NEW NET W
HELPS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
ASTE TOOL
NEW TOOL CALCULATES SAVINGS IN
QUANTITIES AND COSTS OF WASTE
A new online resource developed by Waste & Resources Action
Programme (WRAP) enables construction clients, designers and
contractors to reduce waste to landfill by more accurately
identifying where efforts should be focused to achieve the most
environmental benefit and the most substantial cost savings.
The enterprising new Net Waste Tool can be clients can evaluate performance against
used to forecast waste arisings and identify key corporate targets across a portfolio of
actions that can be taken to reduce that waste. projects;
Having targeted the main sources of waste, the
Tool then helps in the development of a
design teams can identify key sources of
suitable waste segregation strategy and in
construction waste at an early stage,
maximising opportunities for waste recovery. It
enabling waste reduction efforts to be
calculates a series of metrics and potential
focused on areas that will yield the most
savings, including: cost of materials that have
significant cost and environmental benefits ;
been wasted; cost of waste disposal; tonnages
and volumes in different waste streams;
contractors can use the Tool to provide key
diversion from landfill; carbon impact of waste
elements of their Site Waste Management
reduction and recovery; and reused and
Plan (SWMP)—waste forecast,
reduction
recycled content.
and recovery actions, waste to landfill—
using a standardised, but customisable,
Designed as a series of web pages, the Tool
method and data.
allows users to securely enter information on
their project and the materials they intend to
Contractors can also compare forecasts
use. An analysis can then be conducted to
against actual performance and identify
detail both waste arising and recycled content.
opportunities to improve site practices.
Finally, by determining the likely destination of
each waste and the performance of the waste
Dr David Moon, WRAP Programme
handler, the Tool can estimate the likely
Manager for Construction Procurement, said:
amount of waste going to landfill. It is this
“The Net Waste Tool is a powerful resource
system of benchmarking and measuring
that acts as a guide from the earliest stages of
improvement that will be of significant value to
design through to the construction and
the industry as it works towards halving waste
post-construction phases. Depending on the
to landfill by 2012, as set out in the
project size, within a couple of hours it should
Government’s draft Strategy for Sustainable
be possible to enter the main project
Construction, and the Scottish Government’s
parameters, get an initial approximation of the
goal of zero waste.
waste that is likely to be produced and an
outline of your options for reducing that waste.”
Offering different benefits to different user
groups, the Tool can be used across the whole
The Net Waste Tool is freely accessible from
supply chain, for example:
the WRAP Construction website –
www.wrap.org.uk/construction
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