Dunton – Helping You Achieve Zero Waste

The construction and demolition industry creates more than 110 million tonnes of waste each year, with 25 million tonnes sent to landfill. In order to meet the Zero Waste targets, a different approach to managing waste is required.

What’s the problem with waste?
The first problem with waste is that we are running out of places to put it. In the UK the amount of waste generated is increasing and much of it ends up in landfill sites which are rapidly filling up. The other problem with waste is that it represents a misuse of valuable resources. UK landfill sites are due to reach capacity and the ‘landfill tax’ escalator is a further incentive to find better alternatives.

What does it mean to you?
Put simply, waste costs money. The Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment was designed by WRAP to provide a supportive framework to encourage the construction industry to work together to reduce waste. By supporting the commitment your business can cut its cost and reduce its carbon footprint.

How can we Help?
At Dunton Environmental we specialise in developing and implementing ground remediation and waste minimisation solutions for land restoration. By developing advanced technologies in these fields over the past 10 years we are able to provide faster, professional and low cost solutions for remediating contaminated land and soils.

Consider these examples: 

Example 1:

Site has 1000 m³ surplus contaminated made ground

• Site requires 500 m³ subsoil
• Site requires 300 m³ topsoil
• Site requires 200 m³ crushed stone

 Conventional Method-Cart Away and Import

Description	Quantity m³	Price £/m³	Value
Cart Away	1000	35.00	£  35,000.00
Landfill Tax	1000	64.00	£  64,000.00
Import subsoil	500	25.00	£  12,500.00
Import topsoil	300	25.00	£    7,500.00
Import crushed stone	200	25.00	£    5,000.00
		Total Cost	£124,000.00

Benefits using Regener8 recycling Technology

Description	Quantity m³	Price £/m³	Value
Screen soil stockpile to recover hardcore	1000	3.00	£  3,000.00
Apply Regener8 to convert contaminated made ground to subsoil grade material	1000	25.00	£25,000.00
Apply Regener8 to convert subsoil to topsoil grade material	300	10.00	£  3,000.00
Crush recovered hardcore to 6f2 grade	200	4.00	£     800.00
		Total Cost	£31,800.00

Cost Saving using Regener8 £92,200.00 (74.35% saving)

• All soils retained on-site
• No import required
• All requirements met

Note: The above is an example only. Actual costs are site specific and dependent on volumes.

Example 2:

Site has 1000 m³ surplus uncontaminated made ground

• Site requires 500 m³ subsoil
• Site requires 300 m³ topsoil
• Site requires 200 m³ crushed stone

 Conventional Method-Cart Away and Import

Description	Quantity m³	Price £/m³	Value
Cart Away	1000	30.00	£30,000.00
Import subsoil	500	20.00	£10,000.00
Import topsoil	300	25.00	£  7,500.00
Import crushed stone	200	25.00	£  5,000.00
		Total Cost	£52,500.00

  
Benefits using Regener8 recycling Technology

Description	Quantity m³	Price £/m³	Value
Screen soil stockpile to recover hardcore	1000	3.00	£  3,000.00
Apply Regener8 to convert made ground  to subsoil grade material	500	15.00	£  7,500.00
Apply Regener8 to convert subsoil to topsoil grade material	300	10.00	£  3,000.00
Crush recovered hardcore to 6f2 grade	200	4.00	£     800.00
		Total Cost	£14,300.00

Cost Saving using Regener8 £38,200.00 (72.8% saving)

• All soils retained on-site
• No import required
• All requirements met

Note: The above is an example only. Actual costs are site specific and dependent on volumes.

Landfill Tax – recent changes spark protests

On the 24th May 2012 traffic around Parliament Square in London was brought to a standstill by skip wagons protesting against changes to landfill tax charges. The cause of the protests were the innocuous sounding ‘clarification’ of LFT rules by HMRC resulting in certain soils now attracting the full £64/tonne standard rate of tax instead of the previous low rate (£2.50/tonne). The consequence of an immediate hike in landfill charges meant that waste hauliers were seriously out of pocket.

The real root cause dates back to 2008 when the Court of Appeal ruled against HMRC in relation to landfill tax paid for materials used for daily cover and site engineering purposes. The court agreed that the material had not been disposed of as waste and was therefore non taxable. Following this landmark case, the Treasury set aside around £300 million for claims made by waste management companies. Since then the Government has attempted to close this loophole by introducing two rates of landfill tax and the landfill tax (Qualifying Material) Order, which defines material that qualify for the lower LFT rate.

HMRC ‘Clarifications’ and impacts on Contaminated Land

The original clarification (Brief 15/12, May 2012) that caused so much outrage amongst waste hauliers and waste management companies made it more difficult for operators to pay the lower rate of LFT for contaminated soils. In response, the HMRC issued two further clarification documents (Brief 18/12, June 2012) and a document entitled Interim advice on lower rating. These attempted to specifically exclude contaminated soils from qualifying by stating “in respect of rocks and soils, where such materials are contaminated with materials such as asbestos, metal, wood, or contain elevated levels of chemical contaminants (heavy metals, hydrocarbons), they would fall outside the conditions required in the 2011 Order and therefore be liable to the standard rate.”

So how will these changes affect you? The likelihood is that your muck-a-way costs will continue to rise significantly. Furthermore, the standard rate charge increases to £72/tonne from April 2013. However, alternative options do exist and we can help you find a solution!

Regener8 Soil Conversion

Dunton Environmental Ltd can help you avoid the higher costs associated with landfill tax and you may even be able to re-use your soils on site, removing the costs of importing materials. By developing advanced technologies in the field of soils treatment and waste management we are able to provide faster, professional and low cost solutions for remediating contaminated land.

With over 8 years of on-site experience, Dunton Environmental has developed a formula which converts high liability contaminated soil wastes into reusable products. The soil is initially screened then treated according to the chemical nature of the soils (either by accelerated bioremediation or by the addition of Regener8 which utilizes chemical oxidation, chemical reduction and metathesis reactions) into non harmful products. The treated soils are then composted to increase its suitability as a plant growing medium.

This technology and process is compliant with Environmental legislation and meets the requirement of a ‘Best Practice’ site waste management plan. It can also be used to pre-treat contaminated soils prior to landfill to reduce the overall cost of cart way or used to treat heavily contaminated soils to render it suitable for use on site below a capping layer.

Why not book a free EnviroSMART Seminar?

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.