Whilst councils continue to wait for clarity on waste policy and future funding, we appreciate that many of you are feeling stuck in limbo, frustrated by the inability to make key decisions on the future of your waste and recycling services.
There is however lots you can be considering and evaluating in readiness, and we are more than happy to help you. If you are interested in discussing how WRAP could support you over the next few months, please do get in touch.
Did you know that last year we:
- Engaged with 4 out of 5 LAs across England and Northern Ireland.
- Delivered 25 local authority technical support projects across England and Northern Ireland that involved almost 70 local authorities.
- Provided support webinars with almost 40% of English local authorities and more than 60% of Northern Irish local authorities attending one or more.
One local authority that has benefited from our technical support is North East Lincolnshire Council. We supported officers to develop a business case to move to alternate weekly residual collections, undertook modelling work leading to changes to their dry recycling service and helped them introduce a pilot food waste collection service. These changes resulted in an 18% reduction in residual waste, alongside a 50% increase in dry recycling. Average yields of food waste from the pilot collection have exceeded 1.7 kg/hh/wk resulting in further reductions in residual waste.
How can we help?
We can work with you on a one-to-one basis or with groups of authorities, providing free and impartial guidance and support on topics such as:
- Performance data and benchmarking.
- Options modelling and appraising future collections options.
- Procurement of collection services.
- Service design, implementation and evaluation.
- Communications to support service change or improve quality or capture.
We have a wealth of guidance, resources and adaptable communication assets on our website that could prove useful, so please do take advantage of the support available.
Listen back to some of our previous webinars
Browse our collection of previous webinars for local authorities covering a range of topics including:
- Maximising engagement with residents through your website and social media – useful for your comms team too
- Implementing service changes – what to consider?
- Practical steps on how to edit WRAP communication materials
- Ways to tackle contamination in recycling
- Helping crews act on contamination
Updated Monitoring and Evaluation Guide
The Monitoring and Evaluation Guide has been updated to provide practical advice and tips. It is good practice for local authorities to regularly monitor and evaluate their services and schemes to assess performance, identify problems, make changes, design new approaches and ultimately improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Get in touch
You can contact us via la.support@wrap.org.uk or drop one of the team an email direct to find out how we can help. We would also welcome any feedback you have. Please let us know if you think there are any gaps in our support / guidance? Let us know a topic and we will look at developing the suitable materials.
Sue Reed – Local Authority Team Manager sue.reed@wrap.org.uk
Mike Gardner – Local Authority Technical Consultant mike.gardner@wrap.org.uk
Sally Wilson – Local Authority Technical Consultant sally.wilson@wrap.org.uk
Debbie Nesbitt – Sector Specialist (Northern Ireland focus) debbie.nesbitt@wrap.org.uk
Andrew Dunstone – Local Authority Technical Consultant andrew.dunstone@wrap.org.uk
Ruth Hunter – Local Authority Technical Consultant ruth.hunter@wrap.org.uk
