Issue - meetings

At the request of the Group the Building Services Manager will provide a verbal update regarding how waste is dealt with at Old Road.

At the previous meeting the Group had requested that they receive information on how waste was treated at Old Road. The Building Services Manager explained that a lot of waste was generated whilst undertaking works but that the service also had to deal with waste that was left in void properties and garages by tenants.  He confirmed that in cases where tenants had left waste they were recharged for the removal of it.

The Officer explained that waste from sites was either returned to the depot by operatives were it was separated into skips, collected by a specialist from site or taken directly to landfill.

Asbestos was very expensive to dispose of and was also removed by a specialist contractor.  Waste that could be recycled was cheaper to dispose of and for this reason there were a number of skips at the depot for separation of items such as metals, plasterboard, rubble and wood.