Modern Slavery Statement

1. Wastepaper
2. Scrap Metal
3. Agricultural commodities

DDT contracts and partners with global entities and, where possible, supporting leading local and regional Australian-domiciled companies that provide specialised services in the following areas: 

1. Containerised Shipping
2. Road Transport
3. Trading agent services
4. Contracted service providers

An initial risk assessment of modern slavery in our operations and supply chains identified potential areas where there may be a risk of modern slavery incidents.

• Suppliers who may use products purchased or manufactured in high-risk countries.
• Where DDT uses third party service providers to provide equipment/services and other ad hoc services.

During the assessment process, our operations in Australia that are conducted by staff employed here, were identified as the areas with the lowest risk.

We acknowledge that the risks of modern slavery may be heightened in some of our group’s supply chains and operations because of the geographical location of some suppliers like those based in China, India, Nepal and Indonesia. 

Some of our supply chain members’ areas of operation, and the source of materials used in products supplied to us from industries could be prone to an elevated risk of modern slavery incidents. Viz, the agricultural productions dependent on seasonal migrant labour.

Our risk assessment has identified the following areas of concern in respect of Modern Slavery practices

1. The dealing in and sourcing of products from countries like China, Indonesia, Vietnam.
2. Agriculture production that uses seasonal migrant labour. 

• Suppliers that are based in areas and countries, where they are not required under the local law to screen their supply chains for Modern slavery practices or practice due diligence for such identification.

• We have built in an Anti-Modern Slavery clause in our supplier and customer contracts to incorporate the modern slavery obligations into our contractual relationships with our supply chain members. This creates accountability on the part of the supply chain members. We can with the aid of such clauses keep track of compliance as a part of our regular contractual reviews. Based on the results of these processes we will adapt and strengthen our actions to continually improve our response to modern slavery.
• We have also strengthened our customer onboarding process and created a policy which lays down guidelines for assessing potential customers and amongst other things, ensure that we do not undertake transactions with customers which present evidence of Modern Slavery Practices within their supply chain or own business operations.
• The incoming employees at DDT are provided with the necessary tools, including providing examples of modern slavery markers, to identify and report instances of modern slavery incidents in our supply chains. This enables us to assess the effectiveness of our anti modern slavery policy, and procedures in place.

• Review of our policies to mirror the dynamic environment we work in.
• Continuous engagement with our supply chain members to work towards eliminating modern slavery incidents.
• Improve and update mechanisms to aid identification and reporting of any indicators of presence of modern slavery.
• Continuous assessment of the effectiveness of our actions.