Managing construction waste streams
- Construction and demolition sites – what’s in your waste?
For those managing sites in the landscape and construction realm, the correct identification, classification, handling, removal and disposal of hazardous waste can prove a risky, costly and potentially litigious undertaking.
- Confidence in your construction waste partner
- Is your waste classified correctly?
- Is your paperwork correct?
- Whatever the waste on site – hazardous, green or non-hazardous, can you follow the correct procedure, methods and protocols to legitimately manage your waste stream safely and quickly so that work on site may continue?
- Will your waste be disposed of in an authorised facility?
For those managing sites in the landscape and construction realm, the correct identification, classification, handling, removal and disposal of hazardous waste can prove a risky, costly and potentially litigious undertaking.
- Your waste manager
Following the fundaments of the Waste Hierarchy closely, MCM collaborate with customers to help reduce waste at source, advising and actioning the reuse of materials, recovering and recycling construction waste wherever possible and disposing of non-recoverable construction waste in a professional, legitimate, safe and efficient manner.
- Defining and classifying waste
From an initial site inspection, our MCM technical team will assess the site and soil conditions and will conduct testing to define its classification using EWC codes. This will determine proposed remediation, removal and disposal at approved EA facilities or its recovery, reuse and recycling potential.
The MCM technical inspection look at the WAC – Waste Acceptance Criteria. These are parameters and definitions of different types of waste. WAC testing is conducted after soil waste has been inspected for solid and leachate analysis. Simply put, it will determine which disposal or management facility the waste can be sent to.
The MCM technical inspection look at the WAC – Waste Acceptance Criteria. These are parameters and definitions of different types of waste. WAC testing is conducted after soil waste has been inspected for solid and leachate analysis. Simply put, it will determine which disposal or management facility the waste can be sent to.
- Recovered construction waste
Following the fundaments of the Waste Hierarchy closely, MCM collaborate with customers to help reduce waste at source, advising and actioning the reuse of materials, recovering and recycling construction waste wherever possible and disposing of non-recoverable construction waste in a professional, legitimate, safe and efficient manner.
- UK construction waste and carbon emissions
The UK currently consumes 600 million tonnes of products annually while generating about 220 million tonnes of waste. Not only do construction, demolition and excavation contribute about 60 per cent of this amount, but the built environment accounts for 45 per cent of the UK’s total CO2 emissions.
MCM use haulage partners with EURO VI vehicles as standard. These are the lowest emission vehicles possible within the current legislation with no loss of power but using less fuel. This means more efficient engines with less detrimental impact on air quality, and the height of compliance in London’s Low and planned Ultra-Low Emission Zones.
- 25 years’ managing construction waste streams
MCM’s continuous commitments managing waste, monitoring legislation and securing strong links with legitimate, reputable waste sites across the UK have been pivotal in their successes in major civil engineering and construction site clearances. It frees up project timelines and budgets, ready for MCM to return with deliveries of fresh soils and aggregates.
