Local Authorities
Local Authorities are responsible for the collection, treatment and disposal of household waste in the UK. They also have obligations to provide services to similar commercial waste streams in their area. In some cases overall arrangements are delivered via private sector contractors (especially with regards to disposal and treatment) and some via in-house local authority departments or arms lengths companies (for example collection and street cleansing via a LATCO) or a combination of the two.
The structure of local authorities has, in the past, often been delivered at two levels – Collection (frequently a District Council responsibility) and Treatment/Disposal (frequently a County Council responsibility). In Unitary authorities, and under current government reorganisation, these responsibilities will be merged under one authority. As a result, WikiWaste focuses the listing on those local authorities that have treatment and disposal responsibility, and for each of these authorities lists the collection authorities where they exist. As government reorganisation occurs and data is reported differently so WikiWaste will change the page listings such that the collection authorities are fully absorbed into the unitary authorities.
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Purpose
The local authorities category links to a complete list of all authorities summarising their key tonnages and performance allowing users to understand what arrangements are in place, who delivers those arrangements, and where key materials go to.
Connections
The Local Authority category links to country/regional pages for the UK, and these pages link to
- a complete listing of local authorities for that country/region
- a list of any ‘procurement partnerships’ between authorities are listed
- links to individual pages are available for each authority, with each individual local authority listing their -
- key collection arrangements/collection approach
- key tonnages
- site facilities that key tonnages go to
- key contractual arrangements, and
- key performance metrics (which in turn link to key metric pages comparing performance)
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