South Norfolk Council choose ReCollect Digital Recycling Communication Tools to keep residents up-to-date about Waste
The team at South Norfolk Council has launched their Bin Collections South Norfolk App on October 24th 2022 to ensure their 138k residents never miss another bin collection again.
How Digital Recycling Education Tools help get waste sorted!
Residents want to do recycling right, but they’ll often make incorrect assumptions when packaging is confusing or guidelines change from place to place. This can lead to wish-cycling and recycling contamination. Online digital tools provide searchable lists so residents can look up specific items and know exactly what to do with them.
How to Digitise Your Garden Waste Collection Programme
Increasingly, councils are charging for garden waste collection services. If managed and communicated wisely, these programmes can truly be a win-win as the local authority can generate income to support vital services. Residents with gardens have an option when they don’t want to compost at home or take their waste to the tip, whilst those in high rise flats aren’t paying for a service they don’t use.
Electrify Your E-Waste Program in 11 Simple Steps
From smartwatches to laptops, electronics that were once luxuries are now everyday necessities. Which also means they’ve become everyday trash.
Five tips to help councils reduce contamination
With the headlines dominated by the pandemic, driver shortages and changes to household waste volumes over the last year, another long-standing issue saw less coverage. Yet, contamination, and the large associated costs, remains high on the list of concerns we hear from our local authority customers.
Falkirk Council’s Street Cleansing Team sweeps up APSE Striving For Excellence Award
Falkirk Council’s Street Cleansing team picked up a Bronze award rather than litter at an evening ceremony in Aviemore on 19 May 2022 at the APSE Scotland’s Fleet, Waste and Grounds Conference, Scotland 2022.
How Demand Management Helps Cut Costs and Improve Customer Service
With the average council getting 15,000 calls about waste and recycling every year, all service managers will recognise the growing demand being placed on their resources.
How digital technology has helped councils through the Covid-19 crisis
Covid-19 has stretched many local authorities to breaking point. It has taken dedication and in many cases ingenuity, to keep waste and recycling collection services running effectively. Our customers have faced unprecedented challenges.
Why Environmental Teams Should Focus on Vertical Integration
One problem we see local government waste and street cleansing teams struggle with, is where they are trying to manage their service using an enterprise solution that has been put in place across the council. The software isn’t generally well suited to their most common business processes and the data that underpins them.
Why Paper is a Risk to your Waste Collection Service
Recent events, from floods to pandemic, have brought risk and resilience back into sharp focus for public service managers and directors. And one risk in particular has quickly moved up the list – the risk associated with paper-based processes.
