A race with no chequered flag.

It is a fair question and we would rather answer it than dodge it. The difference is that our claims are assessed by people who do not work for us. The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile awarded Sydney Motorsport Park a two‑star Environmental Accreditation in 2024 — the first and only one in Australia. The Sustainable Circuits Index has ranked us number one nationally every year since 2021, assessing 117 circuits worldwide in 2025 against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Our waste is audited quarterly and the results are published, including the year the diversion rate fell. A venue that was greenwashing would not publish that.

Because we have not set one, and we are not going to advertise a date we cannot yet show the work behind. The Club’s published position is that sustainability here is “an enduro, not a sprint… a race with no chequered flag.” What we do publish is what we have actually measured: diversion rates, sorting hours, container counts, composted tonnage, trees planted. When a carbon baseline is measured and independently verified, it will appear here with its method attached — and not before.

Waste figures come from quarterly and annual audits conducted by Closed Loop Environmental Services, our contracted sustainability services partner — so they are the operator’s own audits, not a third‑party assurance engagement, and we label them that way. The accreditation and ranking are different: those are independent assessments by the FIA and by the Sustainable Circuits Index, neither of whom we pay to rate us. Every figure on this page carries the period it covers and the source it came from.

The FIA Environmental Accreditation Programme runs across three levels, from foundational environmental management up to demonstrated best practice and continual improvement at three stars. Sydney Motorsport Park advanced directly to two stars in 2024, skipping the first tier, on the strength of the waste, energy and stakeholder‑engagement work already in place. The third star is the Club’s stated ambition. We will report on it when there is something verified to report.

Yes, and it is the single biggest reason the diversion rate is what it is. Bins are emptied onto a dedicated on‑site recovery floor and separated by people into nine streams: general waste, co‑mingled recycling, paper and cardboard, Simply Cups, Container Deposit Scheme containers, organics, expanded polystyrene foam, scrap metal and oil. In the second quarter of 2025 that took 270.74 hours of dedicated sorting. When sorting hours go up, the diversion rate goes up with them — and when staffing has been short, the rate has fallen.

It goes into the Simply Cups stream, gets sorted out by hand, and leaves the site to be processed into PAK‑PAVE™ — a road surfacing and lightweight concrete product. The roads to and from our own Australian Motorsport Innovation Precinct are made from it. It is the most literal closed loop on the property: the cup you drink from at an event can end up as the road you drive in on. In Q2 2025, 35,000 cups went that way.

Not here, and this one surprises people. Compostable packaging is not currently accepted by any NSW commercial composter, which means it goes to landfill regardless of what the label says. Rather than keep buying it for the optics, we have worked with Closed Loop and our food outlets to reduce compostable packaging and move to genuinely recyclable alternatives. Food waste itself is a different story — that is collected separately and composted, 5.5 tonnes of it in one quarter.

Build an Event Sustainability Plan. Our guidelines walk you through it: planning, communications, how to handle each waste type you will generate — tyres, oil, e‑waste, packaging, glass, metal, carbon fibre — plus energy, water, merchandise, transport and local environmental impact, and how to evaluate the outcome afterwards. Sustainability clauses now form part of the venue hire agreement, so it is a conversation we will have with you early rather than a surprise on bump‑out. The full guide is on this page.

Yes — and increasingly organisers ask for exactly that. We work with major event organisers to track and report event‑specific waste figures. The Supercars night round held here diverted 76% of its waste from landfill in 2024, a ten‑point improvement on the previous year’s event. If your own ESG reporting needs venue‑level data, talk to us before the event rather than after it, so the measurement is set up properly.

Start with the Club office on +61 2 9672 1000 or reception@ardc.com.au and ask for the sustainability team — whether you are an event organiser building a plan, a partner doing brand diligence, a journalist after figures, or a neighbour with a question about the site. The Club’s full sustainability record, including every waste audit and news item, lives at sustainability.smsp.com.au.