WASTE MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2019

“Tendering and Managing a “Smart” Waste Collection and Street Cleansing Contract” – The City of London Corporation looks after the streets in the historic financial district of London which includes collecting waste from residential properties such as the Barbican estate and flats in old Churches as well as ensuring the medieval alleyways and frontages to some of the country’s most iconic skyscrapers are swept to the highest standards. In April 2019, Veolia ES were awarded the contract for street cleansing and waste collection for a period of up to 16 years. A key ambition for the contract was that it be data driven, innovative and flexible. This keynote will outline the associated challenges and demonstrate some of the data which the Client and Contractor have available to them and the benefits this can bring to the City going forward. Joe and Vince’s presentation will also highlight the use of zero emissions vehicles on the contract which will include the first fully electric fleet of RCVs in the country.

“Making Sense of Waste Management with Sensors” – IntechnologyWiFi are working with both public and private sector organisations to make better sense of their waste management activities and deliver significant cost savings. This presentation explains how, through the deployment of sensor-based technology, organisations can immediately begin to gain a detailed and in-depth understanding of their assets. From understanding efficiencies in pick frequency to the number of deployed assets and their locations, Intechnology’s award-winning solution delivers operational efficiencies, reduces overheads and allows optimum performance.

“Putting a Deposit Return Scheme in your Pocket with Blockchain” – CryptoCycle develops blockchain based solutions to incentivise behavioural changes in the circular economy. They are delivering change to the circular economy and wider supply chains with transparent and incorruptible solutions that engage consumers through mobile apps. In this presentation, CryptoCycle’s CTO & Co-Founder demonstrates how Reward4Waste is a perfect example of how blockchain technology can be used to drive meaningful and significant change to the global economy. This encrypted unique-code system for deposit return schemes is just the first of many possible applications.

“Transforming Waste to Opportunity” – FoodCloud is a social enterprise that connects businesses with surplus food to charities that need food using digital technology. This presentation reveals how FoodCloud’s processes and technology allow very short dated and small quantities of food to be redistributed effectively in local communities. This provides a new method of food rescue that can be adopted globally. To date, FoodCloud has supported the redistribution of over 50 million meals in the UK and Ireland.

“Increasing Recycling, Reducing Fly-Tipping and Encouraging Community Engagement through a Peer-to-Peer Solution” – Tiptapp is a crowdsourced peer-to-peer marketplace app where users help each other to move things from one place to another. The app connects anyone in need of help with thousands of rated helpers, regular people with a car, time on their hands and who are ready to provide assistance. Launched in 2016 in Sweden, Tiptapp has saved in excess of 22,000 items from landfill and also saved the CO2 from more than 100,000 drives to recycling centres. This presentation highlights how Tiptapp is making recycling easier for the citizens of London and, through collaborations with councils, can increase the rate of recycling and reuse across society. Andreas will also outline how items disposed of via the app are being correctly recycled.

“Life SMART Waste – Innovative Ways to Understand, Tackle and Reduce Waste Crime” – The Life SMART Waste Project is an EU wide project which commenced in 2014 and is due for completion later this year. The Project was given a 4.3 million euro budget to design tools and techniques which, although piloted and tested within the UK were transferrable across Europe. The Project is led by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency with 3 other associated beneficiaries who are Natural Resources Wales, ACR+ (an international network of cities and regions who share an aim of promoting sustainable resource management based in Belgium) and the Brussels Environment. In this keynote presentation, Iain will focus on some of the innovative digital and data driven tools and techniques that are being developed and also update us on the afterlife plan around guidance, policy and training which will continue after the Project has ended. He’ll also outline some of the joint work SEPA are undertaking with Interpol in relation to China’s recent restrictions on plastics importation.

“Improving Recycling in Flats – Insights to Drive Innovation” – One of the greatest obstacles to delivering effective household recycling services in dense urban environments such as London and achieving regional and national recycling targets, is the poor performance of communal recycling service provision to purpose-built flats. Resource London (a partnership between LWARB and WRAP) have undertaken a project to try and address this by conducting a huge data/insight gathering exercise using ethnographic research and estate inventories to ascertain why people living in flats do not engage with their recycling service. In this closing keynote, Antony will discuss how this data has been utilised to help design interventions to improve recycling at flats; and demonstrates the importance of monitoring and evaluation to improve services.