About Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises

Kimbriki was originally established as a landfill in 1974. At this time the site was operated by an unincorporated business of SHOROC - originally Manly, Mosman, Warringah with Pittwater joining in 1992. A joint services committee comprising representatives from each of the Councils managed the operations.

In 1989-90, resource recovery operations commenced on site and Kimbriki became a Recycling and Waste Disposal Centre. This significant shift from waste disposal to resource recovery has shaped the future of Kimbriki and has allowed the remaining life of the Kimbriki landfill within approved capacity limits to now exceed 60 years, based on landfilling at the present rate.

In 2009, a new company, Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE), was created to own and operate the Kimbriki site with Warringah, Manly, Mosman and Pittwater Councils, as shareholders. The business is now directed by an independent non-executive Board of Directors and an experienced management team appointed by SHOROC.

Today, KEE aims to be a leader in waste management education and practice, through the use of innovative technologies and management systems that maximise resource recovery. KEE’s focus is to divert waste from landfill in line with State Government waste targets and SHOROC waste management objectives. Supporting a focus on resource recovery, the Kimbriki site is undergoing a transformation to become a Resource Recovery Centre.

To date, more than 2 million tonnes of waste has been diverted from landfill at Kimbriki through resource recovery operations on site.

The following table clearly displays the growth in Resource Recovery at Kimbriki over the past nearly 20 years.

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) has developed a vision, a set of company values and a set of strategic goals which will be the foundation principles for the development of the business into the future. KEE has used this as the underpinning basis for the development of this 5 Year Business Plan.

The KEE Board of Directors and management team will utilise the vision, company values and strategic goals as the assessment benchmark for all decision making processes. The future performance measurement of the business will be based on a set of key performance indicators that provide for representation of the strategic goals of the KEE business.

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) will be recognised as a world-class resource recovery and waste management business, which works with its community, shareholders, employees and the industry to provide sustainable regional waste minimisation and management systems in a financially, environmentally and socially responsible manner.

KEE will build its success upon:

• Positive engagement with the regional community in determining future business directions, including key decisions, such as processing mixed solid waste at the Kimbriki site
• Development of its Board and staff to continue to transform the business to meet the community’s requirements
• Partnering with others, including business, the community, industry, and academic partners, to optimise the outcomes, risks and rewards, associated with its business
• Delivering public good outcomes by focussing on those areas of business where it has significant expertise, or where it can lead improvements in practice
• Ensuring there is inter-generational equity in meeting the costs of waste management and site remediation over time

As an organisation, KEE seeks to be a good corporate citizen which:

• 1. Cares for the safety of its staff, the community, and the environment
• 2. Deals fairly, with integrity and respect for others
• 3. Engages with the community
• 4. Partners with others, to operate according to world’s best practice
• 5. Values innovation and open dialogue

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) has developed a set of strategic goals that will enable the business to achieve our vision within our value framework:

Goal 1
Lead the way: Identify for our customers and shareholders future business opportunities and ensure the delivery of proven, equitable and sustainable solutions based on technology, facilities and operations that are managed efficiently and effectively under the principles of best practice, while providing for innovation in service delivery, continuous improvement and the protection of the local environment.

Goal 2
Community endorsement: Ensure a high level of community and stakeholder understanding, trust, engagement, participation, acceptance and support for current and future KEE operations allowing for continued operations and the development of the business through the adoption of open and transparent community and stakeholder communication and education practices.

Goal 3
Focus on resource recovery: The continued evaluation of all incoming waste streams with respect to the potential for extended resource extraction and the development of quality assured products for sustainable high value end markets and applications while ensuring that there is no environmental or public health related harm caused from the end use of the recovered products.

Goal 4
Landfill airspace preservation: Ensure that all current and future operating practices focus on the minimisation of landfill airspace utilisation enabling KEE to provide for the long-term waste management capacity requirements of future generations.

Goal 5
Establish and maintain the team: Attract, employ, develop, reward and retain the required resource, intellectual property, and skills base to manage and deliver upon all current and future operations, while providing for employee safety, industry know how, succession planning and the future requirements of the KEE business.

Goal 6
Create shareholder value: Maximise and maintain the profitability of all current and future operations providing for increasing shareholder returns while maintaining sufficient working capital within the KEE business to ensure the sustainable delivery of services and operational practices into the future.

Goal 7
Focus on business compliance: Develop, implement and maintain the required systems and procedures to ensure that KEE’s corporate governance, safety, environment, quality assurance, human resource, information, risk, financial and administration management systems are sufficient for the current and future management, reporting and compliance requirements of the business.

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) is committed to the health and safety of all employees, contractors, clients, volunteers and visitors to the workplace.

KEE has developed an Occupational Health and Safety Management System which includes a range of policies and procedures that promote a risk management approach to safety.

Kimbriki Management adopts, in consultation with staff and other key stakeholders, a risk management approach that ensures risks are identified, assessed, eliminated and/or controlled. Kimbriki Management will ensure OHS performance and control strategies are regularly monitored for effectiveness.

The OHS Policy provides all Kimbriki staff with the authority to take actions required to ensure health, safety and welfare at work.

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) is committed to:

• Complying with all relevant Occupational Health and Safety legislation and industry standards
• The risk management process and ensuring consistency with activities and scale of OHS risks
• Establishing measurable objectives and targets for OHS to ensure continuous improvement aimed at elimination of work related illness and injury
• The provision of appropriate OHS training for all employees
• The consultation process, to ensure all employees and contractors are included in decisions impacting on workplace health and safety
• The dissemination of OHS information to all employees, contractors and visiting workers.
• The effective implementation of the OHS Policy
• Integrating OHS into the Kimbriki Business Plan
• The provision of adequate resources and management systems to monitor, control and take account of OHS issues
• The ongoing development, implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of Kimbriki’s management of occupational health and safety.

Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd (KEE) is committed to the protection of the natural environment, the prevention of pollution and continual improvement in our environmental compliance.

KEE has statutory obligations to:

• Protect the environment
• Minimise the environmental impact of operations on the Kimbriki site.

To deliver our environmental commitment, Kimbriki will:

• Comply with all relevant environmental legislation and regulation in operating the Kimbriki recycling operations and landfill
• Identify the existing and potential environmental impacts of Kimbriki’s activities and implement measures to avoid, reduce or control these impacts
• Establish environmental objectives and targets, with the aim of continually improving environmental performance
• Develop a sense of environmental responsibility within all employees and seek to extend this attitude into the community
• Liaise with customers and contractors to achieve a high level of environmental performance.

All Kimbriki employees and contractors are responsible for adhering to this policy and our environmental objectives.

Protection of the environment is a core element of Kimbriki’s commitment to being a sustainable business.