Reduce Waste

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Reduce Waste Save Money
Waste Management for SMEs
Presentation to Northern Lakes Accommodation
Providers by Martin Allman, Waste Prevention
Manager
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• Introduction
• Current Situation
• Opportunities
• Self Help
• Conclusion

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• Introduction
• Two tier authority
• CCC Waste Disposal Authority no trade waste
  remit
• District Councils - Waste Collection Authorities
  chargeable collections

Some Third Sector involvement
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• Current Situation
• Duty of Care - affects all businesses. You must
  make sure
• your waste is stored, handled, recycled or
  disposed of safely and legally
• your waste is stored, handled, recycled or
  disposed of only by businesses which hold the
  correct, current permit or licence to do the work
  
• you record all transfers of waste between your
  business and another business, using a waste
  transfer note (WTN)
• you keep all WTNs, signed by both businesses,
  for at least two years
• you record any transfer of hazardous/special
  waste between your business and another business,
  using a consignment note
• you keep all consignment notes, signed by both
  businesses, for at least three years. DEFRA,
  Environmental Protection, 1991

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Current Situation Treatment obligation involves
a three-point test against which you must
assess the proposed treatment option 1 - It must
be a physical, thermal, chemical or biological
process, including sorting. 2 - It must change
the characteristics of the waste and 3 - It
must do so in order to a) reduce its volume
or b) reduce its hazardous nature or c)
facilitate its handling or d) enhance its
recovery. DEFRA, Treatment of non-hazardous
wastes for landfill, Feb 2007
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• Opportunities
• Employ a waste management company
• BREW Business Resource Efficiency Waste
• Funded project to assess business case for a
  Third/Public Sector solution
• Aug 08 appointed delivery partner, Resource
  Futures
• Spt 08 liaise with sector composition,
  tonnages, attitudes and needs
• Mch 09 Publish results

A local, cost-effective recycling/composting
service would benefit both SMEs and the local
authorities
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• BREW will
• Provide a comprehensive, fully researched and
  costed business
• Identify employment opportunities for local
  people
• Enable a visible solution that will encourage
  participating SMEs and visitors in sustainable
  waste management solutions
• Encourage participating SMEs and others to
  reduce, reuse and recycle/compost their waste
• Enable the CSWP and CCRN to understand the
  potential benefits
• Provide CSWP with a better understanding of
  tourism business waste and how this impacts on
  the household waste stream
• Assess the baseline LATS diversion and the
  potential LATS benefit of the project
• Enable participating SMEs to comply requirements
  to treat waste

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BREW Project Timetable
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• Potential Outcomes
• Increased opportunity for Third sector
• Triple bottom line benefits
• Expansion of existing sector
• New start-ups
• The Recycled Pound
• Cumbrian waste into Cumbrian products

BUT, a business will stand or fall upon its own
strengths or weaknesses.
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• Opportunities
• Envirolink Northwest
• Explore potential of expanding the Pub and Club
  campaign into a Cumbria specific campaign
• Envirolink to be involved in the seminar/event
  to be organised in September and potential second
  seminar
• Envirolink to support with BREW study
• Envirolink to continue its one to one support
  with recycling, waste and end market product
  manufacturers in the Cumbria region

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• Self Help
• Move up the Waste Management Hierarchy
• Reduce and Reuse

• Supply Chain Management
• Procurement to prevent
• Externalise the internal

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A Recycling scheme at a South Lakes caravan park
is saving cash that will be used to provide new
habitats for wildlife. Before the scheme was
launched, the park paid South Lakeland District
Council to empty 36 refuse bins of mixed waste
every week at a total cost of around 7,500 a
year. But since the introduction of recycling
stations on the park this number has plummeted to
just three or four empties a week of the larger
bins, and a much reduced annual bill of just
2,000. Mr Wild said This saving blows to bits
the myth that environment-friendly policies
always end up costing businesses more
money. North West Evening Mail, 14 Aug 2008
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Contacts Martin Allman, Waste Prevention
Manager martin.allman_at_cumbriacc.gov.uk Tel
01228 227647 Waste Management, Barras Lane,
Dalston Carlisle, Cumbria CA5 7NY