Recycling and Waste: Consultancy vs Benchmarking

Within the UK there are numerous styles of recycling and waste consultants from large dedicated environmental consultancies, and individual private consultants, and many of the recycling and waste service providers will often profess to provide a consultancy offering as part of their service.

In addition, many of the large one-stop solution accountancy firms would also enter into the equation of consultancy in terms of their auditing function. Through the consultancy provision, the customer will have confirmation of their compliance with legislation, and an overview of where there are shortfalls, they will have rubber stamped confirmation that they have a waste transfer note relevant to the material being removed, and that the material was moved by a licensed carrier, to a permitted sited with a section 62 consignment note if 1 is required for the material.

The consultancy provider will often supply simple to achieve and adopt ideas and make recommendations that may drive change and improvement. There are key elements though that the consultancy approach to recycling and waste provision will not be able to provide and this is the data that benchmarking operations do deliver.

The benchmarking of recycling and waste services and the data associated with it helps those managing the recycling and waste provision whether it is in a University, commercial environment, or an acute healthcare setting. Being able to completely understand a recycling rate based on material leaving a facility and the costs associated with it make a major difference to an organisation and the way it is perceived environmentally. It gives those in a sustainability role access to key data and those managing the process the ability to make decisions based on fact in the current marketplace now.

Recycling and waste benchmarking data opens up comparisons within the market, the region, the sector and not only by overall costs but by stream, recycling rate and it certain cases existing efficiencies and effectiveness of the service provision can also be measured.

Benchmarking a recycling and waste provision provides a deeper insight into the actual activity versus an audit review of documented movements and the compliance with regulations which whilst important will not enable the receiving party to drive improvement and change for the better in the processes and solutions of the facility.

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