Manufacturing Sustainability Benchmark Program

The Manufacturing Sustainability Benchmark program provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your business’s sustainability practices and benchmark them against industry best practice. You'll receive data that will provide you with a reliable metric for assessing your performance and identifying areas for improvement.

The Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development authorised The Ecoefficiency Group (TEG) to supply benchmarking assessments that focus on:

energy and water utilisation
waste management
scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions.

Benefits of benchmarking

The benefits of undertaking a sustainability benchmark assessment include:

understanding how your sustainability performance compares to industry leaders and standards, providing an opportunity to identify improvements
saving costs by measuring inefficiencies in energy consumption, water use and/or material waste, and taking action to reduce operating costs based on this knowledge
improving operational efficiency through lean manufacturing, resource efficiency and process optimisation
strengthening your competitive advantage by using sustainability as a differentiator
identifying value-add opportunities in new and existing markets.

Eligibility criteria

To qualify for the program, your manufacturing business must:

be registered for GST and hold an active Australian Business Number (ABN)
maintain a manufacturing enterprise in Queensland with at least 5 full-time equivalent employees and conduct the majority of manufacturing activities within the state.
not be tax exempt or undergoing insolvency or facing criminal prosecution.

How to participate

If your manufacturing business meets the eligibility criteria and is ready to participate, complete our expression of interest form. This should take about 10 minutes.

We will contact you to confirm your participation within 2 weeks of receipt of your expression of interest.

What the assessment includes

Part 1: Sustainability strategy review

Consists of a self-paced assessment of your current sustainability activities to help you understand your position. The assessment will highlight your strengths and areas to improve.

Part 2: Site-based sustainability benchmark assessment and implementation support

Includes:

an onsite visit by supplier to help you measure and benchmark your resource use, waste and emissions and to develop an action plan to reduce costs and your environmental footprint
ongoing support from the supplier, with quarterly meetings to implement and track sustainability actions against your goals, plus a 12-month subscription to the Green KPI software.

Costs

The department subsidises over half of the costs to conduct the benchmark.

The actual costs for eligible businesses are:

$2140 for up to and including 100 staff
$2680 for more than 100 staff.

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