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