Waste Survey Design

CEC offer a range of monitoring and evaluation services to help Local Authorities understand the performance of their waste and recycling services:

• Assessment of scheme participation rates
• Assessment of yields per participating household
• Identification of factors associated with high and low performance
• Waste stream analysis
• Assessment of service user satisfaction
• Identification any operational issues

CEC has a wide range of experience designing and implementing participation studies and waste analyses which:

• derive accurate results representative of the target population
• use appropriate sample sizes to maximise precision and minimise margins of error with the resources you have available
• profile populations and routes by ACORN socio-demographic segmentation or Council Tax banding for a more representative sample

Through advanced data analysis of collected data CEC can help Local Authorities:

• Optimise existing scheme efficiency
• Calibrate public engagement campaigns to ensure the greatest impact and resource efficiency
• Identify potential service improvements
• Assess the likelihood of meeting recycling and landfill targets
• Evaluate the operational efficiency of the service
• Assess budgetary implications at variable levels of performance
• Identify best practice for additional scheme roll-outs or upgrades
• Justify future strategy to stakeholders