Our Purpose

As a division of Sims Limited, Sims Resource Renewal has a shared purpose to create a world without waste to preserve our planet.

We support this purpose by taking the material left over following the recycling of cars and end of life consumer goods, and rather than throwing it away, use it as a resource to produce valuable products.

Sims Resource Renewal has developed our Residue Conversion Technology that stems from an innovative of plasma assisted gasification. Through implementation of our Residue Conversion Technology across Sims Limited global operations, we have a goal to transform hard to treat plastic waste into new and viable products. This means we are helping Sims Limited close its operating loop. We are also helping our customers be more sustainable by supporting the use of more recovered content in their products.

Learn more about Sims Resource Renewal from General Manager Christine Baker.

Our Innovation Approach

Sims Limited is committed to improving sustainability and that means identifying solutions to those materials that currently go to landfill and finding ways of getting them out of the too hard basket and back into industrial circulation.

Because ASR is non-homogenous, it’s very difficult to physically separate the different materials included in the waste stream. Hence, it cannot be economically recycled using common threads – similar to those used to shred and separate metals.

At SRR we are exploring ways to solve this challenge by breaking down waste plastics to their molecular level to create the building blocks to form new virgin plastics, which is a process that can be repeated infinitely and can use renewable energy to reduce the carbon intensity of the finished product.

This flexible and innovative process could also be applied to other waste streams that, in line with the waste hierarchy, do not have any other appropriate treatment method.

What is ASR?

ASR is what remains once recoverable materials have been removed following the recycling of metal-based goods like cars, washing machines, and shopping trolleys. ASR is currently sent to landfill.

It typically includes plastics, fabrics, insulation, foam, rubber and wood. Dirt, sand and stones may also be present in small amounts.

The Circular Economy

Sims Resource Renewal’s Role in the Circular Economy

Sims Resource Renewal plays an important role in growing the circular economy by enabling the re-use and recovery of more of the material recycled by Sims Metal.