WRAP would like to invite you to take part in the Gate Fees Survey for 2023/24.
To complete the secure online survey please follow this link.
WRAP would be grateful if your Local Authority could complete the online questionnaire by:
Wednesday 17th January 2024.
The survey will need to be completed in one attempt. To help you compile the information we have attached an MS Excel version of the survey, should you wish to refer to it. You should not submit the completed Excel file as your response: this must be done using the Survey Monkey link.
Please note that you may not be the only person in your council who has received this link as WRAP is seeking to maximise the response rate to the survey and is therefore sending this message to all relevant contacts. Please check with colleagues before starting your response.
This survey has been sent to all local authorities, including waste collection authorities and waste disposal authorities, as both may have responsibility for reprocessing/disposal contracts. If your local authority is not responsible for such contracts, we encourage you to engage with the Council which is.
Why complete the survey?
We realise that you receive many requests for information but it is essential that data, specific to your Council and region, is captured, and we have endeavoured to minimise the length of the survey. As well as approaching Councils, WRAP is also engaging with operators of these facilities to gather their insights on current and future gate fees.
The results from the survey are used to produce WRAP’s annual Gate Fees Report, which aims to increase price transparency and therefore improve efficiency in the waste management market. The report can support local authority benchmarking, contract negotiations and procurement, service modelling and options appraisals, and briefings for senior management and elected members.
WRAP is supporting DEFRA, DAERA, Welsh Government and the Scottish Government with emerging waste and resource policy, including the development of the proposed Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for packaging. It is therefore critical that we understand current gate fees and trends regarding Anaerobic Digestion (AD), In-Vessel Composting (IVC), Energy from Waste (EfW), non-hazardous landfill, and Material Recovery Facilities (MRF).
Confidentiality
All information received will be treated as confidential. It will be securely stored with restricted access. In all reporting, no gate fees will be attributed to any individual LAs without your consent. The confidentiality of all respondents is, therefore, guaranteed and has always been a priority in any surveys WRAP undertakes. We would appreciate your thoughts on the sensitivities of the data provided and its applications.
Defra has requested that WRAP provide them with all of the data that you supply, but we will not do so without your explicit permission. If you do not give this permission, Defra will not have access to your specific LA data provided as part of this survey. Defra will ensure that all data that they are permitted to receive will be held securely and will not be shared without aggregation due to its confidential nature, including in response to requests under Freedom of Information.
Support
Eunomia Research and Consulting are supporting WRAP with this work and may contact you regarding the survey at some point. Support is available during the survey period: please email Jonathan.zhang@eunomia.co.uk if you have any issues completing the survey.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
