Commercial Waste Toolkit
Enhance Your Commercial Waste Services with Our Commercial Waste Toolkit
Commercial waste services are a vital component of effective Recycling and Waste Management strategies, directly influencing the reputation, operational efficiency, and financial health of local authorities. Optimizing these services can lead to significant improvements in performance and financial outcomes for local councils.
The Commercial Waste Toolkit is designed to support local authorities in evaluating and enhancing their commercial waste operations. A well-structured commercial waste service not only enhances service delivery but also drives profitability, market share, and adaptability to future policy changes. At Local Partnerships, we have a proven track record of helping local authorities successfully navigate these critical transitions.
Whether your objective is to improve service delivery, boost income, or prepare for evolving environmental policies, our Commercial Waste Toolkit provides a step-by-step approach tailored to your needs.
If you’re a Director, Head of Service, Commercial Waste Manager, or Officer responsible for overseeing commercial waste services, this toolkit is your go-to resource for enhancing your service efficiency and profitability.
The commercial waste toolkit contains a series of work packages, enabling a practical approach to identify opportunities and challenges at a service/operational level. The information is universal and adaptable to each LA’s own needs and requirements. Whilst the toolkit is focused on commercial waste services, many of the principles can be applied to other chargeable services.
Whilst the commercial waste service is just one element of the Waste and Recycling Service remit, it is complex, of high value and cuts across the whole service area. Therefore, it is important to break the review into manageable work streams that can provide the right level of focus, but also allow officers to continue with their day-to-day commitments.
A key place to start the review journey is to understand the current commercial position and offering.
Baseline development can assist in identifying any knowledge gaps, areas of risk as well as provide a point from which you can measure the impact of any changes.
Understanding the financial flows and cost recovery is critical for any paid service. Typically, LA accounting does not use a profit and loss approach, with operational, disposal and income numbers sitting under different cost codes.
Having a robust profit and loss financial understanding can not only inform a path to full cost recovery, but it can also support invest to save proposals and business case development.
Knowing your market and where you wish to be positioned is key to a successful commercial waste service. By looking internally and externally your unique selling point can be established, this is the area that sets you apart from the rest of the market and is why customers choose your service. For customers, especially for small and medium businesses, price is not the only factor that drives their choice and LAs hold a reputation for service delivery and transparency.
Through each workstreams the aim is to identify some quick wins, that may be implemented in the short term and to start developing a vision of how the service can transfer to the desired future state. All the changes do not need to happen at once and consideration should be given to sequencing and impact of any service change.