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Having achieved significant milestones since launching 1 Degree more than ten years ago, News Corp Australia has launched new environmental goals and commitments.
Our Australian goals align with the targets agreed to by our News Corp colleagues around the world and reflect our long-established environmental leadership in our industry.
Formally the new goals for our Australian operations are to:
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As one of our biggest impacts on the environment, carbon emissions have been carefully tracked and reduced by News Corp Australia since FY2006.
In the year to June 2006, our carbon footprint was 151,480 tonnes of carbon dioxide (or carbon dioxide equivalents). By June 2015, we had exceeded our FY2017 goal by achieving a 36% reduction in our carbon footprint. In 2016 we set a new target of reducing our carbon footprint by 5% every year, which we achieved in FY2016. Our FY2021 figures show a 42% reduction since FY2016.
News Corp Australia has big zero waste goals. We are committed to achieving zero waste at our major facilities by 2025.
Reduce what we use:
Recycle everything we can:
Celebration of achievement:
How do we do this?
Water is a key resource in the printing and production of newspapers, and Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth. That’s why we reduce our water consumption as well as carbon and waste using water capture and recycling. We have flow restrictors on taps, dual flush cisterns and are reducing the use of water in cooling towers. At our head office in Sydney, we’ve had a 25% reduction in water usage over a four year period. Our new print centre in Victoria uses grey water for amenities too.
Australians are world champions when it comes to newspaper recycling. Over 76% of the millions of newspapers read in Australia each year are recycled into a multitude of new products including insulation, kitty litter, egg cartons and, of course, new newspapers. About another 6.8% is reused around the home. Together these two figures add up to around 83% of our newspapers finding another use.
That’s a big step from where we started over 27 years ago when almost two-thirds of newspapers ended up in landfill. It’s thanks in part to News Corp’s early investment in a newsprint de-inking factory in Albury NSW 22 years ago, creating new markets for old newspapers and magazines, and to the way Australians have embraced kerbside recycling each week at home.
In the past ten years, we have shaved nearly 70% off our transport fuel emissions and achieved a 19% reduction in air travel emissions. Even before the pandemic hit, we were travelling less and video conferencing more. It’s better for the environment and helpful for productivity as well. And we’ve re-zoned our newspaper distribution to reduce unnecessary road and air transport.
Since 1 Degree began we’ve invested more than a million dollars in evaluating and implementing projects for energy efficiency. It’s taken a lot of changes to achieve a 42% cut in electricity emissions since FY2016. Some of the savings have come from big projects such as upgrading the lighting in our Sydney Print Centre. Decommissioning of existing servers and migrating to an energy efficient data centre in 2013 saved a further 600,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. But it also comes from changing the way we work, turning off lights and computers and being more aware of how our everyday actions have a big impact.
We’ve installed more efficient chillers and air-conditioning, rapid close doors to reduce air-conditioning wastage, new more efficient printing presses and replaced high-energy lighting. We’re also reducing air leaks from roof vents to minimise heating and cooling costs and evaluating voltage optimisation to reduce electricity consumption.
1 Degree is all about action. The small changes we can all make every day add up to a big difference. The reduction of News Corp Australia’s carbon footprint by 42% from FY2016 to FY2021 has come from the thousands of individual changes made by the many staff working across all of our sites. Since 2007, 1 Degree has been recognising and rewarding our employees for the changes they make and the ways they inspire others. 1 Degree also engages not-for-profit and like-minded organisations as partners in new and creative ways each year.
Staff engagement is a big focus for 1 Degree, and it’s at the heart of what 1 Degree is all about. If we can inspire and engage our staff, we are reaching thousands of fantastic employees who can take small steps that will add up to significant changes. Over the years, 1 Degree has:
The small steps made at News Corp Australia towards environmental sustainability are just the beginning. We’re starting with one – ourselves – but it’s the collective changes made by everyone that can really impact the future of the planet. That’s why News Corp Australia is committed to communicating our sustainability goals and progress with best practice transparency to all stakeholders. In doing so we won the 2010 Carbon Disclosure Project Award for the best quality carbon emission reporting in Australia was included in the global ASX200 Leadership Index with a disclosure score 20 points higher than the ASX average. News Corp Australia continues to report through the CDP Forests Program, where we have a leadership score of B- in 2021. CDP Forests is a platform for companies to voluntarily disclose on the impacts of their products on global forests and the measures they are taking to minimise those impacts.
1 Degree has engaged many partners for staff events and initiatives including Terracycle, OzHarvest, Take3, MobileMuster, RecycleSmart, Planet Ark, Fashion Revolution, Youth Food Movement, Cool Australia and Carbonauts. In 2015, News Corp Australia partnered with Mitsubishi Motors Australia and Origin Energy for staff offers and discounts on electric vehicles and solar products. News Corp Australia was one of the founding partners of the 10% Challenge, an energy efficiency campaign that shows people how to reduce their energy use by 10%.
Our employees not only make changes to the way they work to improve sustainability, they also drive the 1 Degree Green Team that operates at News Corp Australia divisions to initiate and manage 1 Degree initiatives. The Green Team has members from different functions across the business. We share ideas about best practice in different locations and work together to identify areas where improvements can be made. They are integral to engaging employees in 1 Degree.
We believe in starting with 1 – ourselves – when it comes to sustainability and we’ve made some real progress. And as Australia’s largest media company we have an obvious role in communicating this to others. A large number of environmental stories, special features and supplements appear in our newspapers, magazines and online sites, providing readers with more information about what they can do. We also support community initiatives such as tree planting days that both promote sustainability and make a real difference to our environment.
Sustainable procurement is integral to our future as an environmentally aware business. Sustainable procurement also benefits the company with less waste, more efficient plant and equipment and reduces our environmental impacts. Any packaging we use is either avoided or has been carefully evaluated to minimise its environmental impacts. For example, life cycle studies have shown that polythylene film remains the most environmentally responsible way to protect home delivery newspapers and magazines. It can be recycled where schemes exist, and when disposed to landfill it locks up carbon rather than releasing it to the atmosphere as biodegradable products do. It contains no heavy metals which some compostable plastics have.
We seek to work with suppliers that share our commitment to reducing impacts on the environment through responsibly managing natural resources, supporting local communities, and producing sustainable products. As the major purchaser of paper in the Australian publishing sector we work with our suppliers to ensure that our paper is responsibly sourced from certified mills. We publicly report this through the CDP Forests program.
Ink formulations have continuously been improved over time. Today, no heavy metals (as defined in Australian Standard 1647, Part 3, 1982) are added to black or colour inks, making our newspapers safe to bury, burn or compost – as well as recycle. And all of the paper we use must be produced with pulp that has been bleached using either Totally Chlorine Free (TCF) or Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) processes.
No old growth eucalypt has been used to make Australian newsprint since 1991. We have set a global goal to have 100% of the fiber used to make our paper sourced from Chain of Custody certified paper mills, and to participate in globally in the CDP Forest Program. Thinnings, forest waste and undersize/bent/misshaped trees unsuitable for timber are generally those used to make newsprint.
Reducing the energy intensity of our business means increasing efficiency and powering our operations with clean energy whenever possible. We’re approaching clean energy by actively evaluating opportunities for major rooftop solar and tri-generation at some of our larger sites, as the opportunities arise.
All of our newsprint is recoverable and recyclable; and re-usable in a range of applications including the coating on plaster sheeting for housing and construction, feedstock for industries producing egg cartons and home insulation, hydro mulching to provide a bed for seeds to germinate as well as kitty litter.
