Promote Waste Minimisation within Sustainable Business Practice
Overview
This standard is about developing policies and guidelines that will ensure an organisation avoids and minimises waste through the development of effective waste management systems. It also includes being able to determine levels of waste, identifying opportunities for reducing waste, and the promotion of recycling and reuse within an organisation working towards the elimination of waste (circular economy). It also includes managing the systems used to control unavoidable waste and its disposal.
This standard would be appropriate for:
1 A manager with responsibility for waste minimisation
2 An owner/manager of a business seeking to reduce wastage for the organisation
3 An individual with a specific brief to develop waste management
4 A consultant providing advice on waste management
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
P1 identify legal requirements that control the management of waste
P2 specify waste reduction, reuse and recycling targets
P3 establish current levels of waste for activities undertaken
P4 benchmark organisational waste management to determine their effectiveness
P5 identify opportunities for avoiding and reducing waste through redesign, reuse and recycling
P6 identify potential barriers that may limit waste avoidance and reduction
P7 specify waste monitoring procedures
P8 establish measures for managing waste meet with legal requirements
P9 advise on the design of processes and products to help avoid and minimise potential waste
P10 promote and support the implementation of waste avoidance and reduction measures
P11 promote the application of waste avoidance, recycling and reuse in support of organisational activities
P12 define and allocate individual and team roles/responsibilities to support waste minimisation
P13 establish training needs and organise training to those responsible for reducing waste
P14 develop and implement strategies to overcome barriers that limit the impact of waste reduction measures
P15 establish methods to evaluate the impact of waste reduction measures
P16 support the implementation of monitoring and control procedures
P17 evaluate the impact of measures to reduce waste
P18 specify benefits achieved through waste reduction measures
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 the legal requirements that control an organisation’s waste policies and procedures
K2 the different types of waste and where and how they can legally be disposed of
K3 how to establish current levels of waste for the different types of waste generated by the organisation across all organisational activities
K4 how product and process design can help avoid and minimise the generation of waste
K5 the opportunities available to an organisation for reducing waste
K6 waste management hierarchies (circular economy)
K7 the principles of waste benchmarking as a method of identifying opportunities for reducing waste
K8 how to use a cost/benefit analysis to assess the impact of waste on the organisation
K9 government targets and standards for waste reduction, reuse and recycling
K10 how to develop targets for waste, reuse and recycling
K11 how the production of waste impacts on environmental issues such as climate change
K12 the impact of waste on sustainability
K13 how waste avoidance and minimisation supports sustainability (circular economy)
K14 the benefits of waste minimisation
K15 how to assess effectiveness of waste management systems
K16 the factors that limit organisational recycling and reuse
K17 the barriers that can limit the impact of measures to minimise waste and
how these barriers can be overcome
K18 how process and product design can impact on the production of waste
K19 how effective process control and quality assurance can support waste minimisation
K20 methods of promoting waste avoidance and minimisation
K21 how to monitor and control waste minimisation targets
K22 how to define and allocate roles/responsibilities for all those involved in reducing waste
K23 how to establish the training needs and organise training for those involved in waste minimisation
K24 how to evaluate the impact of the measures used to reduce waste
Scope/range
Benchmark – a comparative measure of an organisation against industry best practice
Barriers can be economic, practical, social or legal compliance
Activities incorporate for example: purchasing, supply, production, storage, packaging, transport and all aspects of business support
Benefits can be social, circular economy, economic and environmental
Legal requirements: National and European