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Keeping the Australian Open clean and sustainable

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26 Jan, 2024

This post was originally published on Sustainability Matters

Quayclean’s Australian Open workforce of 1200 cleaners will work 24/7 throughout the 15-day tennis tournament, with 900,000 fans expected to attend the event across the Melbourne & Olympic Park (M&OP) precinct.

Quayclean is working with Tennis Australia and M&OP to make the tournament a memorable and sustainable event. Over 750 of its team members will be rostered every day of the tournament, covering three separate shifts over a 24-hour period.

Last year, Quayclean managed and removed more than 38 tonnes of mixed recycling, 24 tonnes of kitchen organics, 37 tonnes of cardboard and over 33 tonnes of crushed glass. Similar waste volumes are anticipated this year.

The company’s team of 25 Trash Talkers, who assist fans to separate waste into the appropriate designated bins, are back in force to help and educate spectators.

The Green My Plate service, where reusable plates and bowls are collected and hygienically washed and cleaned, is also available again.

Quayclean has established a team that will operate back of house to sort waste from five recycling hubs into six separate waste areas — food waste, co-mingle waste, reuasable waste, soft plastics, polystyrene and landfill.

The team will also separate bottles and cans from the co-mingle waste, with the Victorian Government introducing the Container Deposit Scheme last November.

Mark Piwkowski, Quayclean CEO, said, “There have been months of planning with Tennis Australia and M&OP and other site stakeholders to ensure this year’s Open sets new environmental and sustainability benchmarks.

“Our goal is to supercharge the Open’s waste management and sustainability systems and divert the high majority of waste away from landfill, which will represent financial and social benefits for the tournament organisers.”

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ABB receives EPD status for gearless mill drive ring motor

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ABB has gained Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) status for its Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) ring motor — technology used to drive large grinding mills in the mining industry.

An EPD is a standardised document that provides detailed information about the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle. Based on a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study, the EPD highlights ABB’s commitment to transparency, environmental responsibility and supporting customers in making informed decisions on sustainability in their supply chains.

ABB analysed the environmental impact of a ring motor across its entire life cycle from supply chain and production to usage and end-of-life disposal. The study was conducted for a ring motor of a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill with an installed power of 24 MW and was based on a reference service life of 25 years.

“Sustainability is at the core of our purpose at ABB, influencing how we operate and innovate for customers,” said Andrea Quinta, Sustainability Specialist at ABB. “By earning the Environmental Product Declaration for our ring motor, we emphasise our environmental stewardship and industry leadership for this technology. We adhered to the highest standards throughout this process, as we do in the ABB Ring Motor factory every day. This recognition highlights to the mining industry what they are bringing into their own operations when they work with ABB.”

The comprehensive LCA was conducted at ABB’s factory in Bilbao, Spain, and was externally verified and published in accordance with international standards ISO 14025 and ISO 14040/14044. It will remain valid for five years.

The ring motor, a key component of the GMD, is a drive system without any gears where the transmission of the torque between the motor and the mill is done through the magnetic field in the air gap between the motor stator and the motor rotor. It optimises grinding applications in the minerals and mining industries by enabling variable-speed operation, leading to energy and cost savings.

The full EPD for the ABB GMD Ring Motor can be viewed on EPD International.

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