Waste management for contaminated land - can we do better?
This event will explore how waste from brownfield sites is managed, highlighting site issues and the legal obligations of the different stakeholders. It will also explore how to classify and deal with waste, particularly hazardous materials in a safe, environmental and cost-effective manner.
Background
Managing soil arisings and waste in brownfield projects has always been an important and sometimes difficult issue with the complexities of deciding “when a waste is not a waste” and when it is, how to classify and safely handle, store and dispose of that wate, to comply with the relevant legal obligations.
The CL:AIRE Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice (DoW CoP) has provided some help to practitioners in deciding when soil may not be waste. Similarly, the WRAP Quality protocols have helped determine which materials cease to be waste when recycling soil arisings and demolition material. However, many brownfield projects, even after the application of the waste hierarchy, are left with surplus soils requiring disposal and the intricacies of classifying a waste, frequently heterogeneous in nature, are often baffling to the non-expert.
Why attend?
This event will explore:
- legal obligations
- waste handling - how to decide if the material should be disposed, recycled or reused.
- how to deal with, and classify waste, particularly hazardous materials in a safe, environmentally and cost effective manner
Programme
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.30 Chair’s Introduction
Joanne Kwan, CIRIA
10.45 Waste vs resources - a client point of view
Iain Casson, Kier
11.05 Dealing with waste on site – practical issues – a contractor's point of view
Steve Jackson, Soilfix
11.25 Coffee break
11.45 Waste classification - testing, landfill tax and mixed load
Garry Bower, Royal HaskoningDHV
12.05 Legal compliance for soil waste re-use, recovery and
disposal on site
Andrew Moore, Technical Director, Parson Brinckerhoff
12.25 Questions and discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Use of recycled aggregates, the WRAP protocols etc.
Tracey Westbury, Westbury Environmental Ltd.
14.25 Workshops
- Classification
- Handling waste on sites
- Waste recovery
15.35 Reporting
15.45 Questions and discussion
16.30 Close
Who should attend
Clients, land owners, developers, contractors, consultants, local authorities, SI specialists, regulators
When
16 March 2017
10.00 - 16.30
Where
CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9PN
Fees
FREE for LACL and BRMF members
£250 + VAT for all other attendees
Booking
If you are having problems registering for this event online please contact Patrick Williams on 020 7549 3300 or email [email protected].