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Why Be Waste Aware?
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The True Cost of Waste
- Purchase price of materials being wasted
- Skip hire and transport pickup
- Onsite sorting, handling and managing time
- Poor packing or overfilling of skips leads to double handling
- Lost income from not salvaging from waste.
Why be Waste Aware?
Reduce- Reduce the amount of money spent on waste.
- Reduce waste disposal costs, e.g. handling charges, transport and taxes/levies.
- Reduce the amount of raw material used.
- Reduce the amount of waste on site.
- Reduce transport of waste movements to recycling centres or landfill.
- Reduce the amount of effort used to do a repetitive job.
- Reduce the amount of time lost taking waste to a skip. Mini recycling points are more convienient.
- Reduce the amount of handling and storing waste on-site.
- Reduce the need for double handling.
- Reduce land-use, ecological damage, noise and pollution during waste disposal.
Improve- Improves efficiency on-site.
- Influence worker habits while a relative degree of choice exists for disposal costs/options.
- Better jobsite tidiness = improved health and safety.
- Improves the site image.
- Improves site management processes.
- Improves knowledge of waste figures for specific sites; if you know the problems then you can find solutions.
- Starts benchmarking, target making and auditing.
- Promotes best practice on-site.
- Possible links to Constructing Excellence as demonstration sites.
- Compliance with legislation.
- Environmentally positive and proactive.
- Implements environmental policies of businesses.
Waste minimisation and awareness saves companies money and helps to protect the environment.
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