Tube Lines makes good use of waste

Tube Lines is one of the first companies to sign up to the newest and largest recycling facilities in London to boost its recycling efforts and make good use of waste generated by employees.  30 tonnes of rubbish can be automatically segregated in under two hours and then made into recycled goods, leaving nothing to waste.  Tube Lines expects to prevent over 90 tonnes of waste being sent to landfill each year, saving four tonnes of carbon emissions in the process.

Tube Lines has done away with desk bins from all three of its corporate office buildings.  In their place are central recycling stations to encourage employees to separate out their dry rubbish, including plastic bags, drinks cans and cardboard, from their wet rubbish like tea bags, apple cores and other food items.  The waste will be collected and compacted by its Distribution Services unit and transported to the materials recovery facility in Bromley-by-Bow.

Tube Lines estimates that it will collect up to 170 tonnes of waste each year of which over 90 tonnes can be recycled rather than sent to landfill.  This will save four tonnes of carbon emissions each year helping Tube Lines reach its business objective to reduce its CO2 by 5,000 tonnes by the end of 2008. 

Megan Jude, Head of Facilities at Tube Lines said:

 “A lot of waste is generated each day by people going about their normal business but it is now so easy for organisations to make waste useful. It takes time to put the right culture in place where people think about the environmental impact of what they are doing.  But we are making it easy for our employees to do their bit for the environment.

“Wherever there is a good green initiative there is a cost saving to the business and companies should be doing more to capitalise on this dual benefit and not overlook the easy wins.”     

ENDS

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Press office, Tube Lines: 020 7088 4848 / 07764 429 015

Notes to Editors

1. Tube Lines is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines. London Underground is responsible for operating the Underground, for employing drivers and station staff, for ticketing and fares, and for the Tube’s safety regime.
2. The Tube Lines consortium consists of two shareholders – Amey and Bechtel. They bring together some of the most experienced providers of business services with specialist skills in the rail industry, including track and signal renewals, plus project and operational management. They are providing some of the best project and operational managers from around the world to work on the modernisation of the Tube system. Amey owns two-thirds of Tube Lines’ business and Bechtel one third.

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