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Three companies have pleaded guilty to charges relating to the illegal depositing of construction and demolition waste, for the purpose of building a haul road at Hurst Plantation near Doncaster.
At Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday the 7th of May, Wykeham Estates (Northern Ltd) were fined £3,000.00 and ordered to pay costs of £5,500.00; additionally the Judge gave them an order under Regulation 44 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations for Wykeham Estates to remove the waste to a lawful disposal facility within eight months.
Westmoreland Waste Recycling and Bolland Skip services Ltd also fined and ordered to pay £5,500.00 in costs. It was revealed that the Environment Agency started investigations at the Hurst Plantation site in May 2011, therefore when members from the Environment Agency’s Environmental Crime Team visited the site they discovered that approximately 1,350 tonnes of waste had been unlawfully disposed of.
It has been reported that the Environment Agency also found a dirt track which had been turned into a road laying three of four feet above ground level; it appeared to me made up of soil, plastic containers, tarmac and waste metal as well as house bricks, breeze blocks and general demolition waste which was later found to contain asbestos.
It was said that the illegal waste activities were on-going between July and November 2011, the court was informed after further visits and investigations relating to the site and it also showed the involvement of the three companies.
During sentencing, District Judge Bennett stated how Parliament has made the Environmental Permitting Regulations to protect the environment and that the £50,000 statutory maximum fine in the Magistrates’ Court demonstrates how seriously environmental crime is to be treated.
He added that this was a reckless breach of the law by Wykeham Estates with the potential to cause environmental harm and that as both Bolland and Westmoreland have been in the waste industry for a long time, they should have been aware of the legal requirements.
Following the case, an Environment Agency Officer in charge of the investigation, said:
“Illegal waste sites and in this case, where asbestos and other harmful contaminants were found in the waste, has the potential to cause serious pollution incidents or harm human health.
“This prosecution demonstrates that we take waste crime very seriously and will not hesitate to prosecute if necessary, to protect the environment and local communities.”
Sources:
Work Place LawEnvironment Agency
Solutions for Construction Waste Management in the UK:
GPT Waste are market leaders in waste management and have a customised solution for the construction sector.
Whether you’re involved in constructing commercial buildings, leisure and retail premises, roads or construction in the public sector, GPT Waste have the waste solution for you.
Our fully managed solution for the construction sector brings together all aspects of waste management – from creation and ongoing development of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP) through to land remediation, site segregation, skip hire and the safe disposal of hazardous waste.
Whether that’s a single construction site or multiple sites nationwide, GPT Waste provides accurate reporting data on waste and recycling when you need it.
Our services for the Construction sector include:
- Plasterboard recycling
- On site segregation
- Skip & container hire
- Land remediation
- Aggregates
- Plant, accommodation & tool hire
- Technical services
- SWMP – help & advice
To speak to someone about your waste management requirements, call 0844 854 5000 or email info@gptwaste.com
Waste Management is the collection, transportation, processing, managing and monitoring of waste materials or rubbish.
In the UK, each household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish every year. This amounts to around 31 million tonnes of rubbish produced per year in the UK alone.
Commercial and industrial businesses produce about one quarter of all waste in the UK. This is a drain on the economy which could be improved if companies made products using fewer natural resources thus reducing the cost of waste treatment and waste disposal.
In 2010 a survey of commercial and industrial waste arisings was conducted to provide estimates of the amount of waste that businesses generate and how it is managed in England for the year 2009.
In the findings, it was estimated that commercial and industrial waste generation in 2009 equated to over 47.9 million tonnes. Within this bracket, the small organisations alone (between 0-49 employees) produced 16.6 million tonnes of waste.
Combining the domestic waste with the commercial and industrial figures presents an alarming picture and a clear indicator as to why it is so crucial that waste be managed correctly in order to have minimal impact upon the environment. In order to address the issues presented by waste, it is important understand the processes and the opportunities that lie within them.
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GPT Waste offers a basic Waste Review Service free of charge. Find out how we can help your business deal more effectively with your waste:
For further information about the waste management services available to avoid landfill, we have a number of case studies showcasing recent projects.
For more information about our services call is on 0844 854 5000 or visit our website.
GPT Waste Management Limited is the UK’s leading independent provider of waste management solutions to both the public and private sector.
GPT were contacted by the client following the set-up of a new manufacturing process on site. This resulted in the production of a new waste stream, the exact composition of which was unknown.
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Client: Sodexo FM- Pilkington plc
Location: Greengate Works, St Helens
Date: On-going
Sector: Manufacturing
The requirement was to remove large quantities of up to 13 tonnes of the waste stream, in powder format, from site.
A site visit was undertaken immediately, in order to assess the logistics of the job and also to understand both the process from which the waste was produced and the make- up of the waste.
A sample was taken within 24 hours of the request and sent for analysis by GPT. RoRo containers were discussed but after consideration were deemed to be unsuitable due to the loose nature of the powder and potential problems which could arise during the disbursement of waste around site.
With this in mind, it was decided that tanker collections would provide the optimum method of
collection and prove most cost effective whilst maximising load weights being removed from site.
For more information, download the case study.
To speak to someone about your waste management requirements, call 0844 854 5000 or email info@gptwaste.com
We also offer a full Waste Review Service free of charge. Find out how you can help your business deal more effectively with your waste: Call 0844 854 5000 or email here.
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GPT Waste, the largest UK independent provider of waste management solutions and sustainable waste services has won a three year, total waste management contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The project is for the provision of total waste management services across approximately 40 MoD sites of varying sizes ranging from Army Careers Information offices to barracks.
The three year contract is started in February 2013 and will see waste streams including recyclate, hazardous, confidential and clinical be completely managed by leading waste management company GPT – The Waste Solution.
Mike Callaghan of GPT – The Waste Solution said:
“Securing a further three year waste management contract with the MoD through an FM Partner is fantastic news and testament to the standard of work provided for the MoD in previous contracts that we have completed. We look forward to continuing our working relationship with the FM organisation and the MOD client, striving to continue our delivery of excellence.”
Mike Callaghan is the Business Development Manager from GPT – The Waste Solution
GPT – The Waste Solution provides total waste management services designed to enable to clients to achieve cost reduction by improving efficiency whilst removing risk. They work with local and national companies across the public and private sector to improve employee and customer safety, ensure legislative compliance and minimise the environmental impact of waste disposal. In addition to their waste management services, The Waste Solution offers a complete waste review service to audit the waste management processes of entire estates.
Client: Kudos International
Location: The Brighton Centre, Brighton
Date: On-going
Sector: Leisure
The Brighton Centre is a world renowned Conference and Concert Venue and hosts high profile events such as Political Party Conferences, Indoor Sporting Events and large music concerts.
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GPT Waste were asked to review the waste provision at the site following continual issues with service, poor recycling rates of less than 30% and a general lack of management information.
A full site review was undertaken and various waste streams identified. Recommendations were then made to the Site Manager to improve service, reduce costs and increase recycling rates.
To speak to someone about your waste management requirements, call 0844 854 5000 or email info@gptwaste.com
We also offer a full Waste Review Service free of charge. Find out how you can help your business deal more effectively with your waste: Call 0844 854 5000 or email here.
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GPT Waste Management attended The Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice 2012.
Having been nominated as partners to the winning entries in recognition of our contribution to the achieving Environmental Best Practice.
Silver Award – NHS Sites Roehampton & Romford
Bronze Award – ‘Go Green for 2013’ Springfield Hospital
GPT Waste Management are recognised as Green Apple Award Winners
To speak to someone about your waste management requirements, call 0844 854 5000 or email info@gptwaste.com
We also offer a full Waste Review Service free of charge. Find out how you can help your business deal more effectively with your waste: Call 0844 854 5000 or email here.
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Creamfields is the North West’s major Music Festival event and is held over the August Bank Holiday weekend each year. Hosting over 50,000 visitors in total each day of the Festival, 45,000 of who camp at the site each night, the event produced over 500 tonnes of waste over the whole weekend. GPT Waste were employed to manage the waste throughout the duration of the festival.
A whole range of waste containers and services were provided to site in the week before the event, the event days themselves plus the immense ‘post-festival’ clean up, which took almost 2 weeks to complete.
In order to operate safely and to ensure that the site was clean and tidy for the start of each day, our teams worked through the night on the days of the event itself, with collections being made during the early hours.
The weather also played a part, with heavy rain causing all sorts of problems for the vehicles but by using a variety of containers and vehicles, it was possible to clear site of all the waste within 10 days after the event.
The post event clean up saw all the abandoned tents being cleared from site, along with tonnes of General Waste and all the waste collected was transported to our nominated Materials Recycling Facility, where the waste was subjected to a recycling programme to ensure the maximum amount of waste was recycled or re- used. Plans are underway for the 2012 Event, where the visitor numbers are expected to increase further.
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Client: Sodexo Defence
Location: South West & South Central Navy MAC
Date: March 2012
Sector: Defence
About the Project:
GPT Waste in partnership with Sodexo Defence delivers waste services to 11 MOD establishments on contract.
Service improvements have been provided from contract start and the most recent innovation being the implemen-tation of a food waste service.
Each one of the establishments that produces food waste has now been provided with a dedicated food waste service. The estimated volume of food waste that will be recycled is estimated at over 200 tonnes pa.
Project Challenges:
The project challenges included ensuring that each site and each site representative was aware of how and what the food waste service provision entails and issues in regard to not contaminating the waste.
The food waste is removed and treated at an anaerobic digestion facility – all 100% recycled so the importance of ensuring that each site operates to the required level is paramount.
For more information about this project, download the case study here.
| Services and Products: | |
| 240ltr euro for food waste |  |
| Corn starch bags | |
Client: Nu Kleen
Location: Creamfields Music Festival
Date: August 2011
Sector: Festivals
About the Project:
Creamfields is the North West’s major Music Festival event and is held over the August Bank Holiday week-end each year. Hosting over 50,000 visitors in total each day of the festival, 45,000 of whom camp at the site each night.
The event produced over 500 tonnes of waste over the whole weekend.
A whole range of containers and services were provided to site in the week before the event, throughout the event days themselves and after the event for the immense post festival clean up which took almost 2 weeks to complete.
Project Challenges:
In order to operate safely and to ensure that the site was clean and tidy for the start of each day, our teams worked through the night on the days of the event itself, with collections being made during the early hours.
For more information about this projects, download our case study here.
| Services and Products: | |
| 40yrd Roll on Off Containers for GMW | |
| 40yrd Roll on Off Containers for Metal Waste | |
| 1100Ltr Eurobins | |
| 240Ltr Eurobins | |
| Refuse Collection Vehicles | |
| Direct Tipping Facilities | |
Client: Ramsay Healthcare
Location: Nationwide
Date: 01/03/2012
Sector: Private Healthcare
About the Project:
Ramsay has a network of 22 private hospitals in the UK as well as 9 treatment centre’s and 3 Neurological Units.
GPT National Account Executives visited the hospitals, produced site reports with photographic evidence of current incumbents and produced a report with the number of containers and frequency of collections.
Project Challenges:
Ramsay Hospitals Support Service Managers had previously arranged their own waste removal solutions which created a large number of suppliers without the benefit of a buying consortium.
For more information about this project, download our case study here.
| Services and Products: | |
| General Mixed Waste | |
| Dry Mixed Recycling | |
| Confidential Waste | |
| Pharmaceutical Waste | |
| Healthcare Waste | |
| Septic Tank empty and maintenance | |
| WEEE/IT | |