A39 Packaging Waste Management
Checklist
About:
Problems:
- Single journey pallets are liable to fail on that journey or upon delivery, leading to damage or wasting of the materials carried
- Single journey pallets end up in skips
- Pallets occupy a great deal of air space and consequently cost lots of money to dispose of
Misunderstandings:
- The aim with reducing packaging is avoid excessive packaging, but not to generate damage by lack of or inadequate packaging.
Solutions:
- Only permit the use of multiple journey pallets
- Use recycled plastic pallets
- Use pallets to create on site composting bins
- Use pallets to make furniture
Consider:
Onsite compaction and storage of recyclable materials:
- especially packaging and protection
- Many bins, colour coded lid and body combinations, segregation for reuse and recycling
Skip Lids:
- lockable type to be selected, for lids with apertures
- Coloured to match base
- Aperture: to suit contents
- Labels indicating contents:
- Bin Store Signs for guidance and educational opportunity
Material:
- 100% recycled HDPE High Density Polyethylene, UV stabilised, Recyclable
Avoid:
Minimise:
Substitute:
Health:
Wellbeing:
Biodiversity:
Safety:
Precautionary principle:
Resource Efficiency Issues:
Reduce:
Reclaim:
Reuse:
Recycle:
Recycling:
- Collect, segregate, reuse or recycle all redundant packaging material.
Recover:
Waste Issues:
Hazardous waste & Deleterious Substances
Waste Statistics:
- 2002 CIRIA / Viridis survey shows 90m tonnes per annum
- 36% of materials delivered to building sites leave in mixed skips
- Packaging regularly represents between 5 and 20% of the waste stream on many building types
- Glass façade and Steel or Concrete structured office buildings: packaging is 50% of the waste stream
- 2.9 m tonnes (3.2% of 90 m. tonnes/year) of waste is through damage due to methods of work
- 0.9 m tonnes (1% of 90 m. tonnes/year) of waste is generated by poor storage
Waste minimisation
End of Life options
Appropriateness:
Competence:
Effectiveness:
Yardstick:
Maintenance issue:
Industry/Sector Initiatives:
Information sources:
GBS ROBUST SPECIFICATION
- GBS J A39 Packaging Waste Specification:
- BRE guidance and ASWS/GBS A39 Specification clauses have achieved significant reduction in recent projects
- Assign responsibility and make packaging waste an issue for contractor’s meetings
Clauses address:
- Identify any packaging materials and set aside for reuse or recycling on or off site
- Determine Employer’s and any legal requirements about burning on site?
- Provide separate skips for all packaging materials
- Segregate all packaging materials
- Remove foreign objects from salvaged materials
- Schemes are emerging to:
- Segregate waste at municipal/commercial tips
- Lists Reference Documents
- Client and Project packaging waste reduction initiative, making somebody responsible, setting targets, reporting to meetings
- Local Authority waste segregation strategy
- Pre and post Tendering requirements
- Skips and Bin numbers and distribution
- Labels, colour coding and signs
- Waste avoidance, damage prevention and minimisation
- Waste Recovery and segregation
- Reuse and Recycling of materials on and off site
- Removal of surplus
- Waste management and minimisation method statement
- Waste monitoring and feedback
- Offsite disposal and recycling
- Use or return, Return materials to source and Take back schemes
- Waste bins made of recyclate
Supply chain management:
Appendix A38: EWC European Waste Catalogue Waste Identification Codes
Value Engineering: (stuff into projects not out of them)
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
8th December 2014 – 2nd January 2014
A39 Packaging Waste Management Checklist
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aka BrianSpecMan
8th December 2014 – 9th December 2014
A39 Packaging Waste Management Checklist
See Also:
GBE CPD
- A39 Packaging Waste Management
GBE IMAGES
GBE PINTEREST
GBE JARGON BUSTER
Initials, Abbreviations, Acronyms
- BREW
- CRWP
- EWC
- REAP
- SPWMP
- SWMP
- WRAP
Names and phrases
- (BREW)
- (CRWP)
- Envirowise
- European Waste Catalogue (EWC)
- Resource Efficiency Action Plan (REAP)
- Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP)
- Site Packaging Waste Management Plan (SPWMP)
- Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP) N#1060
GBE PROJECTS
GBE SPECIFICATIONS
GBS ROBUST SPECIFICATION
GreenBuildingSpecification
- Construction Waste management Specification
- A38 P SC ConResManWM A15 BRM 201212 DOC
- Canadian Publication (mentions these)
- A38 Canada 7703 270406 PDF
- Construction Waste management Guidance Notes
- A38 P GN ConstructionWasteManagement A14 BRM 201212
- A39 Packaging Waste Specification
- A39 P WC PackageEWM A05 BRM 010113 DOC
- Packaging Advisory Bodies
- A39 A AB AdvsryBdys A04 BRM 171212 DOC
GBE Kit
- Material Cutters
- Balers
- Skips
GBE LIBRARY
GBE Links
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aka BrianSpecMan
8th December 2014 – 17th December 2016
