ANZRP Celebrates Net Positive Environmental Impact
Working with members, collection partners and community, ANZRP delivers outcomes that are not only environmentally but socially beneficial. As a not for profit our focus is simple – to achieve a positive outcome with a net benefit to the environment and to community.
ANZRP is committed to monitoring, measuring and managing the environmental impact of its activities.
Every year, we engage Australian life-cycle assessment research firm – LifeCycles, to investigate the impact of our services. Lifecycles undertakes independent assessment of our program, evaluating environmental benefits across the supply chain relating to carbon emission savings, energy consumption savings, water use reduction and particulate matter emissions from diesel vehicles.
As a valued member, you would have recently received a report highlighting the net benefits your contribution has made to the environment over the past twelve months. At the same time, ANZRP made public its net positive environmental impact since commencing collections in 2012.
Over this period of time, more than160,000 tonnes of e-waste has been recycled by TechCollect. We are immensely proud of this result and would like to share with you its impact:
- From an energy usage perspective, we have saved more than 2.7 million Gigajoules of energy usage. This is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 19,725 Australian homes.
- From a carbon emissions perspective, we have prevented over 190,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere. This is equivalent to planting more than 2.8 million trees.
- From a water use perspective, we have saved more than 990,000 cubic metres of water. This is equivalent to the annual average Australian household water consumption of more than 4,800 homes.
- From a particulate matter emissions perspective, we have prevented at least 268,000 kilograms of particulate matter emissions from entering the atmosphere. This is equivalent to removing over 270 million kilometres of old diesel truck travel from Australian roads.
We have developed a slide pack we are happy to share with you and your stakeholders. You can access it here.
