Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Ltd. (IPL) and two Queensland-based pineapple growers have shared this year’s Fertilizer Australia environmental awards. IPL took the 2019 “Platypus Environmental Award” for increasing efficiency, reducing waste, and improving the environmental performance of its manufacturing and distribution sites around the country in the past two years.
The two pineapple growers from southeast Queensland’s Glass Mountains region won the Fertilizer Australia “Snapper Award” for their eight-year search to achieve better ways to improve fertilizer use efficiency and reduce nutrient losses from their farms.
Barton, Canberra-based Fertilizer Australia, which represents manufacturers, importers, and distributors of fertilizer in Australia, and associated service industries began the awards in 2004 to recognize individuals and companies involved in the fertilizer industry who are making the most significant improvements in environmental performance. Its members supply over 95 percent of the fertilizers used in Australia.