A short waste management policy template covering waste reduction, recycling, registered carriers and permitted sites, transfer documentation and worker training.
This policy template is supplied in fully editable MS Word format and can be easily customised and edited. The document uses pre-defined style formatting throughout, with all text in Calibri font for improved readability.
The following document labelling is included in the footer:
- Policy number and title
- Information-classification
- Version
- Page number / total pages
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Waste Management Policy Template
A waste management policy template committing to compliant and efficient waste management that reduces the environmental impact of the organisation's activities, through good purchasing, reuse and recycling.
The policy has Approved By and Date Approved fields and carries a Public information classification, so it can be shared with workers, clients and other interested parties.
What the Waste Management Policy Covers
- Commitment - compliant and efficient waste management that reduces environmental impact
- Minimising waste - through good purchasing practice and reducing the overall level of waste produced
- Recycling - waste separated for recycling as the law requires, and recycling wherever practicable
- Carriers and sites - only reputable, registered waste carriers and appropriately permitted waste sites
- Storage and transfer - waste stored securely and passed on with a correct description and transfer documentation
- Suppliers - favouring suppliers committed to environmental improvement
- Materials - materials with less environmental impact, and reclaimed and recycled materials
- Technology - investing in technologies that help reduce waste
- Training - workers trained on waste separation and the benefits of waste management
- Participation - a work ethic that encourages waste reduction, with all workers expected to take part
Written to Be Shared
Like every alphaZ policy, this is written as a public policy statement that can be shared openly with workers, customers, suppliers and assessors. The internal detail of how it is carried out belongs in your procedures.
Using the Policy
Add your company name and logo, check each commitment matches what your organisation does and edit any that do not, then approve and date the policy and share it with workers and anyone else who needs to see it.
Who Needs a Waste Management Policy?
Any organisation that produces waste and wants its commitments on waste reduction and handling stated for workers, customers and assessors.
Works with the Waste Management Procedure
The PP-6-02 Environmental Waste Management Policy Procedure sets out the procedure, the F-ENV2 Waste Matrix Form and F-ENV1 Waste Transfer Note support waste streams and transfer documentation, and the TT-6-02 Use of Bins toolbox talk briefs workers on separating waste. The A-C_P44 Environmental Waste Management audit checklist can be used to audit the arrangements.
Document Control
The footer carries the policy number and title, information classification, version and page numbers, and the approval fields record who approved the policy and when, so it can be controlled with the rest of your management system documents and listed on a document register such as the F-IMS20 Document Register.
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