Environmental Statement

TAG has dialled up the local Sydney delivery options with an all-electric and solar charged eight ton/eight pallet truck. Having long wanted to improve the certainty of local deliveries, particularly those direct to work sites where access is limited and where timing needs to be flexible and reliable, Team TAG researched the options and settled on a beauty, with the SEA 300 EV. 

All machinery is electrically powered including warehouse vehicles. With an electric vehicle charging station for staff and guests electric vehicles. All of these are powered with our 100Kw ABB System, 306 solar panels (325W).

Seafreight is unquestionably much more environmentally friendly than airfreight. For the last few years TAG has shifted product shipments to 98.75% seafreight. 

For a typical shipment of one ton over 5,000km around 75kg of CO2e gas is emitted when transported by sea and around 3,300kg when transported by air. (CO2e being Carbon Dioxide equivalent in terms of impact from greenhouse gas emissions).

Where possible TAG reuse cardboard cartons as cardboard cartons for outgoing despatches. (‘Reuse’ is near the very top of the waste hierarchy!)

For internal box packaging where bubble wrap is commonly used they now employ a Rongda cardboard box recycler. This machine produces an excellent packaging material for cushioned protection or just void filling. 

Anything left over, broken cartons, paper, waste cardboard etc. heads to the Bramidan baler where it is compressed and baled for their waste partner Wanless to pick up and sort for recycling and reforming into the next generation of paper/carboard products.

Pallet wrap is quite frankly a magical product! It is light, strong, cheap, secures product on pallets and is universally used on EVERY pallet on EVERY shipment. Co-mingled in waste bins it’s basically off to be landfill but it can be recycled. 

The mighty Bramidan compresses pallet wrap to around 5% of it’s former glory then neatly bales it. Once 5 or 6 bales are made Wanless picks it up and even pays TAG a small amount for it! While they're not in it for the money, it's important to recognise that it's a valuable enough material to exchange money for. 

It's estimated that 90% of TAG's pallets are reused as pallets, while 10% are consigned to Wanless for recycling.

If the pallets are in good condition and structurally strong, they'll be reused for outbound despatches. With the remaining usable palettes TAG offers them free-of-charge to companies in the neighbourhood who use them for their own outbound despatches - they take most of the balance.

When pallets are in poor condition, broken or unusable they are picked up by Wanless who aggregate and recycle where possible.

Changes to our packaging material allowed us to greatly reduce plastic waste. The packaging of our latest products, among them the new AT-SB727, M-Series and True Wireless headphones are made from recyclable kraft cardboard and papers.

Taking responsibility for the products we import into Australia is most important. A large portion of returned products we receive from our dealers can be repaired (or are perfectly fine!) and can continue to be enjoyed for a long time.

In the event a customer receives a replacement, we still ensure the original is returned to full working order and made available for stores to resell as a refurbished product. This allows us to give products a second chance at life and offer a more sustainable and affordable solution to our customers.

Starting with production, Audio-Technica have released their first product made from 50-70% recycled plastic. The AT-CSP1 is a conference speaker microphone used in offices around the world. We’re excited to say that this trend will continue in our future products.

Under our “management philosophy on the environment,” we intend to promote the manufacture of eco-friendly products together with our suppliers. To that end, we created and issued the first edition of Product Environmental Quality Standards for the audio-technica Group to determine substances whose use and/or inclusion is prohibited or controlled according to the trends in society and laws in June 2006 and have since been promoting green procurement.

We support, and respect internationally-declared human rights protections, and strive to fulfill its social responsibilities. Therefore, we never tolerate any forms of modern slavery such as servitude, forced and compulsory labor, bonded and child labor, sexual exploitation, human trafficking and related forms of workplace abuse.