Construction waste
Waste compliance software for construction waste.
Your customer is a principal contractor with their own auditors, and the load is whatever the demolition produced.
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Construction and demolition waste is heavy, mixed and produced by people who are concentrating on something else. What goes in the container depends on what came out of the building, and that is rarely what was described when the container was ordered.
The customer relationship is different too. A principal contractor is audited on their own waste arrangements, often against a scheme their client imposed, so they ask for evidence from you — in their format, on their timescale, as a condition of staying on the supply chain.
And the material itself raises questions nobody wants to find late. Asbestos, contaminated soil and anything else that changes the classification turns an ordinary movement into one with a different paperwork trail entirely.
The records
What construction waste carriers are answerable for
- Waste transfer notes, with accurate descriptions and codes
- Site records, and which project the waste came from
- Permits and exemptions for receiving sites
- Weighbridge tickets against each movement
- Vehicle checks, defects and inspection history
- Incidents where a load was not what was described
The problem
What makes this hard for construction waste carriers
The load is whatever the building contained
Demolition and strip-out produce mixed material, and the description written at order time is a guess. What is actually loaded is known to the driver and the site, and often to nobody else.
Your customer gets audited on you
Principal contractors are assessed on their waste arrangements and pass that assessment down. Evidence requests arrive as a condition of continuing to work, not as a courtesy.
Material that changes the regime
Asbestos, contaminated soil or anything else that reclassifies a load moves it onto a different paperwork trail. Discovering that after the movement is far more expensive than before it.
Sites that open and close
A project runs for months and then stops. The records belong to a site that no longer exists, and they are asked about long after everybody involved has moved on.
Multiple carriers on one site
Large sites use several carriers, and the chain of custody for any given load has to be attributable. Where records are per-vehicle rather than per-site, reconstructing it is slow.
The answer
How WasteOptix helps
The load is whatever the building contained
Transfer notes are completed digitally at the point of collection, so the description is recorded by the person who actually saw the load.
Digital transfer notesSites that open and close
Movements are recorded against the site they came from, so a project that finished two years ago still has its records attached to it.
Rounds & schedulingYour customer gets audited on you
Records can be reported across a site, a customer or a period, which is the form a contractor's audit request actually takes.
Environment Agency reportingMaterial that changes the regime
Where a load is not what was described, it is captured as an incident with the detail recorded at the time rather than reconstructed later.
Incident managementMultiple carriers on one site
Permits, exemptions and registration renewals sit on one calendar, so the authorisations behind every movement are watched rather than assumed.
Compliance calendar
Who it is for
The people doing this job
Operations managers
Running vehicles onto live sites with changing access and changing material.
Compliance managers
Answering contractor audits and holding the permits behind each receiving site.
environmental permitDrivers
The only person who sees the load, on a site they may not have visited before.
waste transfer notePrincipal contractors you carry for
Audited on their waste arrangements and passing that down to you.
waste producerTransfer station staff
Receiving loads and producing tickets that have to match the notes.
weighbridge ticket
Questions
What construction waste carriers ask
- Can we attach movements to a specific site or project?
- Yes. Movements are recorded against the site they came from, which is what makes a contractor's request for a project's waste evidence answerable without reconstructing it from vehicle records.
- Does it classify waste or assign EWC codes for us?
- No. It records the classification and codes you apply. Deciding how a load is classified is a judgement for you and your technically competent manager, not something software should appear to make.
- Does it handle hazardous consignments?
- Consignment records are supported alongside transfer notes. Whether a given load is hazardous, and what that then requires, stays your determination.
- Can contractors be given access to their own records?
- Access is role-based, so somebody can be scoped to the sites they are connected to rather than everything. How you expose that to a customer is your decision.
- Does it do weighbridge or gate systems?
- It records weighbridge tickets against movements. It is not a weighbridge control system and does not operate the equipment.
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Evidence attached to the site it came from
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