Case studies
Case study — construction waste recycling site
Environmental Management Consultants (EMC) staff obtained permission for a construction waste transfer station on behalf of the Lindum Group. EMC staff advised the company on its expansion into waste management and drafted the supporting: working plan, environmental risk assessment and planning application.
Case study — regional water minimisation programme
Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater services company suppling 2,600 million litres of tap water to 8.5 million customers across London and the Thames Valley every day. Environmental Management Consultants Ltd's staff were tasked with managing the delivery of Thames Water's programme of water efficiency projects during the period March 2010 - March 2011. This involved helping to manage the delivery of the UK's largest domestic water efficiency schemes and a number of public sector water saving projects with Thames Water's wide range of public and private sector partners. The programme of work successfully delivered the company's regulatory target of saving at least 4,200,000 litres of water per day within 12 months. This was delivered on time and several hundred thousand pounds under budget.
Case study — wastewater minimisation
In a typical water management project, Environmental Management Consultants (EMC) will monitor the client's production processes and water use, and recommend ways of cutting water use or re-using water in production. Advice on trade effluent discharge and waste water treatment is also given.
BB Prawns Ltd manufactures sea food products for large retailers. EMC staff were invited to help design aspects of the client's new factory. The work focused on waste water management and water efficiency. The first stage of the project involved a drainage survey and waste water monitoring of an existing site in order to determine the manufacturing processes waste water characteristics.
Working with the building contractors the drainage system was designed to service the new factory layout. The drainage infrastructure was designed to minimise the creation of waste water pollution and thereby minimise trade effluent costs.
Case study — waste auditing to inform estate improvement plans
The dock estate in Grimsby suffers from problems of litter, broken pallets and polystyrene boxes which affects the livelihood of the Grimsby Fish Merchants Association (FMA) members.
EMC staff conducted the work on behalf of the Grimsby FMA in order to ascertain the extent of the waste problem by the use of questionnaire and telephone survey work. EMC staff then developed a waste management strategy and has helped to implement waste management solutions in conjunction with Grimsby FMA, North East Lincolnshire Council and Associated British Ports. The project identified a market for the waste materials most of which are now recycled.
Case study — waste brokerage
Environmental Management Consultants Ltd is a licenced waste broker and is usually able to source alternative lower cost waste management services for its clients
Case study — site waste management plans
Environmental Management Consultants provides site waste management plans for its construction company clients.
Case study — fund-raising for waste company's rapid expansion
Case study - adding value to food wastes
Environmental Management Consultants' staff were commissioned by the Humber Seafood Group to research the potential alternative uses for the seafood by-products from the primary fish processing industry. The research drew upon associate skills in Lincoln University's Food Research Centre to provide additional technical and scientific expertise. A number of ways to better utilise fish and shellfish waste were identified. Methods of improved utilisation for each process identified were described together with the background science/technology, previous manufacturing experiences and an economic assessment.
The Humber Seafood Group Ltd is a non-profit making organisation established to represent and assist the seafood sector within the Humber region at national and international levels. I t develops and implements strategies to maximise economic activity within the sector, improve company competitiveness and promote the Humber as a centre of fish industry excellence and as a location for inward investment.
The following pictures show a fish leather wallet and the raw materials from which they could be manufactured.
Case study - adding value to hazardous wastes
Cawoods (Fishcurers) Ltd, founded 1895, are the largest salt fish producers in the UK. Using traditional techniques and modern technology, their factories in Hull and Grimsby process top quality products for the domestic and export markets. The traditional process of curing fish uses large quantities of salt which is spread on the fish fillet and left to allow to preserve the fish by curing.
The salt from the process can only be used a limited amount of times before disposal. The salt is an expensive raw material to purchase and dispose of.
Environmental Management Consultants (EMC) staff worked with Cawoods to develop a pilot salt recycling system that enabled the used salt to be cleaned and reused. This has reduces the cost of raw materials as well as the amount of salt to be landfilled, without reducing the quality of the final cured product. In addition EMC was able to identify a number of local organisations willing to purchase the waste salt for highway de-icing.
Case study - reducing trade effluent costs
A simple and low cost drainage gully system for food processing industry that reduces effluent strength and therefore trade effluent costs.
