CHTMAG.COM Waste management rules and regulations are certainly not always easy to understand and one of the biggest challenges is whether different items can or can’t be recycled - especially when many of them feature a recycling logo.” after waste management will vary from organisation to organisation. In some cases, businesses directly engage with a waste management company like Grundon, which has hundreds of satisfied customers throughout the Thames Valley and wider South East area. Often however, waste management will fall under the services offered by a cleaning company or a facilities management supplier. Grundon regularly works with both types of organisation to ensure their customers obtain the best results, undertaking waste audits to identify potential areas of improvement and savings, as well as providing solutions and ideas to help increase recycling and achieve goals such as zero waste to landfill. These solutions may be as simple as replacing under-desk bins with clearly- WASTE MANAGEMENT FEATURE FEBRUARY 2017 25 CLEANING HYGIENE TODAY marked corridor bins for general office mixed recycling such as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, glass bottles and cans; a food waste container in the kitchen area; or a small specially-designed Haz-Box, which is ideal for the safe storage of mixed hazardous waste, such as batteries or cleaning fluids. One successful partnership is with Essex-based Peartree Cleaning Services, which offers a broad range of cleaning services for corporate companies, offices and retail chains throughout the UK. STATISTICS As commercial director Stuart Conroy explains, the team prides itself on exceptional service: “We are a family-owned, independent business, so client relationships are effectively more important to us than profit margins, we know we need to give a phenomenal service and we expect absolute 100 per cent commitment from the people we work with. “We needed to find a like-minded provider, but some of the waste management companies we spoke to had no validation and reporting procedures in place. Grundon was able to support us by providing a good service and give us the statistics we needed to meet client reporting demands. “They understand that clients want to know the tonnage of the waste they
CHT February 2017
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