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Understanding the motivations and behaviours of different stakeholders is essential to targeting the right messages to the right audiences.
As a local authority you may not be best placed to deliver messages to all audiences so it is important to look for partners who residents engage with.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Re-use
- Retailers and brands
- Local Authorities
This section introduces ways in which to effectively encourage householders to enact waste prevention behaviours.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
Once you have identified which waste stream to target the next step is to “get to know” your audience, understand their issues, and how to target them effectively.
- Waste management and end markets
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Local Authorities
This section highlights other cross-cutting drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan. It covers:
- The Compact
- Localism, and
- National Indicators
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Re-use & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main environmental drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main social drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
In this section we offer an example plan structure that can be used as a starting template for your own plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Local Authorities
After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- Local Authorities
This section outlines processes that local authorities can use to estimate cost and carbon savings that successful waste prevention activities can bring.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Local Authorities
Planning and estimating potential diversion
This section describes two basic steps that should be completed by a local authority in the initial stages of planning a waste prevention programme. It is important to understand the nature of the waste collected before an estimation of the impact of specific waste prevention activities is made.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Re-use
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Water stewardship
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities