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Visible Services & Transport Waste Management & Cleansing

Waste Management Update

Colin Smith - Operational Manager Waste Management & Cleansing

Introduction

• A brief overview of the facilities used to treat, process and dispose of our

recycling and waste

• An brief update in terms of our waste contracts
• An explanation to the recent changes made to our collection rounds
• View pictorials of the revised collection rounds
• Assessment of the problems experienced / lessons learned and outcomes
• An update in terms of our performance
• Future changes

Waste Disposal

• Includes all domestic refuse collected fortnightly, commercial waste, street

cleansing waste, HWRC waste and bulky waste (ex. metals)

• Treated at Viridor’ s Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Trident Park as part of

Prosiect Gwyrdd (PG) Initiative

• A 25 year contract from 1st April 2016 in partnership with Cardiff, Newport,

Caerphilly, Monmouthshire and the Vale

• A 350,000 tonne per annum facility which is the largest ERF in Wales
• A facility that can generate enough energy to power 50,000 homes
• Approximately half the ERF maximum tonnage originates from the 5 partners
• f PG

Trident Park ERF

Dry Recycling

• Includes all domestic and commercial recycling collected weekly made up of

paper, cans, glass, plastics, cardboard, aerosols, foil and tetra packs

• 3-year contract with Casepak Ltd to process and sort the materials which

expires 31st March 2017

• Proposing to extend the contract for a further 12-months (exercising the

extension option within the existing contract)

• All dry recycling collected (domestic and commercial) taken to Cardiff City

Council’s waste transfer station in Lamby Way by our collection vehicles

• Collected by Casepak and transported to Leicester to their Materials Recovery

Facility (MRF)

CASEPAK Ltd

Food and Green Waste

• Includes all weekly domestic and commercial organic waste and transported to Cowbridge

Compost.

• Treated in an In-Vessel Compost facility (IVC)
• Food is mixed with green waste to produce compost
• Any residual green waste is windrowed
• Contracted up until 31st March 2017 but it will not be extended or renewed
• From 31st March 2017 food waste will be treated at a new Anaerobic Digestion plant (AD) which

will capture energy recovery from the food waste

• A 15-year sustainable solution and part of Welsh Government’s Food Waste Treatment Programme
• Cardiff Council will be the principle Contractor and the Vale has an IAA with Cardiff City Council
• Plant operated by Kelda Organic Energy (Cardiff) Ltd and energy off take will go to a nearby

Welsh Water Plant

• Residual waste turned into a sustainable fertiliser recycled to local agriculture
• Green waste will be Open Windrowed Composted (OWC) at Lamby Way Depot Cardiff

IVC Composting Windrowing

New AD Facility

New Collection Rounds

Why change?

• To meet challenging efficiency savings / preparation of Reshaping Services
• Targets of:

£250k transport savings £190k organic services savings

• Old rounds had become less efficient and we were unable to capture new

efficiencies

• Low productivity
• Fleet spread too far apart to enable team work ethic

Recycling Maps pre 2012

Refuse & Recycling Maps 2012 to 2016 (Revised to incorporate comingling and single collection days)

New refuse and Recycling Collection Days

Weekly Recycling Collection Days (5-Zones)

Challenges of implementing revised collection rounds

• How do you effectively communicate with every household. How did we approach it?
• Exercise undertaken by the same operational staff who have always implemented the

change

• Consultation with collection staff (Approximately 6-months prior)
• A letter to every household
• Adverts in the B&D, PT, The Gem
• Facebook posts for 10-days, Twitter posts, Council enews, the Web
• Effectively an increase in communication compared with previous changes but more

services are delivered than before Problems experienced:

• Residents not opening the letters
• Waste out on wrong days
• Residents not following the calendar on the bottom of the letter
• Between 1-3 weeks variation on revised refuse collection days across households
• Staff learning new areas / increase in productivity

Outcomes

Will it improve the service?

• It will improve our efficiency and reduce costs
• It will improve staff team working ethic and staff moral
• Improve ability to share resources
• A single zone approach reduces the need for multiple support vehicles across the Vale
• It will assist with street cleansing services and resources can focus on zonal collection

days rather than trying to spread across the whole Vale on multiple collection days

• A single zone approach has the potential to accommodate other service provisions such

as grass cutting Lessons learned:

• We will hold staff consultation sessions to reflect back on the collection day changes,

assess outcomes and align future approaches

• Consider all the feedback from residents in terms of the communications used
• Introduce refresher training sessions for collection staff in terms of returning boxes

and bags

• Implement service quality monitoring
• Consider using front line C1V staff for engaging with residents prior to any future

changes

• Include communications when capturing public opinions whilst undertaking Recycling

Roadshows

Our Current Performance

• A reflection on the changes including progress made against savings targets

will be undertaken during November 2016

• Existing recycling rate is almost 65 %
• Welsh Government’s last statutory target was in 2015/16 (58%)
• The Vale was the second highest performing council in Wales in terms of

recycling performance during 2015/16 with a recycling rate of over 64%

• Comparing with other authorities in Wales on a per household basis the Vale
• f Glamorgan are ranked as the 3rd lowest in Wales
• Refuse collection costs in the Vale are the 2nd cheapest in Wales (Source: WLGA Waste

Finance Bulletin: April 2016)

• Our greatest area for improvement is dry recycling where we are ranked 9th in

Wales but the service is sustainable in terms of the receptacles we use and doesn’t justify the productivity outcome

Future Changes

• Consideration to The Waste Framework Directive and TEEP (Technically,

Environmentally and Economically Practicable). Authorities need establish whether separating materials will improve quality

• WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) have a draft report in

progress

• Services will continue to evolve and recycling participation will be ongoing
• Next recycling target is 64% (2019/20) and 70% by 2025
• Development of a new waste transfer station
• Update of our Waste Strategy
• Considerations to things like black bag restrictions
• 3GS Environmental enforcement officers

Any Questions?