Site waste management plan (SWMP) meaning

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What are site waste management plans? Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) were created to bring stronger rigour and openness to tracking waste movements across numerous schemes in the property and construction industry. First adopted as a best practice tool, they later gained effect via the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008 (SWMP Regulations), SI 2008/314; these were then repealed in 2013 under the Government’s ‘Red Tape Challenge’, returning SWMPs to a non-statutory status. Despite this, many organisations still operate some form of SWMP, viewing it as an industry norm for the efficient identification, classification and control of wastes (and materials) higher up the waste hierarchy and prior to site works commencing (so that benefits can be realised from design etc to eliminate or plan to re-use wastes). As such, they remain widely referenced as an industry standard for identifying, classifying and managing wastes and materials. Both contractors and developers also use SWMPs to collate information on the quantities of waste arising across their programmes, and to support the provision...