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Waste managment, a key area of local authority activity, is coming under increasing government and public scrutiny, on both environmental and economic grounds.
Key issues
You may identify with some of the following:
- the imperative to achieve cost savings and improve services.
- impending rises in landfill taxes that make the case for encouraging domestic recycling ever more compelling
- knowing the location of field operatives in order to ensure their health and safety
Geographic information can address many of these, delivering:
- review existing waste-management procedures;
- optimising refuse-collection routes;
- implementing waste-management strategies; and
- deciding the best location for new amenities.
Case studies
Improving green waste recycling using OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
The Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) is responsible for the management and disposal of rubbish collected by several London boroughs. To meet their 2005–06 recycling targets, the WRWA constituent boroughs had to continue to improve existing recycling services for residents.
Optimising waste collection using OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer
As part of the first stage of a county-wide programme, the Northamptonshire Waste Partnership has enabled Daventry District Council to rationalise the number of domestic waste collection routes from nine to eight, reducing diesel costs by 12%, increasing spare capacity by 14% and eliminating overtime costs.
Interested? Please get in touch
We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us and we'll suggest how to take this forward.
Our offering
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
Our flagship large-scale, polygonised and seamless topographic database product, it offers clear and customisable on-screen mapping, plus the facility to overlay your own data, making it ideal for targeting green waste recycling.
OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer
An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it shows all navigable roads across Great Britain and route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will help you plan your collection routes.
The most complete, comprehensive, national spatial address dataset for the whole of Great Britain, it includes alternative geographical addresses, buildings without a postal address and multi-occupancy properties. Use it track your distribution of bins and membership of garden waste recycling schemes.
Points of Interest is a dataset of around 3.9 million geographic and commercial features across Great Britain, highlighting location and function information, and with a postal address for all postally addressable points. License it and you can analyse the nature of commercial premises from which you collect.
Boundary-Line is a specialist 1:10 000 scale boundaries vector dataset. It contains all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies, enabling you to provide management reports to your councillors ward-by-ward as required.
Our partners
You will need specialist software, often referred to as a geographical information system (GIS), to gain maximum benefit from our data products. Our partners provide services ranging from licensing off-the-shelf software right through to building you a bespoke solution that embeds our products.