Waste

Waste studies the separation, reduction, processing and accounting of material flows leaving a building or service. It works with the waste hierarchy (prevention above processing), flow analysis and the statutory recording duty attached to certain waste categories.

FM organises physical collection and the contract with the processor, and is therefore responsible for the quality of on-site separation — the step that most determines what is actually reused versus incinerated.

• Is on-site separation genuinely observed, or is separated waste later recombined at the processor?
• Which waste stream is subject to a statutory recording duty, and is that recording in order?

• EU Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC and successors); national waste regulation.

• A high on-site separation rate says nothing if the processor recombines the streams anyway; the chain must be verified as a whole.

• Waste collection and processing

• Flow analysis and processor verification

• Regieorganisatie — managing organisation / intelligent client function

  Processor verification should be a recurring control point in contract management, not a one-off assumption.

• EU Waste Framework Directive; national recording and permitting duties.

The standards section arrives in Part 7.

• Labelled collection bins presented as evidence of circular performance, without processor data.

Traceability of waste streams through to final processing remains weak, especially for complex streams such as mixed construction and demolition waste; blockchain-based tracking is being explored but is not yet common practice.

• EU Waste Framework Directive, consolidated text.