waste management Articles
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GPT Waste Management support Stockport Homes Charity Fundraiser
In October 2016, GPT Waste, donated 6 VIP Manchester United tickets to Stockport Homes to help raise funds for their chosen charity, St Ann’s Hospice. Stockport Homes approached GPT Waste in September for support with their Charity of the Year raffle which was held in line with their annual staff awards evening in October. GPT Waste were asked for any contributions to help raise money for ...
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Leisure Industry Waste Management Case Study – Kudos in Brighton
The Brighton Centre is a world renowned Conference and Concert Venue and hosts high profile events such as Political Party Conferences, Indoor Sporting Events and large music concerts. GPT were asked to review the waste provision at the site following continual issues with service, poor recycling rates of less than 30% and a general lack of management information. A full site review was ...
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Improved Waste Service Management at St Georges Tower
Client: Sodexo Location: St Georges Tower, Leicester Date: October 2015 Sector: Education About the Project: Sodexo manages the International Study Centres facilities at St Georges Tower, which is comprised of 164 student accommodation studios and some small college facilities. Towards the end of 2014, Sodexo had asked GPT to take over the waste management with future plans to identifying ...
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EU Focus on Waste Management
Abstract Some topics are of particular concern to many European citizens. One of these is the worrying increase of waste production. The Community, indeed, generates each year around 2,000 million tonnes of waste. Over 40 million tonnes is classified as hazardous. Over the last six years, the amount of waste generated grew by 10 % a year. It is clear that we must stop and reverse this trend if ...
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Roll out of new contract for Total Waste Management GPT - Independent cinema chain case study
Client: Apollo Cinemas Location: Nationwide Date: 01/03/2012 Sector: Independent Cinema Chain About the Project: Apollo Cinemas is the UK's largest independent cinema chain. Entertainment is their blood: it is part of a long history in leisure and theatre. Today they engage and delight customers with everything from blockbusters to ballet, live music and sport. They are growing and changing, ...
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FM Industry: Keeping Waste On Track for Rail Client
Client: National Service Provider of Rail Systems Location: Kings Cross – Sheffield Line Date: Ongoing Sector: FM Manufacturing About the Project: The project itself was initially a 12 month contract and involved GPT Waste working with the site teams to deliver a cost effective and reliable service provision across twelve different site locations along the length of the track from ...
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Diagnosis of the situation of solid waste management in Argentina
According to the National Census of population and housing which was carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Census of The Ministry of Economy of the Nation, the population of Argentina is 32,615,528 inhabitants, 12% of which is rural and the rest is urban population, as shown in Figure 1. The projection for the year 2000 is for 36,650,000 ...
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Integrated Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries
Integrated solid waste management has become the mainstream solid waste management approach especially in developed countries. This has significantly improve solid waste management especially through its emphasis on preventation of waste generation as well as recycling. The same has not happened in developing countries which, coincidentally are facing huge and growing challenges in solid waste ...
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A Special Issue of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association on Regional and Global Perspectives on Haze: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies
This issue of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association contains selected papers presented at the October 2004 A&WMA Visibility Specialty Conference in Asheville, NC. (A CD-ROM containing full manuscripts or extended abstracts of each paper is available from the A&WMA Online Library at http://www.awma. org; Order Code VIP-134-CD, ISBN 0–923904-72–5.) The title of the conference, ...
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Waste management solutions for the manufacturing sector – EP Dust Collection Case Study
GPT Waste Management Limited is the UK’s leading independent provider of waste management solutions to both the public and private sector. GPT were contacted by the client following the set-up of a new manufacturing process on site. This resulted in the production of a new waste stream, the exact composition of which was unknown. Download the full case study here: Waste management ...
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E-waste management
CO2 or CFC gases are hazardous and usually found more in electrical items like refrigerator, air-conditioners, freezers, etc than in electronic equipment. These bulky items or white goods do not level down to electronic waste recyclers but mostly happens to end at the local kabadiwallas. The kabadiwalas are one of the strong supply management sources in India, so waste is locally collected by ...
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Why waste management should be on every boardroom agenda
Waste management isn’t a topic that features high on the average boardroom agenda. But according to the UK’s leading independent provider of waste management solutions, GPT Waste, it should be somewhere on the agenda. In this White Paper, GPT Waste explain that by changing the shape of the decision making process for procuring waste services, any process and manufacturing organisation ...
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Industrial ecology and waste management: from theories to applications
The paper describes the conceptual framework of the Waste Management Theory (WMT). WMT is a unified body of knowledge about waste and waste management, founded on the expectation that waste management is to prevent waste to cause harm to human health and the environment. The intersection of WMT with Industrial Ecology (IE) is presented and the mutual benefits of developing WMT alongside IE are ...
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Taking the Waste-Away at Leeds United
Leeds United’s Kiel Barrett, possibly the youngest Head Groundsman in the Football League, speaks about why he chose Waste-Away, the Waste Management service provided by Yorkshire based Highspeed Group Ltd. View the full story >> For more information on the Waste Management services offered by Waste-Away, please visit www.waste-away.org or for information on the products and ...
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Carillion M40 Project case study
Client: Carillion M40 Project Location: 3 x sites along M40 motorway - High Wycombe, Thame and Banbury Date: Ongoing Sector: General About the Project: Carillion operate the management of the entire M40 motorway system in respect of traffic management, waste management, litter pick and other specialist services to ensure that the motorway operates safety and efficiently. Based at 3 depots along ...
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A Cleaner Lagos - A Collective Responsibility
This paper was delivered at the CSD Intersessional Meeting on Expanding Waste Management Services in Africa, held in Rabat Morocco 25-26 November, 2010. The meeting was organised by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), the Division for Sustainable Development (DSD), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), UN-Habitat, IEA-ONEP and the ...
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Border 2012: Unique Challenges in Managing Waste
Waste—whether it is hazardous or nonhazardous, liquid or solid—has no respect for state or national borders, and this can present unique challenges for waste management in areas like the U.S.–Mexico border region. The Border 2012 program, which was developed in 2002 as a result of a partnership among federal, state, and local governments in the United States and Mexico, aims to address some of ...
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Prospects for future climate change and the reasons for early action
The 2008 A&WMA Critical Review, which was entitled “Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,” focused on the vital issue of global climate change. During the presentation of the review on June 25, 2008, in Portland, OR, Dr. Michael C. MacCracken, chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, gave an overview of the basic ...
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LGA advisor questions idea of recycling consistency
A senior adviser on waste issues for the Local Government Association (LGA) has suggested that councils will be resistant to measures to enforce a ‘consistent collection system’ across England. The cautionary note over consistency came from LGA adviser Hilary Tanner during a debate titled ‘Localism vs Consistency’ at the LARAC – Local Authority Recycling Advisory ...
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A UK county sustainable waste management programme
The UK Sustainable Development Strategy requires that society makes prudent use of resources so as to protect the environment and at the same time maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment. The key to sustainable waste management is waste minimisation, the reduction of waste at source. Waste minimisation clubs have been a central feature of the UK program to encourage the ...
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