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Recycling Methods
We will distribute 30000 green boxes and leaflets to the Households in the high rise estates of Tower Hamlets.where we are working in harmonious partnership with the Estate Management Board, the Tenant Management Organisation and the local residents. Residents will be encouraged to leave their green boxes with the recycled materials (these include, Household paper, Newspaper and magazines as well as Junk mail, flattened cereal boxes and cardboard, , textiles and shoes, books and yellow pages as well as other telephone directories, aluminium and steel cans, jam jars and bottles) outside their front doors in the corridors on the appointed day of collection. On the day of collection, our operatives, who are suitably trained, will take their trolley up the lifts and into each floor, and working in pairs on the same floor, will sort out the contents of the green box into the 7 compartments of the trolley. To do this, they will be using seven bulk bags which are hanging by their straps on a top frame divided into seven sections (three will be for three colours of glass, one for paper, magazines and books, one for cans , one for textiles and shoes, one for cardboard), which can then be removed from the trolley when full and left, after securing it with a bungee cord, in a side alley on each floor, until the whole floor is completed. The operatives continue the process, by replacing the vacant slot with a new bag (they carry a supply of bags in a separate compartment of the trolley, that is enough to last them a whole day).
Each bulk bag is individually removable since the two sides of the trolley have a pair of swing doors, which enables the operators to access each bulk bag. When the whole floor is completed, the operatives remove the top frame of the trolley (which will have the effect of converting it into one large compartment Trolley) and collect the bulk bags and stuff them into the trolley before taking them down a lift and stacking them in a temporary bulking point at the bottom of each block of flats. The bulk bags are small in dimension (eleven inches by eleven inches by thirty two inches) and weigh less than ten KGs each when full. They are designed to conform to the manual handling regulations issued by the Health and Safety Executive of HMG. Before they have a lunch break the operatives collect these bulk bags at the bottom of each block of flats and using caged pedestrian electric vehicles (which can transport up to 56 of these bags at a time) take them to the bulking points at the bottom of the local estate.
To ensure that risks are minimised, each step of the operation is regulated by a clearly drawn up operations procedure, which operatives have to follow, and which will be the basis of their one-week training. An experienced and trained supervisor, who will be checking each operative and each floor at least once a day, supervises the whole process continuously. The operating procedures are drawn up after a very through risk assessment which has been going on for the last fourteen months. There are about 20 separate risk assessments each covering some aspect of the operation. Some of them, such as the use of lifts to transport trolleys loaded with bags of recyclables, are extremely detailed.
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