The Scheme’s Best Practice Hub shares examples of construction industry best practice and innovation. There are a number of examples on the Hub of sites, companies and suppliers working to reduce their consumption of plastics and packaging.
Here are just a few examples of best practice:
- Launching a single-use plastic reduction campaign across the business.
- Holding a single-use plastics workshop to discuss the issue of plastic pollution.
- Using re-usable metal stillages as an alternative to plastic packaging.
- Replacing plastic tube mastic with foil tube mastic to prevent plastic waste.
- Becoming free of single-use plastics in site canteens.
- Using integrated closed loop recycling schemes for plastic and packaging materials.
- Using a hard hat recycling scheme to prevent hard hats being disposed of to landfill.
- Appointing a packaging waste champion to encourage operatives to reduce waste.
- Providing colour coded waste skips to improve recycling and waste reduction.
- Supplying pocket sized waste cards to all operatives to ensure compliance with waste regulations.
Read these examples in full by searching for ‘plastics and packaging’ on the Best Practice Hub.
