INDUSTRY NEWS
CIWM to partner with waste fi rms to highlight the darker side of sheltering in bins during winter
CIWM are engaging with waste recycling companies, including B&M Waste Services, and wider audiences to address people taking shelter in bins to keep warm during the winter season. CIWM are highlighting this issue through its Health and Safety Special Interest Group and the personal health and safety campaign ‘This time it’s personal’. B&M Waste’s ‘Refuse Not Refuge’ campaign aims to raise awareness of the dangers of sleeping in the large waste containers, which are collected by industrial trucks. Pat Jennings, Head of Policy and Communications, speaking on behalf of CIWM, said: “CIWM welcomes the relaunch of B&M’s refuse campaign, warning of the dangers of sleeping in bins, and their staff training programme.” More specifi cally, the campaign is aimed at reminding drivers to check every customer container before it is emptied, particularly for universities, colleges and retail parks.
operators and waste producers to revisit the Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH)
Pat added: “We also urge guidance document WASTE25.
“This provides practical advice for all waste producers and businesses managing bin storage areas to ensure they meet their duties under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. This includes the need for waste producers and businesses to take reasonably practicable precautions to ensure members of the public are not harmed.
“In February 2014, a report was published with the outcome of research by CIWM, Biff a and Streetlink into the issues, risks and prevention of people sleeping in waste containers. “CIWM would like to review this report in the near future and is looking to work with key stakeholders to bring together a
cross-sector working group to look at this issue again.” The recent ‘Refuse Not Refuge’ campaign echoes that of a previous case, which came back into mainstream media, when in mid-2018, the father of missing Royal Airman, Corrie McKeague, stated his son is “no longer missing” after claiming to know what happened to the serviceman. The 23-year-old, who was based at RAF Honignton, went missing on 24 September 2016 following a night out, but the investigation was eventually handed to the cold case squad in March this year. Corrie’s father, Martin McKeague – along with investigating police – believe Corrie climbed into a Suff olk waste disposal system, but Martin admitted his son’s remains are 'all but lost'. In a social media post, Martin stated: “Corrie is no longer missing. What we mean by this is that after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened to our son. We are certain he is somewhere in the Suff olk waste disposal system, but his remains
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are essentially irretrievable.” The investigation has mirrored the importance of the 2015 Whack-a-Bin campaign, which was set up by former Skip Hire & Waste Magazine editor, Louise Malpas and was designed to highlight the safety and prevention of loss of life that insuffi cient bin checks can cause. A lot of traction was created regarding the campaign with waste businesses across the UK getting involved. The campaign even featured in a 2015 edition of The Big Issue. Speaking on Salford City Radio back in 2015, Louise said: “I had read a lot about an increasing amount of deaths of mainly homeless people climbing into bins, skips and containers outside of bars and restaurants. “They would climb in for shelter for somewhere to put their head down and they’d fall asleep. Now what happens next is these bins are emptied in the mornings into dustcarts.”
Louise went on to explain that inside these dustcarts there are heavy-duty machinery compactors, which crushes the waste in order to maximise capacity – and the people who are asleep in these bins would be thrown into the back of these dustcarts with potentially fatal injuries. The purpose of the Whack-a-Bin campaign for waste management companies is to implore staff , who are handling waste, to double check to see if there is anyone sleeping inside the waste containers.
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