Converting costs
to rebates
BOMBARDIER CASE STUDY
Innovations and Waste Solutions
Axil provides a total waste management service for Bombardier at eight of its UK sites, including their
main manufacturing site in Derby. At two of these sites Axil has operatives who manage all waste streams.
Costs converted
to rebates
due to an increase in recycling levels through baling soft plastics and improving their handling process of waste.
Man hours
saved
through improved processes which further resulted in improved Health and Safety.
Reduced carbon
footprint
due to a reduction in transport and hazardous waste collections on site.
Improved
house keeping
through coherent colour-coding & clear branded signage across site.
Contract Information
All Bombardier sites produce broadly similar waste streams which include: hazardous waste, paints, resins, general waste, recycling, WEEE
and bulk liquids. In addition, we provide and manage equipment such as compactors and balers.
Company
Bombardier
Industry
Location
Derby
Contract Type
Partnered with Axil’
May 20219
Contract Manager
Sam Laws
The Requirement
When Axil was awarded the waste contract in 2015, we were tasked with a wide range of objectives.
These included the management of existing contractors to increase their efficiency and seek to reduce costs, as well as introducing services to increase recycling, deliver rebates and offer more control to Bombardier.
In conjunction with their Environmental Team, we had to maintain compliance and develop a suite of meaningful management information for analysis.
Our Achievements
These objectives were achieved at the first Bombardier site in Derby within the first two months of the contract. As a result of this, we were invited to review services at their other UK sites and deliver site-specific waste proposals. Axil has been implementing bespoke services to all of the Bombardier sites every few months, with the same standards and objectives.
Currently, we are implementing services at Old Oak Common as part of the Cross-Rail Project in London. This is bringing its own challenges in terms of access, space, restrictions and what we can achieve regarding on-site treatment, we are working hard with Bombardier to find suitable and robust solutions.
Initiatives
We have supplied a tug and trailer to allow our on-site operatives to efficiently move waste material and containers on site. This allows for multiple bin movements around the site with a bespoke lifting platform and has speeded up collection rounds lifting four bins at a time rather than just one.
In addition, this prevents damage to bins by securely lifting and not dropping. This solution has saved hundreds of man hours and has realised a significant increase in recycling at site by utilising this saved time for further waste segregation.
In addition to these changes, we have also designed and built a dedicated waste compound at the Derby site. This provides for increased health & safety for the storage and handling of all site wastes and has enabled waste movements to be controlled and coordinated to meet specific site requirements.
Benefits of Total Waste Management
Waste management has environmental and commercial benefits to your business. Done right, your waste costs can be reduced and you can turn rubbish into revenue by extracting the best-possible value for your commodity waste materials.
Cardboard Baling
Axil changed the baling equipment to a horizontal baler which gave several benefits to Bombardier.
Bombardier has significant quantities of large, thick cardboard boxes from their goods inwards department. Previously, these were cut down individually using a reciprocating saw and took nearly one man-day to complete. The vertical baler being used produced 200-300kg bales and returned a high rebate.
Firstly, we eliminated the potential for injury from use of the reciprocating saw. All cardboard boxes are loaded whole into the baler and the process takes only two hours per day. This has freed up operator time to be used across the site. Also, the new machine produces larger bales of between 450-500kgs each which has increased the rebate to Bombardier.
Wood waste
Axil has also changed the process for wood disposal onsite to increase the efficiency with which this material is handled. Previously all wood waste, including pallets and boxes, were loaded onto a trailer and then collected for recycling. This was very time-consuming in order to maximise trailer space.
We supplied a roll-packer to crush all wooden pallets and boxes inside a standard skip. The skip holds the same weight of material as the trailer and is a 25% cost saving on disposal for the Bombardier.
We are now working with Bombardier on a project to shred the wood waste on site and sell material on for Biomass. This will provide further handling and cost-saving benefits.
Colour-Coded Containers
Axil has introduced colour-coded containers across multiple Bombardier sites to provide compliant segregation of waste types.
We have introduced a standard colour scheme together with clear container signage to indicate which wastes are allowed in each container.
This has helped to eliminate cross-contamination of wastes and increased segregated volumes of materials for recycling.
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