 663 1,146<br />
Waste recycled 242 10,580.9 552 994<br />
Waste to landfill 49 1,884 111 152<br />
Diversion from landfill (%) 83 87 83 87<br />
Percentage of the<br />
developments included (%) 100 100 50 20<br />
Boundary: Calculated based on total number of projects for which <strong>Stockland</strong> is the<br />
developer. Active waste is tracked through the builders, as for these sites the principal<br />
contractor has operational control.<br />
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<strong>Stockland</strong> Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report June 2010