Environment

In the first couple of years employment with FHA I did not give much thought to the way we disposed of the grass cuttings from our sites. .We drove to the Brisco site near Fforestfach and threw the bags of grass onto the other rubbish  that was there.

At the end of the second year of my employment, I realised FHA were wasting a lot of money. There would be two vans from the Carmarthenshire area and one van from Swanse disposing the grass on a thursday afternoon.

The land fill site owners imposed a charge of about £60 per Tonne. Also they charged  a minimum of £60 per weighing. So I told ST our manager we could save a lot of money if two vans drove onto the weighbridge the same time (because we only carried about half a tonne each) a saving of about £60 a visit. he was surprised at this ( although I realised he was not happy this advice was coming from a caretaker) so for a couple of weeks we drove two vans onto the scale and saved £60 a visit. But as I expected, this arrangement soon stopped. Senior staff's attitude,  "We are not paying so why bother".

Near the end of the summer, the Carm's team started disposing of their grass cuttings at the council recycling plant in Llansamlet. I learnt that it not only cost about £16 Tonne, you only paid for what you disposed of. Four hundredweights would cost about £3+,  where we, the Swansea team would pay the min £60 at the landfill site!!!

The following spring I had learnt more about recycling, TV, Newspapers etc were on about it.
I told RS the team leader it was wrong dumping grass in a landfill site.
He told me it was not of concern to me of how he and senior management run the company.

During a disiplinary I had with DD in Nov 2005, I mentioned about the grass was being dumped in a landfill site because KP my supervisor, had a lot of old furniture to dispose of from a house he had sold in Swansea. |I had to pick the old furniture up, and dump it with the grass, in the landfill site

DD did not want to know