True cost of waste
This three minute
video has been produced as a visual aid to calculate the true cost of a skip leaving a construction site and ending at a waste transfer station. It will help construction companies to look at their current methods of dealing with skips and their disposal. There is advice throughout and methods of tracking the costs.
Site Waste Management Planning regulations
Do’s:
- Incorporate the requirements of your SWMP into the site induction.
- Employ staff and companies who abide by the SWMP Regulations 2008.
- Contribute to the implementation of the SWMP.
- Take waste seriously and identify the true cost of waste and the real value of resource efficiency.
- Think about how you can better contribute to waste minimisation and management on site.
- Adopt good and best practice for waste minimisation and management on site.
- Educate yourself and your staff to think about how they can reduce waste and increase profit through resource efficiency.
- Work with others who recognise the business benefits and financial rewards of SWMPs.
Don’ts:
- Allow your waste to be removed by an unlicensed waste carrier.
- Mix hazardous waste with non-hazardous or inert wastes.
- Leave materials that are easily damaged out in the rain or in a muddy area.
- Over order materials that you don’t need.
- Employ staff who are not willing to adopt the requirements of your SWMP.
- Use service providers that are unwilling to discuss how they can offer more resource.