Waste Services & Circular Economy Category and its management of services through supplier partners encompass a number of different elements across CBRE locations globally.
- Waste Services and the Circular Economy involves the regular collection, transportation, processing and disposal or recycling and monitoring of different types of waste materials
- Global and national climate goals demand sharp emission reductions in both operations and construction, which can only be achieved through significant changes within the real estate sector (Forbes)
- CBRE is committed to decreasing the amount of waste generated through its own operations and its clients’, and promotes the reduction, reuse, repair, recycle and recover hierarchy for waste. CBRE champions the sharing of best practices and innovation in the field of waste
- Deliver World Class Waste Services solutions that utilise CBRE Preferred and Contracted suppliers providing for sustainable outcomes and long-term supplier relationships in line with CBRE ESG policies
- Ensure best-in-class financial operating models that leverage CBRE’s buying power
- Align global KPI’s and SLA’s to take into consideration mandatory regulations and requirements, in addition to Waste Services reporting including monthly recycling and recovery rates
- Demonstratable value to our clients on optimisation of existing services, with a commitment to growing the Circular Economy commensurate with CBRE’s Zero Waste policies, whilst offering credible 4x4 regional coverage for a range of services and solutions
1. Category Definition
3. Scope
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2. CBRE Strategy
- Drive efficiencies through current ‘downstream’ operations (utilising technologies to help reduce labour and logistics costs, enhancing recycling opportunities etc)
- Promote ‘upstream’ linear waste to a circular waste strategy and ethos, through supplier and regional stakeholder engagement (i.e. CBRE’s Zero Waste offering to augment account zero-waste planning)
In 2022, CBRE launched a circular economy programme for its client supply chain. This programme will help reduce the consumption of the materials used in servicing buildings, the waste that consumption produces and the associated emissions. Designed to achieve zero waste at client sites, the plan will cover the following service categories:
- Catering: eliminate single-use service ware, such as paper and plastics
- Cleaning: reusable cleaning containers
- Landscaping: grass recycling or composting; reusable and recycled planters
- Project: recycled and reused content for project-related goods, such as second-hand furniture or recycled carpet
- Technical: reuse, recycle and upcycle operational parts, such as those used in building maintenance
- Security: reusable visitor badges
- Waste management: application of the zero-waste hierarchy; developing processes to take back waste from managed sites