Quayclean acknowledges role of those who help renew and nourish ecosystems

June 5, 2021

Environment /

On World Environment Day, Quayclean Australia has paid tribute to its venue customers across the nation who have adopted important changes to help renew and nourish ecosystems.

With World Environment Day’s 2021 theme being Reimagine, Recreate and Restore, highlighting the need for ecosystem restoration throughout the world, Quayclean and its customers had identified a number of areas that support this year’s theme:

Successfully manage clients’ waste and ensuring high landfill diversion rates
Develop composting options for food waste, including implementing large-scale worm farms
Implement strategies for waste reduction including initiatives to reduce waste arriving on sites
Reduce the usage of single use plastics including the implementation of reusable coffee cups and drink bottles for the Quayclean team
Participate in Clean Up Australia day

Quayclean’s environmental highlights include:

Collecting and recycling 98 tonnes of glass bottles and cans at Australian Turf Club venues between August 2020 and April 2021 for the Container Deposit Scheme (CDS)
Collecting and composting (onsite worm farms) 1000 kgs of food waste at Venues Canberra between March and May this year, plus collecting 92,000 containers via the CDS from September 2020 to May 2021
Collecting, crushing and recycling 8900 kgs of glass during an eight-month period at Marvel Stadium – the CO2 equivalent of 18,702 kms driven in a family car
Collecting and recycling 1800 kgs of e-waste at Marvel Stadium in April plus introducing two electric buggies

Mindful that the world loses enough forest every three seconds to cover a football pitch and, over the last century, half of our wetlands have been destroyed, Quayclean Chief Executive, Mark Piwkowski, said he was proud of the results the business had achieved.

Piwkowski advised “as a business, we place a key focus on working with our customers in developing environmental solutions. Not only are these solutions great for our planet, but they produce positive financial results for our customers.

“Obviously the COVID pandemic has impacted the number of patrons who have attended our venues over the past 15 months. However, we are pleased with the uptake from customers together with some of the outstanding environmental results that we have been able to achieve in partnership with them.”

Urged all Australians to adopt measures to improve the ecosystem, Piwkowski added “as recommended by the United Nations for the 2021 World Environment Day, there are simple measures we can each take such as embracing a plant-rich diet, starting an urban garden, planting a tree, reducing the consumption of single-use products and fighting food waste.

“We only have one planet, so it is our collective duty to protect our environment for current and future generations.”

World Environment Day is marked on 5th June each year.

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