Dry recyclables
Get more out of your dry recycling facilities
Do you want to increase your dry recyclable collections? We have years of experience in how to maximise the collection of municipal materials such as cans, glass jars, glass bottles, plastic bottles, foil products, textiles and mixed paper, as well as trade and hazardous waste.
The areas we can help you with fall into four categories.
Kerbside collections for household recyclables
We are able to offer the full range of services which can be commissioned individually or in combination to fit your current needs.
- Service advice - strategic and design
- Waste arisings modelling both historic and predictive
- Identifying current use of services - waste analysis and participation
- Vehicle design
- Communications campaigns
- Bulky waste collections
Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC)
We are able to offer expert advice on all aspects of the design and running of HWRCs and our NACAS report is still considered the leading publication on best practice in this area. Our services cover:
- Specialist provision of design options for redeveloping existing sites or developing new sites to optimise the capture of recyclables
- Help with cutting costs and maximising operational efficiencies
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) collections at HWRCs – advice on best practice
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Promotion and on site signage
- Strategies for minimising unauthorised trade waste and for expanding facilities to accommodate legitimate, chargeable, trade waste deposits
- Advice on financial costs/benefits of improving HWRC, including modelling of Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS) implications
- Staff consultation, motivation and training programmes
- Solutions to cross-border usage issues
- Site-user volume and attitudinal surveys
- Waste composition analysis and monitoring
Flats recycling
Since 2003 we have been providing on the ground, practical surport and advice on the design, implementation and promotion of recycling services in flats and multi-occupancy buildings. Services we offer include:
- Specialist advice and project delivery
- Service specifications for all types of flats, social housing, high-rise, luxury private ownership
- Stakeholder engagement (caretakers, landlords, management companies, householders) to ensure right service provision is specified
- Site surveys, service specification, project management
- Promotion and engagement activities
- Selection of target properties, including analysis of where tonnage increases are likely to be greatest, auditing the existing provision and tonnages collected, as well as development of robust monitoring systems for accurate data collection
Trade waste
- Advice on trade bring site facilities, including economic assessments
- Advice on trade waste collections design
- Marketing and publicity of trade waste collections to include sales activities
Resource Futures covers every aspect of dry recyclables, from vehicle design to hazardous waste and research into why people aren’t using a particular service. For more information on any of our services, call us now on 0117 930 4355.