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“We have been working together for the past four years to implement our waste management strategy, which is aimed at encouraging on site waste segregation, reducing waste disposal costs and increasing on and off site recycling. By using Wastefile UK we can encourage common practice on all our sites, on a nationwide basis."

Damian Keaveny                           Environmental Manager

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Taylor Woodrow

As the focus on waste management in the UK continues, Taylor Woodrow Developments credit such initiatives as procuring waste services through a single broker, the reuse of inert materials and waste segregation to their successes.

 

Damian Keaveny, Environmental Manager at Taylor Woodrow Developments, comments:

 

“Wastefile UK also assist us in managing our legal obligations with respect to the waste Duty of Care regulations, and we are also working with them to introduce further options such as wood and inert recycling. Over the first year, our waste volumes were reduced by 13% per dwelling and the cost of waste disposal was reduced by 20% per dwelling.”

 

In order to make “head way” into reducing the overall cost, Wastefile UK believe that organisations must concentrate on the volume and tonnage of waste removed from site. This includes regard for such practices as stock ordering, storage and supplier selection criteria.

 

Following the implementation of waste segregation systems and on site reuse of inert materials, Wastefile UK have orchestrated a 16% reduction in volume of waste, equating to a 5.9m3 reduction per dwelling between 2003 and 2005. This, in turn, has led to a cost saving of 32% over the two years, reducing the cost of waste disposal from £513 to £351 per dwelling.