Morning all,

I know that this isn't H&S related but with so many of us now being S,H and E, i thought it may be a good place to ask.

I have spent the past few weeks chasing up our regular waste contractors for details of their recycling (or more accurately, diversion from landfill) rates for the waste they remove from our projects but i'm just getting fobbed off left, right and centre.

These companies have to submit this info to the EA in the form of a quarterly return and this info is available directly from the EA but for a cost which, out of principle, i'm not prepared to pay.

For those out there who also have to chase up this information, how do you do it?

Thanks in advance

Stern

Hi,

Thanks for the response but we get all that information already. The waste gets collected by a licenced contractor, we get a transfer note and it gets taken to a licenced destination.

The tonnages we used to get from the waste contractor on a regular basis but they were notoriously bad at sending it on time so we now calculate ourselves using standard conversion factors (in much the same way as Smartwaste does).

As it stands we can easily tell that in, say, June waste carrier "X" took 100 tonnes of "Y" to destination "Z". What we can't tell is how much of "Y" was diverted from landfill and this percentage is what we're being increasingly asked for by our clients.

We segregate where we can but the only people who truly know this percentage are the waste companies (who don't seem to want to share it) and the Environment Agency (who want to charge me for it!)

Is there a third way...?