The company’s recycling & waste operations manager Mike Walters talks openly about how his organisation has taken greater accountability for its waste management arisings by streamlining the number of service providers it deals with.
“Working with a select group of contractors has enabled me to get very clear data … once you can measure waste, you can start to influence reducing it,” he said.
Walters added that this consolidation has enabled greater innovation in terms of closing the loop on some of its waste streams, such as plastics and wood.
He also forecasts a dramatic change for the waste sector in 20 years’ time, in which more on-site diversion and treatment solutions are adopted to cut down on logistics and where disposal costs for businesses are replaced by income streams.
“I don’t think there will be something called waste, I think there will be end-of-first-life materials … that’s a phrase we are adopting now within our business.”
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