What We do

Steel, cement and chemicals. These essential industries all need carbon, all rely on fossil fuels, and together account for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet many national plans to decarbonate do not expect much reduction here. Instead carbon sequestration is proffered to offset these essential emissions. We don’t think it needs to be this way. MWE is active in green steel and applying these lessons learned to cement and chemicals. The solutions are not commercially available yet, but through the efforts of MWE and other experts, we at last see a way forward.

Most of us know that used tyres are a problem for disposal. Tyres are slow to decompose, and in the process they emit the powerful greenhouse gas methane, as well as chemicals that can be toxic to air, soil and water. Australia’s critical mining sector produces large amounts of some of the largest waste tyres. MWE has a solution and is busy implementing these to help Australia’s mines not only substantially reduce a major waste stream, but to reduce a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate climate change.

What’s next? We are in an exciting time of transformation as the world works in the same direction to create a more sustainable lifestyle, one that depends on minimizing what we landfill and maximize what we can reuse for new products: the Circular Economy. And as we find new ways to ReCycle and ReCarbon, we find ways to create bioenergy to reduce fossil fuel use, we find ways to recycle while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. New ways of thinking create opportunities we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. MWE is a participant, not a bench sitter, for Team Australia in this new arena.