Policies & Compliance
OUR commitment to EXcellence
Committed to environmental excellence & innovative solutions in a responsible manner by delivering:
- Good Health and Wellbeing: promoting a strong safety culture amongst our staff, contractors, and visitors.
- Quality Education: committed to educating the community about sustainable waste management and recycling and supporting local community projects.
- Investment in green energy: installation of energy efficient plant and equipment, investing in waste-to-energy opportunities, reducing carbon emissions through landfill gas capture for green energy consumption.
- Industry, innovation, and Infrastructure: supporting a sustainable future for infrastructure developments and formalising Green Star accreditation for the sustainable waste management services we provide to the Construction industry.
- Life on Land: committed to ensure our operations do not negatively impact the environment and identify any environmental risks or hazards to be mitigated.
Health, Safety & Environment
BMI seeks to create a culture in which HSE is core to everyday business. We are committed to continually improving through minimising the risk of injury and illness, limiting our impact on the environment in order to achieve leading industry practice.
BMI aims to achieve this through the following principles:
- HSE System: Develop, implement, and maintain systems of work that ensure healthy and safe workplaces, safe plant and minimize environmental impacts.
- Risk management: Apply proactive risk management processes that identify hazards, evaluate and control risks with the specific aim of elimination of incidents and injuries.
- Environmental Stewardship: Commitment to the protection of the environment through the application of industry best practice to prevent pollution and reduce waste through innovative work practices and recycling practices.
- Regulatory compliance: Ensure compliance with legislative duties and current industry standards as far as reasonably practicable.
- Performance management: develop performance criteria and monitor our operations for compliance against these criteria and regulatory standard aiming to continually improve performance.
- Communication: clearly communicate our HSE commitments, responsibilities and performance to workers, contractors, customers, and other relevant parties.
- Consultation and empowerment: Consult and communicate HSE matters with workers and contractors to provide empowerment and develop a positive safety culture.
- Training and information: provide such information, instruction, training and supervision to workers, contractors and customers as is necessary to ensure their understanding of their HSE roles and responsibilities are competent to perform their roles safely, effectively, and efficiently.
- Resources: Provide adequate resources to implement, manage and sustain HSE objectives.
Sustainability
Sustainability is core to the BMI business model in maximising the value of wastes through recovery of resources and generation of high-quality recycled products. BMI believes this synergistic approach ensures sustainability is interdependent with the business’s success rather than a peripheral activity.
BMI furthers our sustainability commitment by:
- Maximising resource recovery rates at all facilities by continually improving established processes and developing revolutionary solutions to emerging risks and opportunities.
- Partnering with the community to respond to the local needs for a sustainable future.
- Setting and achieving stewardship goals in social and environmental projects.
- Supporting our suppliers, customers, and communities to become a more socially responsible and sustainable.
- Being involved in industry groups to share knowledge and assist in setting new sustainability benchmarks for the broader resource recovery industry and provide leadership.
- Complying with all relevant environmental legislation and adhere to regulatory standards at all levels; and
- Actively communicating our sustainability actions.
BMI anticipates that through working together, sharing successes, and improving all aspects of the business, we will be sustainable leaders in the waste industry.
Reconciliation Action Plan Vision
At BMI we imagine a future where all Australians are united by our shared past, the present, future, and our humanity for one another. This is our vision for reconciliations.
We aim to foster reconciliation across our organisation and the communities in which we operate. Through our journey towards reconciliation, we want to be able to acknowledge the richness of the histories of First Australians and create an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds work and prosper side by side.
Modern Slavery Statement
While BMI currently operates within Australia and the geographical risk is minimised, we are mindful that there may be a risk of causing or contributing to modern slavery by;
- Purchasing equipment from overseas
- Using labour in vulnerable populations/ high risk geographies or
- Through the engagement of recruitment agencies.
We are taking a long-term systematic approach to integrating an ethical supply chain framework and increasing engagement with suppliers to identify risks. To demonstrate our commitment, we will:
- act with integrity in all our business operations.
- engage talent using robust and defensible recruitment practices.
- consider how our supply chain could potentially be linked to modern slavery.
- evaluate our suppliers to increase our understanding of our supply chain and support informed decision making within procurement.
- make a conscious effort to source suppliers based within Australia.
- identify and respond to issues of compliance and concern.
- review our actions on a regular basis to continually improve.
We will comply with our obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), monitor our actions, and seek to continually improve our understanding of our supply chain and associated risks.
Greenstar Construction and Demolition Waste Reporting Criteria
Greenstar C&D Waste Processing Facility Compliance Verification Certification has been successfully achieved in accordance with the Green Star Construction and Demolition Waste Reporting Criteria for Waste Processing Facilities.
Environmental Permits
| Location | Registered Operator | Permit Number | Registered Activity | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acacia Ridge | Bemcove Pty Ltd | EPPR00589913 | ERA16 Extractive & Screening activities. | View Document |
| ERA54 Mechanical Waste Processing | ||||
| ERA60 Waste Disposal. | ||||
| ERA62 Resource Recovery and Transfer Facility Operation | ||||
| Mobile | Bemcove Pty Ltd | EPPR00340613 | ERA16 Extractive and Screening activities. | View Document |
| ERA54 Mechanical Waste Reprocessing | ||||
| Mobile | BCC Crushing Pty Ltd | EPPR00396913 | ERA54 Mechanical Waste Reprocessing. | View Document |
| Larapinta | Paradise Resource Recovery Pty Ltd | EPPR00894113 | ERA16 Extraction and Screening. | View Document |
| ERA53 Organic material processing. | ||||
| Hendra | BMI Nudgee Road Pty Ltd | BRID0040 | ERA 62 Waste Transfer Station Operation. | View Document |
| Redbank (Gypsum Drive) | Bogside Mining Industries | EPML00383413 | Mining ML clay pit mining | View Document |
| Redbank (Austin Street) | Bogside Mining Industries | EPML02454414 | Mining ML clay pit mining | View Document |
| Stapylton | Stapylton Resource Recovery (Qld) Pty Ltd | P-EA-100287544 | ERA16 Extraction and Screening | View Document |
| ERA53 Organic material processing | ||||
| ERA54 Mechanical waste reprocessing | ||||
| ERA55 Other Waste reprocessing or treatment | ||||
| ERA60 Waste Disposal | ||||
| ERA62 Resource Recovery and transfer facility operation | ||||
| Stapylton | Stapylton Resource Recovery (Qld) Pty Ltd | Q2801 | Class 8.2: Deep Burial | View Document |