Dunton Completes Rapid Knotweed Eradication on a site in Little Bloxwich

Dunton has once again completed rapid knotweed treatment for a client using the EradZion8 treatment program. The works lasted 4 weeks and were in excess of fifty thousand pounds. By using Dunton’s EradZion8, an in-house developed system created to be a direct alternative to carting away to landfill, the client has been able to progress with their development and keep it on program and on budget.

Nelson Tanyanyiwa, a member of the technical team at Dunton, when asked to comment said, ‘I am delighted that we have been able to help our client with another of their developments. What is most pleasing is the fact that the client once again made an environmentally responsible decision by not carting away to landfill and rather opting for the EradZion8 system which encourages the reuse of treated soils back onsite. It’s absolutely important that market leading companies set the trend, raise the bar and take environmental issues seriously.’

By using Dunton’s system, which is reserved only for exclusive use by Dunton’s customers, the client made a saving by avoiding the landfill taxes associated with carting away to landfill. 

Waste Management – Are You Classifying Your Waste Correctly?

The recent Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 introduced a new category to the list of properties defining waste as hazardous. These changes mean that some non-hazardous wastes may be reclassified as hazardous wastes. As a waste producer you have a Duty of Care to ensure that you have adequately characterised your waste for disposal.

Firstly, we need to dispel a commonly held misconception, Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) testing cannot be used to determine whether a waste is hazardous or non-hazardous. Essentially WAC testing is undertaken to determine how a waste will behave once its buried in a suitable landfill (environmental risk assessment). Whether a waste is hazardous is dependent upon the Hazardous Waste Regulations and is established by reference to the Hazardous Waste List of the European Waste Catalogue (hazard assessment).

Undertaking WAC analysis is time consuming and may incur unnecessary expense – look at the information you have and ask ‘what testing requirements do I really need?’. Need help – just ask Dunton. You could save yourself a lot of time and money.

So now that you have classified materials on site correctly, what’s next?

EnviroSMART Waste Management System

The 2011 Waste Regulations also require businesses to confirm that they have applied the waste management hierarchy when transferring waste. This hierarchy sets out, in order of priority, the waste management options you should consider. Subsequently, there is a real need for you to consider the impact of increasing waste disposal costs on your bottom line and ensure you are up to date with the latest techniques in waste management, to maintain market competition.

Did you know that waste management and soil remediation are not the same? Even though your land may have been ’remediated’ you may still have a residual contaminated land issue. This material may still be classed as hazardous and subject to the highest disposal costs during development. However, solutions are available to deal with your waste management disposal challenges and reduce the waste classification category.

Dunton’s enviroSMART system will help you remove the waste out of waste management. It is faster, cheaper and simpler. It has been successfully used to assist major house builders and retailers in saving hundreds of thousands of pounds by diverting contaminated soils from landfill, in timescales that worked.

Training seminars are available on request. Our enviroSMART seminars help educate Clients on remediation and waste management strategies and solutions for soil and waste recycling to reduce their waste disposal costs, saving time and money.

Japanese Knotweed Treatment in Days

During the winter season, the opportunity to commence and complete insitu spraying programmes for the treatment of Japanese Knotweed is no longer feasible. However, for your sites which still need a rapid solution we would recommend Dunton Environmental’s EradZion8 programme which is a quick alternative solution in tackling the ever increasing problems associated with Japanese Knotweed.
EradZion8 specifically treats Japanese Knotweed contaminated soils allowing the soils to be reused on site directly after treatment, reducing cost and time.
The process enables treated soils to be released back into the site within days of excavation.

• Great for fast track projects
• Direct alternative to traditional cart away (up to 70% saving on costs)
• Fully covered by our guarantee terms

For further information on our EradZion8 process please visit the relevant page on our website here.

Made Ground. Asset or Liability?

You no longer need to cart away unusable made ground or soil waste.

Using Dunton’s remediation technology you can now avoid any cart away cost by converting your unsuitable soils into reusable subsoil’s and topsoil’s. Saving you up to £100.00 per m3.