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What Welfare Facilities Are Legally Required on a Construction Site?

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What Welfare Facilities Are Legally Required on a Construction Site? Site welfare isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s the law. Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), every construction site in Great Britain must provide adequate welfare facilities for workers from day one, before work starts. Get it wrong and you’re not just […]

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How Contractors Assess Subcontractor Waste Compliance

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How Contractors Assess Subcontractor Waste Compliance (and How to Win More Tenders Because of It) When a main contractor decides who to put on a project, price and capability matter — but they’re no longer the whole story. Increasingly, contractors are vetting the compliance credentials of the subcontractors they work with, and waste management is

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Simpler Recycling: What the Flexible Plastics Delay to 2030 Means for Construction Companies

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Simpler Recycling 2030 Update for Construction Companies The timetable for one part of England’s Simpler Recycling reforms is changing, with the mandatory collection of plastic films and flexible packaging now expected to be delayed until 1 April 2030. For construction companies, contractors and site managers, however, this does not mean the wider Simpler Recycling requirements

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Waste Disposal for Garages & MOT Centres: Oil, Tyres, Batteries & Filters

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Waste Disposal for Garages & MOT Centres: Oil, Tyres, Batteries & Filters Vehicle workshops produce more regulated waste streams per square metre than almost any other small business. Between waste oil, tyres, lead-acid batteries, filters, brake fluid, coolant, aerosols and oily rags, a typical independent garage handles half a dozen hazardous streams every week —

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Warehouse & Logistics Waste: Pallets, Shrink Wrap and Strapping

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Warehouse & Logistics Waste: Pallets, Shrink Wrap and Strapping Warehouses, distribution centres and logistics yards produce a distinctive waste profile: high volumes of a small number of materials, arriving relentlessly. Wooden pallets stack up in corners, shrink wrap fills bin after bin, and strapping tangles around everything it touches. The good news is that almost

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Zero Waste to Landfill: What It Means & How to Achieve It

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What “Zero Waste to Landfill” Actually Means “Zero waste to landfill” is appearing on more tender documents, supplier questionnaires and company sustainability pages every year. It sounds like an impossible standard for a normal business — but it’s more achievable (and more loosely defined) than most owners realise. Here’s what the term really means, why

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What Is Duty of Care and a Waste Transfer Note?

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What Is Duty of Care and a Waste Transfer Note? If you run a business and produce any waste at all — and almost every business does — you have legal responsibilities for what happens to it. Those responsibilities are known as your “duty of care”, and the paperwork that proves you’re meeting them is

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How to Manage Waste Across Multiple Sites With One Provider

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How to Manage Waste Across Multiple Sites With One Provider If your business operates from more than one location — multiple construction sites, a portfolio of properties, a chain of premises, or projects spread across the country — waste has a habit of becoming quietly complicated. Not because any single collection is difficult, but because

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Why Vapes Are Starting Fires in Bins, Bin Lorries and Waste Sites

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Why Vapes Are Starting Fires in Bins, Bin Lorries and Waste Sites For something that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, a used vape can cause a surprising amount of damage once it ends up in the wrong bin. Vapes contain batteries, and when those batteries are thrown into general waste they can

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