Measure. Understand. Report. Improve. Shaping Country for tomorrow.The YARTA story

About Yarta

The measurement platform that proves what recycling achieved.

Yarta is a Recycle Group initiative. It exists because the people who process the material are the only ones who can honestly say what happened to it.

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The YARTA story

Four elements. One purpose: shaping Country for tomorrow.

YARTA is built around a simple belief: the future of Country is shaped by what we do today. Our logo brings together four ideas, Country, water, sun and tomorrow, as one connected symbol.

Country

At the centre of YARTA is Country.

Country is living, connected and constantly changing. The decisions we make about resources, waste and materials become part of that story.

YARTA exists to help organisations understand those decisions, and make better ones.

Because environmental responsibility isn't about stepping away from progress. It's about making progress work better for Country.

Water

The flowing forms represent water: movement, connection and continuity.

Materials move through our communities just as water moves through the landscape. They are collected, processed, recovered, reused and transformed.

YARTA makes that movement visible. We track what comes in, understand what happens to it, and measure the outcomes created along the way.

Sun

The sun represents energy, life and renewal. It reflects the opportunity within every environmental decision.

Waste isn't simply an end point. Materials can have another purpose. Resources can be recovered. Processes can become more efficient. The information we collect today can create better decisions tomorrow.

Every outcome is an opportunity to do better.

Tomorrow

The animal represents movement towards tomorrow. It is a symbol of progress: not leaving Country behind, but moving forward with it.

Tomorrow isn't something we simply arrive at. We shape it.

Every tonne recovered, every material diverted, every resource reused and every environmental outcome measured contributes to the Country we are creating for the future.

Shaping Country

The four elements come together because none of them exist in isolation. Country. Water. Sun. Tomorrow. They form a connected system, just as environmental impact is connected across every stage of the resource journey.

YARTA helps make those connections visible. We turn environmental activity into clear, measurable outcomes, giving organisations the information they need to understand their impact and make better decisions.

Because the goal isn't simply to measure what happened. It's to understand what we're creating.

And ultimately, YARTA is about one thing: shaping Country for tomorrow.

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Why Yarta exists

The material was always measured. The customer never saw the number.

Councils and businesses hand over problem streams. Recycle Group recycles them. Yarta turns that into figures a board, a councillor or an auditor can rely on.

For years the group has weighed, sorted and processed what councils and businesses hand over: mattresses, steel, timber, tyres, white goods, e-waste, the lot. Every load crossed a weighbridge and every stream had a destination. The customer received an invoice and, at best, a diversion percentage.

Yarta is the reporting system built on top of that record. It takes what actually happened to the material and states it as measured tonnes by fate, recovered steel and landfill volume avoided, plus two emissions figures kept apart: the Category 5 figure for the customer's inventory, and a modelled estimate of the emissions recycling avoided. Each with the method it was calculated with.

Recycling should be more than a collection service or a percentage. It should be a measurable outcome.

Layer 01

Yarta Report

A downloadable report for each project or reporting period: period, streams, tonnes by fate, steel recovered, the Category 5 figure, avoided emissions reported separately, landfill avoided, method version, issuer and report ID.

Layer 02

Yarta Dashboard

A live portal that moves every time a stream is handed over, across the whole organisation, not only what passes through Recycle Group.

The principle

Your data, one method.

You enter the figures from the records you already hold. Yarta verifies them, grades the evidence and runs one documented method, so every number can be traced to the record it came from. A monthly email asks the customer to fill in the gaps; Yarta files the answers into Landfilled, Recycled or Stored.

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The infrastructure behind the numbers

Real operations. One record.

Recycle Group runs the recovery operations, including The Mattress Recycling Company. The figures on a Yarta Report come from the floor that recovered the material.

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Mattresses a month, upper range
The Mattress Recycling Company processes between 12,000 and 30,000 a month. One mattress takes about 38 seconds.
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Steel recovery · stated plant yield
$8.5m invested to get there. Steel is roughly 30% of a mattress by mass. Each report prints the measured yield with its site and study date.
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Streams separated on site
Incoming material is separated into more than 90 streams at the group's transfer station, so each one can be weighed and traced.
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Streams reported
Mattresses, steel, aluminium, timber, tyres, white goods, e-waste, textiles, rubble, vehicles, green waste and general rubbish, each with its own recovery path and factor.

The transfer station

Incoming material is separated into more than 90 streams on site.

Recovered goods are donated to community organisations or sold for reuse; the rest is baled or sorted for licensed reprocessors. Every stream is weighed on the way in and on the way out.

The Mattress Recycling Company

Per 10,000 mattresses: about 800 tonnes in, about 270 tonnes of steel out.

Steel is roughly 30% of a mattress by mass, and the stated plant yield is 99% of it. The shredded foam and fibre residual is 25% of the original volume.

ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 14001:2015 · ISO 45001:2018 · NIST 800-88

Yarta reports on material processed by Recycle Group. For whole-of-organisation reporting it also records material the customer evidences went elsewhere, and marks those entries as customer-evidenced rather than Yarta-verified.

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Leadership

Run as a business, not a side project.

Yarta is run as a standalone business within Recycle Group, with its own leadership, its own site and its own method.

Chief Executive Officer, Yarta

Ryan O'Toole

Ryan leads high-performance and strategy at Recycle Group and heads Yarta as its Chief Executive Officer. His background is in information systems, and his focus is on measurable, tangible results: numbers a customer can put in front of a board and defend.

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Principles

Five rules every Yarta number is held to.

They are the reason a Yarta figure can go into an ESG disclosure, a Scope 3 inventory or a tender without a footnote apologising for it.

  1. Evidence over marketing.

    No "trees saved" headlines. Equivalences appear only with their source, and a figure with no source is not a figure.

  2. One method, versioned.

    Every calculation follows the Yarta Method. Each report states the version it was calculated with, so a number from last year can be reproduced.

  3. Conservative by default.

    Where two published factors exist, Yarta uses the more conservative one: the lower for avoided emissions, the higher for the inventory. Where no factor exists, no avoided emissions are claimed, and they are never netted against the inventory.

  4. Whole-of-organisation.

    All of a customer's recycling is reported, not only what passes through Recycle Group, and each entry says which it is.

  5. Transparent limits.

    Assumptions are labelled as assumptions. Pending categories are shown as pending. Landfilled material counts against the customer, in full.

WHY IT MATTERS

Your data in. Your results out. Then the roadmap.

A report is only as credible as the weakest entry in it. Keeping data entry with Yarta staff, and keeping the method public and versioned, is what lets a customer sign their name under the result.

Read the Yarta Method

Environmental Sustainability. www.yes.com.au.

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