Construction waste is a special type of waste that cannot be thrown into a regular container or garbage chute. What should we do with it? Where to dispose of construction waste according to the rules?
Construction waste is everything that remains after construction and renovation. This could be pieces of finishing materials, old tiles, remnants of plaster, glass, etc. This also includes old window frames, unnecessary furniture, window and door openings.
Where should all this go if you can’t throw it in a regular trash container? There are several most common ways to get rid of construction waste.
1.Take construction waste to the landfill yourself
This is the most difficult path. Firstly, not every landfill accepts construction waste, and secondly, you will also have to pay to receive the waste.
2. Special container for construction waste
Containers and bunkers for construction waste are usually located near new buildings; developers leave them at the request of apartment buyers.
You can have a custom-made container delivered to a regular residential building for a fee, but it should remain there for no longer than 2 hours. During this time, you need to have time to load the construction waste yourself and remove the bunker from the yard.
3. Sell construction waste
Some types of construction waste can be successfully sold. The prices are approximately as follows:
— Soil from 50 rubles per m 3;
— Construction waste from 110 rubles per m3;
— Broken bricks, asphalt from 15 rubles m 3;
Some people accept garbage for free.
Not everything is for sale; I'm interested in construction waste that can be used elsewhere. For example, soil is used for filling; ravines are filled with it. If you dug a pit for the foundation, they will successfully take the soil, and they will also pay you money for it.
How to find a buyer for construction waste? Through the Internet! There are a lot of sites that contain many advertisements of this kind. Finding yours is not easy, but it is possible. For example:
- Sell construction waste in Moscow, in addition to soil, there are also advertisements for waste.
The main thing is to find buyers interested in your garbage.
Most often they willingly take:
- concrete fight
- brick fight
- asphalt fight
- priming
- clay
- sand
They take film, firewood, sawdust, rubber, and plastic less often.
4. Remove construction waste at your own expense with the help of a special company
There are companies specializing in waste removal, including construction waste. This service costs money, and sometimes a lot. but they will draw up an agreement with you and do everything in the best possible way. A simple example of such a company is the website Musora.net.
You can remove construction waste cheaper; you can find a contractor using the same notice boards: tiu.ru, dmir.ru, etc.
5. Give to the “Dump”
The special project “Dump” is relevant for residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg. And it will not be possible to get rid of construction waste in the literal sense of the word. But you can get rid of old furniture, old things, junk that you don’t need.
From this trash, specialists from the “Dump” will select everything that someone else might like, and dispose of the rest.
You can get a cash reward for littering. But there are nuances:
- Garbage must be collected independently and prepared for removal.
- They will not come outside the Moscow Ring Road to pick up garbage, but you can bring it yourself by calling the company in advance.
- They do not take away obvious rubbish after repairs.
After any major renovation, as a rule, a large amount of construction waste remains. What should the apartment owner do in this case and how should construction waste be removed after renovation from a legal point of view? This problem can also arise when moving from one place to another, when a person gets rid of unnecessary things.
Construction waste - what is it?
Construction waste during renovation includes the following materials:
- fragments of brick, concrete, plaster, cement bags;
- pieces of wood, frames, doors;
- wallpaper scraps, pieces of tiles;
- containers for paints, putty, construction mixtures, glue.
In addition, it can be divided into categories:
- The primary residue of building materials, mainly of overall dimensions, appears during dismantling work.
- Immediate balance during construction work.
- Waste finishing materials and containers.
Depending on the repair itself, one of the items may be missing.
What should an apartment owner do?
According to the new edition of Federal Law No. 458-FZ, all persons involved in the collection and disposal of waste are required to obtain a license to carry out their activities. Since July 2016, waste collection and removal is prohibited.
In addition, according to SanPiN 42-128-4690-88, waste after repair and construction is transported only to certain areas provided for this purpose. Non-recyclable waste from enterprises is transported to special facilities for neutralization and disposal. That is, if previously it was possible to hire a car and take any waste to a landfill, now it is prohibited to do this.
From January 2018, it is planned to hold auctions on the basis of which prices for waste removal will be determined (Government Decree No. 1280 of October 20, 2017). Also, the basic rules for waste disposal are prescribed in Federal Law No. 89-FZ.
All residents of high-rise buildings and the private sector were required to sign contracts for the removal of municipal solid waste. Only a licensed company can provide such services.
The government has obliged the relevant structures to develop new programs for the operation of waste processing enterprises and to tighten control over unauthorized waste disposal without obtaining a special permit to determine the place of delivery.
First of all, what the apartment owner needs to do is contact his Management Company and find out if it has entered into an agreement with a company that specializes in the removal of construction residues and has the appropriate transport for loading, containers for storing and storing residues, and a package of permits .
If an agreement exists, then a container can be installed for you at the appointed time or special vehicles can be delivered to you. In this case, for a small fee, the company will perform the entire list of works that will comply with the requirements of the Legislation.
How to dispose of waste after renovation yourself?
You can use a developer’s container if a residential building or other facility is being built nearby. This option is feasible if the volume of waste is small. You can try to return new untouched finishing materials to the store or sell them by placing an ad in the newspaper.
In large cities there is a “Dump” project, where they accept old furniture and unnecessary things, and they can also pay a small sum of money.
Fines for unauthorized garbage disposal
A citizen who has made repairs can take the remains to permitted landfills himself, but there are many nuances that ultimately make the whole procedure completely unprofitable. In addition, some remnants of construction waste: paper, metal, plastic will not be accepted by landfills since 2018. This is due to the expansion of the recycling program.
According to Art. 8.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, when unloading waste in unauthorized places due to violations of environmental requirements, this citizen is subject to fines of up to two thousand rubles for ordinary citizens, with the mandatory removal of removed residues within a strictly defined period.
Legal entities will have to pay a fine of twenty to one hundred thousand rubles. The amount may vary depending on the region. If conditions are not met, an additional fine will be charged.
As we see, due to the deterioration of the environmental situation in almost all regions of Russia, the state at the legislative level regulates and controls the removal of all types of waste and its processing.
Buying a home on the secondary real estate market almost always means that the new owners will have to make repairs. And since most people buy an apartment or house only once in their lives, they plan the repair work to the maximum - with opening the floors, installing new communications and replacing all the plumbing. And in the process, the question arises of where to throw construction waste. There are several ways to properly dispose of construction waste; all you have to do is choose the most convenient one.
What is construction waste?
Before deciding where to dispose of construction waste during renovation, you should clearly understand what exactly constitutes such waste. For some reason, most people are convinced that only large and bulky waste should be considered construction waste, such as toilets, fragments of concrete slabs with protruding reinforcement, fragments of furniture, etc. In fact, such waste includes everything that needs to be thrown out during the repair work. For convenience, they were divided into three categories:
- Large waste from the dismantling of buildings - pieces of floors, windows, doors, etc.
- Waste of building materials used during repair and construction, as well as empty containers from them.
- Residues from finishing materials - wallpaper, paint, pieces of linoleum, tiles, drywall scraps, etc.
Can I throw this in regular trash cans?
Where should I throw construction waste from my apartment? Some residents of high-rise buildings do not even ask themselves this question, but immediately go with bags and large waste to ordinary trash cans. This picture can be seen in almost all cities of Russia - a household container is so filled with construction scraps that there is no room left for anything else, and an old toilet stands lonely next to it.
Such actions are illegal. Household waste containers are intended only for plastic, wood, glass, paper, as well as organic and food waste. It is prohibited to throw any large-sized trash (more than 75 cm) into solid waste bins.
Penalties
All those who carry out unauthorized discharge of bulky waste into solid waste tanks face penalties. According to Art. 8.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation they will be as follows:
- For individuals, that is, all those who carried out repairs in their own homes and improperly disposed of construction waste - from 1 to 2 thousand rubles.
- For individual entrepreneurs engaged in repair work - from 30 to 50 thousand rubles.
- Legal entities are punished most severely. Their fine for unauthorized disposal is from 100 to 250 thousand rubles.
In addition, all officials responsible for the illegal disposal of bulky waste face penalties - from 5 to 30 thousand rubles.
Cargo and hazard class
Before deciding where to dispose of construction waste, you need to determine what class of cargo the waste belongs to. This is due to the fact that different classes of cargo require their own equipment, depending on the properties of the material, its flowability and heaviness. For example, dump trucks are used for sand and gravel, and low-platform vehicles are used for extra-heavy waste.
In most cases, construction waste is assigned first class with a load capacity coefficient equal to one. This means that the rated load capacity of the equipment will be used at 100%.
All types of waste are also divided into hazard classes - from first to fifth. The first and second are very dangerous, usually containing toxic and radioactive substances. They are found in industrial enterprises and are disposed of using special methods.
Most of the construction waste is waste of classes 4 and 5, that is, non-hazardous and slightly hazardous. They can be disposed of at regular sites.
A small percentage of construction waste may contain materials of class 3, that is, moderately hazardous. Usually this is wood with toxic impregnation, flammable paints and varnishes, toxic solvents, etc. Their disposal must be carried out by special neutralization enterprises.
Pickup
The easiest way to solve the problem is self-pickup. And if we are talking about 2-3 bags that can be placed in the trunk of a car, then the problem is solved. Construction waste must be delivered to one of the approved landfills or recycling sites.
However, before transporting waste, it must be securely packaged. And if we are talking about transportation by car, then the waste should be packaged in special bags.
Where to buy bags for construction waste? They are sold in any specialized building materials store. Or they can be ordered through online stores. They differ from conventional ones in their large volume and high strength and can withstand heavy loads. Price - from 6 to 30 rubles, the goods are sold at retail and in batches of 10-50 pieces.
Sale
Perhaps you shouldn’t figure out where to throw construction waste. If there is a lot of waste and it could be useful to someone else, it is worth selling it. Many organizations are happy to purchase broken bricks and concrete, pieces of asphalt, clay, soil or sand. Much less often, buyers are interested in film, wood scraps or plastic.
Prices are approximately as follows:
- soil - from 50 rubles per cubic meter;
- construction waste - from 110 per cubic meter;
- broken bricks, concrete slabs and asphalt - from 15 rubles.
This waste is used to fill ravines and holes and as secondary crushed stone. In most cases, it is profitable to sell construction waste only if it is available in large volumes, that is, when building high-rise buildings. However, even in private construction, you can sell some of the rubbish, for example, soil from a foundation pit.
Removal service
There are construction waste removal companies in every city. Moreover, if repairs are carried out by any organization or individual entrepreneur, then they undertake the transportation of waste. If the work is carried out on your own, then you can simply order garbage removal - from the apartment or from the yard. In the first case, the loaders themselves will carry all the waste to the car and take it away. In the second, the organization will provide a container for construction waste. It will need to be completed within a specified time period, after which it will be collected.
Ordering a container for construction waste
It does not always need to be ordered from a third party. During renovations in a new building, the management company often keeps a special container for construction waste - until a certain time. If the housing was purchased on the secondary market, then you should ask your management company what services they charge residents for. Most often, the management company collects money only for the installation and maintenance of tanks for solid waste, but in some organizations the management company is obliged to provide a container for construction waste (PUHTO) upon application.
Prices
How much does construction waste removal cost? The cost is calculated individually and depends on many variables: the volume of waste, the use of equipment, the use of consumables, the involvement of loaders, etc. Roughly speaking, in the region, old windows and doors after dismantling can be removed for only 4-5 thousand rubles. This price includes equipment rental and a loader. In a large city, the price for a similar service may differ by an order of magnitude.
Before deciding where to dispose of construction waste, you should remember that only the owner of the premises is responsible for the disposal of his own construction waste. There is no need to quarrel with the management company, which clearly will not like the improper use of household tanks. There is no need to anger neighbors who will not be able to throw waste into overflowing containers. Moreover, there is no need to arrange it in the forest - penalties will follow.
After repair work, bulky waste always arises that needs to be transported to a special disposal site. Responsibility for this may lie with:
- management company;
- owner of the premises.
You can accurately determine the person who will have to remove the garbage after the apartment is renovated after reading the agreement concluded between the residents of the building and the management company.
When the garbage is collected by the management company
After renovation of an apartment, garbage can be removed directly by the management company, which is responsible for the house and also carries out garbage removal by container, but this requires a special clause in the contract. It should be indicated there that a special tractor will be used to collect all bulky waste. At the same time, the cost of such services is included in the amount of utility bills. After this, a special container is installed near the house, where residents who are renovating the apartment will put the garbage generated after the work, old equipment and much more.
When residents take out their own trash
If the agreement with the management company does not have a separate clause regulating the removal of bulky waste, then all responsibility falls directly on the residents of the house. In this case, you cannot simply take it and throw it away after repair into ordinary tanks, even those standing nearby. The apartment owner must contact a specialized waste removal company.
In this case, depending on the range of services offered by the company, the tenant who made the repairs must:
- pre-collect all waste in bags and disassemble large-sized waste, for example, sofas and equipment to the required size;
- provide company employees with access to the premises so that they collect all waste themselves.
The waste is then loaded into vehicles and sent to a disposal site.
What exactly is construction waste?
The list is quite wide and includes:
- waste generated during the work process, including old raw materials and their remains, various materials, construction products and parts of products that have lost their functionality;
- all debris generated during demolition, reconstruction, disassembly or repair;
- parts of utilities, wiring and so on.
All this applies specifically to construction waste, which means it cannot be thrown into ordinary bins. Otherwise, this often leads to conflicts with utility services, the management company and other residents of the house.
Sooner or later, any home owner is faced with the need to remove the garbage that has accumulated after renovation. – the most optimal and convenient option for solving this problem.
Methods for removing construction waste
Removal of construction waste is a fairly pressing topic for everyone who is involved in the repair and improvement of their home.
Let's consider existing methods for removing such waste:
· Companies that specialize in the removal of construction waste. This is the best option. You turn to specialists - qualified workers remove all accumulated garbage. This will significantly save your time.
· Sale of construction waste. The main thing is to find an interested buyer. Most often, broken brick or concrete, soil, sand, or clay are required. Less commonly – sawdust, wood, plastic, rubber.
· Order a construction container. Such containers can be seen near new buildings. Usually developers leave them at the request of residents. But the container can also be ordered for a certain price and for any residential building.
· Self-pickup. The most labor-intensive method. You need to obtain a special permit for waste removal, find transport, collect and load the waste, and take it to the disposal site.
Do not under any circumstances attempt to dispose of construction waste yourself. For example, burning wood waste impregnated with dyes can cause the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere.
What is construction waste?
Construction waste is what remains with you after repairs or construction. These wastes should not be disposed of in a regular container or garbage disposal:
· Waste generated during the work process, including remnants of finishing materials or plaster, glass, door and window openings, and the like.
· Old unnecessary furniture.
· Utility parts such as wiring, pipes, etc.
Home renovation is a long process, and the generation of construction waste is inevitable. Find the right way to remove and dispose of it, which will help avoid stress and hassle with neighbors or utility companies.
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