Sims Lifecyle Services, a subsidiary of Sims Limited, aims to be carbon neutral by 2025. | | Gorodenkov/Shutterstock
Sims Limited seeks to reduce emissions from electricity and fuel in a series of steps outlined in its first climate report.
While these emissions are primarily from Sims’ metal recycling operations, ITAD, a publicly traded company, and Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), the electronics recycling arm, also have a role to play.
SLS has achieved its goal of redeploying 2.7 million cloud units in 2022 and redeploying or redeploying 8.5 million units by the end of fiscal year 2025, according to its first climate report.
“Despite supply chain constraints limiting the release of cloud material in FY22, diverted units increased by 28.6%,” notes the report. “We also launched a sustainability calculator, new service offerings, and invested in engineering and technology to continue to drive innovation and build the ability to scale our business quickly when supply chain challenges recede. .”
SLS plans to be carbon neutral and reduce emissions in its direct operations by 2025. This is 12 years earlier than he was originally promised. SLS’ largest source of emissions is 64% natural gas, primarily from its precious metals analysis facility in Franklin Park, Illinois.
“Our analytical lab processes samples from customer materials to determine the percentage of precious metals,” the report explains. “The process currently uses natural gas to achieve the high temperatures needed to melt the samples. These emissions have the potential to be balanced against verified carbon offsets to meet our 2025 carbon neutral target.”
Electricity is SLS’s second largest source of emissions at 33%, with the remaining 4% of emissions coming from fossil fuels in light vehicles and the company’s mobile factories.
To address these emissions, SLS is transitioning to 100% renewable electricity contracts where it directly contracts electricity, exploring efficiency and fuel alternative options, and pursuing energy efficiency and conservation programs. , exploring power and low emission options at SLS light duty. Setting environmental standards for vehicle fleets and new facilities.
In fiscal year 2022, SLS transitioned its sites in New Zealand, Europe and India to 100% renewable electricity and replaced all lighting at its German facility with LEDs. According to the Climate Report, lighting upgrades should reduce annual electricity use by lighting by 50% compared to 2020.
Overall, parent company Sims showed a 21% reduction in emissions compared to its 2020 baseline, with 37% of the company’s electricity coming from renewable sources in 2022. Electricity accounts for 41% of company-wide emissions, with 53% coming from use. Use of fossil fuels such as diesel in fleets and mobile plants. Its metals sector produces the bulk of its collective footprint, the report notes.
“The planned electrification of diesel vehicles will increase electricity consumption at our yards, so we are moving early to renewable electricity to recognize the greatest emission reductions and support capacity and demand management on site. It is strategically important to move to
In 2022 Sims Limited will also measure its value chain emissions, known as Scope 3 emissions, for the first time. The company found that over 90% of his Scope 3 emissions come from its steel and maritime divisions related to the processing and transportation of Sims Metal’s products.
Approximately 95% of all Scope 3 emissions come from our metals operations, with less than 3% from our SLS. Most of that 3% comes from the use of refurbished products and third-party shipping.
“SLS participates in the US EPA SmartWay program to help improve freight efficiency and environmental performance across its logistics operations,” the report notes, adding that Sims will take action to reduce Scope 3 emissions by 2023. Set a plan.
