Construction waste management and support services John Twitchen and Kevin Bush

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Construction waste management and support
services John Twitchen and Kevin Bush
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City Limits a resource flow and ecological
footprint analysis of Greater London
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Sustainable construction waste

• Site Waste Management Plans
• Colour-coded skips
• Recycling to avoid landfill tax
• Waste minimisation on site
• Use recycled content/sustainable products
• Designing out waste

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Construction sector SME communications channel
audit

• Aim
• To identify the most effective communication
  channels used by construction companies
• To establish sources of information used by
  companies in learning about new business support
  services, and environmental/ sustainability
  issues
• Survey of 110 construction companies

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Results
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Site Waste Management Plans

• Legislation is set out in the Clean
  Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
• Backed up by increased powers and fines for
  fly-tipping
• Considered good practice on larger sites
• Likely to become standard requirement

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Site Waste Management Plans

• Nigel Griffiths MP, Parliamentary Under
  Secretary for Construction Small Business
• The sector tells me that 20 of materials on
  site can be saved. For instance in aggregates the
  potential savings of a 50 take-up of SWMPs by
  the top 2,000 contractors are excess of 100
  million.
• http//www.dti.gov.uk/construction/sustain/site_wa
  ste_management.pdf

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What is a waste?

• For these purposes waste is defined as
• Any substance or object that you discard, intend
  to discard, or are required to discard is waste
  and as such is subject to a number of regulatory
  requirements.
• Even if material is sent for recycling or
  undergoes treatment in-house, it can still be
  waste. The term 'discard' has a special
  meaning.
• Whether or not a particular material is waste is
  for the person producing it to decide in
  accordance with the law.

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Site Waste Management Plans

• Nine steps to produce a SWMP
• 1 Identify who is responsible
• 2 Identify the types and quantities of waste
  that will be produced
• 3 Identify waste management options on and
  off-site
• 4 Identify waste management sites and
  contractors
• 5 Carry out any necessary training of in-house
  and sub-contract staff
• 6 Plan for efficient materials and waste
  handling
• 7 Measure how much waste and what types of
  waste are produced
• 8 Monitor the implementation of the SWMP
• 9 Review how the SWMP worked at the end of the
  project

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DEFRA to take sector approach to business waste

• Letsrecycle.com (15/02/06) Construction waste
• For construction and demolition companies, Defra
  identifies two main policy instruments to support
  change on waste management. Firstly, Site Waste
  Management Plans, which could become a legal
  requirement after a consultation to be carried
  out shortly, would require building projects to
  have firm plans on the recycling of waste and
  would also act to cut down on fly-tipping.
• Secondly, the government's Code for Sustainable
  Homes, expected to be launched by April 2006, is
  to introduce new building standards including
  requirements on the procurement of recycled
  materials.

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More informationon SWMPs

• www.smartwaste.co.uk
• www.ciria.org.uk
• www.constructingexcellence.org
• www.envirowise.gov.uk
• www.greenwich-village.co.uk
• www.bre.co.uk
• www.carillionplc.co.uk
• www.defra.gov.uk/environment
• www.dti.gov.uk
• www.netregs.gov.uk
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk
• www.wrap.co.uk

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Smart Waste Roveron-site support

• Funded by SEEDA
• Pilot programme in partnership with SECBE
• On-site support for organisations to help
  minimise waste and maximise recycling
• Aim to save businesses money and embed knowledge
• Using the BRE Smart Start evaluation programme
• Targeting 40 companies so far 20
• Longer term objectives
• Support programme to develop Site Waste
  Management Plans, identify recycling services and
  reduce waste

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Background

• 8 sites visited in Kent during this month
• Mix of public and private sector
• Private Residential
• Public School
• MOD Barracks
• Social Housing

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Common Issues

• Standard Form of Sub-Contract - places onus on
  main contractor to clear waste
• Attitude time-served trades v box-bashing
• Education how to communicate the message
• Waste contractors traditional pricing policy

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Site Issues

• Space lack of space to site more than one skip
• Management driven from the top
• Time short-term projects
• Specifiers environmentally-minded but maybe not
  waste-minded
• Materials not always ordered with
  waste/cut-offs in mind

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Moving Forward

• Left-overs what do we do?
• Waste Exchange will it work?
• Awareness how do we get the message across?
• Next Steps what can you do?

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Other local support for SMEs

• Waste Exchange - http//www.egeneration.co.uk/kent
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• The Kent Exchange is a free service which aims to
  promote the reuse and recycling of what is
  traditionally considered "waste".
• Tool for advertising businesses excess resources
  or resource requirements. Businesses can either
  place materials that they no longer need or can
  search for materials that they require.
• Recycling Directory is an ideal tool for finding
  businesses that can recycle or reprocess
  materials that your business no longer needs.

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Other local support for SMEs

• Kent Green Buyers Club
• Aims to encourage businesses and public sector
  organisations to purchase goods made from
  recycled materials.
• Brings together buyers and sellers throughout the
  region, introducing purchasing managers to new
  recycled product areas and assisting them in
  developing new product/service specifications.
• Contact us for more information or support.

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Key Performance Indicators

• We would like your views on these waste reduction
  KPIs
• Recycled content by value ( by project)
• Tonnes sent to landfill (total)
• Tonnes diverted from landfill (total/by material)
• Tonnes sent for salvage/reclamation (re-use)
• Packaging waste recycled
• Material productivity ( total materials used per
  project as waste)
• Site Waste Management Plans ( of sites)
• Overall carbon saving (to be developed)

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Next steps

• We would like your views on these possible
  services
• Information portal
• Training events
• On-site waste reduction/recycling support
• Green procurement advice/support