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Waste management

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 UCL’s 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 UCL’s recycling target of 85% and support UCL’s 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.