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Waste
Waste
Management
The adoption of good Waste Management
practices is essential in securing compliance with relevant
environmental and waste legislation and ensuring that
waste producers accept and discharge their 'Duty of Care'.
With the rapidly rising costs of waste disposal, effective
waste management is also an opportunity to realise significant
cost savings.
The ACS waste management service involves
and audit and assessment of all of the organisation's
waste arisings. This involves an audit of the waste logistics,
contractors and management systems. Upon completion of
the auditing process a waste management strategy can also
be developed and implemented.
Waste
Minimisation
Waste Minimisation takes Waste Management
a step further. Primarily, it aims to minimise the use
of all raw materials such as energy, water and materials
within an organisation to improve efficiency and increase
cost savings. Initially, this process involves ACS technical
staff undertaking an examination of all of the company's
operations. From this examination, ACS technical staff
then identify process optimisation opportunities in terms
of waste and investigate the most cost effective disposal
route for any unavoidable waste material.
ACS staff were amongst the first in
Scotland to be involved in Waste Minimisation projects,
including the award winning Clyde Waste Minimisation Project
(involving 9 companies) and the first clinical waste minimisation
project in Scotland. Savings in excess of £3 million
per annum have, so far, been identified for companies
and organisations.
ACS staff have also been involved in
a World Bank funded project to develop an effective and
feasible clinical waste management strategy in India,
improving the significant environmental problems caused
by the former management of wastes. This high profile
project involved a significant degree of strategic planning,
policy development and liaison with international Government
Officials.
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