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Waste management is one of the essential utility services underpinning society in the 21st century, particularly in urban areas. Waste management is a basic human need and can also be regarded as a ‘basic human right’:
- Ensuring proper sanitation and solid waste management sits alongside the provision of potable water, shelter, food, energy, transport and communications as essential to society and to the economy as a whole
- The public and political profile of waste management is often lower than other utility services
- The consequences of doing little or even nothing to address waste management can be very costly to society and to the economy overall
- In the absence of waste regulations and their rigorous implementation and enforcement, a generator of waste will tend to opt for the cheapest available course of action
Natural Resources
1. Waste Management - A Basic Human Right
Public Health
Not having a solid waste collection service has a direct health impact on residents, particularly children.
- Uncontrolled burning of waste creates emissions that are highly damaging locally and globally
- Accumulated waste and blocked drains result in the spread of infectious diseases contribute to flooding
- Uncontrolled dumpsites and the mixing of hazardous wastes can cause disease in neighbouring settlements as well as among waste workers
Environmental Pollution
Dumpsites on land can pollute both surface and groundwater.
- Sites are often alongside rivers or the sea, coastal dumpsite erosion is one source of marine litter
- Other potential damage include losses resulting from decreases in tourism due to polluted beaches and losses incurred through damage to fisheries
- Former dumpsites, particularly those that have received hazardous waste, are a major category of contaminated site
2. Downstream Waste
Downstream Waste is about dealing with used resources that have already been extracted via the 'linear economy'. Traditional waste disposal follows a 'take, make, discard' ethos.
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Make
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Waste Disposal
3. Downstream Waste - Interventions
In our Circular Economy Section we take into consideration the wider issues of waste and resource management across the product life-cycle. Traditional linear waste management focuses on just one segment of the life-cycle of products, namely, after the point of discarding materials.
Positive Impact On Environment
Maturity Of Waste Disposal
Uncontrolled Waste
Controlled Waste
Landfill
Other Recovery Including Energy From Waste
Recycling
LINEAR WASTE SERVICES
CIRCULAR ECONOMY SERVICES
Closed Loop Recycling
Reuse
Reduce
There are ways in which we can positively influence traditional waste services and the cycle of events. In CBRE we are actively working with preferred supplier partners who can implement reduced trips to landfill, energy recovery and recycling.
Source: United Nations Environment Programme, 2015 - Global Waste Management Outlook
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4. Downstream Waste & CBRE
The following are examples of how CBRE is mitigating the impacts of the linear waste cycle through efficient landfill, waste to energy and recycling:
Waste Methods
Solutions
Landfill Optimisation
- Smart Sensor Technology - eliminates the cost of unnecessary collections., reduces the organisation's Carbon Footprint., sees data in real time, 24/7, has remote diagnostics, helps resize the workforce and identifies cost-effective routes
- Compacting Technology - compacting waste in open-top dumpsters. Crushes and reduces commercial waste volume, saves businesses money, and cuts harmful greenhouse gas emissions
- Wasted Journeys - improving operational efficiency at client sites to ensure every wasted journey is mitigated
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Waste To Energy & Other Landfill Reduction
- Anaerobic Digestion - Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology is increasingly deployed across the UK for example, converting waste food matter into biomethane gas. The gas is used to generate renewable energy, which is then exported to the National Grid
- Gas To Energy - generation of electricity from landfill gas
- Mechanical & Biological Treatment - the mechanical recovery of both recyclable material and residual waste for refuse-derived fuel, with any biodegradable material treated within the plant to generate electricity
Recycling - General
- Improved Workplace Recycling - waste bins and communication that ensures better sorting at the workplace enabling correction, quicker separation and more recycled materials
- End-To-End Service Providers - specialist recycling providers who focus on waste consolidation and guaranteed savings
- Food Waste - installation of composting bins at CBRE site in Thailand reducing general waste by 38%, exceeding the target of 5%
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The data we have from suppliers on some clients and sites indicates that CBRE is recycling around 50% of all downstream waste - see Waste In CBRE asset. Crucially though, more in-depth reporting is needed to ensure we can interrogate further the types of recycling occurring and their respective journeys / outcomes.