{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"What can we do about waste in construction? Diversion from landfill isn't enough and there's money to be made. With Chris Clarke (SCAPE)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3950,"description":"In the UK every day the construction industry produces enough waste to fill a football stadium.\nRightly, former guest, Chris Clarke (SCAPE) has got a bee in his bonnet about construction waste and is making efforts to draw attention to the issue. He's not just concerned with the profligate use of resources and the impact on carbon emissions, it's the lackadaisical nature of the waste itself.\nWaste management accounts for £1.5BN of construction spending every year. In an industry that's operating on margins so tight that any kind of change can be seen to be prohibitively risky, it seems absurd that such a significant amount of waste is priced into every single large-scale project.\nBut, while waste, accounting, reuse, circularity, and MMC are all concepts that have an important part to play, but most important is the front-end work that can be done to reduce waste at the point of design.\nWhichever way we look at it, when we're asked where we might find the money to drive the circular economy or reduce emissions, it would seem that there might be a simple answer. Even if the solution itself isn't so simple.\nIf we're hoping for infrastructure changes that will make a significant contribution to net-zero efforts and generate revenue, it looks like we might have an easy-ish mark.\nNotes from the show\nChris Clarke on LinkedIn (chrisc@scape.co.uk)\nConstruction Waste Portal website\nSCAPE's approach to sustainability  \nSCAPE - Building for Public Good: A Charter for Change - a policy/lobbying piece produced for the new UK government\nThat Danish development with the recycled brick slips in Architect's Journal\nWe Build Eco in the pages of Passive House Plus\nChris's last appearance on Zero Ambitions\nInnovate UK's Circular Economy Innovation Network\n \n\n**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**\nWe don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.\nFollow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}