Our local authority waste support services
- Waste collection service development and option assessments: recently including support on the specification and design assumptions for new food waste collections, and the inclusion of additional dry recycling materials as required by Simpler Recycling.
- Dry recycling TEEP assessments: including assessments for the co-mingling of paper and card with DMR, and separately, the co-mingling of food and garden waste.
- Service benchmarking: evaluating service structure and performance relative to peers, particularly in anticipation of the LAPCAP funding methodology being applied.
- Local government reorganisation (LGR) integration reviews: providing practical and strategic advice on how pre-existing variations in service, service provider, fleet, communications, and management can be integrated.
- Street cleansing reviews and COPLAR audits: providing independent assessments street cleansing quality, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing strategies to address the increasing issue of waste crime.
- Operations and management assessments: to determine whether an insourced, outsourced, LATCo or partnership delivery model best suits the needs and political aspirations of a Council.
- Waste strategy development: with an emphasis on integrating all waste reform into a Council’s waste strategy. We also provide advice on the list of practical interventions that an authority can deploy to deliver and achieve waste strategy outcomes.
- Feasibility assessments for local authority waste infrastructure: recently including technical and commercial assessments of MRF facilities, local authority waste anaerobic digesters, transfer loading stations, and HWRC sites.
- Business case preparation: supporting Officers to progress proposals through a Council’s governance structure to secure approvals.
