Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP)
Site Waste Management Plans in the UK
What are SWMPs?
Simply put, Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) are a legal requirement in England for all construction projects begun after 6 April 2008, which is worth over £300,000. Even if your project is not large enough to require an SWMP, you could benefit by having one.
A SWMP sets out how resources will be managed and waste controlled at all stages of a construction project.
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Site Waste Management
Waste Management Plans (SWMP)
A SWMP covers:
Who will be responsible for resource management.What types of waste will be generated.
How the waste will be managed, will it be reduced, re-used or recycled?
Which contractors will be used to ensure the waste is correctly recycled or disposed of responsibly and legally.
How the quantity of waste generated by the project will be measured.
Saves time; you can answer queries about your waste from your environmental regulator or local council quickly and easily.
It could help you avoid prosecution by ensuring your waste is disposed of legally.
It could help you win new business by proving your environmental performance; an advantage in the tendering process.
Helps you understand and reduce waste disposal costs; you understand how your waste is managed so you can identify where to save money and reduce costs.
Enhances your reputation; your customers can see where you are helping the environment and making cost savings.
Helps the environment; you will manage materials and waste on-sitemore responsibly so they are less of a risk to the local environment.
Improves future projects; when your SWMP is complete you will have useful information for future projects about how you used resources and managed your waste.
Waste King Limited offer a wide range of services for commercial clients in and around London, Hemel Hempstead, Watford, St Albans and surrounding areas.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
We remove waste, rubbish and unwanted items from commercial premises, construction sites and domestic houses and gardens. Our service includes a two man team who are insured and licensed to load the waste materials – from anywhere on the property – onto our trucks, sweep up after the job is complete and transport the waste to a registered transfer station.
We can remove any item as long as it can be lifted by two people. For example, but not limited to:
Furniture: beds, sofas, tables, chairs, armchairs, cabinets, wardrobes, computer desks
Appliances: cookers, washing machines, fridges, freezers, microwaves, tumble dryers, stereos, televisions, printers, fax machines, computers
Garages, Lofts and Cellars: tools, lawn mowers, boxes, clothes, books
Garden: shrubs, bushes, branches, mud, concrete, soil, turf, compost, garden furniture, sheds
Construction and Demolition: plaster, plasterboard, pallets, glass, concrete, packaging, metal
Roofing and Flooring: tiles, carpets, wood
We can’t collect certain hazardous materials such as paint cans, motor oils, chemicals, solvents, asbestos, medical or biological waste but your local authority can offer advice on how you should dispose of them. Certain items, which we can collect, are classified as hazardous waste because of the way in which they need to be disposed. These items include computer monitors, fridges and freezers. There is a supplement rate for these items because our disposal costs are higher.
We charge by weight or volume where as Skip Hire is charged on the size of the skip and not the amount of waste that is put into it. Skips can cause the added hassle and expense of having to apply for a skip permit in advance and you run the risk of fly tipping into the skip.
Yes. Our employees are fully licensed and our trucks are fully insured including cover against any damage caused to a client’s property when removing waste from those premises.
We charge by volume – for example how much space has been taken up in the truck. However, if your materials are particularly heavy – for example, is it soil or rubble – we charge based on weight.
No, providing our teams can access the waste. Our team will call you with an exact quote and then process your card payment on completion. Our teams take photos before and after and we can send this to you on request.
Our teams use shovels, brooms, dust sheets, rubble bags, buckets, wheel barrows and a sack barrow as appropriate.
Yes. Our teams are supplied with safety boots and branded clothing. A spare set is always in the truck so they are clean and presentable for the next collection.
Most waste is recycled or reused. The items are sorted and disposed of in a way that is least damaging to the environment. We give items to charity shops, or it is taken to specialist recycling facilities.