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Assessment of Municipal Waste Arisings

Client:

Sauce Consultancy (on behalf of confidential client)

Project:

The client required the data of Municipal Waste Arisings over the past 10 years, for the entire UK, broken down by regions.

Alongside this, recycling and composting rates were needed to give an indication on waste arising trends, and the potential impact of the recent economic downturn, with a focus on the last 3 years.

The economic downturn has provided difficulties in planning for future waste arisings.  The client needed an objective view of the practice of forecasting waste arisings and associated infrastructure requirements, based on all possible variables. There was a strong need for the analysis of the data, plus industry, government and social commentary and the impacts of these for future infrastructure planning. A summary of pure historical data was required for a non-technical/ public audience to understand.

Solution:

LRS:

  • Researched and summarised UK wide data covering municipal waste arisings and recycling rates for the last 10 years (Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and England regions)
  • Researched information to provide a commentary on trends, (e.g. DEFRA, EA, council planning etc.) 
  • Reviewed legislation, technology and infrastructure influences that may have had impacts on total waste arisings (e.g. Coultard commitment, improved municipal collections and communications campaigns)
  • Researched commentary on social and non-governmental or industry impacts on total waste arisings (social influences e.g. eBay, green movement etc.)
  • Reviewed the hard data against the information gathered, and provided an objective view of the interpretation of the data
  • Provided an objective summary of the potential future of waste arisings, recycling and composting trends and reviewed the contentious issue of predicting waste arisings and associated infrastructure requirements

Outcome:

A summary of the information was provided to the client to be used in the evidence base for infrastructure requirements and a local communications campaign.

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