Agenda item

Followed by presentation from Rory Brien (FCC) and Jayne Rowley (re3)

The Joint Waste Disposal Board received the re3 Waste Partnership report which was accompanied by presentations, made to by Jayne Rowley, re3 Finance Officer and Rory Brian, General Manager at FCC.

The presentation was broken down into these three areas:

·       Delivery Social Value

·       Climate Change and re3 CO2 Emissions

·       Waste Composition Analysis

Arising from the presentations, the following points were raised:

·       FCC had partnered with Thrive, who were a software platform which enables people and companies to input the values there were delivering in the community and linked back to Government social value models.

·       This linked through the Impact Evaluation Standard which was a framework designed to help organisations measure and value their social value activities.

·       The metrics were all government based and was fully auditable.

·       There were 122 metrics that it linked too and was organised in to five themes.

·       FCC had invested in Thrive software and were the only waste management company to do so at present.

·       The 122 metrics had been whittled down by FCC to what they believed were the top 25 that covered activities within their operations. This was then divided into four main categories. Tackling Economic Inequality, Increase Supply Chain Resilience, Fighting Climate Change and wellbeing.

·       The 2021 social value delivered in re3 had been calculated from direct activities within the re3 areas, this did not include second tier activities such as composting.

·       2022 reporting had commenced which had resulted in more metrics being introduced.

·       £18,911,017 worth of social value had been delivered within FCC’s activities as part of the partnership, the represented 64% of council spend with FCC Environment delivered in social value.

·       There had been significant investment with local organisation and businesses.

·       There had been investment in people and training.

·       There were local jobs opportunities, with the FCC employing 110 employees and all but 5 lived in the re3 area.

·       A format for presenting the data on a quarterly format would be arranged.

·       There had been great progress in reducing the Co2 emission in the last 7 years.

·       Landfill usage had reduced over the past 7 years.

·       The average of Co2 emissions had been 115 kilograms but this had been reduced to an average of 43.82 in the past year. Residual waste had also reduced from 185.88 to 74.4.

·       Household waste going to landfill was still producing the biggest Co2 emissions.

·       The presentation showed the mix of waste received over the past 7 years.

·       Residual waste had reduced considerably since the introduction of food waste. What can be done next was the big question. One option was contaminates, there was a high value of contaminates in the recycling, last year it was 26%.

·       A recent piece of work had been undertaken to look at the waste composition analysis.

·       FCC worked with Socotec to undertake the waste sampling and analysis. This had been undertaken over 2 weeks in May and June.

·       Waste was separated into 27 different categories.

·       All three councils selected rounds bases on previous street data from historic analysis.

·       Waste based data was used to identify recyclates within the residual waste which was the more representative way that the sampling could be undertaken without sampling every tonne. This allowed for the tonnes of waste within the residual waste to be identified that should and shouldn’t be there.

·       The 2022/23 waste flow forecast for curbside residual waste to the transfer facilities was 68,798 tonnes.

·       Nearly 32% was recyclates material, 22.4% was food waste, 7.8% was Green waste.

·       62.1%, 42,623 tonnes, should not have been in the residual waste.

·       If all recyclates were recycled correctly there would be a saving of £1.45m.

·       If all wood was recycled correctly there would be a saving of £53,452.

·       If all green tonnage was collected or taken to the waste facilities, there would be a £254,628 saving.

·       If all food waste was recycled correctly there would be a saving of £1.55m.

·       There was a number of things that the councils could do such as identify measures to encourage residents to place materials in the correct bin and container, provide targeted education to residents, work with the collection teams to devise initiatives and revamp the website and app.

·       FCC could assist with updating the website and app, provide area and round specific data, review and assist council ins identifying actions and arranging further sampling

As a result of the groups comments and questions, the following points were made:

·       Historically there had been a project looking at a permeant reuse show and would be reviewed. In the meantime, pop up shops, and work with Sue Ryder would be undertaken.

·       A number of bikes were received, especially children’s bikes, work was done with precycle and Sue Ryder to take any serviceable bikes after a safety check was undertaken. Bikes had also sold very quickly at the pop-up events.

·       It had been agreed at a previous meeting, that if members were aware of any charities and groups in their local areas that could benefit from items such as bikes, that this be brought to the Officers, and they would undertake the relevant checks.

·       The composting scheme had not been included in the figures presented to the board but would be looked at going forward.

·       It was asked whether a more local digester had been sourced, as the current food waste was being taken to Oxfordshire.

·        The presentations were interesting and aspirational, but also showed a lot of opportunity.

·       The data allowed for targeted coms for specific areas of waste and demographic.

·       FCC were asking collectors across the country whether there had been specific campaigns that had worked that could be used.

·       All the specific data and detail could be provided to the individual councils.

·       A session was being held with officers to go through the data in detail.

·       There was actually 62 different categories to break waste down into.

RESOLVED that the contents of the report and accompanying presentations are noted.