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How understanding Waste Management can help your pocket
October 21, 2011Here at Diamond Waste we are really trying to make a difference to the industry. We
believe the biggest difference can only be made at the beginning of the waste
management process where the waste is being created. We feel it is our responsibility, as well as that of all of all the other companies within the industry, to educate people
on good practice and how waste management works from the off-set.
Reducing waste, increasing recycling and re-use rates can radically reduce your waste
disposal costs and will really help our environment in the long term.
This mainly applies to our construction industry customers being the main user of
many different types of materials. What this means is that there are many
opportunities for construction companies to increase the amount of waste they
recycle and reduce costs.
How to increase your recycling rates:
This is all in the planning. We advise everyone with whom we speak, to separate
their waste streams. Recycling is made much harder if one waste stream is mixed
in with other waste streams. However, with this in mind, we do appreciate that
this depends on the amount of space and time you have to work with.
Examples of the main waste streams to separate into are:
Soil, Sand, Hard-core, Wood, Plasterboard, Metal, Mixed inert (soil, hard-core, clay, sand), Dry recyclables (paper, card, plastics etc).
This encourages recycling as it gives the waste contractor who is coming to collect the waste more options as to places they can take the waste to be disposed of, as well as that, as it is ‘clean’ (not mixed with any other waste type) they can take certain waste types to specialist facilities that can deal with that specific waste stream.
How this reduces your disposal costs:
Due to it being separated at source there is a lot less work for the waste handler to do. If the waste is not separated, to enable the company to recycle, the responsibility of separating falls to them, increasing costs for labour and time at least.
You will find that a good waste contractor should encourage you to recycle more and offer better prices for ‘clean’ waste streams.
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