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This contractor has installed an electric composter which reduces food scraps by 90% within hours, offering a sustainable solution to waste management, this is qquipped with 2 activated carbon filters, to ensure the canteen remains smell-free. The composters robust mixing system utilises large blades to process, dry, and grind kitchen waste into fine particles, ready to pour straight onto the…
As the Lillie Square project was evolving from superstructure and cladding towards utilising fit-out trades, the project held a ‘managing fit-out waste workshop’ with subcontractors. The purpose of the session was to help raise awareness about the importance of waste on the project and to also discuss ways in which waste could be reduced. The workshop covered a number of…
Construction sites procure vast amounts of work gloves. This can lead to large amounts of landfill waste. Until very recently, all work gloves in the industry were non-biodegradable; taking hundreds or thousands of years to decompose when sent to landfill. The lack of a biodegradable glove on the market gave C360 procurement and environment teams no opportunity to further improve…
A dedicated recycling area is in place at the head office to support construction sites in segregating waste. Caged tippers transport waste from sites to the area where it is being sorted into more than twenty different waste streams. The information on tonnages is then provided to the sites on a monthly basis and displayed accordingly to further encourage re-use…
The Waste Management Plan (WMP) is a template based on the requirements of waste management legislation and can be used to allocate responsibilities for waste management on construction sites. It is aimed at smaller contractors and builders to assist them in complying with waste management legislation and also to allow them to monitor their costs and environmental performance in relation…
The Site Team working at Queens Hill Primary School in Norwich are currently using a Dumpmaster which aids the workforce with manual handling issues. We have wheelie bins around the site of different colours which are for each of the different trades. These are then wheeled to a central location where the skips are lined up. The wheelie bin is placed inside…
Finding new ways to recycle commonly used products and materials makes a considerable difference to the environment. It is important for contractors to trade with companies who share the same values as themselves and also the Scheme. This contributes to a wider network of efforts, improving the image of construction. One company ensured that all paint used was recycled: All paint…
This contractor is using a water treatment system which reduces their carbon footprint, provides confidence in their consenting requirements, improves incident response time and reduces usage of chemical consumables. The manufacturer identified that other water treatment systems treated construction waste waters for Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and pH correction regardless of the parameters of the waters going into the systems….
The Gecko skip avoids the requirement for operatives to work at height while loading and unloading a muck-away vehicle. This skip prevents the requirement to work at height when unloading spoil into muck-away vehicles through isolated unloading via remote-control and tag lines. The technology allows the skip to be landed and discharged directly into tipper trucks, roll on roll off…
There are many different drivers to reducing and eliminating waste on construction projects. A simple way of reducing waste where possible, and significantly reducing the numbers of vehicles coming to and from site from waste removal is a compactor or baler. Cardboard and plastic waste being baled not only saves space on site, but reduces costs in skips and decreases…
Continuing from their work through the ‘Littergram’ and ‘Adopted Zone’ campaigns, this contractor founded the Stop Litter Scheme in order to tackle litter at the source. Organisations can register and receive van stickers to apply to their fleet. This demonstrates their support for the scheme and also allows members of the public to anonymously alert them if one of their…
Although this is not mandatory, the colour coding of construction waste skips is becoming widespread throughout the construction industry. The colour scheme refers to labels that can be fitted to waste skips, indicating the types of waste that can be placed in them, thus helping with waste segregation and reducing disposal costs. Skips can also be painted in their designated…
On this project there is a large amount of plastic water barriers (approximately 1.5km in length). Over time sections of this barrier became worn or damaged from vehicle strikes, handling etc. and becomes unfit for use – usually when it can no longer hold water. They gathered up quite a quantity of these end-of-life barriers and were looking at a…
This contractor has worked with Smile Plastics on their site in London. The start-up company uses recycled plastics only to create new items of furniture for the final completed project, with an agreement in place for Smile Plastics to create vanity units for the superloos on site. They have been successful in using a start-up company to provide 100% recycled…
This contractor has put together a zero avoidable waste strategy with several actions already being put in place on the site. These actions include A ‘Waste segregation zone’ which includes area of cut-offs free for labour on site to take home with them. Multilingual signage around the site on all signage and labels to bins in Romanian, Lithuanian, Polish, Albanian…