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Cleanaway launches new hazardous soil and waste treatment service in Victorian market

Cleanaway launches new hazardous soil and waste treatment service in Victorian market

Cleanaway has developed a specialist new facility to treat toxic fire residues and high hazard contaminated soils

Our Services - Resource Recovery

September 29, 2021

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The facility is unique in its ability to accept and treat asbestos co-contaminated soils and sludges and highly odorous, dusty and/or difficult to handle industrial waste.

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The facility is unique in its ability to accept and treat asbestos co-contaminated soils and sludges and highly odorous, dusty and/or difficult to handle industrial waste.

Cleanaway is looking to fill a gap in the market for high hazard contaminated soils and sludges and tap the growing infrastructure market across Victoria with a specialist new facility developed to treat toxic fire residues from a major warehouse fire.

General Manager Liquids & Technical Services Karl David said Cleanaway had built a state-of-the-art facility in Melbourne to process fire residue sludges and solids and a range of asbestos-contaminated packaged wastes remaining after the fire in 2018 at a West Footscray warehouse, where large amounts of chemicals were stored.

Mr David said the service would be offered to new customers once the fire clean-up project with environmental services business Enviropacific Services for health and safety regulator WorkSafe Victoria was completed this year.

The facility at Dandenong South, which cost about $3 million to develop, has the capacity to process thousands of tonnes of contaminated soils, sludges and other hazardous wastes every year.

“This is a niche service in that we will be able to manage highly contaminated, odorous and hazardous solid wastes that other facilities can’t take,” he said.

“The material is safely stored in our new facility prior to treatment to enable it to be recovered or safely disposed in accordance with environmental regulations.

“It’s a very flexible space in terms of what it can be used for and provides new levels of environmental and safety controls in the treatment of highly contaminated material, consisting of fully enclosed loading, treatment and stockpiling areas.

“The facility operates under negative pressure with an emissions control unit filtering air prior to discharge from the facility. This is complemented by fully bunded storage areas, fast action roller doors at truck entrances and exits, truck wash and dedicated staff decontamination facilities.

“We see potential interest in our specialist new capability from the growing number of infrastructure projects, including rail and road, in Victoria.

“The facility is unique in its ability to accept and treat asbestos co-contaminated soils and sludges and highly odorous, dusty and/or difficult to handle industrial waste.”

Mr David said this new capability was in additional to Cleanaway’s safe, compliant and environmentally responsible solutions for effective contaminated solid waste disposal and soil remediation, which are usually provided on site.

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Cleanaway attends the WA Accommodation Awards for Excellence

Cleanaway attends the WA Accommodation Awards for Excellence

Our Services - Partnerships

September 20, 2021

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Cleanaway was represented by our Business Development Manager, Sandra Madovi, who also presented the award for the “Best Mid-Range Accommodation” to Fitzroy River Lodge.

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Cleanaway was represented by our Business Development Manager, Sandra Madovi, who also presented the award for the “Best Mid-Range Accommodation” to Fitzroy River Lodge.

In early August, Cleanaway attended the WA Accommodation Awards to support the hospitality industry and as part of our sponsorship of the Australian Hotels Association. The WA Accommodation Awards recognises excellence with Western Australia’s accommodation history and comes after a challenging 18 months.

Cleanaway Business Development Manager, Sandra Madovi presents the Best Mid-Range Award to Fitzroy River Lodge

Cleanaway was represented by our Business Development Manager, Sandra Madovi, who also presented the award for the “Best Mid-Range Accommodation” to Fitzroy River Lodge.

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Cleanaway wins waste disposal contract with 21 Melbourne councils

Cleanaway wins waste disposal contract with 21 Melbourne councils

Our Services

September 2, 2021

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"We're very proud to have won this contract, which demonstrates the value of our network of prized infrastructure assets and locations including landfills, resource recovery centres and transfer stations," Ms Lizza said.

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"We're very proud to have won this contract, which demonstrates the value of our network of prized infrastructure assets and locations including landfills, resource recovery centres and transfer stations," Ms Lizza said.

Cleanaway has confirmed its position as the largest waste treatment and disposal company in Melbourne after winning a four-year contract with 21 of the 26 metropolitan councils that tendered their volumes.

Regional Manager Melinda Lizza said the successful bid for the Metropolitan Waste Resource Recovery Group (MWRRG) waste disposal contract doubled the volumes of waste that Cleanaway accepted at its three Melbourne disposal or transfer facilities, to more than 605,000 tonnes per year.

She said Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) from kerbside bins would be tipped at the Melbourne Regional Landfill (MRL) at Ravenhall, the South East Melbourne Transfer Station (SEMTS) at Dandenong and the Lysterfield Resource Recovery Centre under the contract, which started on 1 April.

Cleanaway already had a contract with 11 metropolitan councils to accept waste for disposal and will accept a further 10 councils’ waste (see details below).

“We’re very proud to have won this contract, which demonstrates the value of our network of prized infrastructure assets and locations including landfills, resource recovery centres and transfer stations; MRL, SEMTS and Lysterfield,” Ms Lizza said.

“The MWRRG contract doubles the waste volumes going to these three sites and means we will be accepting about two thirds of the Melbourne metro MSW kerbside waste produced in Melbourne.”

“It has started well with positive feedback from the councils about the convenience of our locations, the operational efficiency and longer opening hours of the facilities, the turnaround times. We haven’t had any issues handling the doubling of volume and, in fact, we could handle more.”

Ms Lizza said Cleanaway was spending $7.6 million at the facilities to support the contract, with investments including dozers, trailers, wheel loaders, concrete pads, a new weigh bridge, among other upgrades.

Most of the additional waste volumes are taken to SEMTS or Lysterfield, where it is consolidated by Cleanaway before being transported to MRL.

“The new contract substantially increases volumes of waste accepted at Lysterfield, a drop-off and disposal site which previously only had relatively small amounts coming in,” Ms Lizza said.

The 11 councils that Cleanaway already services are Bayside, Melton, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Whitehorse TS, Maribyrnong, Cardinia, Stonnington, Brimbank, Yarra City and Hobsons Bay.

The 10 additional councils are Frankston, Kingston, Whitehorse, Dandenong, Glen Eira, Manningham, Knox, Monash, Melbourne and Port Phillip.

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Cleanaway wins waste disposal contract with 21 Melbourne councils

Cleanaway wins waste disposal contract with 21 Melbourne councils

Cleanaway has confirmed its position as the largest waste treatment and disposal company in Melbourne after winning a four-year contract with 21 of the 26 metropolitan councils that tendered their volumes.

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Cleanaway has confirmed its position as the largest waste treatment and disposal company in Melbourne after winning a four-year contract with 21 of the 26 metropolitan councils that tendered their volumes.

Regional Manager Melinda Lizza said the successful bid for the Metropolitan Waste Resource Recovery Group (MWRRG) waste disposal contract doubled the volumes of waste that Cleanaway accepted at its three Melbourne disposal or transfer facilities, to more than 605,000 tonnes per year.

She said Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) from kerbside bins would be tipped at the Melbourne Regional Landfill (MRL) at Ravenhall, the South East Melbourne Transfer Station (SEMTS) at Dandenong and the Lysterfield Resource Recovery Centre under the contract, which started on 1 April.

Cleanaway already had a contract with 11 metropolitan councils to accept waste for disposal and will accept a further 10 councils’ waste (see details below).

“We’re very proud to have won this contract, which demonstrates the value of our network of prized infrastructure assets and locations including landfills, resource recovery centres and transfer stations; MRL, SEMTS and Lysterfield,” Ms Lizza said.

“The MWRRG contract doubles the waste volumes going to these three sites and means we will be accepting about two thirds of the Melbourne metro MSW kerbside waste produced in Melbourne.

“It has started well with positive feedback from the councils about the convenience of our locations, the operational efficiency and longer opening hours of the facilities, the turnaround times.

“We haven’t had any issues handling the doubling of volume and, in fact, we could handle more.”

Ms Lizza said Cleanaway was spending $7.6 million at the facilities to support the contract, with investments including dozers, trailers, wheel loaders, concrete pads, a new weigh bridge, among other upgrades.

Most of the additional waste volumes are taken to SEMTS or Lysterfield, where it is consolidated by Cleanaway before being transported to MRL.

“The new contract substantially increases volumes of waste accepted at Lysterfield, a drop-off and disposal site which previously only had relatively small amounts coming in,” Ms Lizza said.

The 11 councils that Cleanaway already services are Bayside, Melton, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Whitehorse TS, Maribyrnong, Cardinia, Stonnington, Brimbank, Yarra City and Hobsons Bay.

The 11 councils that Cleanaway already services are Bayside, Melton, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Whitehorse TS, Maribyrnong, Cardinia, Stonnington, Brimbank, Yarra City and Hobsons Bay.

Setting up Australia’s largest COVID-19 vaccination centre

Setting up Australia's largest COVID-19 vaccination centre

Our Services

August 17, 2021

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"By partnering with Cleanaway Daniels, nurses were using the safest, environmentally-compliant disposal technology in the world for pharmaceutical sharps disposal. And it’s all manufactured here in Australia," Health Services Business Unit Sales Manager Oskar Laszczyk said.

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"By partnering with Cleanaway Daniels, nurses were using the safest, environmentally-compliant disposal technology in the world for pharmaceutical sharps disposal. And it’s all manufactured here in Australia," Health Services Business Unit Sales Manager Oskar Laszczyk said.

Image showing pharmasmart containers next to nurses' tables

Cleanaway Daniels Account Manager Mona Sanghvi had an eventful and early first day on her new job – setting up Australia’s largest COVID-19 vaccination centre in Wollongong, New South Wales. Mona began her day at 7am, assembling 75 sharps collection trollies for the rollout.

She was joined by Key Account Manager Lachlan Gooch, who was managing the project. Lachlan led the project from the front, driving down from Newcastle at 4am to oversee the operations.

New pharmaceutical collectors aligned to new Australian standards were introduced at the onsite vaccination pharmacy. “By partnering with Cleanaway Daniels, nurses were using the safest, environmentally-compliant disposal technology in the world for pharmaceutical sharps disposal. And it’s all manufactured here in Australia,” Health Services Business Unit Sales Manager Oskar Laszczyk said.

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Commodities trading team with a licence to turn waste into a resource

Commodities trading team with a licence to turn waste into a resource

Cleanaway's Commodities Trading Desk is the central point of coordination for Cleanaway’s commodities, maximising value via price, managing supply chain costs, and optimising product quality through additional sorting.

Our Services

August 11, 2021

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"The team is not only creating economic value but also helping create a circular economy by ensuring products are diverted from landfill and recycled, consistent with our mission of making a sustainable future possible.”

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"The team is not only creating economic value but also helping create a circular economy by ensuring products are diverted from landfill and recycled, consistent with our mission of making a sustainable future possible.”

When Cleanaway became the first operator of a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) to be granted a licence to export single polymer plastics recently, the value added by one of its teams became very clear.

The licence approval was testament to how Cleanaway’s in-house commodities trading desk (CTD) has demonstrated it can grow a circular economy for commodities in Australia while continuing to sell to reputable offshore recyclers.

The CTD team, which manages Cleanaway’s commodities supply chain, is preparing for significant growth, which is forecast to significantly lift sales of recyclable commodities over the coming years.

Commodities Trading Manager Brian Dalitz said he expected the CTD’s Australian sales to increase by up to 90 percent by FY24 as Cleanaway continued to execute its ‘Footprint 2025’ strategy, bans on exports of unprocessed materials such as plastics, paper and glass took effect, and the development of new onshore reprocessing facilities increased domestic demand.

He said additional sales would be driven mainly by growth in processing volumes from material recovery facilities (MRFs) at Laverton in Melbourne, South Guildford in Perth and Blacktown and from new container deposit schemes (CDS).

Additional demand would come from new processors needing feedstock like the $45 million PET pelletising plant being built in Albury by a joint venture of Cleanaway, Pact Group and Asahi Beverages, along with other plastic and glasses plants planned around the country.

“We are hiring commodities supply chain specialists as the team evolves from running an export oriented business to managing a commodities supply chain that extends from waste collections through container deposit schemes to processing customer sales,” said Mr Dalitz, who has worked in commodities trading for international companies for 25 years.

“The market is restructuring, Cleanaway is restructuring and the CTD is restructuring, as the recyclables market evolves and matures to being more like typical supply chains such as agriculture and resource-based commodity markets.

“It’s a very different business compared to five and 10 years ago when it was mainly pushing all our supply to China.

“We have a capability and footprint that is not matched by anybody else in the Australian market, which gives Cleanaway a competitive advantage.”

The CTD is the central point of coordination for Cleanaway’s commodities, maximising value via price, managing supply chain costs, and optimising product quality through additional sorting.

These activities, supported by enhanced recycling market intelligence, allow Cleanaway to improve the utilisation of its collections volumes and support investments in processing and landfill diversion.

The commodities include plastics, aluminium, steel, paper, cardboard and glass, which are collected from kerbside bins, commercial customers and CDS sites, and transported to MRFs, where they are sorted, inspected, compressed into bales and packed for transport in Australia or overseas.

“Our job is also to manage commodity execution and price volatility to protect against any downside risks,” Mr Dalitz said.

“The team is not only creating economic value but also helping create a circular economy by ensuring products are diverted from landfill and recycled, consistent with our mission of making a sustainable future possible.”

Mr Dalitz said the CTD was demonstrating the value of recyclable commodities and ensuring they were increasingly recognised as long term resources.

“For example, aluminium is one of the highest value commodities, trading at more than $2,000 per tonne, and most single polymer plastics fetch between $400 and $900 per tonne,” he said.

“That’s a lot more than wheat or iron ore.”

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The Grove SA launches organics recycling for food retailers

The Grove SA launches organics recycling for food retailers

Grove SA recently launched a organics recycling service for their food retailers to divert waste from landfill.

Our Services

July 30, 2021

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The material will be collected by soil recycling specialists Jeffries, who will turn the organic waste material into nutrient rich soil and compost.

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The material will be collected by soil recycling specialists Jeffries, who will turn the organic waste material into nutrient rich soil and compost.

South Australia shopping complex the Grove recently launched a new organic waste recycling service for their food retailers. Food retailers and cleaners were provided with recycling caddies and compostable bags to collect food scraps and other organic material.

The material will be collected by soil recycling specialists Jeffries, who will turn the organic waste material into nutrient rich soil and compost. This simple action can help the Grove divert more waste from landfill.

Cleanaway delivering recycling caddies and bio bags to food retailers in the Grove
Cleanaway Education Officer Georgette Hawes (far right), Centre Management’s Michael (left of centre in photo) and Jeffries’ Ben Randall Smith (right of centre) delivering caddies and locally produced compostable bin liners (Biobags) to food retailers.

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Andrew makes a trusted role his own

Andrew makes a trusted role his own

Andrew Irving is one of Cleanaway’s most experienced drivers, collecting confidential paper and cardboard from hospitals around Melbourne and beyond.

Our People - Our Services

July 15, 2021

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Andrew was an instrumental part of setting up the confidential paper and cardboard service to hospitals using our own rear-lift truck

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Andrew was an instrumental part of setting up the confidential paper and cardboard service to hospitals using our own rear-lift truck

Andrew Irving knows Melbourne’s hospitals like the back of his well-travelled hands.

One of Cleanaway’s most experienced drivers, he collects confidential paper and cardboard from hospitals around the city and beyond.

Pictured: Andrew making his rounds with his trusty rear-lift truck

The father-of- four, in a blended family of two adult boys and two adult girls, joined Daniels Health more than 25 years ago, working with the founder to help build the industry-leading hammermill at Dandenong South which is still used for crushing and treating needles and other medical waste.

Andrew was also involved in the early development and growth of Daniels Health’s business supplying reusable sharps and clinical waste containers to hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.

He is now working for Cleanaway Daniels, following the acquisition of Daniels Health in 2018.

But for the last 15 years, he has been a familiar face to doctors, nurses and other staff as he walks the hospital floors on his collection rounds.

Andrew estimates he visits between 70 and 80 different hospitals in a week, sometimes spending hours at a single facility, moving from floor to floor collecting the 250 litre bins. “Yesterday I measured more than 25,000 steps while spending about five hours at Monash Medical Centre,” he says.

His Cleanaway Daniels truck holds 13 to 14 tonnes of paper, which is transported to a third-party site for shredding and recycling, as he covers up to 250 kilometres in a day.

“I’m the only driver who goes into the hospitals in Melbourne. Others drive in, pick up bins and drive away, so mine is a lot different. I set this system up many years ago and it means I spend a lot of time with customers.

It’s really good seeing the nurses, it’s really nice seeing the people. A lot of the hospital staff know who I am. Some might put a chocolate bar out for me,” he says.

Natino Malvaso, National Business Development and Customer Service Manager for Cleanaway Daniels, paid tribute to Andrew’s contribution to the business.

“Andrew was an instrumental part of setting up the confidential paper and cardboard service to hospitals using our own rear-lift trucks when Daniels Health made the decision to expand its service offering to health customers around 10 years ago,” Natino says.

“He has always been more than happy to go above and beyond in providing that exceptional customer service to our healthcare customers, as well as always willing to help other drivers or back at the yard given his extensive knowledge and experience in the business.”

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Processing radioactive NORM waste in LTS Karratha

Processing radioactive NORM waste in LTS Karratha

Cleanaway has identified a new business opportunity with the processing of radioactive waste from oil and gas platforms off Western Australia.

Our Services - Resource Recovery

July 8, 2021

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It’s a cradle-to-grave proposition in that we can organise not just storage but decontamination, repackaging and disposal of this material.”

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It’s a cradle-to-grave proposition in that we can organise not just storage but decontamination, repackaging and disposal of this material.”

Cleanaway has identified a new business opportunity with the processing of radioactive waste from oil and gas platforms off Western Australia.

The Liquids and Technical Services team has repackaged about 200 tonnes of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) at a facility at Karratha and has the capability to process more, says Regional Manager West, Liquid and Technical Services (LTS), Daniel Le Provost.

“We have developed from scratch a capability which few people have, and it’s a first for Cleanaway,” Daniel says.

“It’s a cradle-to-grave proposition in that we can organise not just storage but decontamination, repackaging and disposal of this material.”

Pictured: Regional Manager West, Liquid and Technical Services (LTS), Daniel Le Provost.

“This is a culmination of work over the last few years and includes the construction of a best-in-class purpose-built radioactive waste storage facility at a remote site in the Pilbara, and the obtaining of a Radiation Safety Storage Registration issued by WA Radiological Council.”

“We have been storing stored NORM waste from an oil and gas company operating off the North West Shelf for 18 months asCOVID-19 restrictions delayed sorting and packaging until recently.”

“This process involves decanting the waste and any removing any free liquids, packaging it in bags, which are sealed inside lined UN rated drums. It is then stored until it has been approved for disposal. There are currently only a couple of legitimate disposal options, one overseas in North America and one locally in Western Australia.”

Pictured: NORM waste packaging in progress

Daniel thanked everyone involved in this project, including Karratha Chemist and project lead Sean Harrington and Karratha Branch Manager Michelle Laffey.

“Given the obvious dangers of processing radioactive material and guided by our Home Safe value, managing the risks was our top priority,” Daniel says.

“The work was performed by trained employees who were continuously monitored by Radiation Safety Officers who were dedicated to the project to monitor ongoing exposure levels.”

Pictured: A NORM waste processing shed

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Providing waste services to Garden Island Defence Base

Providing waste services to Garden Island Defence Base

Our Cleanaway ISW team provided total waste management services to our clients at the Garden Island Defence Base.

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We recently provided our marine and engineering client, Atlantic & Peninsula total waste management services at Garden Island Defence Base in NSW.

Cleanaway assisted in the the maintenance of the HMAS Choules ACP21 ship through our tank cleaning, oily/bilge water and general waste disposal services, as well as recycling timber, steel and packaged waste streams (including fluoros and capacitors).

Cleanaway team members with Atlantic & Peninsula's Project Manager
Pictured: The IWS team looking sharp at Garden Island Defence Base, left to right: Driver/Operator Dave Torok, Major Accounts Manager Michael Ryan and Garden Island Operations Supervisor Gavin McDougall, and Atlantic & Peninsula’s Project Manager David Henderson

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