The purpose of this initiative is to provide a sustainable and cost-effective solution for managing hazardous and non-hazardous laboratory waste.
Overview
The initiative aims to provide a holistic and environmentally friendly solution for managing a wide variety of hazardous and non-hazardous laboratory waste streams, generating financial savings and supporting Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ sustainability strategy.
This solution provided by this initiative will manage all phases of hazardous waste handling from generation, consolidation and disposal.
Goals
- Deliver a consistent training message with clear instructions for waste management that are adaptable to changing legislation.
- Establish a chain of custody from point of waste origin to disposal.
- Create the ability to track, monitor and measure multiple waste streams.
- Achieve Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ recycling target of 85% and support Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ sustainability strategy.
- Deliver a reduction in waste that is associated with environmental impact by following the waste management hierarchy that diverts as much waste as possible from landfill.
- Ensure legal and regulatory compliance relating to waste management.
Benefits
- Compliance with relevant legislation (including the legal obligation of applying the waste hierarchy principle of treatment of waste: reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, and dispose).
- Promotion of behavioural change as a result of standardised training and waste management practices.
- Improved standards of waste management resulting from the training programme that increases awareness and reduces risks of non-conformance.
- Secure management of waste, in particular specialised chemicals and confidential waste.
- Reduction in disposal costs and ability to minimise increases by appropriate disposal choices via the evolution of waste management practices and green initiatives.
- Year on year continual improvement, including regular review of and improvement in best practice against appropriate targets and KPIs.
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