My project handles old HVAC equipment, compressor oil, and other miscellaneous waste for its clients. These waste streams are essentially pass-through items—unloaded from trucks and held for a short time before haulers pick them up.
Should these items be included in our waste stream audit? They seem more difficult to track and are not technically generated by the building occupants.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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May 26, 2010 - 4:23 pm
Sounds to me like this describes items as part of a business process and not items that would be conventionally understood as "waste" generated by the building. If that sounds right, I would say that these items do not need to be tracked. But I would be curious what anyone else thinks?
Jason Franken
Sustainability ProfessionalLEEDuser Expert
608 thumbs up
August 10, 2010 - 5:00 pm
I agree - this waste is not generated at your project site and therefore would not be included in a waste stream audit.
Randy Walsh
Chief Efficiency OptimizorSan Diego Energy Desk
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March 12, 2013 - 2:51 pm
Working with an HVAC Contractor / Mechanical Engineering firm to LEED their building. They take delivery of equipment packaged in cardboard and on pallets. They install the equipment on customer sites and return all packaging material to the building site for disposal. If we exclude discarded mechanical equipment brought to the site for specialized disposal, do we still need to audit the packaging material?
Second, materials ordered and inventoried within the premises are also packaged in cardboard and shipped on pallets. Would the refuse created from these items be included in the audit?
Third, subtenant is a mattress showroom and warehouse. Receives delivery of mattresses and returns old mattresses to the building for disposal. Is this considered waste attributed to business processes which can be excluded from waste audit?
Thanks.