Brooklyn Recycling Group Members
The Mission of Brooklyn Recycling Group Environmental Programme
Collectively, the four BRG companies employ several hundred local community members. The BRG member’s sites are strategically located in proximity to each other, and centrally located within Greater Melbourne, so that their services provide an affordable and integral part of Melbourne’s waste management recycling - and a critical segment of Victoria’s Circular Economy. This locality helps to reduce transport-related costs, emissions and traffic congestion.
In a screening assessment carried out by Synergetics (2021), all sites within 3 km of EPA Victoria’s Brooklyn monitoring station (as seen in the aerial photo in Figure 1) likely to make a significant contribution to the measured PM10 concentration were identified. A total of 18 sites were identified as emission sources. The mass emission rates of the 18 sites were then estimated and ranked.
The assessment found that the four BRG members’ sites contribute only 8% (approx.) of the total PM10 measured. None of the BRG members appeared in the top 10 sites for emission sources.
Nevertheless, BRG members recognise they have an important role to play in the control and mitigation of PM10 connected to their activities at the Brooklyn site and to lead by example through continuous improvement and innovation through the Brooklyn BEP.
Innovation & the Brooklyn BEP
The Brooklyn BEP will encourage BRG members as BEP participants to continue to innovate and in doing so improve air quality and amenity in the immediate area. For the first time, innovation captures the four BEP participants working together to jointly innovate for improved outcomes.
Joint BRG Member Projects
BRG members (BEP participants) have confirmed a number of Group actions to achieve the objectives of the BEP.
