Services and benefits

 

As part of GERT SA ESP, our suppliers are entitled to services and benefits that can enable them a range of profitability advantages, support and security in the comprehensive management of their solid waste. For example:

  • Formulation and design of integrated solid waste management plans
  • Formulation and management indicators approach
  • Management and staff training in the area of integrated solid waste management
  • Advice on source seperation
  • Advice on the design or implementation of micro-route collection of solid waste
  • Technical assistance for the design and operation of collection centers
  • Collection services, waste management and disposal of solid wastes
  • Ordinary and hazardous waste management through strategic alliances
  • Processing of recovered materials into raw materials for the manufacture of finished products
  • Assistance in audit processing within organisational regulations
  • Characterisation and issuing of solid waste management certificates
  • Decreased costs in cleaning rates
  • Exchange of knowledge in product life cycles versus recycling
  • Research and development of new techniques in integrated waste management

Integrated management of solid waste

The classification of operations and terminology, applicable from an environmental perspective, given to waste products according to their characteristic, size, origin, treatment cost, possible recovery, utilisation, marketing and disposal potential.

Scrap or waste: any object, material, substance or solid element from consumption or use in a domestic, industrial, commercial, institutional or service industries, which remains unused, rejected or is left over after any process is complete. Similarly, waste originating from public sanitation areas are also considered solid waste. Solid wastes are classified into usable and non-usable and either approved for processing and the manufacture of new products with a commercial value or they are disposed of.

Usable solid waste: any material, object, substance or solid element that has no direct or indirect value for use in immediate generation, but has the potential to be integrated into another production process.

Non-usable solid waste: any material or substance, solid or semisolid, organic or inorganic in origin, putrescible or non-active, derived from domestic, industrial, commercial, institutional or service industries, which offers no plausible prospect to be used, reused or re-entered into another production process. These solid wastes have no commercial value, requiring treatment and elimination and therefore generating disposal costs.

Waste or hazardous waste: any substance whose characteristics are corrosive, reactive, explosive, toxic, inflammable, infectious or radioactive and can cause risk or harm to human health and the environment. Likewise, waste or hazardous waste containers, packaging and packaging that have been in contact with them are also considered under this category.

Some Interesting Facts

  • Up to 60% of the rubbish in the rubbish bin could be recycled
  • The unreleased energy contained in the average rubbish bin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours
  • 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for packaging, which ultimately ends up as rubbish
  • As much as 50% of waste in the average rubbish bin could be
    composted
  • Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled
  • 9 out of 10 people would recycle more if it were made easier

What is your role?

Separating at the source:
Appropriate selection of usable materials non-usable materials and hazardous waste.

Paper, cardboard, newspaper, craft paper, plastic (bags, bottles, jars, lids), cans or any kind of metal (iron and non-iron), glass and wood.

Napkins, toilet paper, plastic, paper packaging, sweep, cigarette butts, carbon paper, food waste.

Faulty tires, used oil and other materials impregnable by oil or grease, fluorescent lamps, batteries, standard waste or scrap.

Advantages of seperation at the source:

  • Decreases in the volume of waste to dispose and discard in landfills
  • Prevents contamination and infectious outbreaks: avoiding the proliferation of pests and rodents
  • Provides recycling staff with waste products that can maximize material output and assist in adding a more dignified nature about their work
  • Saves energy and raw materials
  • Generates new employment
  • Protects the environment
  • Reduces the chance of contaminating potentially re-usable materials, increasing opportunities for marketing these products

Recycle more, waste less !