APSE national environmental services seminar 2011: Sustaining the front line
This two-day seminar explored and developed a range of key themes impacting on environmental services. This APSE seminar had an impressive range of speakers involved in the debate, pulling together the key issues, opportunities and challenges for vital frontline services.
Presentations
Joint working on waste in Surrey
- Shared food waste at flats service with Woking Borough Council
- Cross boundary trade waste operations
- Joint procurement for material outlets
- Using benchmarking to assist partnership development – opportunities and risks
Speaker: Chris Wheeler, Recycling and Cleansing Manager, Guildford Borough Council
SME trade waste at civic amenity sites - lessons learnt
- Service provision - a gap in the market
- Pricing is critical
- Making trade waste attractive - waste segregation
Speaker: Mark Loran, Team Manager - Facilities and Operations, Staffordshire County Council
South Gloucestershire’s on-street recycling scheme
- Streams covered by the scheme
- How the scheme works alongside other recycling services
- What difference does this make?
Speaker: Alison Richards, Street Cleansing Manager, South Gloucestershire Council
Innovation & transformation in transport services
- Working with internal fleet customers with a focus on waste, grounds and street cleansing
- Business transformation
- Identifying and exploring innovation
Speaker: Dave Bone, Acting Fleet Manager, Southampton City Council
Achieving behavioural change in litter
- ‘Littering - it's not a good look’ and ‘Litter Buster’
- Independent research showed a 14% reduction
- Range of methods used and what works in practice
Speaker: Judith Greene, Community Awareness Manager, Belfast City Council
Skills development in the horticulture sector
- National review of horticulture and associated skills
- Additional skills including working with volunteers
- Women and Work scheme
Speaker: David Winn, Industry Partnership Manager, Lantra
Neighbourhood Apprentice programme
- How the programme works
- Practical experiences at Blackburn with- Darwen of the programme
- Economic, environmental and social benefits
Speaker: Craig Denmark, Assistant Manager, Blackburn-with-Darwen Council and David Smith, Director, Nordic Pioneer Ltd