With significant pressures facing local government waste services, and 79% of APSE members reporting a further squeeze on waste and recycling budgets, a timely new research publication has been released. ‘Waste: A brave new world’ explores the pressures on budgets and looks across the UK at how local authorities are responding to new and existing pressures on waste and recycling services.
The report explores:
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Other issues touched upon in this research include waste to energy schemes, climate change, social value, and local economic development; these issues are impacting on strategic decision making but also need to be addressed through localised actions on waste and recycling.
We hope that this research will be a useful resource for APSE members.
The new research can be downloaded here free of charge for APSE members.