1. Waste Minimisation and New Developments in Recycling
Grace Ryder, Environmental Consultant, GEP Environmental

2. Waste Management Principles
Duty of care | Waste Hierarchy | Waste Segregation | Storage of Waste | Compliance documents

3. Duty of Care

4. Waste Management Principles Duty of Care
What is Duty of Care? “The legal duty of everybody who has control of waste to ensure that it is managed safely and transferred only to somebody authorized to take it” Duty of care applies to anyone who imports, produces, carries, keeps, treats and disposes of controlled waste

5. Waste Hierarchy

6. Waste Management Principles Waste Hierarchy
Reduce the amount of waste that is generated on-site
Consider packaging and materials used when procuring goods and services
Prevention
Re - Use
Repurposing or rehousing items of waste should always be sought first
Office equipment and furniture to charities or schools
On-site segregation of Recyclable material
Paper, cardboard, coffee cups glass etc
Maximise the number of individual recyclable waste streams on-site
Collect and send to materials recovery facility
Dry mixed recycling
Food tins, mixed paper and card, corrugated carboard, foil
Order of priority
AD/Composting
Where possible send waste for composting or to an anaerobic digestion facility
Food waste
If incinerating waste a strong consideration should be made to sites that include energy recovery
Incineration
Landfill
Waste sent to landfill should only be considered as a last resort

7. Waste Management Principles Waste Hierarchy
Applying the waste hierarchy
Prevention
Double sided printing
Printing restrictions (e.g. printing allowances)
Electronic notice boards ( s)
Consider sustainable procurement
Onsite Segregation
Clearly labelled bins
Communicate segregation requirements to staff
Re-use and/or recycle
Equipment (e.g. laptops)
Scrap paper
Printer cartridges
Cardboard
Pallets
Disposal
- Determine the best disposal route for your waste

8. Waste Segregation

9. Waste Management Principles Waste Segregation
What waste streams should you consider when segregating waste?

10. Storage of Waste

11. Waste Management Principles Waste Storage
Prevent waste escaping
Clear descriptions
Prevent cross contamination
Prevent water damage e.g. rain
Prevent damage e.g. glass

12. Compliance Documentation

13. Waste Management Principles Compliance Documentation – Waste Transfer Notes
Non-Hazardous Waste –
Your business and the business taking your waste both need to;
Fill in the sections of the waste transfer note that apply to you.
Sign it.
Keep a copy for 2 years.
Show it to an enforcement officer from your local council or the Environment Agency if asked.

14. Waste Management Principles Compliance Documentation – Waste Consignment Notes
Hazardous Waste
If your business produces, holds, stores or has hazardous waste removed from its premises you must;
Classify your waste
Separate and store hazardous waste safely
Use authorised businesses to collect, recycle or dispose of your hazardous waste – check that waste carriers are registered and waste sites have environmental permits.
Fill in the parts of the consignment note that apply to you
Keep records for 3 years at the premises that produced or stored the waste.

15. Best Practice for… - Minimising Waste - Managing Waste - Creating value from Waste

16. Sustainable Procurement

17. Best Practice for Managing Waste Sustainable Procurement
Sustainable procurement is the process by which organisations buy assets, supplies or services by taking into account a number of factors including:
Value for money
Lifecycle of products
Environmental Aspects
Social aspects

18. Best Practice for Managing Waste Sustainable Procurement
How can you minimise waste by procuring sustainably?
Products made from recycled materials, recycled road construction materials
Products that are refurbished therefore extending product life cycle
Products using less packaging

19. Sustainable Procurement
How to embed sustainable procurement in your business
Understand your procurement activity and identify products and/or services procured regularly
Consider the environmental impact of these products and/or services (e.g. waste)
Consider availability and cost of environmentally preferential alternatives
Identify responsible product or service provider (e.g. ISO 14001:2015 certified)
Define procurement specifications
Lower environmental impact
No recycled content
10% recycled content
30% recycled content
80% recycled content
100% recycled content
Higher environmental impact
Timeframe
Improving sustainable procurement in incremental stages – for example office paper

20. Contract Management

21. Contract Management Why should you review your waste contracts?
Reduced costs
Divert waste from landfill
Business sustainability goals
Cut greenhouse gas emissions
Increasing Legal Requirements

22. Contract Management
If you would like to get better value from your waste contracts you will need to:
Understand how many waste management contracts your organisation has in place
Identify how you are charged for waste collections (e.g. per lift, average weight, actual weight)
Identify what waste and recycling data is collected internally and/or provided by your waste contractor(s)
Determine how much waste you actually need to dispose of on a weekly and/or monthly basis (e.g. per lift, average weight, actual weight)

23. Waste as a resource

24. Waste as a Resource Why should you consider waste as a resource?
Stock Management
Cost reductions
Income generation
Staff Engagement
Enhanced Reputation
Environmental Responsibilities

25. How to use waste as a resource
How can your waste be used as a resource?
Identify your waste streams and identify those which could be sold e.g. cardboard, metals
Determine the quantity of these waste streams
Understand the quality of these waste streams
Identify local providers that purchase your specified waste streams
Consider sustainable procurement (lifecycle)

26. Waste as a Resource - examples
Shell & Bio-Bean
London alone produces 200,000 tonnes of waste coffee grounds every year
Shell are collaborating with Bio-Bean to help turn coffee waste collected from factories, coffee shops and offices into a sustainable transport fuel.
This fuel would then be used to power London buses
Adidas & Parley
Use upcycled plastics from beaches and coastal communities in order to intercept it before it reaches the ocean
Transforms upcycled plastics into high-performance sportswear including;
Trainers
Swimwear
The company collects and processes 50,000 tonnes of waste grounds a year, saving 6.8 tonnes of CO2 emissions for every tonne re-cycled. We are collaborating with bio-bean on a project to help turn coffee waste collected from factories, coffee shops and offices into a sustainable transport fuel.”
According to Bio-bean, it takes just over 2.55 million cups of coffee to create enough biofuel to run one London bus for a year with the hybrid coffee oil. To date it has produced 6,000 litres of coffee oil, enough coffee oil to power one bus for a year. November 20th

27. New Technologies

28. Innovation in Waste Management Anaerobic Digestion
Input: Organic Waste (e.g. food)
Output (i): Biogas => Biomethane => Energy
Output (ii): Digestate => Fertiliser
Innovation:
Community AD installations to ‘close loops’ (e.g. setting up food waste collection programmes)
Using surplus ‘heat’ from AD process to dry wood chips that are used for biomass boilers
is a waste treatment method that involves submitting bio-waste to a biological decomposition process similar to the one in landfills, but under controlled conditions. Anaerobic digestion produces biogas and residual material, which in turn can be used as fertiliser, like compost

29. Innovation in Waste Management Sorting Technology
Physical separation
Magnetic separation
Targeted jets of air to separate different (e.g. plastics)
Innovation:
Medium Infra-Red sorters which sorts paper according to quality
Near Infra-Red sorters which sort woods into Cat A (clean) and Cat B (industrial) wood
is a waste treatment method that involves submitting bio-waste to a biological decomposition process similar to the one in landfills, but under controlled conditions. Anaerobic digestion produces biogas and residual material, which in turn can be used as fertiliser, like compost

30. Summary: Next Steps (Top Tips)
Waste Minimisation and New Developments in Recycling
Understand your duty of care when it comes to waste generated in your business
Apply the waste hierarchy
Segregate and store waste effectively
Understand your waste contracts
Identify waste you could sell to generate more income
Investigate new technologies in waste management and disposal

31. Thank you for listening