Press Release
Entec and Webaspx to Model Waste and Recycling Collections Across Nottinghamshire

Issue date: 7 September 2006

The Nottinghamshire Waste Collection Authorities have comissioned Entec and Webaspx to carry out a logistics modelling study of waste and recycling services across the whole of Nottinghamshire. The study, which is being funded by the East Midlands Centre of Excellence, aims to identify potential savings in improved refuse and recycling collection round design, and apply the same principles to trade waste and medical waste collections across the county .

Entec, with Webaspx as sub-contractors, were appointed through the OGC buying solutions Environmental Advice, Support and Delivery framework , which provides multi-disciplinary professional and technical services across the public sector.

Current waste collection services within Nottinghamshire are structured within the boundaries of the seven district and borough councils, and Nottingham City Council as a unitary authority. The study will explore the potential benefits of cross-border (joint) working in order to deliver Gershon efficiences.

The study will be delivered in three phases. Phase 1 will consider opportunities within each of the individual authorities to improve round design and associated crew/vehicle deployment. Phase 2 will look at local partnerships with authorities working in alliance with their neighbours and the final phase will take a holistic view of the authorities working together as a single entity, resulting in the design and reporting of an integrated set of collection rounds.

Gedling Borough Council Project Manager, David Parton said “Entec and Webaspx are well placed to carry out this work, having pioneered the development of an innovative waste logistics modelling service. The two organisations have worked with a large number of Waste Collection Authorities (WCAs) and their contractors on round design projects and have developed protocols to deal with differing levels of data availability and accuracy, supported by leading edge tools to support the data capture and modelling process.”

Enquiries to:

Victoria Logan
Email: logav@entecuk.co.uk
Tel: 0191 272 6337
Fax: 0191 272 6592

Calum Forsyth
Email: calum.forsyth@webaspx.com
Tel: 01928 513336
Fax: 01928 513536

Notes to Editors:

• Entec is one of the UK ’s largest environmental and engineering consultancies. The technical and business skills of over 700 staff and associates are dedicated to delivering strategic, technical and engineering solutions which bring commercial benefits to our customers at home and overseas. This know-how is based on over 60 years of consulting experience in the public and private sectors. For further information, please visit our website www.entecuk.com

• Webaspx is a leading provider of innovative, model based decision support tools to the waste management, highways and other public and private sectors. We help our clients by using numerate analysis of difficult problems to make higher quality decisions at operating, tactical and strategic level. Webaspx, with Entec, have pioneered the use of such techniques to design efficient waste collection rounds in the UK . Webaspx has won a number of awards for its round design technology. For further information, please visit our website www.webaspx.com

• OGCbuying.solutions is an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce in the Treasury. Their role is to deliver value for money gains for central civil government and the wider public sector through a dedicated, professional procurement service. For further information about the work of OGCbuying.solutions visit www.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk

• Sir Peter Gershon's efficiency review, published in July 2004, challenged local authorities and Whitehall departments to make £21bn savings by 2008. Over one third of this figure, £7.17bn, is to come from savings in public sector procurement. To view this report, please go to http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk./

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