Waste-a-base – Creating a Competitive Waste Market Place

16th September 2010
Posted By : ES Admin
The recently launched, innovative Waste-a-base service, www.waste-a-base.com, offers an independent and exhaustive range of disposal and recovery sites for waste producers to compare and choose from. Focussing primarily on the construction and demolition sector, the service is intended to help put waste producers directly in contact with a range of waste receiving sites nationwide. The business and website have been designed to give users access to the most comprehensive and competitive waste market place.
Waste-a-base offers producers direct control of the distribution of their waste, allowing them to specify if disposal or recovery services are required, in order to promote a more sustainable approach across the industry. As well as being signatories to WRAP’s halving the waste to landfill initiative, Waste-a-base has developed the service with sustainable waste management in mind.

Mike Falconer Hall, WRAP Materials Recycling Programme Manager said: “Waste-a-base offers help to construction and demolition waste producers who want to find both economic and sustainable waste management solutions. This new service offers a comprehensive resource of suitable receiving sites, which have been subject to a basic site audit and allows producers to deal directly with receiving sites, making pricing transparent and clearly identifying the destination of the waste. WRAP welcomes this initiative which ultimately will help the construction industry meet its objective to half its waste to landfill by 2012.”

Waste-a-base is the brainchild of two key players from the waste management side of the construction and demolition sector – Joe Jackson and Chris Hallward – who between them have spent more than 17 years dealing with the logistical maze of classifying waste and finding the appropriate receiving sites in an economic and sustainable manner. From their own experience, Joe and Chris identified the need to be able to quickly source cost effective and convenient waste management options which promoted sustainability.

Benefits of the service to waste producers include:

• Duty of care compliance
Waste-a-base has also developed an independent audit procedure for all registered receiving sites. This has been designed to ensure that waste producers have total peace of mind and are confident in the provision of sites on offer.

• Sustainability
The service provides the most comprehensive range of waste disposal or recovery options, ensuring that waste producers can find the most effective solution to match their needs.

• Cost
Offering an exhaustive list of waste recovery or disposal options in a chosen area ensures that the service can fulfil every user’s needs. Returning the actual gate price for the disposal of waste, the service will even allow waste producers to split their waste across multiple sites, in order to find the cheapest or most effective waste solution.

• Transparency and ease of use
Having been in the position of a waste producer in the past, the Waste-a-base team understands the challenges faced. Getting quotes can be time consuming and often involves many people in the chain. With this in mind, the team have spent the last two years developing a service and online site to provide fast access to the information required in order to make an informed decision.

Joe Jackson, Managing Director of Waste-a-base said: “Waste-a-base is a truly independent service that has been developed to provide an exhaustive list of waste disposal and recovery solutions throughout England and Wales.

“The launch follows the culmination of two years of time and effort invested from the team; in order to develop the most comprehensive and competitive waste brokerage service in the UK. The service and website have been developed to put waste producers in direct contact with waste disposal or recovery providers, in order to source the most effective solution, and ultimately achieve a fair market price.

“Transparency of trading has been a challenge within the industry and now waste producers will be able to find, in one place, an exhaustive resource of suitable receiving facilities. This will also include the often overlooked exempt sites, and capitalise on the sustainable recovery and reuse practices, which are huge growth areas. We are not proposing to dictate to users how they manage their waste, rather allow them to make their own value judgements based on real market information.”

The website went live on 13th September and is set to revolutionise the way the UK handles waste disposal. For more information on the site, visit www.waste-a-base.com or call the Waste-a-base team on 020 7061 6344.

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