We create sustainable value for tomorrow, today: offering sustainable solutions that lower your carbon footprint to help you achieve your sustainability targets.
Ensure compliance with local regulation to avoid costly penalties and protect your brand reputation.
Elevate your brand position as ESG and innovation leaders with your customers, as well as your current and future employees.
Why GoGreen
- Ensure your compliance with laws and regulations to avoid costly penalties.
- Achieve your environmental targets by lowering your business’s carbon footprint.
- Elevate your brand position and reputation as a leader and innovator in sustainability.
Our Commitments and Solutions
Every product has a waste, energy, and carbon footprint, including yours. This footprint can be significant, which is why we dedicate ourselves to developing, implementing, and expanding solutions that minimise your environmental impact.
- Carbon Neutral Warehouses
- Reducing Transport Emissions
- Packaging
- Circularity Solutions
Carbon Neutral Warehouses
Our carbon neutral warehousing solution achieves zero operational carbon through 100% use of renewable energy via onsite generation, offsite renewables and green warehousing technology, We also focus on other sustainability initiatives such as waste and water reduction and biodiversity measures.
How we are making warehouses more sustainable
- Solar energy from onsite solar panels
- Heating from solar hot water system
- Well insulated building envelope with high performance double glazing unit and shading
- Energy efficient LED lighting with sensor lighting control
- Energy efficient office lifts and HVAC systems with demand controlled ventilation
- Smart meters and centralised building management system
- Operational waste management system
- Water efficient fittings and rainwater harvesting
Success Story: Australia’s 1st Dynamic Urban Power Station
The implementation of sustainable technologies at the largest pharmaceutical-grade cold-chain warehouse in the country delivers cost savings and energy security.
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The Challenge
Find a renewable energy solution for a large warehouse to reduce emissions from the significant electricity requirements for cold storage products.
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Our Solutions
Construction of a 1.7MW Dynamic Urban Power Station powered by 5,500 solar panels on the warehouse roof.
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Benefits
Over $300,000 savings a year
49% of electricity generated used by the warehouse, 51% goes to the grid.
Reducing Transport Emissions
Our zero, low and reduced carbon transport solutions provide you effective ways to reduce carbon emissions of your transport operations by burning less and burning clean.
Sustainable solutions for transport
- Trailer front air deflector
- Airtab vortex generators
- Transport route optimisation
- Empty backhaul reduction
- Network design
Success Story: DHL Supply Chain Australia advances transport decarbonisation plans with new vehicles
A strategic step towards modernising our transport fleet to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Challenge
Deployment of efficient and commercially viable transport solutions that support our customers' carbon emission reduction targets.
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Our Solutions
In addition to the first Australian EV, the Volvo FL truck we have added two Terberg YT200EV electric yard tractors and introduced the first SEA Electric light duty truck to our last-mile fleet.
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Benefits
Terberg tractors reduce C0₂ emissions from trailer towing and cost significantly less to run than the units they replaced.
The SEA Electric truck inboard mounted battery design requires no thermal cooling. It produces no tailpipe emissions while providing a 200-kilometre range.
Packaging
Our optimized, sustainable packaging solutions can help you reduce waste and environmental footprint of your warehouse consumables, improve the sustainability of your packaging and implement circular packaging models.
Sustainable packaging solutions
- Sustainable warehouse consumables: box-on-demand, alternative materials, linerless labels, reusable pallet securing, reusable boxes/crates
- Sustainable secondary packaging: PCR/bio-based mailing bags
- Circular packaging: naked products, returnable boxes, return transport
Success Story: Reusable temperature control packing in Australia
Packaging solution designed by DHL adds a sustainable and high value-add service to Life Sciences and Healthcare customers in Australia
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The Challenge
Traditional temperature-controlled packaging is large in volume and weight, driving up per-unit supply chain costs and causing storage challenges for small clinics and pharmacies. Businesses are increasingly focusing on sustainable solutions while adhering to stricter regulatory requirements.
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Our Solutions
End-to-end, sustainable and compliant solution that includes packaging and returns process.
Compact, light and traceable reusable temperature-controlled packaging validated for multiple weather conditions.
An innovative fleet of dual chamber trucks designed to maintain 2-8oC and 15-25oC.
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Benefits
Shipping volume reduction by an average of 65% compared to standard temperature control packaging.
Greater performance and lower cost of returns.
Packaging waste reduction.
Circularity Solutions
Extend the value of your products and reduce their environmental impact by employing a system of return, receipt, recovery and reuse.
To help you achieve your waste reduction goals, we provide logistical support to divert as much waste produced as possible from the landfill and turn waste into a valuable commodity for a sustainable future.
The Smart Circle
- Return: End customers access a self-service portal to arrange a product return.
- Receive: Returned products are inspected and validated at the warehouse.
- Recover: Returned products are handled by our technical services teams for repair, re-manufacture, recycling or scrapping.
- Reuse: Product to reutilize is routed to warehouse inventory for reuse within the network or resold via marketplace.
Success Story: Australian Re-trading program for used Mobile Devices
Technical expertise reduces environmental impact and ensures the highest security standards for end customer data privacy.
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The Challenge
Fluctuating re-trading volumes meant that the customer needed a flexible sourcing model to ensure the financial efficiency of the program.
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Our Solutions
Implementation of an end-to-end solution including data wiping, mobile device grading, and outbound back-to-market activities.
End-of-life management to assess for second-hand usage or resale.
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Benefits
Standard operational setup for small hubs can be easily deployed.
Sustainable solution that contributed to green targets.
Our Australia Sustainability Track Record
Carbon Neutral Warehousing Operation
100% of our owned/ leased warehousing electricity comes from a renewable source.
DHL Supply Chain Launches Its First Australian EV Truck
100% of our owned fleets are provided with AdBlue
AdBlue is an additional liquid solution used in diesel vehicles to reduce harmful emissions by converting nitrogen oxides into harmless nitrogen and water vapour.
75%
of our employees are trained as Certified GoGreen Specialists
Our Australia Sustainable Initiatives
Reuse Market
190,000+
items like pallets, cages, totes or trolleys are reused contributing to significant cost savings and waste reduction.
Waste diversion from landfill
>75%
of waste from warehouses is diverted from landfill.
Sustainability targets
Site performance are tracked against key metrics such as waste diversion, electricity and fuel consumption.
Rainwater Harvesting at warehouses
Rainwater is collected and reused for landscape irrigation on 20 sites. Onsite water recycling for landscape irrigation and toilet flushing contributes to water savings, reducing reliance on potable water supplies.
“Achieving sustainability targets requires collaboration and transparency across the supply chain.
We are committed to supporting your sustainability journey and providing long-term value as your logistics partner.”
Our Global Credentials
The value we help to create is informed by internationally recognized standards and strengthened by our high ratings across the most important global rating agencies and supplier platforms.
Want to know more?
Get in touch today and discover how DHL can help reduce the environmental impact of your supply chain. Let us know more about your business to get started.
