our hotel project already has in place a rigorous waste diversion programme, where 80%+ is diverted from landfill. we have daily to bi-weekly to weekly and monthly records which give us very good visibility on materials diverted, such as (with apologies for the detail): Cardboard K4, Compostable materials, Fat/ vegetable oil, Food Waste, Garden Refuse, Glass, Metal cans, Paper common mix, magazines, newspapers, white paper, Plastic PE-HD, Plastic PE-LD, Plastic PET, Plastic PP, Plastic PS, Plastic PVC and Tetrapak. Our team's question is whether we still need to run a full waste audit on the above items over the audit period or whether a full audit on the waste usually destined for landfill will be sufficient? Many thanks!

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Barry Giles

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Thu, 02/05/2015 - 16:56

Jutta, superb work, but the audit is still required. The basic reason is to check how 'clean' each stream is. The trash part of it will call out all the items that 'could' have been recycled, the recycled piece (while over 80%) is also checked for contamination. It is only required the once in the performance period and to be honest, should you be able to show 80%+ in the recertification period I'm wondering if another audit (they should be repeated every 5 years) is really required, but perhaps that's down to the GBCI

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