Environmental Sustainability and the Circular Economy
For large Australian corporates formal Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting is becoming increasingly common.
ASIC, APRA, and the ASX now all either recommend or require organisations to consider and report on their performance managing sustainability-related risks.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Risks
Companies’ reputations and their ESG performance can be instantly undermined should reports arise of their decommissioned devices ending up in landfill or even worse in eWaste dumps overseas.
In 2017 ABC revealed that a monitor disposed of by a leading Australian bank had been found on a toxic e-waste dump in west Africa, being pulled apart by children as young as five.
Interlink supports your commitment to sustainability by reusing, repairing, refurbishing or recycling your decommissioned IT assets.
Only those assets which have no value and can’t refurbished are separated into their component parts to be processed by our materials recycling partners. Interlink and our downstream eWaste recycling partners hold ISO 14001 Certifications and have our processes regularly audited to that standard.
Sustainable waste management is a key operational area where companies can improve their ESG performance, with a resulting positive impact on their carbon footprint, operational costs and resource efficiency.
A commonly used measure is the total weight of electronic waste diverted from landfill, typically by refurbishment, reuse or recycling. Interlink’s commitment to our clients includes annual reporting of the total weight of their electronic waste diverted from landfill. We prioritise reuse by remarketing refurbished devices to consumers and small businesses, Australia-wide. Devices that are deemed beyond repair are stripped down to their component parts and recycled by our accredited downstream eWaste recycling partners to comply with ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, AS / NZS 5377:2013 and R2:2013 standards.