Any public-facing project that will be in the space and face of the public comes with a whole load of different construction pressures. Not only do you need to ensure that the project remains on a tight deadline, but you also have to manage your project while in a public space that can often be busy with both people and traffic. 

With many situations to juggle, it’s essential that you have the right tools and services on-hand to ensure your project remains on track and doesn’t cause any further disruption to the surrounding public. 

When it comes to waste control, there are even more strategies you have to think of, especially when waste cannot only delay a project but also be an eyesore to the viewing public. 

A grab lorry for waste removal is ideal in a public-facing project, and we’ve supported many companies working on housing projects, commercial retail units, and roadworks to ensure their very public work remains clean and clear at all times. 

If you’re considering a grab lorry for your project, here’s how it can prove a massive benefit when working around the public. 

Time-Efficient Turn Around 

Public-facing projects can be in the way of roads, homes and public pathways. This can mean your project will have a tight deadline as councils often restrict disruption to these spaces. So as well as a difficult space to operate within, you’re also managing an even tighter deadline. 

With this in mind, efficiency and productivity on any public-facing project are paramount to its success. 

A grab lorry can support your team in maintaining their schedule by removing large quantities of waste quickly. 

Unlike a skip, a grab lorry can move higher volumes of waste, and different types of waste. From mud and earth to rubble and timber, no matter the materials you need moving quickly, a grab lorry can visit your site and pick-up the waste without any need for manual support from your team. 

Having scheduled visits from a grab lorry can also ensure that waste continues to be removed throughout the project. 

No Eyesore

Barriers and signs are often put up to avoid the public from accessing public-facing projects, but this doesn’t stop complaints about mess or noise. 

While there is very little you can do in the way of noise; mess can be managed to ensure that waste doesn’t overspill into public areas and begin to contaminant neighbouring streets or roads. 

No matter where the waste may be on your site a grab lorry can pick-up the waste directly from the ground and transport it to be recycled or disposed of. 

As a grab lorry can collect high capacities of waste, this means there is no need for overfilling skips and rubbish being left on-site for days on end. 

Space-Saving 

Public-facing projects may struggle for space, especially if they are in busy streets or roads. 

With space lacking, it’s essential that your waste doesn’t begin to become a hurdle for your project. 

While a skip can hold waste, it also takes up space on site which can begin to be a problem when you’ve got little space to begin with. 

A skip truck can also struggle to reach awkward spaces, meaning you may be left with a full skip for days until it can be emptied. 

However, unlike a skip, a grab lorry can use its arm to reach awkward spaces, such as over fences or even public furniture such as benches. 

A grab lorry can also manoeuvre over difficult terrain far easier than a skip, meaning your waste can be collected directly from the site. 

If you want to book a grab lorry for your next public-facing project, contact our team at AJ Grab Hire to get a quote. 

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Across the construction industry, there are strict measures to ensure that waste from any site is disposed of in the most environmentally friendly manner. 

The news is rife with victims of rogue waste removers, and it’s not just the waste removers who can face a sentence but the company who hired them. As well as possible prison time, there is also the risk of crushing fines. 

Having an efficient waste removal process in place can ensure that you don’t fall victim to rogue companies offering muck away, and can help you make the most of your waste. 

According to the Federation of Master Builders, 65% of firms expect material costs to increase over the next six months due to the instability caused by Brexit. This means that site managers and project managers across the industry will need to maintain an efficient process for their materials. From use to waste, savings will need to be made on all on-site operations.

Minimise Landfill Costs 

For construction companies in particular, landfill tax and disposal charges are growing each year. Which means consigning large volumes of waste to landfill is a severe drain on tight budgets. 

With this in mind, it’s critical that you choose a waste removal partner who can help you to reduce the amount of waste that enters landfill. 

At AJ Grab Hire, we work with a number of recycling partners to ensure that your waste can be sorted, and if possible, sent to the correct facilities to be recycled. Our process helps you reduce the amount of waste going into landfill. 

As the UK construction sector consumes the largest amount of natural resources, using an average of 400 million tonnes of materials, having a waste removal partner can help ensure a high volume of these materials doesn’t end up in landfill. 

Segregate Your Waste 

Separating your waste materials on site is the first step in helping to reduce waste, and improve the efficiency of your materials. 

Introduce a segregation system which helps your team to sort between timber waste, green waste and domestic rubbish. 

Choosing a labelling system or colour coding bulk bags can help to identify where specific materials should be sent to. 

A grab hire lorry, can then come and collect the individual bags in one go, and send them to the best place for disposal or recycling. 

It’s also wise to train your team on the basic procedures of waste separation. While to them, it may seem like extra time and effort taken away from the project, it can in fact, be a vital way to save money on tight budgets, and keep the site safe.

Plan Your Waste

While it can be difficult to know when your waste is going to start piling high, booking in regular visits from a grab hire lorry can be more cost-efficient than multiple skips. 

Skips cannot hold as much waste as a grab lorry. Another added benefit of a grab lorry is that it can visit any site as the grabber can reach over any obstructions. 

Rather than wait for a skip to be emptied, book visits from a grab hire lorry that can visit your site when you need it and remove all waste in one go. 

Reuse Existing Materials 

Whether you’ve over-ordered on materials for your project, or found yourself with excess, reusing and repurposing existing materials can be a highly cost-efficient way to save money. 

The fewer materials have to go into waste, the more money you save on your project. 

If possible, look at ways you can store excess materials so that they are available to you when you may need them again. Alternatively, if you don’t have any space to store these materials, collaborate with other businesses or individuals to see if you can sell or exchange your items. 

Choose the Right Partners 

By sourcing legitimate and suitable waste removal suppliers, you can drive your waste management strategy forward. 

At AJ Grab Hire, we’ve worked with large and small construction companies, and individuals to ensure the waste management on their projects is managed efficiently. 

As registered waste couriers by The Environment Agency, we have a network of recycling partners, to help our clients to dispose of waste in the most environmentally friendly way. Our aim with all our clients is to reduce the amount of waste entering landfill. 

With a waste partner such as ourselves, you can book staggered deliveries, reducing the need for managing costly on-site waste storage. 

At AJ Grab Hire we also provide you with the traceability of your waste, so you know where it’s going. 

For more help and information on efficient and cost-effective waste removal, contact our friendly team at AJ Grab Hire today. 

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When you’re working tirelessly on a project, you want to know that the suppliers you choose are going to be able to support you along the way. 

At AJ Grab Hire, we know there are many waste removers out there, but we don’t think there’s any quite like us. We’ve worked across large building projects, small renovation projects to landscaping projects; there has never been a job too big or too small for our team. 

But aside from being able to provide grab hire and site removal services to a range of projects, we also have some great qualities that make us cost-effective and supportive waste removal partners. 

Cost-Effective Alternative to Skips 

Time and time again, our grab hire lorries are chosen as the most cost-efficient alternative to traditional skips. 

All projects are constrained by a tight budget, no matter how big or small, and making that budget stretch is often a challenge. 

While many people may opt for a skip, this can turn out to be a costly solution when more skips are needed. Instead, a grab lorry can collect your waste from site and manoeuvre over rough terrain. This means our grab hire lorries can often reach places a skip cannot. 

Registered Waste Courier 

At AJ Grab Hire, we take great pride in being registered with the Environment Agency as a legitimate waste removal courier. 

The licence we hold permits us to remove waste from all manner of sites and dispose of it in the most environmentally conscious way. 

Any waste courier not permitted by the Environment Agency is a rogue trader, as we have to adhere to strict rules and regulations. 

When you choose AJ Grab Hire, you can have peace of mind that our service is legitimate and aims to reduce the amount of waste entering landfill. 

Network of Recycling Partners 

At AJ Grab Hire our grab lorries can collect muck, green waste, timber, hardcore and domestic rubbish. We can remove all manner of materials effectively because we work with a network of recycling partners and waste disposal units to ensure we can recycle your waste as much as possible. 

When recycling targets are high across the construction industry, we can help support our customers by providing information about where their waste has been recycled or disposed of. 

Local to Your Project

We provide our grab hire services across Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. 

If your project is in these areas, you can book regular deliveries to keep your waste management in control. With us being local to your project, we can also support in other ways such as delivering aggregate supplies. 

As you may well know, using a local supplier is often much easier as we know the area and can get to your site much quicker. We also use local disposal facilities and recycling units, so your waste doesn’t have to travel even further to be managed. 

Family-Run Business 

At AJ Grab Hire, we are a family-run business with a Grab Hire head office in Royston and come with a wealth of industry experience. 

Our friendly approach and highly-trained team are a credit to our company and support our customers with all their waste removal and site clearance needs. 

We treat our team just like our family, which means you will always get the best customer service. 

For more information on our grab hire services, or to get a quote, contact our team at AJ Grab Hire today.

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A grab lorry can hold and move more waste than a traditional skip, which means they’re ideal for removing waste from both large and small projects. 

Whether you’re working on a small private project or a large commercial build, there’s nothing a grab lorry can’t move. 

While a skip is often used for all types of waste, a grab lorry can also move a variety of waste and move it to a designated recycling or reuse plant where it often has the chance of being reused. This is one of the many reasons people prefer to use a grab lorry, as they know their waste is being disposed of in the most environmentally friendly manner. 

If you’re considering hiring a grab lorry for your next project, we’ve revealed the types of waste a grab lorry can move, so you know it’s fit for the job. 

Muck 

Muck away includes the removal of mud and earth. 

At AJ Grab Hire our Muck-Away service means you can move high volumes of muck in a much quicker way than using a traditional skip. 

From digging the foundations of a build, to a large landscaping project; high mountains of muck can quickly build up on-site, which delays projects and makes it difficult to manoeuvre around the site. 

While a traditional skip would get filled quickly, a grab lorry can not only manually pick the muck off the ground, but it can hold a far higher volume of muck than a skip. 

When budgeting is a concern for a project, this can help you stay within costs, as a grab lorry can often hold double the amount of a skip. 

Green Waste 

From grass, shrubbery, flowers, and hedge cuttings; at AJ Grab Hire our grab lorries are ideal for collecting and removing large volumes of green waste. 

Whether you’re working on a large landscaping project, or demolishing green space, our grab hire lorries can collect and remove all types of green waste. 

As licensed waste removers, we dispose of your green waste in an environmentally friendly way so that we can reduce the impact on landfill sites. 

While skips can be placed on-site to remove green waste, this requires both land space, and manual labour to fill the skip. However, with a grab lorry, we can collect your green waste from a designated area quickly and efficiently — no need for extra manual labour, and no large-skip getting in the way. 

Green Waste that we remove includes; 

• Grass 
• Shrubbery 
• Hedge cuttings 
• Flowers 
• Trees 
• Bushes

Timber 

Our Timber Away Service is particularly popular with those in the building and construction sector. 

As wood and other timbers are vital resources in the construction industry, we take them to specialist timber recycling plants so that the materials do not end up in landfill. 

All customers who choose our Timber Away service are given details of where their timber and wood cuttings will be taken and disposed of. 

From domestic builds to large housing estate builds, we have supported a number of individuals and organisations in removing their timber waste efficiently so that work can continue seamlessly. 

Timber waste that we remove includes; 

• Wood chippings
• Timber offcuts 

Rubbish 

Grab lorries can move both domestic and commercial rubbish much faster than a traditional skip. 

From on-site rubbish to domestic house clearance rubbish, at AJ Grab Hire, we are licensed to remove waste. 

As fly-tipping has become an increased issue across the UK, we give our customers peace-of-mind that our service is professional, efficient and authorised by the Environment Agency. 

Rubbish clearance is a sensitive area of waste removal for many companies as it can make a site look untidy, and be a risk to the public in some spaces. Therefore, we remove rubbish quickly and in high volumes to ensure it is not sat around on-site, causing obstructions, or causing any hazards to the public. 

Rubbish waste that we remove includes; 

• Domestic rubbish
• Commercial rubbish 

Hardcore 

Rubble from construction work or demolitions can often overwhelm a project. There are high quantities of rubble, and it needs to be moved quickly to keep the project on track. 

This is where a grab lorry really comes into its own, as a grab lorry can pick-up and move hardcore materials far quicker than a traditional skip. 

In fact, in many circumstances, a traditional skip cannot handle the high capacity of hardcore that needs to be removed. It can take many skips before the hardcore is finally removed. However, with a grab lorry, there is no need for the rubble to be moved. A grab lorry can access even hard to reach terrains on a site, and collect hardcore in large quantities. 

Hardcore waste that we remove includes; 

• Aggregate
• Rubble 
• Stone
• Brick 

For more information on the types of waste, our grab lorries can remove from your project, contact our friendly team at AJ Grab Hire. 

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Rogue grab hire lorries are becoming a serious issue for commercial and domestic construction companies. 

Not only do rogue traders remove your waste illegally, but they also put you at risk of huge fines. 

According to the UK government’s 2019 statistics, the illegal dumping of waste across England has increased by nearly 40% in six years. 

The rise of fly-tipping and rogue waste collectors continues, despite the maximum penalty of such offences to be a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison. 

Tougher guidelines brought in by the government in 2014 have done little to curve the rise. The Local Government Association (LGA) has said that at present fly-tipping cost taxpayers more than £57 million per year to clean up. 

If your business produces any type of waste, you are legally required to manage it, and confirm that it is being managed in an environmentally friendly manner. 

Unfortunately, many rogue grab hire lorries can look like the real deal, which can lead many reputable construction companies with large fines, and bad press.

As with any rogue traders, their goal is to make a quick bit of money. They will often collect your rubbish, take payment and dump it in a random location rather than take it to the adequate recycling and landfill plants. 

To ensure you avoid rogue grab hire lorries, we’ve revealed the key areas you should look out for before you wave goodbye to your waste. 

Check Waste Carriers License 

Before you hire a grab lorry, you should ask the company to prove that they possess a waste carrier’s license. These licenses are issued by the Environment Agency and make it legal for the company to clear your rubbish. 

Without a waste carriers license the grab hire lorry is operating illegally. 

At AJ Grab Hire we are licensed by the Environment Agency, and make this clear both on our website and to our customers when they are booking a service. 

Know Where Your Waste Is Going 

As detailed by the government, a company’s or individuals’ waste is their own responsibility. Even when your rubbish is taken off your hands, it is still your responsibility. 

Many local councils go to great lengths to track fly-tipped rubbish. If you used a rogue grab hire lorry to clear your waste, and the waste is tipped illegally, it’s not just the tippers who are fined, but you as well. 

Legitimate grab hire lorries will be able to provide you with details of where waste is disposed of, or recycled. For example, here at AJ Grab Hire, we work with a number of registered recyclers to ensure that each type of waste can be reused or disposed of in the most environmentally friendly manner.  

Whenever you hire a grab lorry, always enquire as to where the rubbish is going to be disposed of and request details. 

Shocking Prices 

You know what they say, if a price is too good to be true it often is. The same goes for rogue grab hire lorries. 

A certified and legitimate grab hire lorry company has overheads such as fuel, labour and tipping fees – these all have to be calculated into the cost of service, let alone the differing types of waste. 

If a price you’ve been quoted sounds far too cheap, or it’s required in cash, then it may be that they intend to fly-tip your waste. 

Don’t be swayed into paying a low price from a company who are playing rogue, as you could end up paying a high price both in fines and business reputation. 

In the UK, it’s estimated that the construction and demolition industry generates an average of 66.2 million tonnes of waste. However, due to effective recovery, 60.2 million of this waste is reused or recycled. 

Any valid waste removal company will endeavour to recycle waste as much as possible to support the government’s initiatives and make the industry more sustainable. 

Check Their Online Profiles 

It may sound very simple, but often checking a grab hire companies online presence can give you a good idea of how legitimate they really are. For example, checking they have a valid and up to date website, and also checking their social profiles for any reviews. 

If a website or social profile does not exist for this company, it may be that they are rogue. 

A company such as ourselves here at AJ Grab Hire, take great pride in detailing our services on our website and connecting with our customers on social media.  

Don’t risk going rogue with your waste removal, contact our friendly team at AJ Grab Hire today and get a quote for your project. 

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When winter arrives onsite health & safety takes a new turn. Ice and bad weather can increase the difficulties of manoeuvring waste and materials, and the limited daylight means floodlights are often required on large projects to keep the work on track. 

Winter provides any commercial or domestic site with increased challenges, which means you need the right tools to ensure the project runs smoothly and doesn’t cause any more delays. 

At AJ Grab Hire, our grab lorries can support both small and large construction and landscaping projects throughout the winter season. 

Rather than relying on a skip, which takes up valuable space on-site and has a smaller capacity, a grab hire can provide your team with a quick way to remove large quantities of waste. 

Fast Waste Removal 

During the winter months, development projects can be delayed by bad weather. From snow, ice to heavy rainfall. All these bad weather conditions can not only affect the progress of the project but cause costly delays. 

Having a skip on site can mean that waste is sat onsite becoming affected by the bad weather conditions. For example, the skip gets filled with rain causing a nightmare for possible overspill. 

By using a grab hire onsite for your waste removal, you can eliminate the worries that come with bad weather. 

A grab hire skip can be ordered for when you need it, and collect a range of waste types quickly so that the waste is not sat being spread by poor weather conditions. 

Removing waste quickly during bad weather is also essential for health and safety, as it ensures that there are no slip or trip hazards on site. 

While a skip takes up vital space on site, a grab hire lorry removes the waste from the area so that you consistently have a clean and clear site. 

Reduce Cross Contamination 

During severe winter weather cross-contamination of waste can easily occur, especially if you’re using a skip on site. As well as workers getting a little lazy and not distributing by waste type, heavy rain can mean your waste can begin to filter into a clean site. 

Cross-contamination of domestic waste can be a public health hazard, which means it not only puts your team at risk but also the public. 

Maintaining rigorous waste management during bad weather is a health and safety must on any large or small commercial project. 

At AJ Grab Hire, our grab lorries can move your waste quickly. We can collect muck, timber and rubbish to help keep your site clean and clear of waste obstructions. 

As we are certified waste removers, we also take your waste to dedicated landfill and recycling plants to ensure that your waste is environmentally managed. 

Daylight Saving 

The shortest days occur in the winter. For many large scale construction and landscape projects, this means that working hours can be affected as there is no natural light. 

In the UK during winter daylight begins around 7 am and ends at 4.30 pm, this means working hours on a project are dramatically shortened unless artificial lights can be used on site. 

With hours cut short, this means workers need to be more efficient and productive with the light available on the project. 

Utilising a grab hire lorry for waste removal, and even aggregate delivery can help support teams who are up against tight deadlines during these winter months. 

As well as removing large quantities of waste quickly and efficiently, our team at AJ Grab Hire can also deliver aggregate to your site, helping to reduce delivery times. 

Minimal Manual Labour 

Construction and engineering sites all become more dangerous during the winter months due to the bad weather. With rain increasing the number of slips, and ice becoming a hazard, it becomes an even more tricky place to work. 

With this in mind, reducing any potential hazards or health and safety risks is a key part of running a safe and productive site. 

While many sites may opt for a skip, this can have the potential to cause more harm to workers. For example, workers have to carry and load the skip in bad weather manually. Should anyone slip or trip while loading the skip this can cause major injuries. 

However, by using a grab hire lorry, you remove the need for manual labour. 

At AJ Grab Hire, our lorries will grab and move the waste from the site, which dramatically reduces the amount of manual input from your team. 

If you need a grab hire lorry to support your winter project, contact our team today to get a quote. 

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