Global certification. The program isnt industry aligned with the Zero Waste International Alliance and follows the TRUE Zero Waste Framework providing readiness for global certification.
Countries that historically took the world’s recycling have stopped in a bid to reduce pollution locally, this means developed countries can no longer export waste and have a waste surplus
2. How Does Zero Waste Help Clients?
CBRE’s Zero Waste offering helps design a zero-waste plan through waste reduction and waste data management, looking specifically at reducing the non-recoverable materials used in a workplace and how these can be replaced with reusable, repairable, and recyclable materials.
1. What Is CBRE's Zero Waste?
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Zero waste supply chain. Looks to ensure every step within the supply chain is sustainable to reduce reliance on landfills and incinerators.
Credible waste data. A global portfolio-wide waste data management system which provides credibility and transparency to make confident decisions,
Culture of sustainability. Cultivating position workplace engagement with a focus on consuming less and reusing materials.
Zero Waste provides recommendations to help clients achieve their overarching sustainability goals that are aligned to reducing the generation of carbon, consumption of natural resources, pollution risks and social value within communities.
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3. Zero Waste Approach
Zero Waste combines three proven solutions that provide a comprehensive approach to achieve your zero waste goals.
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- Not creating waste in the first instance
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- Avoid single use products and invest in reusable items
- Improved maintenance or 'buy better' to alleviate waste and renewal costs
- Taking used materials and creating new products in order to prevent the disposal of these products in landfills
Example:
- Recycling material can include glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics
- Another method of landfill diversion is thermal treatment (such as Incineration)
- Approximately sixteen percent (16%) of waste is incinerated yearly in the United States. Incineration, however, can lead to other environmental issues that may have positive or negative results
Waste Reduction
Recycling
Thermal Treatment
This is the first step in your zero-waste journey to provide a baseline of a facility or project’s current waste performance and a pathway to achieve zero waste over time. Assessing three key pillars, data and compliance, waste and single-used plastics, and workplace culture, it assesses material and resource flows in and out of the workplace.
Resource Assessments
The establishment of waste data governance to monitor waste levels and waste disposal across facilities, globally. Once established, the offering remains an ongoing activity to ensure data is collected as per the process and remains compliant with local regulations.
Waste Data Mgt
Ongoing management of transformation towards a zero-waste workplace in accordance with the TRUE Zero certification. A zero-waste program will look to reduce waste in all aspects of the integrated facility management delivery and notion is embedded in the workplace experience.
TRUE Waste Zero Programme
4. Resource Assessments
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What is a Waste Assessment?
- Assessment of current zero waste opportunities in the facilities day to day operations
- 3 pillars are looked at: data & compliance, waste & single used and workplace culture
- The TRUE Zero Waste Framework is used
- The difference with a waste audit is the focus on upstream solution rather than downstream
- Pricing provided by CBRE partner
- Data required to price includes portfolio list with square footage and ownership type. If a property is leased the lease type is also required. Type of facility, location of sites
- $18,000 to $25,000 per site
- Zero waste assessment is the first step of the zero waste program, it will not provide savings as such but will help identify opportunities to reduce waste and costs linked to overconsumption.
- Third party expert firm must be used – if we have a new RFP and plan for a Zero Waste/Circular economy lead, that person can work with the local teams to self deliver the assessments
- Not all properties need to be visited, but if a sample of property is chosen it should be a representative sample of the portfolio (i.e: type of sites and location) – 100,000 sq ft or above are worth visiting
- There is no need for specialist equipment, but we will need site access and may need to be escorted
- Between 6 to 10 weeks per site including pre assessment and reporting depending on sites sizes
- Ideal approach is to complete this before go live but this will not be possible for mid to large size portfolios
- Priority should be given completing to properties suspected of having the most wastes generated or the highest occupancy
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5. Waste Data Mgt
What is Waste Data Mgt?
- Establishment of a waste data governance process to ensure waste data is flowing into the sustainability platform and there are no gaps
- Ongoing process to ensure data is collected as per the process and compliant with local regulations
Countries that historically took the world’s recycling have stopped in a bid to reduce pollution locally, this means developed countries can no longer export waste and have a waste surplus
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- Data analyst + platform SME – CBRE perform an analysis of the current data status, establish a data benchmark, map out waste sources and establish a process for data collection which can be then taken on by the account team
- Price dependent on nb of sites, size of sites and location
- Reduction of non compliance and reputational risks rather than direct cost savings
- This will support a Zero Waste program which will unlock savings – the data will help track the program’s effort
- It is better to have access to waste data at the RFP stage to understand the current gap (it is likely that there will always be gaps in the data, but some customers may already have robust processes to collect waste data)
- Good waste data is needed for evidencing progress of a zero waste program
- This product will help with evidencing waste compliance.
- Auditable process
- We cannot commit to gather waste data from waste vendors not managed by CBRE, we need to ensure data is required when onboarding waste vendors on the account.
- Recovery and establishment of the governance process to be done during the transition period will take up to 18 months dependent on current state of the data
Waste data can then feed into sustainability analytics
6. TRUE Waste Program
What is the TRUE Waste Program?
- Management of transformation towards the zero waste workplace in line with the TRUE certification
- A zero waste program will look to reduce waste in all aspects of the IFM delivery. This is embedded in the workplace experience
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- On account resources to drive the engagement + local teams to be trained to be TRUE Zero Waste advisors
- There needs to be at least 1 TRUE advisor trained per region that will act as a champion, this can be someone from the HOST team, site teams need to do the supply chain school trainings. As part of the sustainability team one person at least needs to be leading zero waste overall
- Certification costs need to be costed by GBCI if customer interested pursuing
- The waste reduction initiatives will have wider sustainability benefits and need to be delivered through supply chain & host. We will act as program manager
A Zero Waste Program may impact the pricing of other services so engagement with supply chain and host is important
- Savings linked to reduction of wastes – savings will need to be determine based on current waste scope
- Biggest savings will be in reduction in purchase of single used items (i.e: disposable coffee cups) Savings may not be in our direct control.
Main advantage of a zero waste program will be wider ESG benefits rather than direct cost savings
When more than 10 locations attempting TRUE:
- At least one account zero waste program manager engaging with all service lines to deliver zero waste fowling the TRUE standard, actual certification is optional.
- Definition of zero waste roadmap, program engagement between sites, zero waste policy set up
- Client sponsor necessary in order to implement the zero waste policies
For less locations – amount of waste and complexity of the facility needs to be reviewed
Key TRUE criteria is to achieve 90% diversion from landfill & energy from waste – this is achievable by following the implementation of the criteria in the TRUE standard. Certification can be optional, and TRUE can act as a check-list of what needs to be done
- 2 to 3 years program to achieve zero waste on a portfolio
- 12 months of data showing 90% of waste diversion achieved necessary for the TRUE certification - this means we need reliable data (refer to waste data management)
- Sites in scope should be sites where we manage waste and where we manage most other on-site services
This product is an ongoing management product