Recycling Action Yorkshire (RAY) & Delivering Excellence in Waste (DEW) Organics Processing Project

We have provided technical and project management support to RAY (Recycling Action Yorkshire) as part of the Delivering Excellence in Waste initiative. The objectives are to increase organics processing capacity in the Yorkshire & Humber region and increase the use of products incorporating organic waste compost. We provided advice to RAY project managers in developing online recycling networks.

Permitting application for a new gasification plant in the UK

WSP helped Warwick Energy Ltd / ITI Energy Ltd with the environmental management and legal permitting requirements to develop a new gasification plant in the UK. The facility generates electricity by gasifying a bricketed fibre fuel.  It was important that the BAT appraisal covered the requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive along with general environmental Permitting requirements.

Recycling waste audits in South Africa

We are working with The Rose Foundation, who are a non-profit organisation set up by the lubricants industry to manage the collection and recycling of used oil in South Africa.  WSP provide specialist environmental auditing services on recycling facilities and storage depots and perform chemical sampling of used oil for quality control purposes. More

Safe disposal of hazardous waste in South Africa

We undertook the remediation of unlined, unlicensed liquid hazardous waste evaporation ponds at the City of Cape Town waste disposal facility. Our work included; site investigation and waste characterisation, hazardous waste delisting, human health and environmental risk assessment, laboratory testing, remediation plan for authorisation, environmental control of remediation contract, including health and safety, the overall safe disposal of delisted hazardous waste.

LCA screening to determine national waste strategy in Iceland

On behalf of Iceland's main waste management operator SORPA, we conducted life cycle screening of different waste management options and their environmental impacts. This will help determine the future waste treatment system in Iceland. Treatment studies included; anaerobic digestion, composting, fuel production (SRF), recycling and incineration and we assessed the impact of these on Greenhouse Warming Potential (GWP) and land use.

Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment Directive in the UK

We are working with Cisco Systems to carryout a series of audits to ensure they are complying with the requirements of the WEEE Regulations in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. This required us to certify that Cisco's processes for recording products 'put on the market' and WEEE recycling data recording processes were robust and compliant.

Managing construction waste in the UK

We are working with WRAP to assess mobile processing technologies that can manage construction waste such as packaging, plastic, cardboard, tins, plasterboard, timber & plaster, insulation, metals, plastic products and ceramic materials. Processes being assessed include; grinding, shredding, compacting, mechanical means of improving skip volumes. Although mainly for the UK, we also investigated some practices in Europe and the US.

Site waste management plans in the UK

From 2008 all construction projects over £300,000 in value have to have a site waste management plan (SWMP), and we were commissioned by the Highways Agency to develop an SWMP document which ensures data is collected and presented in an effective and user-friendly way, whilst delivering regulatory obligations.

Waste at Dubai’s Exhibition City

We developed a waste management strategy for four proposed hotels within the Dubai expo Plaza. We predicted the waste streams generated across the development, gave recommendations for waste storage and collection, and provided waste minimisation and recycling solutions. Such measures go beyond local regulatory standards and will contribute to the schemes LEED accreditation.

Waste strategy for new fish market in Dubai

We have designed a waste management strategy for a new fish, vegetable, poultry and dry goods market within the new Deira Waterfront development in Dubai. We undertook a waste composition analysis to produce an effective strategy that catered for the challenge of effectively managing waste whilst minimising disruption to the working market areas.