Browse our collection of resources for local authorities covering a range of topics including previous webinars, collections and recycling, procurement and management, communications support, contamination and waste.

Operational service design and implementation

  • Service change implementation planning guide

  • Greater consistency in household recycling in England: A framework

  • Alternate weekly collections guidance

  • Household food waste collections guide

  • Kerbside recycling: Indicative costs and performance

  • Collection of food and drink cartons at the kerbside

  • Collection and sorting of household rigid plastic packaging

Tackling contamination

  • Tackling contamination in dry recycling

  • Contamination communication materials

  • Train the trainer: Helping crews act on contamination

Strategic support and considerations

  • Recycling Guidelines

  • Approaches to material sales: A guide for local authorities

  • Local Authority Guide to Contract Procurement and Management

  • Carbon Waste and Resources Metric

HWRCs

  • Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs)

    The challenges and opportunities of running a successful HWRC

  • The relationship between fly-tipping rates and HWRC charging

    Determining whether the introduction of charges for DIY type waste at HWRCs is likely to lead to an increase in fly-tipping of this waste.

Re-use and waste prevention

  • Household Waste Prevention Hub

    The Hub provides local authorities with a comprehensive online resource to enable them to produce a waste prevention plan and to help householders prevent waste.

Communications guidance

  • Service Change Communications Guide

  • Improving Recycling Through Effective Communications

  • Local Authority Website Good Practice Guide

  • Recycling Tracker Report 2021: Behaviours, attitudes and awareness around recycling

  • Love Food Hate Waste

  • Recycle Now

  • Using the Recycle Now toolkit 2022: Changing minds about recycling

  • Previous campaigns

Commercial waste

  • Commercial recycling collections guide

    A guide for local authorities to help determine, implement and optimise efficient and effective commercial recycling collection services.

  • Commercial and household waste and recycling apportionment tool

    A tool to help local authorities to calculate the proportion of waste and recycling when it is co-collected on the same vehicle.

Previous webinars for local authorities

Explore our previous webinars for local authorities covering a range of topics including tackling contamination, the benefits of introducing a food waste collection and communicating service changes.

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