Maximising recycling 

All waste collected from Ward’s direct service in the East Midlands is transferred back to Ward’s modern material recycling facilities in Ilkeston, Swadlincote and Chesterfield where it processed for recovery. 

Projects which are outside Ward’s direct service sites are managed by Ward’s nationwide cross hire department. This approved network of partners reciprocate service levels and meet environmental objectives, providing UK wide coverage.

A recent project in Derby saw Ward provide their waste management service where they collected more than 1,000 tonnes of mixed and segregated waste of which 90 per cent was diverted from landfill.

Cost effective waste management

When Clegg secures a new construction project, Ward advise on the most cost-effective waste management options. This includes advice on which containers to use, types of waste stream and frequency of collections required. 

Each site can generate different waste types and challenges, including hazardous waste such as oils, asbestos or Japanese knotweed. Ward can also arrange a site visit to find a safe and environmentally friendly solution for multiple waste streams.

Smart solutions

Ward has delivered a total waste solution service for multiple projects across the Clegg Group, including at a new state-of-the-art car show room in Sheffield valued at £15m. Ward provided SmartWaste reporting for this project, compiling waste data and generating a comprehensive waste report at the end of the project. The report helped to attain the required accreditations for BREEAM.

Gary Shout, Health Safety and Environmental Manager, Clegg Group Ltd: “Ward Recycling has been a preferred waste contractor for Clegg Group of companies for a number of years, during which they have been instrumental in providing an excellent professional waste management support and solutions to a number of projects of which some required BREEAM accreditations.”

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Ward Recycling has provided waste management services to Derby County Football Club for over 11 years at its home ground in Pride Park, Derby. Ward was collectively responsible for collection, consolidating, handling and bulking of materials from the stadium. The service has continued through to the present day and now also includes all the club’s properties including the training ground at Moor Farm.

Ward attend the stadium in accordance to the team’s fixture list, pre and post home games. It carries out a full clearance of all of the club’s waste, from grass cuttings when preparing the pitch for the match, to the rubbish left in the stands by fans. The services provided on site encouraged segregation at source and reduced vehicle movements.

In 2016 Ward collected in excess of 200 tonnes of waste, all of which is processed for recycling at the sites in Derbyshire. Any material that is not segregated and recycled at Derby County is sorted and recycled by Ward at their recycling facilities, with the aim of maximising Derby Counties recycling and minimising any waste to landfill.

In 2015 Ward worked with the facilities team at Pride Park to support the club in returning all branding back to the team colours of black and white. All the wheelie bins in the stadium we’re bespoke designed and manufactured to match the team colours. The player’s tunnel, which is sponsored by Ward, is now black and white, as are the special waste containers which can be seen around the stadium.

To assist with waste management on site, Ward built a custom waste recycling compound for the stadium. This was recently extended to hold all the containers on match days and new black and white presentation boards were updated.

Nigel Wood, Stadium Safety and Operations Manager at Derby County, said: “I have always been impressed by their prompt, competitive service and have been pleased with the commitment and professional approach to waste management.”

Results:

Thanks to Ward, more than 95% of waste from Derby County is recycled – equivalent to 190 tonnes in 2016. Off-site vehicle movements were reduced by over 80% with 100% of all recycled material recycled and re-used.

Can Ward help you with your waste management requirements?

Get in touch with our  Professional Services team today on 0345 337 0000 or complete our Free Waste Audit Form.

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Ward Recycling were initially invited to the London situated North Pole Depot (NPD) by Faithful+Gould (FG) to view ferrous metal items on site associated with the maintenance of the Eurostar Fleet, that were unsold lots from a prior auction. The removal of these items was in preparation for the potential sale of the site by BRBR (now London and Continental Railways (LCR)).

During the visit Ward Recycling proposed to incorporate a total turn-key solution to prepare the Site, including the demolition of six structures, the removal of hazardous waste, additional non-ferrous, ferrous and rail ballast.

Due to the location and of the Site and proximity to live railway networks restrictions were placed on logistics including, vehicle types and access times. The Site itself was not live, however it was positioned adjacent to a live rail infrastructure and also incorporated a logistic route, requiring 24 hour a day access through, for Network Rail (NR) and associated/complimentary companies involved with the active rail system. Strict traffic management plans were adopted, continually modified and adjusted in line with the progressing programme to ensure that material removals did not impact on either the live rail network or the required access road.

Due to the evolving programme, status of the Works and the access requirement site operatives and the site manager stayed on site Monday to Friday by agreement with the client ensuring safe access through the Site out of normal working hours.

The streamlining of the programme generated a number of activities running concurrently, being managed with weekly forecast meetings on site between Ward Recycling and clients FG/BRBR.

The initial works involved the coordination of the removal of 12,000m of rail and sleepers, taking place concurrently as removal of overhead cabling and associated supporting steel work.

During this Period a number of buildings were demolished, located adjacent and in close proximity to the access road. To avoid disruption to the road arisings were stockpiled and collections of these materials and ballast was limited to days when the road usage was minimised.

All mixed wastes, timber, ferrous and non ferrous, other than the rail track and ballast, was returned to Ward Recycling depots for reprocessing and recycling into a number of saleable products. Coordination and management of outgoing loads was live, reacting daily to the Site and stakeholder requirements by the site manager and Ward Recycling transport management with vehicles travelling from the Midlands to make collections at the agreed times. The optimisation and minimisation of transport movements was carried out via the utilisation of roll on/off vehicles that can carry two containers.

The project produced a recycling rate in excess of 98%, with over 5,000 tonnes of material recycled within the four month programme.

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Ward Recycling were awarded the waste management contract by Vinci/Taylor Woodrow (VTW) for the Nottingham Tram Project in 2012. The contract order covered a multiple waste streams generated during the construction of the tram route from the suburb of Nottingham to the city centre.

During the project planning it became apparent that the timely collection of containers was essential due to small work areas in a number of locations along the line. Ward Recycling decided to dedicate particular drivers to the work to ensure they were familiar with all of the site detail. The offering also included site toolbox talks as well as detailed recording of recycling percentages and on time collections.

Part way through the project the client experienced difficulty with the removal of soils by their appointed contractors due to contamination and the volume of vehicles working along the line. Ward Recycling incorporated these works, coordinating and supplying efficient logistics and waste disposal routes.

Key issues could be resolved in the following ways:

A number of contractors and receiving facilities were advising material classifications differently. Ward Recycling would send test data to all local sites that could receive soils and were non landfill options, all data would be analysed by a consultant and by programs such as Hazwasteonline. The results would be reviewed by the VTW, their client and ourselves with our consultant and final waste categorisation took place.

The turnaround of the above categorisation was also an issue to the client with tight deadlines required to enable work to progress. The above method would mean that all test data was already pre-
authorised into facilities.

Price consistency would be achieved with this route, previous contractors had commenced and returned seeking increases, causing cost uncertainty and ambiguity. The revised strategy and delivery eliminated this via disposal site pricing and haulage costs being firm by Ward Recycling.

A main area of improvement was the organisation of vehicles. A major problem was being experienced on site, with up to 600 movements on site per day – Ward Recycling stepped into effectively manage all vehicles across the project, sourcing vehicles to safely and successfully undertake the Project requirements.

Ward Recycling were awarded the full line contract for all inert, non-hazardous and also hazardous spoil removal for the line.

Further benefits came with the integration of aggregate collection when returning from tipping muck, this further reduced costs and vehicle movements on site.

This project is a true reflection of complete integration between the client and the waste management operator and to this day is the benchmark as to what is achievable.

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Ward Recycling were awarded the waste management contract by Vinci/Taylor Woodrow (VTW) for the Nottingham Tram Project in 2012. The contract order covered a multiple waste streams generated during the construction of the tram route from the suburb of Nottingham to the city centre.

During the project planning it became apparent that the timely collection of containers was essential due to small work areas in a number of locations along the line. Ward Recycling decided to dedicate particular drivers to the work to ensure they were familiar with all of the site detail. The offering also included site toolbox talks as well as detailed recording of recycling percentages and on time collections.

Part way through the project the client experienced difficulty with the removal of soils by their appointed contractors due to contamination and the volume of vehicles working along the line. Ward Recycling incorporated these works, coordinating and supplying efficient logistics and waste disposal routes.

Key issues could be resolved in the following ways:

A number of contractors and receiving facilities were advising material classifications differently. Ward Recycling would send test data to all local sites that could receive soils and were non landfill options, all data would be analysed by a consultant and by programs such as Hazwasteonline. The results would be reviewed by the VTW, their client and ourselves with our consultant and final waste catagorisation took place.

The turnaround of the above categorisation was also an issue to the client with tight deadlines required to enable work to progress. The above method would mean that all test data was already preauthorised into facilities.

Price consistency would be achieved with this route, previous contractors had commenced and returned seeking increases, causing cost uncertainty and ambiguity. The revised strategy and delivery eliminated this via disposal site pricing and haulage costs being firm by Ward Recycling.

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Ward Recycling were initially invited to the London situated North Pole Depot (NPD) by Faithful+Gould (FG) to view ferrous metal items on site associated with the maintenance of the Eurostar Fleet, that were unsold lots from a prior auction. The removal of these items was in preparation for the potential sale of the site by BRBR (now London and Continental Railways (LCR)).

During the visit Ward Recycling proposed to incorporate a total turn-key solution to prepare the Site, including the demolition of six structures, the removal of hazardous waste, additional non-ferrous, ferrous and rail ballast.

Due to the location and of the Site and proximity to live railway networks restrictions were placed on logistics including, vehicle types and access times. The Site itself was not live, however it was positioned adjacent to a live rail infrastructure and also incorporated a logistic route, requiring 24 hour a day access through, for Network Rail (NR) and associated/complimentary companies involved with the active rail system. Strict traffic management plans were adopted, continually modified and adjusted in line with the progressing programme to ensure that material removals did not impact on either the live rail network or the required access road.

Due to the evolving programme, status of the Works and the access requirement site operatives and the site manager stayed on site Monday to Friday by agreement with the client ensuring safe access through the Site out of normal working hours.

The streamlining of the programme generated a number of activities running concurrently, being managed with weekly forecast meetings on site between Ward Recycling and clients FG/BRBR.

The initial works involved the coordination of the removal of 12,000m of rail and sleepers, taking place concurrently as removal of overhead cabling and associated supporting steel work.

During this Period a number of buildings were demolished, located adjacent and in close proximity to the access road. To avoid disruption to the road arisings were stockpiled and collections of these materials and ballast was limited to days when the road usage was minimised.

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Project Summary:

Whilst enabling works were taking place at the Royal Liverpool Hospital asbestos was located within the subsoils as well as small fragments on the surface of the ground. The site construction was already behind schedule so the discovery of this meant that there were going to be further delays and these would have to be kept to an absolute minimum.

Carillion had testing done across the whole of the site with over 90% of samples coming back showing asbestos contamination, at the construction levels required equated to approximately 50,000 tonnes of material requiring removal and disposing of in licensed facilities. There were a number of further issues with the removal of materials, vehicle movements at both the sending and receiving sites, collection allocation to ensure loading through the day and credit control as the project would hit significant values in a short space of time.

A strategy, to minimise potential delays, was adopted to split the tonnage primarily between two waste receiving sites with a third site established as a reserve. A dedicated Ward Recycling transport coordinator was tasked with the job of arranging collections with multiple hauliers to try ensure a level amount of haulage per hour of availability. Working with the site team on peak collection up to 1,350 tonnes of material (approx 75no vehicle movements) per day was collected using a combination of 8 wheel vehicles and also articulated vehicles which aided in keeping the number of vehicle movements to a minimum.

Regular contact was maintained by Ward Recycling representatives David Ward (Project Lead) and Karen Haskins (Transport Co-ordinator) with the Client and their management team. This was essential to ensure the removal was carried out effectively and also when changes on site were taking place, vehicles could be rerouted to minimise delayed and aborted journeys.

The commercial strength of Ward Recycling ensured that significant credit limits were able to be facilitated with the disposal routes. However, with such high volumes in a short time frame even these were hit mid-way into the project. Ward Recycling were able to manage these without impact to the Contract payment frequencies.

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