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Taking Action on
Construction Waste
South Ayrshire Council
Introduction
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What is Zero Waste Scotland?
The Zero Waste Plan for Scotland
The Scottish Government’s Commitment
Why Ask for Less Waste in Construction?
Case Study – Barassie Primary School and
Belmont Academy
What is Zero Waste Scotland?
Scotland’s Zero Waste Plan
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Policy roadmap for next 15 years
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Change in emphasis from ‘domestic’ towards
‘business’ waste streams
Timetable for landfill bans for specific waste types
Timetable for mandating source segregation and
separate collection
Restrictions on inputs to energy from waste facilities
Action to change thinking away from ‘waste’ and
towards ‘resources’
Changes to planning system to speed up approval
of infrastructure
Improved data capture and analysis to help manage
improvement
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Zero Waste Plan Scotland –
Actions
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Develop a Waste Prevention Programme for all waste in order to place
prevention at the heart of zero waste policy and action.
2.
Introduce a long term target of 70% recycling for all waste arising in Scotland
by 2025, regardless of its source, based on improved data and supported by sectorspecific programmes of work.
3.
Use powers to introduce regulatory reporting to improve data on resource use by
the business sector by October 2010.
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Introduce progressive bans on the types of materials that may be disposed
of in landfill, and associated support measures, to ensure that no resources with a
value for reuse or recycling are sent to landfill by 2020.
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Introduce a carbon metric for waste, to identify and prioritise the materials with
the highest environmental benefit for recycling, leading to better environmental
outcomes, and a more efficient economy. This metric will complement the existing
tonnage metric.
Zero Waste Plan Scotland –
Actions
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Develop and promote a sustainable procurement toolkit, for use by both
public and private sector, to encourage the purchase of products containing
recycled content and minimise overall resource use. This will support the delivery of
the Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan published in October 2009.
14. Introduce regulatory measures to support the delivery of landfill bans, by
ensuring energy from waste treatment is only used to recover value from resources
that cannot offer greater environmental and economic benefits through reuse or
recycling. These measures will supersede the current 25% cap which currently applies
only to municipal waste, and are likely to result in similar amounts of resources being
available for energy from waste treatment.
15. Ensure the land use planning system supports the Zero Waste Plan through the
consolidated Scottish Planning Policy (SPP), the revision of waste planning guidance
(Planning Advice Note 63) in 2010 and the provision of local waste infrastructure
mapping and data.
Policy targets for CD&E waste
~15 million tonnes
as waste to landfill
Halving Waste to Landfill
Commitment
2012
Halve waste to
landfill
Towards zero
(vision for Scotland,
England and Wales)
Halving Waste to Landfill
Commitment
• Almost 500 signatories to date
• Over £13bn of projects have set
procurement requirements
• Scottish Government has signed
up to the Commitment
• EC policy asks Member States to
include Green Public Procurement
criteria in 50% of tenders by 2010
Who’s signed up?
Headline Commitment
“We commit to playing our part in halving the
amount of construction, demolition and excavation
waste going to landfill by 2012. We will work to
adopt and implement standards for good practice in
reducing waste, recycling more, and increasing the
use of recycled and recovered materials.”
Clients
88
Contractors
167
Designers &
Consultants
56
Manufacturers
& Suppliers
60
Waste
management
contractors
86
Client & contractor commitment
“We will:
• set a target for reducing waste to landfill;
• embed the target within corporate policy and processes;
• set corresponding requirements in project procurement
and engage with our supply chain;
• measure performance at a project level relative to a
corporate baseline; and
• report annually on overall corporate performance.”
Why take action?
• Reduce environmental
burdens
– less waste to landfill
– less site traffic
– lower carbon footprint
• Maintain reputation
– demonstrate CSR
– demonstrate efficiency and
sustainable procurement
• Cut costs
– lower tender prices
Landfill Tax
• Escalator extended to
2014 for non-inert waste
2014
£80/tonne
2013
£72/tonne
2012
£64/tonne
2011
£56/tonne
2010
£48/tonne
2009
£40/tonne
2008
£32/tonne
2007
£24/tonne
Waste disposal costs are only the tip of
the iceberg……
The original
purchase price
and
transportation
costs of the
materials
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The cost of
their handling,
storage,
transport and
disposal
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e.g. For 8 cu yd skip:
– Skip hire
– Labour to fill skip
– Cost of materials put in skip
£ 85
£ 163
£1095
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AMEC Case Study
The loss of
income from
not salvaging
the materials
TOTAL TRUE COST
£1343
Where do you start?
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Tendering &
appointment
Model wording
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Outline design
Prevent waste
Designing out waste
tools/guidance
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Detailed design
Forecast waste
Reduce waste
Increase RC
Net Waste Tool
Construction
Waste reduction
Waste recovery
Measure performance
Post-construction
Review performance
Benchmarking
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SWMP Tracker
Reporting Portal
SWMP Template
Pre-construction
Case Study – Barassie Primary
and Belmont Academy
Project Details
• Schools procured as part of
South Ayrshire Council’s PPP
contract
• Targets were set for both
waste recovery and a
minimum recycled content
• Carillion was the appointed
contractor
• Environmental Charter and
Sustainable Action Plan
prepared from the outset
Cost and Waste Saving Potential
Barassie Primary School and
Belmont Academy
Value
% of £33m
£127,000
0.38%
Cost to achieve
£33,500
0.10%
Total potential savings
£93,500
0.28%
Waste generation and
recovery figures
Barassie
Belmont
Total predicted waste
arisings
102t
1,009t
Baseline practice - waste
sent to landfill
84t
640t
Good practice – waste sent
to landfill
22t
160t
Actual – waste sent to
landfill
20t
338t
80%
67%
Potential savings
Actual recovery rate
achieved
Actions Taken
Design stage – waste prevention
Construction stage – waste reduction
Value engineering workshops:
used as an enabler to increase resource
efficiency
Waste segregation:
a person was appointed to take charge of the
segregation of the bins
Community engagement:
regular sessions with stakeholders
Take back schemes:
plasterboard waste return agreement was
negotiated with manufacturer
Recycled content:
used WRAP’s Net Waste Tool to indentify the
best opportunities to increase levels of
recycled content
Multiple projects:
better informed decision making and one size
fits all Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP)
used
Lessons Learned
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Adopt good practice
in waste reduction
and recovery
South Ayrshire Council familiarised itself with the Recycled Content Toolkit, now the Net
Waste Tool. In future all key stakeholders, most notably architects, will use WRAP’s
tools and guidance, specifically the Designing Out Waste guide.
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Motivate the Supply
Chain
Contractors must take responsibility to motivate the supply chain by cascading the aims
of the vision and strategy. The contractor will also be responsible for assessing each
subcontractor against waste performance targets.
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Sustainability Forum
for Community
Planning Partnership
Allowed feedback to be given and raise awareness of good practice. In May 2008
Carillion provided a presentation to community members highlighting the benefits of
working with WRAP on reducing waste.
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Setting Key
Performance
Indicators (KPI’s)
By setting out KPI’s at the start of the project South Ayrshire Council was able to
challenge Carillion’s capabilities, and furthermore specify targets for waste and recycled
content throughout the project timeline.
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Regular Waste Audits
Undertake site audits of waste reports, to assess contractor against their ongoing KPI’s.
Thank You
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