Waste UpdateRail Environment Infrastructure Presentation

Thursday 15th August 2013

About me...

•Waste Management Consultant for over 5 years

•Worked on a number of rail SWMP’s:• Crossrail – Tottenham Court Road, Custom House &

Woolwich• North East Crossrail• Acton Diveunder • Western Track Lowering• Reading Viaduct• LUL Projects

•Pre demolition audits

•Operational waste management strategies

•Project work & secondment to the Environment Agency

Introduction

•Waste Management Plan for England 2013

•edoc

•Status of devolved government SWMP’s

•Bad practise

•Good practise

•Summary

Waste Management Plan for England 2013

•The Waste Management Plan for England is a high level

document which is non – site specific.

•It provides an analysis of the current waste management

situation in England, and evaluates how it will support

implementation of the objectives and provisions of the

revised WFD.

•The Plan does not introduce new waste management

measures

edoc What •Will offer an alternative to paper-based system of WTN’s •Modernising waste data collection in the UK •Enhance ability to extract good quality data

Why•Storage & accurate data monitoring

Who•Any UK business involved in waste management

When•Due to be rolled out from January 2014

SWMPs in England

•The original red tape challenge concluded that SWMP

Regulations should be scrapped

•The date set for this is October 2013 (shown in a report

from September 2012)

•There was then a consultation to understand what the

impacts will be if/when the regulations are removed

So...

SWMP in Wales

Draft regulations indicate that:

•No financial limit for requiring SWMP

•Must be sent to relevant enforcement authority

•Fees paid – value not yet determined

•Councils MUST enforce the regulations

Subject to outcomes of consultation, SWMP regulations will be laid in 2014 and come into force in 2015

SWMPs in Scotland & Northern Ireland

•The Scottish Government have committed to a zero waste

to landfill target by 2020

•The Department of the Environment Northern Ireland

(DOENI) consulted on SWMP proposals in 2011

•Still no legal requirement to produce a SWMP

•SWMP a useful management tool to cut

costs, reduce fly-tipping and demonstrate

your duty of care for waste

Halving Waste To Landfill

•Commitment launched in 2008 and completed at the end of 2012

•Over 800 companies made the commitment to reduce waste

•Construction and demolition waste was reduced

•Excavation waste has seen a sharp increase

Bad Practise

•Not recording Designing out Waste actions

•Providing data in the wrong format – m or m2 of material

•Using the wrong LOW/EWC codes

•Not providing full details of waste carriers or waste

management facilities

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Waste Crime

Waste operators fined for illegal asbestos storage• £80,397

Wood recycler fined for storage permit breach• £51,500

Prison sentence for illegal waste site owner

•Suspended eight month prison sentence and 180 hours unpaid work 

Man fined for illegal waste activities

• £80,000

Countrystyle fined for waste offences

•  £46,000

Designing Out Waste

• Focus on the first stage that waste can be reduced

• Responsibility to reduce waste ultimately lies with the client to set

targets and push the design team

• Considering waste at design stage saves money at least twice over

Design Principles

1. Design for Reuse & Recovery

2. Design for Off-Site Construction

3. Design for Materials Optimisation

4. Design for Waste Efficient Procurement

5. Design for Deconstruction & Flexibility

Good Practise

Orient Way - Reuse & Recovery

• £15 million rail sidings project in East London

• Layout design enabled a high rate of re-use

o 1,000 tonnes of crushed concrete was reused on site

o 20,000 tonnes of ballast reused

o 3,250 yards of track was reused

• Award from CEEQUAL for overall recycling rate of 99%

Good Practise

Bond Street Monitoring - Waste Efficient Procurement

• Installation of equipment in and around the station to

monitor any ground movement caused by new work at the

station

• Company providing equipment remove long haul

packaging and reuse at their depot

• Packaging taken to site is returned to depot for reuse

Summary

•Waste Management Plan for England 2013 - does not introduce

new waste management measures " lacking ambition“

•edoc – to be used by any UK business involved in waste

management from January 2014 to replace paper based WTN’s

•Status of devolved government SWMP’s – England: requirement

to be removed; Wales requirement to be put in place; Scotland

and Northern Ireland still no requirement

•Bad practise

•Good practise