WIN case studies available NOW to help you to save £££ on fuel

10 Mar 2011

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Route optimization - Cotswold DC predict annual savings of £70k and Gravesham BC saved £160k per year

Driver training - Southampton CC's driver training programme saved more than £46k in first year

GPS tracking and efficient vehicles - One council trialed this technology in just three vehicles and saved £48k per year

The Carbon Plan

10 Mar 2011

Read the governments vision for a low carbon economy. Includes a section on low carbon transport (p35) outlining government support for low emission vehicle technologies, promotion of the use of sustainable biofuels and changing behaviour to reduce emissions. The report also looks at cutting emissions from waste (p44).

NEW! WIN case study: East Kent Joint Waste Partnership set to generate savings of £30million

03 Mar 2011

Learn how the Partnership entered a legal agreement to transform their waste services through joined-up working arrangements; set to generate recycling rates of 50% and significant cost reductions.

WRAP report: Collecting food waste from small businesses and schools WRAP report:

03 Mar 2011

Collecting food waste from small businesses and schools - information on collecting food waste from small businesses and schools; highlights a series of key issues for local authorities when considering rolling out such food waste collections.

Local authority communications case studies

03 Mar 2011

Case studies showing different communication methods and their impact throughout England funded through WRAP's Local Communications Programme 2008-2011

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Communications to support a major waste and recycling service change

03 Mar 2011

Key facts

• Additional 4,188 tonnes dry recyclables collected at kerbside from October 2009 to September 2010.
• Residual waste has reduced by 13%, from 11,515 tonnes in quarter 1 of 2009/10 to 9,982 in quarter 1 of 2010/11.
• Total tonnage diverted from Residual waste from October 2009 to September 2010 was 7,176 tonnes.
• Recycling rates increased from 33% in 2008/09 to 41% in 2010/11.
• Incidences of side waste have reduced from nearly 3,000 households before the campaign started to under 300 per week.
• Campaign cost per household £1.70.  Cost per tonne diverted £20.90 per tonne.
• The gross saving (avoided disposal costs) was £261,800, a net saving of £127,000 in 2009/10 alone. This is the reduction in incineration costs and is a result of both the additional recycling, introduction of wheeled bins and no side waste initiative.

WISH Metrics Sickness Absence Survey Project

03 Mar 2011

On behalf of HSE, the Health and Safety Lab (HSL) are running a 3-year survey to collect and analyse sickness absence data from the UK Waste & Recycling Industry using WISH Metrics. It is hoped that this study will help identify effective and targeted interventions aimed at reducing rates of sickness absence across the industry. There will also be benefits to participating organisations, as the project outcomes will enable participants to compare their performance with industry-wide data.

HSL will be collecting their first round of data for the period April 2010 - March 2011. If you would like to take part please email the project team on wish@hsl.gov.uk. They will then contact you later in March with full details of how to participate.

To find out more about the project click here.

To see an example report of the summary statistics this survey will provide click here.

WIN Case Study: Incentives, rewards and behavioural change

28 Feb 2011

Incentives, rewards and behavioural change - read the latest case study from WIN to find out how the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead rolled out its recycling incentivisation scheme, which has enabled a 46% increase in collected dry recyclables (data: January 2011)

A cost-benefit analysis of local authority home composting support programmes

24 Feb 2011

1. Introduction

This study explores the costs of home composting campaigns in relation to the cost savings to local authorities associated with less municipal waste needing to be collected, treated or disposed of. The analysis involves considering the ‘up-front’ costs associated with home composting bin provision to householders set against projected estimates of future cost savings in terms of the quantities of waste diverted from municipal systems through home composting participation. Estimates of the net savings associated with home composting need to take account of the ‘time value’ of money spent by local authorities today, set against the future savings resulting from waste diverted into home composting. For this, Net Present Values (NPVs) can be calculated to compare the value of a local authority pound invested in home composting today against the value of the same pound in the future (taking into account inflation and likely returns if the money had been invested).

Leicestershire Waste Partnership: Baseline Waste Prevention Research

24 Feb 2011

Preface

Leicestershire Waste Partnership (LWP) has established a high and well deserved national reputation for developing a strong evidence base to support its waste management strategy, and M·E·L Research has been a steady and committed business partner in this effort over several years. Now LWP is embarking on a strategically important new avenue of research, into waste prevention. This takes forward one of the key themes of the Municipal Waste Management Strategy to:
Manage materials in accordance with Waste management Hierarchy – In order of preference, prevention, re-use, recycle/compost, recovery, disposal- except where costs are prohibitive, or where the environmental consequences can be demonstrated to be negative Waste prevention will play its part in delivering LATS (Landfill Allowances Trading Scheme) compliance for Leicestershire in as timely a manner as possible. This will involve the use of several interventions in the short, medium and long timescales. This report establishes a baseline position of current attitudes, behaviour, motivations and barriers among the residents of Leicestershire towards waste prevention activities and campaigns delivered by the Waste Prevention & Reuse Project.

Commercial & Industrial Waste and Economic Research Study Final Report

24 Feb 2011

The number of bins each council collects

24 Feb 2011

The number of bins each council collects report from The Taxpayers Alliance outlines the number of bins used per household by local authorities across the UK

Making ends meet: Maximising the value of waste

24 Feb 2011

Making ends meet: Maximising the value of waste this brief from the CBI identifies the main challenges to achieving a 'zero-waste economy' and offers recommendations to deliver on the zero-waste objective.

Why use a framework agreement for procurement in waste services?

31 Jan 2011

Framework agreements: save money and avoid going out to tender, learn why you should be using framework agreements

WIN case study: National Home Composting Framework Contract 2010

31 Jan 2011

IESE and WIN launched the National Home Composting Framework in February 2010 and this case study evaluates the progress and successes of the scheme in its first six months. Since August 2010, the framework has only increased in popularity, helping to deliver even more efficiency savings to local authorities.

Key benefits and savings to August 2010:

• £316,000 has been saved by councils through avoided procurement process costs*
• £125,000 has been saved by councils through saved subsidy costs**
• Economies of scale achieved prices up to 30% lower than previous WRAP scheme
• 221 councils have signed up to the framework (56% of English councils)
• 39,937 home composting units have been sold
• Over 900 tonnes of compostable waste have been diverted from residual waste collections and over 1,800 tonnes from green waste collections***
• Councils can chose from a range of commodities and have communications materials tailored to their requirements

To read more please click here

The Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste

31 Jan 2011

Click here to read the latest report on the strategy from the European Commission which reveals that overall recycling rates have improved, the amount of waste going to landfill has decreased and the use of hazardous substances, notably in electrical and electronic waste, has been reduced

Moving towards a recycling society

31 Jan 2011

Since 2005, the EU has made good progress towards becoming a resource-efficient ‘recycling society’. That’s the goal it set itself in the 2005 thematic strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste. The latest report on the strategy reveals that overall recycling rates have improved, the amount of waste going to landfill has decreased and the use of hazardous substances, notably in electrical and electronic waste, has been reduced. A significant number of sub-standard landfill sites and incinerators have been closed or upgraded to meet European standards. Current waste policies are leading to lower environmental impacts per tonne of waste treated. However, the amount of waste we are producing is still rising, albeit at a lower rate than economic growth. As the world’s population is set to grow, pressures on natural resources will increase together with global extraction of resources. This means that to meet this future demand, ambitious new policies will be needed to promote sustainable consumption and production and encourage waste prevention and recycling.

The solutions-based FOCUS documents on WIN tackle the issues and challenges facing your service, providing opportunities for efficiencies

14 Jan 2011

This must-have fact sheet indicates the benefit of each FOCUS, how to make the most of it and how to make the changes with support from iESE (deliverer of WIN)

Efficient working at HWRCs and commercial vehicle bans

14 Jan 2011

Cornwall Council currently has a network of 12 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs), 9 of which are operated under the private finance initiative (PFI) contract with SITA UK. The purposes of this study were threefold: to assess the individual sites and identify performance improvements that may be available; to advise on options for controlling commercial waste inputs to the HWRCs; and to investigate options for extending the HWRC network (or HWRC-type services) to areas of Cornwall where there may currently be under provision.

To read the report click here

The State of the Nation

14 Jan 2011

Waste and Resource Management - read the new report from the Institute of Civil Engineers which details the recommendations they believe are needed to improve the countries waste infrastructure

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