Waste Awareness and Waste Minimisation
- Introduction to waste minimisation for efficient business practices.
- Legislative compliance and cost-saving benefits.
- Understanding waste types, legislation, hierarchy, mapping, and audits.
- Equipped to implement and maintain waste minimisation programs.
Overview
This course introduces waste minimisation and how to implement a waste minimisation program. It covers waste definitions, legislation, the waste hierarchy, waste mapping, and program planning. The aim is to help companies comply with regulations, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. No entry qualifications are required. After completing the course, candidates should understand waste types, legislation, the waste hierarchy, waste mapping, and be able to implement a waste minimisation program. The course duration is one day.
Who should attend
Environmental Managers
Course Content
Overview
This course is designed to introduce waste minimisation and provide an overview of how to implement a waste minimisation program. Waste minimisation provides many benefits to companies including aiding in legislative compliance, finding and saving hidden costs, and running the business more efficiently.
Pre-requisites
There are no entry qualifications required for this environmental training course.
Course content includes:
- An introduction to waste “What is waste?
- An overview to relevant waste legislation,
- An introduction to waste minimisation-fundamental concepts including the waste hierarchy and the approaches taken to achieve continual improvement,
- Techniques used to identify waste streams including waste audits and waste mapping,
- An overview of planning, implementing and maintaining a working waste minimisation program.
Outcomes
Upon completion the candidate should:
- Have an understanding of what is waste, and the types of waste,
- Be able to identify the principal pieces of waste legislation and their requirements,
- Understand and be able to describe the waste hierarchy,
- Understand the concepts behind waste mapping and be able to plan and conduct a waste audit,
- Be equipped to be able to implement and maintain a waste minimisation programme.
