Environmental Approach

Bond Demolition complies with all environmental legislation will do all we can to reduce any negative effect on the environment by working in an environmentally conscious, sustainable manner – in keeping with NetRegs. NetRegs is a partnership between the Environment Agency in England and Wales. We follow the ICE Demolition Protocol which provides a pragmatic set of methodologies to achieve resource efficiency in construction, demolition and refurbishment projects.

The Landfill Directive, which came into force on 30 October 2007 in England and Wales (it was already law in Scotland), dictates that waste sent to landfill must have been treated. Bond Demolition takes responsibility for sorting through all materials and removing anything recyclable or paying a sub-contractor to do so.

Landfill sites in the UK cover a total area of 109 square miles. (Source: DEFRA) Bond Demolition reuses and recycles demolition waste wherever possible and constantly review systems and machines to reduce its land fill tax obligation and lower carbon footprint on any project.  All opportunities for processing and selling on of salvage are explored.

Recent activity involves working with environment agency, and sourcing new equipment for recycling – for example, incinerators for clean burning of wood.

Our sustainability agenda recognises that advancement in demolition techniques has dramatically improved accident and incident rates by taking the man out of the workplace and replacing him with machines.   To fulfil the needs of the sustainability agenda may mean reversing this trend and reintroducing man power to improve on recycling and reclaiming of materials for reuse.

The company is well placed to meet the new Environmental Permitting Programme from April 2008.  This will combine and streamline the previous waste management license (WML) and pollution prevention and control (PPC) systems.

The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 requires that all transfers of waste are appropriately recorded in order to assist in tracking movements of waste. In addition the regulations place additional obligations on waste producers, carriers and any person within the chain of persons handling waste to consider the manner in which they deal with the material.

Main Points of Duty of Care:

• Applies to all who produce, handle, transport, treat or dispose of waste
• Duty to prevent escape of waste from your control
• Duty to only pass waste on to someone authorised to receive it (and retain paperwork)
• Duty to take all reasonable steps to prevent others from illegally disposing of your waste

Last Updated: 09/05/2008 12:17:06 By System Administrator