{"id":1160,"date":"2013-12-16T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructonomics.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:58:51","slug":"the-hazardous-waste-problem-why-action-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/the-hazardous-waste-problem-why-action-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hazardous Waste Problem & Why Action Is Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of its waste strategy of the last five years, the UK\u2019s Environment Agency (EA) has been stepping up its game on unnecessary waste disposal \u2013 where alternatives, such as the Rubbish removal company<\/a>\u00a0that works efficiently and without hassles, treatment, reclamation and recycling could be used instead. In its final waste strategy <\/span>, the EA identified hazardous waste as one of its key concerns \u2013 too much was being improperly dealt with after being collected.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s report noted that all other types of waste (municipal, biodegradable, electronic and packaging) were improving since its last corporate strategy (2005-2010) and were on target to reduce the unnecessary waste collection and disposal figures \u2013 but hazardous waste had made no changes in the last ten years, with the EA identifying it as a concern with \u2018additional urgent action required\u2019. <\/span>Hazardous waste disposal company BKP Group<\/a><\/strong> looks at why the situation hasn\u2019t improved, and what action needs to be taken to remedy the situation.\u00a0(which can be viewed here<\/a><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Why The UK Situation Is Concerning<\/h3>\n

A vast majority of waste, including hazardous waste comes from the construction and demolition industry \u2013 according to the EA\u2019s final waste strategy, it accounts for 32% of all annual waste in the UK, narrowly overtaking the mining and quarrying industries which account for 29%. Major sources of hazardous waste in construction is from organic chemical process from oil, and contaminated land remediation \u2013 producing hazardous waste which needs to be carefully managed and either treated or disposed of properly.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, the level of this for England and Wales reached 6.6 million tonnes, and hasn\u2019t shown signs of improving (though we are only two years away from the EA\u2019s next report and set of recommendations) \u2013 it\u2019s a long way off the targeted 533,000 tonnes per year.<\/p>\n

What Action Can Be Taken By The Environment Agency?<\/h3>\n

Over the last three years, over halfway through the EA\u2019s current strategy, has already implement plans to offer financial incentives for the most effective disposal techniques, to minimise the environmental impact. This has included a 20% rise in Landfill Tax (from \u00a340 per tonne to \u00a348 per tonne), and more stringent action against those who illegally dump or mismanage waste \u2013 Thames Water, for example, was fined over \u00a3400,000 after mismanaged of effluent waste water.<\/p>\n

An article from TechWaste Recycling<\/a> suggests that as a large proportion of hazardous waste is coming from construction sites, it should be stressed that appropriate waste management and disposal strategies are implement \u2013 chiefly, this involves ensuring that a fully licensed waste disposal firm is used, and that they have environmental strategies in mind regarding the appropriate disposal of harmful and hazardous waste.<\/p>\n

Only then will we see these figures drop, as well as see a reduction in the environmental impact that illegal dumping and mismanagement (including illegal export) can have \u2013 effective management, treatment and reclamation (where possible) and disposal will help reduce the effect of hazardous waste, making the Environment Agency\u2019s a goal far less of an unobtainable pipe dream and more of a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of its waste strategy of the last five years, the UK\u2019s Environment Agency (EA) has been stepping up its game on unnecessary waste disposal \u2013 where alternatives, such as the Rubbish removal company<\/a>\u00a0that works efficiently and without hassles, treatment, reclamation and recycling could be used instead. In its final waste strategy , […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}