OVERVIEW
GPT: The Waste Solution for the Leisure and Hospitality Industry
Effective waste management solutions that deliver greater efficiency and cost savings to the leisure sector
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The Waste Solution for the Leisure Industry
Leisure, tourism and hospitality provide millions of jobs and are vital elements to the UK’s economy. Attracting over 30 million overseas visitors per year, the tourism industry alone brings with it, spend in excess of £16 billion per annum. The price of tourism to the UK is impactful environmentally and socially and organisations need to address their responsibilities and obligations to minimise environmental impact and resource use if the industry in England is to continue to remain sustainable and thrive. The leisure, tourism and hospitality sectors are notorious for producing huge volumes of waste and it is globally recognised that recycling and recovery rates from these industries could be managed better. Organisations are far more aware of their responsibilities and objectives to achieve improvements in environmental performance and of course, cost reduction is always at the top of the agenda! The manner in which many organisations from these sectors dispose of waste in general mixed waste containers makes it difficult to pinpoint the true cost of waste and therefore, highlight areas for improvement. In order for the sector to reduce its carbon footprint or save money, it is important to establish what the waste consists of.
This kind of knowledge would afford the leisure, tourism and hospitality sectors the valuable information it needs to address the problems associated with legacy waste management structures currently in place and subsequently make changes that could lead to significant cost savings and improvements in resource efficiency. All businesses, not for profit organisations and public sector bodies must take all reasonable steps to separate dry recyclable materials. According to the 2013 WRAP report ‘An overview of waste in the UK hospitality and food service sector’, the total amount of waste, including food, packaging and other ‘non-food’ waste produced each year by UK Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) outlets is 2.87 million tonnes.
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Only 46% of this is recycled, sent to Anaerobic Digestion, or composted. 920,000 tonnes of food is wasted at outlets every year, 75% of this wasted food could have been consumed. Some facts about the report include:
The amount of food that is wasted each year in the UK is equivalent to 1.3 billion meals, or one in six of the 8 billion meals served each year.
On average 21% of food waste arises from spoilage; 45% from food preparation and 34% from consumer plates.
12% of all food waste is recycled.
1.3 million tonnes of packaging (for food and drink as well as other non-food items used within HaFS) and 0.66 million tonnes of other ‘non-food’ wastes are also discarded, that includes items such as disposable kitchen paper and newspapers.
62% of packaging and other ‘non-food’ waste is recycled. The highest level of recycling is for glass and cardboard.
56% of packaging and other ‘non-food’ waste that is thrown away could have been readily recycled.
While the analysis of waste production is becoming the norm in terms of household waste, analysing business waste is a different entity that poses logistical challenges and boundaries in terms of confidentiality, health and safety and more. GPT Waste provides a fully managed waste management solution designed for the leisure, industrial and commercial sectors.
GPT provides customers with a sustainable waste management plan and better still, reduced waste collection and processing costs. The service provided ensures customers have a single point of contact for all waste requirements and a single source of invoicing.
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GPT Waste Management Ltd is The Partner of Choice GPT Waste Management is the UK’s largest independent provider of waste management solutions, providing sustainable waste services for all clients. With over 400 service providers located nationally, GPT deliver a fully compliant service for all waste, ensuring the Waste Hierarchy and all environmental statutory obligations are met.
GPT offers an extremely refined consultative approach to assess the true value and impact that waste has on a business. Working closely with clients, GPT illustrate the story of all waste streams to identify improved waste solutions for businesses.
A Strong, Compliant Waste Management Company The Waste Management Industry is heavily regulated in terms of Environmental and Health & Safety aspects and consequently GPT Waste’s Compliance Department ensures that all Service Providers and services offered meet the necessary standard.
GPT have an effective and well developed appraisal and approval process for including potential service providers into their portfolio. The minimum requirements that the GPT Waste Compliance Department implements for ‘Approved Supplier’ status includes obtaining copies of full Waste Management Licence / Environmental Permit and Waste Carriers Licence, Public/Employer Liability Insurance details, Safety, Health and Environmental Policy, information and, Waste fate information.
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These are backed up by comprehensive waste transaction reporting, Site Visits and Duty of Care Audits. GPT Waste Management operate a Quality and Environmental Management system that meet the requirements of the BS EN ISO 9001 and 14001 standards. These are verified by a UKAS accredited Certification body. In addition we are SafeContractor certified and are proud to be long standing Corporate Members of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management CIWM.
GPT’s Compliance
Manager monitors the introduction, and amendments to statute in relation to Waste legislation, Environmental Legislation and Health and Safety Legislation. Changes to legislation are communicated in writing to our clients and via the GPT website, social media and blogs. Each of our National Account Managers is fully briefed and kept up to date with legislative changes and communicate relevant information to their Clients.
Reference Projects GPT Waste works with clients throughout the leisure industry to deliver total waste management solutions. The following projects demonstrate the diversity of projects within the GPT portfolio:
Conference and exhibition centres: During the initial stages of a project with The Brighton Centre for Conferences and Exhibitions, GPT Waste Management Ltd. supported Kudos International in carrying out a waste review exercise to identify waste volumes within the conference and exhibition centre. A full site review was undertaken and various waste streams identified. Recommendations were then made to the Site Manager to improve service, reduce costs and increase recycling rates. All of the recommendations were undertaken by the client and as a result, they achieved an overall recycling rate for the site of over 98%, which is a significant increase on the 30% rate being reported by the previous supplier. In In addition, regular monthly recycling reports are provided to the client detailing the weights of waste collected from site and the recycling rates achieved.
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Festivals: GPT Waste was drafted in last minute to arrange clean-up at Creamfields festival which is the North West’s major Music Festival event and is held over the August Bank Holiday week-end each year. Hosting over 50,000 visitors in total each day of the festival, 45,000 of whom camp at the site each night, the event produced over 500 tonnes of waste over the whole weekend.
A whole range of containers and services were provided to site in the week before the event, throughout the event days themselves and after the event for the immense post festival clean-up which took almost 2 weeks to complete.
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GPT Waste’s largest leisure industry contract to date (volume of waste handled & largest number of sites): The Caravan Club GPT facilitate total waste solutions to 157 Caravan Club sites. The waste streams managed include general, mixed recycling, glass, green waste and ad hoc hazardous waste. The Caravan Club provides modern membership run facilities and are seen as the UK’s leader in caravanning experiences.
The unique aspect in providing services to the Caravan Club is the large number of sites and the location of these – some being in very remote locations. The services provided however, are consistent across all the sites managed by GPT and indeed any member attending any site will see a simplified approach to waste management that ensures all waste is removed and processed accordingly.
GPT Waste collates and manages the waste data for all of their leisure industry clients. The company is then able to continuously monitor recovery and recycling rates in order to establish a firm pattern and overall ‘waste story’ for the organisation.
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This collected data is used to:
Benchmark the rest of leisure industry projects taking place.
Forecast potential spend and improve overall buying for future leisure industry waste projects and clients.
Understand where leisure waste practices can be more efficient if larger than expected volumes of waste were being produced.
Establish the UK’s most cost effective sub-contractors for re-hiring on new and existing projects to ensure that all clients get the most competitive service, throughout the project, every time.
GPT Waste services for the leisure industry include
Food waste
Hazardous waste
Office waste
Confidential information
Paper waste
Spent ink and toner cartridges
Electrical and electronic equipment
Computer equipment
Washroom waste
Local Authority recycling schemes
Wheelie bins
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To discuss your leisure or hospitality industry waste requirements, please email the GPT Waste team your details at info@gptwaste.com and someone will contact you. Alternatively, you can call us on 0844 854 5000 to speak to someone today.