Cleanaway Waste Management Limited is Australia's largest waste management company, employing over 5,500 people across Australia. The company services customers ranging from small businesses to large multi-national commercial and industrial organisations across a range of different industries. Cleanaway operates over 4,500 trucks from more than 250 branches nationwide, as well as a range of resource recovery and post collection assets across the country. This network of assets allows Cleanaway to offer over 300 products and services across the entire waste spectrum from collections to recycling to safe disposal.
History
entered the waste management and disposal industry in 1970. In 1979, it began trading as Cleanaway. Cleanaway continued to expand over the years through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. Cleanaway expanded into Europe in the 1990s, purchasing businesses in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The German operation was sold in 2005. In June 2006, Brambles sold Cleanaway to KKR, who then sold it to Transpacific Industries in May 2007. Transpacific Industries was formed in 1987, expanding through organic growth and strategic growth. The combined entity would continue to trade separately as Transpacific Industries and Cleanaway for ten years. In September 2013 the Commercial Vehicles Group that sold Dennis Eagle, MAN and Western Star Trucks was disposed of to the Penske Automotive Group. In September 2015 the company announced its intention to rebrand to Cleanaway Waste Management. This was approved by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting in October 2015. On 18 May 2017, Vik Bansal unveiled Footprint 2025, Cleanaway's plans to upgrade and improve their current infrastructure and systems to deal sustainably with Australia's growing waste demands, with a primary focus on resource recovery.
Notable acquisitions
Cleanaway announced it was acquiring Tox Free Solutions Limited, including its subsidiary Daniels Health, in December 2017, subject to regulatory approval. This was granted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in April 2018, followed by the Australian Federal Court on 10 May 2018. The acquisition was completed on 25 May 2018. The occasion was marked by visits from Cleanaway's senior management to all Toxfree and Daniels Health sites across Australia. In 2019, Cleanaway acquired a number of the SKM Recycling Group’s assets for $66 million, restoring and reopening the facilities completely by February 2020. The acquisition included two Materials Recovery Facility and two transfer stations in Victoria and a material recovery facility in Tasmania. The site in Laverton North, Victoria includes an advanced plastic sorting facility which separates plastics from material recovery facilities into clean, individual polymer grades for sale or input into a pelletising facility. The acquisition of Statewide Recycling in late 2019 enabled Cleanaway to further service regional Victoria, including a transfer station in Warnambool.
Products and services
Cleanaway offers a wide variety of waste management services, including:
In addition, Cleanaway also manages several landfills, waste transfer stations and material recovery facilities throughout Australia, turning the received waste into energy and other materials.
Energy-from-waste
Cleanaway has proposed an energy-from-waste facility in Western Sydney. The facility would take residual waste from Western Sydney kerbside general waste collections and use world-leading technology to convert to energy.
Joint ventures
Cleanaway operates several joint ventures throughout Australia, including:
Earthpower
In 2007, Cleanaway formed a joint venture with Veolia and purchased EarthPower, a food organic processing facility that can process items such as fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, and grease trap and bulk packaged waste. The facility uses anaerobic digestion technology to convert food waste into combustible gas similar to natural gas to produce green electricity.
TOMRA-Cleanaway
The TOMRA-Cleanaway partnership was appointed to be the Network Operator for the New South Walescontainer deposit scheme. TOMRA provides the Reverse Vending Machines, and Cleanaway collects and processes the containers from the machines and collection points around New South Wales. As of 1 May 2020, 3.5 billion containers have been returned since the start of the scheme.
Cleanaway-ResourceCo
The Cleanaway-ResourceCo joint venture opened the largest resource recovery and Process Engineered Fuel facility in Australia. The Resource Recovery Facility in Wetherill Park, Sydney, creates a landfill diversion option for dry commercial and industrial waste, providing an alternative to coal.
Asahi – Cleanaway – PACT
On 19 February 2020, Asahi Breweries, Cleanaway and Pact Group Holdings announced a joint venture to develop a plastic pelletising facility. This facility is expected to process up to 28,000 tonnes of plastic bottles and other plastic packaging.
Cleanaway is a major sponsor for Clean Up Australia, focusing on mobilising the community to clean up and conserve the environment. Prevention of litter is the key message of Clean Up Australia and Cleanaway's efforts.
