Manchester Construction Waste Management

The equipment a project needs shifts as the work moves on, because the waste itself changes:

• Groundworks: muck away and grab hire for spoil and soil
• Strip-out and demolition: heavy-waste skips and RORO containers
• Build phase: segregated containers, builders’ skips and exchanges
• Snagging and fit-out: collections, wheelie bins or smaller skips

Plots in the city centre – around Ancoats or the Northern Quarter, say – are often too tight for a skip. There, regular collections or a wait-and-load service keep the site clear with no equipment left standing on the street. If a skip has to go on the public highway, the council permit is usually arranged by the provider.

Sorting waste where it arises generally costs less than sending mixed loads and makes recycling simpler. Plasterboard, cardboard, metals, timber and clean rubble can all be kept in separate containers. Plasterboard especially must stay out of general waste, and under England’s Simpler Recycling rules workplaces have to keep dry recyclable materials apart from general waste.

Whether the answer is a combination of bags and containers or a row of skips, our team can propose a segregation layout that works within your site footprint. A neat, sensibly located waste area with clear signs helps every trade on the job put each material where it belongs.

Certain construction wastes call for specialist handling. In England, oils, asbestos, contaminated soils and some chemicals count as hazardous waste, so they travel under a consignment note and stay out of the general skip. We can arrange separate collections for these streams.

Ordinary waste should come with a waste transfer note. These records prove your waste was handed to an authorised carrier, so hold on to them for a minimum of two years. Our guide to waste compliance in England explains your duties more fully.