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WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimise landfill, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment. Contents Executive summary 01 Introduction 03 Good practice Waste Minimisation 04 Setting requirements for Waste Minimisation 05 Why is Waste Minimisation important 06 Understanding Waste Minimisation 08 Waste Minimisation opportunities 10 Guidance Note 1 Communication 13 Guidance Note 2 Design 16 Guidance Note 3 Procurement 29 Guidance Note 4 Logistics 41 Conclusion 46
Delivering effective Waste Minimisation 01 Executive summary Implementing good practice Waste Minimisation and Management (WMM) on construction projects will help reduce the significant quantities of construction waste sent to landfill and make a substantial contribution to sustainable development. This guidance is part of a suite of three documents that focus specifically on waste minimisation. The other guidance documents provide a high-level business case for client decision makers and a summary guidance to set out how clients and contractors can make waste minimisation a contractual requirement. The aim of this document is to provide practical guidance on how to deliver against client requirements for waste minimisation introduced in WRAP, Achieving effective Waste Minimisation. It provides a more comprehensive look at the opportunities that exist to reduce waste on construction projects and provides a series of checklists and proformas to aid design teams and contractors in doing so. The focus of this guidance is to assist main construction clients, design teams, contractors and their supply chains to reduce waste on their construction projects. It provides detailed technical guidance on how good practice waste minimisation can be delivered both at site and strategic levels. It sets out what is meant by waste minimisation, why it is important, who should implement it and how it can be effectively implemented at the project level after being made an explicit requirement of the procurement process. Model forms of words to be set in contracts such that all parties have formal commitments to reduce waste are provided in the guidance, WRAP, Achieving effective Waste Minimisation. This guidance builds upon the structure of the parallel WRAP guidance document on waste management, Delivering good practice Waste Management which contains 10 guidance notes – covering setting project requirements through to reviewing performance. Guidance Note 2: Design explores waste minimisation and this document builds upon this guidance note, going into more detail. www.wrap.org.uk/construction Unlike waste management, waste minimisation does not follow a set of processes (such as developing a Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP)). Instead, effective waste minimisation requires a change in attitude towards waste. If all members of the project team are committed to identifying and reducing waste then reductions can be made in a number of areas of opportunity including design, procurement and logistics, as seen below. The guidance notes in this document will provide the technical ‘know-how’ of these opportunities to reduce waste and support the project team to consider and act upon these through each stage of the construction process so to deliver against the client’s requirement. The guidance notes are summarised below. Guidance Note 1: Communication Central to waste minimisation is communication. Project teams need to think about waste differently. Waste needs to be raised up the agenda so that when design decisions are made, or logistics strategies developed, the impact upon waste is considered and action is taken. Waste must be discussed and targeted throughout construction. Fundamental to this is open communication where innovative solutions are actively encouraged to target waste. This can be facilitated through allocating time in project meetings to the waste agenda or through waste workshops where all parties are engaged. Opportunities to minimise waste arise throughout a project, which fall into four key categories and form the basis of the guidance sheets in this document Communication Design Procurement Planning Logistics Planning Project timeline Delivery Delivery
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