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Operating Procedure No. 3 Waste Handling and Segregation

By A. J. Edwards
From ISO 14001 Environmental Certification Step by Step, Revised First Edition

Operating Procedure No. 3 Waste Handling and Segregation

1. Purpose and Scope

This procedure sets out how wastes that arise across the site shall be segregated and stored so that recovery and recycling can be maximised and the correct disposals made.

2. Responsibility

All staff are responsible for the correct handling, segregation and storage of waste materials.

Operators in goods inwards are responsible for processing waste plastic sheet.

Operators in the reprocessing area are responsible for emptying rejected bottles of product.

The fork truck driver and labourers are responsible for moving waste containers to the yard, ready for collection.

Office staff are responsible for the segregation of office wastes.

Cleaners are responsible for removing office wastes.

The Purchasing Department, Yard Foreman and Storeman are responsible for the disposal of wastes.

3. Factory

3.1 Waste Segregation

Waste arisings shall be segregated at the point of arising and stored as follows:

Ferrous scrap

Yellow skips

Ferrous swarf

Blue bins

Non-ferrous metals

White bins

Cardboard boxes

To be flattened and stacked on pallets

Waste oils

Red drums

Oily rags

Red bins

Plastic sheet packaging

To be de-labelled and baled (see 3.2 below)

Pallets

Stacked

Reject bottles, including bottles filled with product

Cages (see 3.4 below)

General rubbish

Black bins

3.2 Waste Plastic Sheet Packaging

There are scissors at the baling station. All labels shall be removed from the plastic sheet and disposed of as rubbish.

The plastic sheet shall be placed in the wall-mounted baler. When the baler is full, the piston shall...

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