Waste Issues

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Why is today’s waste - not just tomorrow’s problem?

Using the example of tyres on vehicles

There are over 150 million tyres fitted to vehicles in daily use.

History has shown us that when they are renewed, over 15 million tyres are not recorded as recycled or disposed of in a responsible manner each year. In other words, there is a huge hidden tyre mountain building day by day without proper control and management. Most of them are found in abandoned quarrys, farmers fields, disused warehouses, etc. This is already a major problem to deal with and the question inevitably is, who left them there and who is responsible for paying to clear them up?

New materials from old worn out tyres

These days tyres do not have to end up buried illegally or as a mountain of scrap rubber left in a field or a disused warehouse. They can be responsibly used, either as a fuel, or returned as a secondary raw material from which new products can be made. There are, for instance, a lot of uses now for the crumb material to make such products as flood defence barriers, tracks and pathway surfaces, playgrounds, cow bedding, road traffic coning. The recovery methods are becoming more innovative in reducing seemingly indestructable tyres to crumb and recycle as new products.

Not just tyres - other waste materials

Adding to the scrap tyre mountain are other rubber compound products and components, and Fridges, Freezers, Televisions, Computers, Washing Machines and Vehicles - all of which need to be recycled in a responsible fashion.

How is it accounted for ?

One element of waste management is DUTY OF CARE together with its legal implications. This entails tracking all waste movements by authorised carriers and backed up by duly signed documentation. The DOC note or consignment ticket legally tracks the - who, from where, carried by, destination, type of material etc. Taking one waste management company as an example, each lorry load (200 per day entering each site) x (9 sites) needed a ticket. The old fashioned paper administration methods and I.T. support for 1800 consignments a day cannot be underestimated in resource terms as this is the basis of the invoicing. Lost or unaccounted tickets equals lost revenue.

How can we cut down on the waste paper we create to manage “Duty Of Care” ?

Tracker<<Back has been providing GPS/GNSS enabled quality data audit management services for some time. It is our mission to provide instant consignment information without needing to resort to huge repositories of paper records. We believe the best way to achieve this goal is to work at the innovation end of cutting edge recycling management.

Call us now to find out how to cut down this huge expensive overhead.

We would welcome any comments or queries at enquiries@trackerback.co.uk