Communications Case Studies

Documents

• Big recycling success in Scotland's 'Wee County' - Clackmannanshire - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 65 kb

  Clackmannanshire Council has every reason to shout about its success - each household in the region recycles an average 12.3kg of plastic bottles each year - more than double the UK average of 5.5kg, and the highest reported rate in Scotland.

• Increasing recycling performance at little additional cost - Eastleigh - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 44 kb

  Eastleigh Borough Council provides in-house waste management and recycling services to 48,632 rural and urban households. This wide coverage has enabled the Council to achieve a 34.7% recycling rate (05/06).

• Community group have a lot of bottle - Newport - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 142 kb

  In Newport, South Wales, the kerbside collection service including plastic bottles is provided by community run organisation Newport Wastesavers. Weekly collections of dry recyclables, including plastic bottles, along with fortnightly collections of compostable and residual waste have helped to achieve the highest recorded recovery rates since the introduction of the scheme in 2004.

• Keeping communication simple pays off in Tamworth - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 51 kb

  Tamworth Borough Council has been operating a plastic bottle collection scheme since July 2004. It added plastic bottles to its weekly kerbside collections for two reasons: firstly to reduce the volume of waste in the domestic waste stream and secondly in response to public demand.

• Plastic bottle recycling goes down a storm in Pendle - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 88 kb

  A well established plastic bottles bring scheme combined with the successful introduction of kerbside collection for plastic bottles will help Pendle Borough Council to recycle 470 tonnes of plastic bottles in 2006/07 – an impressive 12kg per household per year recycling rate.

• Focusing on customer relations reaps rewards - Veolia - Plastic Bottle Collection Case Study 116 kb

  From two of its materials recycling facilities (MRFs) in Rainham, Essex, and in the London Borough of Greenwich, waste management company Veolia Environmental Services (VES) recycles plastic bottles as part of a mixed stream also containing paper, card, ferrous and non-ferrous metals.