SECTION 01 7419

CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT
PART 1  GENERAL
1.01	WASTE MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS
A.	Owner requires that this project generate the least amount of trash and waste possible.
B.	Employ processes that ensure the generation of as little waste as possible due to error, poor planning, breakage, mishandling, contamination, or other factors.
C.	Minimize trash/waste disposal in landfills; reuse, salvage, or recycle as much waste as economically feasible.
D.	Required Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse:  The following may not be disposed of in landfills or by incineration:
1.	Aluminum and plastic beverage containers.
2.	Corrugated cardboard.
3.	Wood pallets.
4.	Clean dimensional wood.
5.	Land clearing debris, including brush, branches, logs, and stumps.
6.	Concrete:  May be crushed and used as riprap, aggregate, sub-base material, or fill.
7.	Metals, including packaging banding, sheet metal, structural steel, piping, reinforcing bars, and other items made of steel, iron, galvanized steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, brass, and bronze.
8.	Plastic sheeting.
E.	Contractor shall submit periodic Waste Disposal Reports; all landfill disposal, recycling, salvage, and reuse must be reported regardless of to whom the cost or savings accrues; use the same units of measure on all reports.
F.	Methods of trash/waste disposal that are not acceptable are:
1.	Burning on the project site.
2.	Burying on the project site.
3.	Dumping or burying on other property, public or private.
4.	Other illegal dumping or burying.
G.	Regulatory Requirements:  Contractor is responsible for knowing and complying with regulatory requirements, including but not limited to Federal, state and local requirements, pertaining to legal disposal of all construction and demolition waste materials.
1.02	DEFINITIONS
A.	Clean:  Untreated and unpainted;  not contaminated with oils, solvents, caulk, or the like.
B.	Construction and Demolition Waste:  Solid wastes typically including building materials, packaging, trash, debris, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition operations.
C.	Hazardous:  Exhibiting the characteristics of hazardous substances, i.e., ignitibility, corrosivity, toxicity or reactivity.
D.	Nonhazardous:  Exhibiting none of the characteristics of hazardous substances, i.e., ignitibility, corrosivity, toxicity, or reactivity.
E.	Nontoxic:  Neither immediately poisonous to humans nor poisonous after a long period of exposure.
F.	Recyclable:  The ability of a product or material to be recovered at the end of its life cycle and remanufactured into a new product for reuse by others.
G.	Recycle:  To remove a waste material from the project site to another site for remanufacture into a new product for reuse by others.
H.	Recycling:  The process of sorting, cleansing, treating and reconstituting solid waste and other discarded materials for the purpose of using the altered form.  Recycling does not include burning, incinerating, or thermally destroying waste.
I.	Return:  To give back reusable items or unused products to vendors for credit.
J.	Reuse:  To reuse a construction waste material in some manner on the project site.
K.	Salvage:  To remove a waste material from the project site to another site for resale or reuse by others.
L.	Sediment:  Soil and other debris that has been eroded and transported by storm or well production run-off water.
M.	Source Separation:  The act of keeping different types of waste materials separate beginning from the first time they become waste.
N.	Toxic:  Poisonous to humans either immediately or after a long period of exposure.
O.	Trash:  Any product or material unable to be reused, returned, recycled, or salvaged.
P.	Waste:  Extra material or material that has reached the end of its useful life in its intended use.  Waste includes salvageable, returnable, recyclable, and reusable material.
1.03	SUBMITTALS
A.	See Section 01 3000 - Administrative Requirements, for submittal procedures.
B.	Waste Disposal Reports:  Submit at specified intervals, with details of quantities of trash and waste, means of disposal or reuse, and costs; show both totals to date and since last report.
1.	Submit updated Report with each Application for Progress Payment; failure to submit Report will delay payment.
2.	Submit Report on a form acceptable to Owner.
3.	Landfill Disposal:  Include the following information:
a.	Identification of material.
b.	Amount, in tons or cubic yards, of trash/waste material from the project disposed of in landfills.
c.	State the identity of landfills, total amount of tipping fees paid to landfill, and total disposal cost.
d.	Include manifests, weight tickets, receipts, and invoices as evidence of quantity and cost.
4.	Incinerator Disposal:  Include the following information:
a.	Identification of material.
b.	Amount, in tons or cubic yards, of trash/waste material from the project delivered to incinerators.
c.	State the identity of incinerators, total amount of fees paid to incinerator, and total disposal cost.
d.	Include manifests, weight tickets, receipts, and invoices as evidence of quantity and cost.
5.	Recycled and Salvaged Materials:  Include the following information for each:
a.	Identification of material, including those retrieved by installer for use on other projects.
b.	Amount, in tons or cubic yards, date removed from the project site, and receiving party.
c.	Transportation cost, amount paid or received for the material, and the net total cost or savings of salvage or recycling each material.
d.	Include manifests, weight tickets, receipts, and invoices as evidence of quantity and cost.
e.	Certification by receiving party that materials will not be disposed of in landfills or by incineration.
6.	Material Reused on Project:  Include the following information for each:
a.	Identification of material and how it was used in the project.
b.	Amount, in tons or cubic yards.
c.	Include weight tickets as evidence of quantity.
7.	Other Disposal Methods:  Include information similar to that described above, as appropriate to disposal method.
PART 2  PRODUCTS - NOT USED
PART 3  EXECUTION
3.01	WASTE MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES
A.	See Section 01 3000 for additional requirements for project meetings, reports, submittal procedures, and project documentation.
B.	See Section 01 5000 for additional requirements related to trash/waste collection and removal facilities and services.
3.02	WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
A.	Manager:  Designate an on-site person or persons responsible for instructing workers and overseeing and documenting results of the Waste Management Plan.
B.	Communication:  Distribute copies of the Waste Management Plan to job site foreman, each subcontractor, Owner, and Architect/Engineer.
C.	Instruction:  Provide on-site instruction of appropriate separation, handling, and recycling, salvage, reuse, and return methods to be used by all parties at the appropriate stages of the project.
D.	Meetings:  Discuss trash/waste management goals and issues at project meetings.
1.	Pre-bid meeting.
2.	Pre-construction meeting.
3.	Regular job-site meetings.
E.	Facilities:  Provide specific facilities for separation and storage of materials for recycling, salvage, reuse, return, and trash disposal, for use by all contractors and installers.
1.	Provide containers as required.
2.	Provide adequate space for pick-up and delivery and convenience to subcontractors.
3.	Keep recycling and trash/waste bin areas neat and clean and clearly marked in order to avoid contamination of materials.
F.	Hazardous Wastes:  Separate, store, and dispose of hazardous wastes according to applicable regulations.
G.	Recycling:  Separate, store, protect, and handle at the site identified recyclable waste products in order to prevent contamination of materials and to maximize recyclability of identified materials.  Arrange for timely pickups from the site or deliveries to recycling facility in order to prevent contamination of recyclable materials.
H.	Reuse of Materials On-Site:  Set aside, sort, and protect separated products in preparation for reuse.
I.	Salvage:  Set aside, sort, and protect products to be salvaged for reuse off-site.
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