Showing posts with label Zero waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zero waste. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Reducing Your Cart Away Costs

A great deal of time and money is expended unnecessarily in the construction industry on waste. A lack of forward planning and limited understanding of all the available options at the early design stage, is one of the biggest causes of over expenditure.

So often on projects, vast sums of money are expended on waste disposal at the last minute.
A real challenge in the industry is the perception that a 'remediated site is a clean site'. But this is not always true.

A site could have been remediated (which is to reduce the overall risk the site poses to human health and the environment) but there may still be contaminated soils left on site.

The good news is that great technological strides have been made in the field of waste soil treatment, which translate into real financial savings for developers and contractors on their projects. Solutions are available to deal with 95% of your waste management disposal challenges.

Typical Hazardous Waste Disposal Cost:
£132.00/ton (£140.00 after April 2013)
Typical Cost for Treatment and Disposal:
£20.00/ton (£28.00 after April 2013)

(The above are examples of typical costs. All site costs are subject to site specific conditions and quotes for individual sites are required)

Dunton Environmental has made significant advances in the field of soils treatment and waste management. Using our technology would ensure that:
  • Most contaminated soils are reduced to an 'inert' level before disposal off site.
  • Any surplus soils could be reused on site as structural fill, topsoil or subsoil.
  • Any Japanese Knotweed is treated without the need for offsite disposal and within whatever time constraints applied to the project.
With Dunton Environmental's involvement you are assured of cost effective and 'green' solutions for your developments.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

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.