1. Our Rubbish Relationship!
Emma and Roger
How full in your bin on collection day? Everyone is different, the amount they throw away depends on lots of things

2. West London Waste Authority (WLWA)
We are the statutory waste disposal authority for the six West London Boroughs – Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hounslow, Richmond and Hillingdon.
My name is …
WLWA - 6 Cllrs, funded by the 6 boroughs, run 2 HRRC too

3. Rubbish in Numbers These are 2012/13 figures.
The amount of rubbish has decreased significantly over the last 20 years and recycling has increased. We’re proud of our West London recycling rate of around 40%.

4. What happens next?

5. And on to the train
scunthorpe

6. Landfill

7. Waste to Energy
November 2013 contract with a consortium led by SITA UK to build the Severnside Energy Recovery Centre (SERC) at a site in Avonmouth, near Bristol
Waste will still be delivered by train
96% diversion from landfill and 2% more recycling
Generates 34MGW - enough power for 30,000 homes
Reduced carbon impact with future improvement planned
Cheaper than landfill
Lakeside facility – just outside the W London boundary, contract for 75,000 tonnes of waste. Mainly direct delivered from Hillingdon but other waste will start going in there too.
Serc - This has just entered construction (April 2014). From 2015/16 it will take all the residual waste from West London that currently goes to landfill. It will be a state of the art facility that generates energy that will be sold to the national grid.
FYI - The point of the new facility and the contract we entered in to for disposal from January 2014 is
High diversion from landfill at an affordable price
Long term security of performance and price
Increased recycling if cost effective
Reduced carbon impact
Closed loop solution
Future flexibility - Assumed boroughs achieve 50% recycling rate by 2020, Maximum Tonnage of 300ktpa, Guaranteed Minimum Tonnage of 235ktpa

8. Energy from Waste
Lakeside facility – just outside the W London boundary, contract for 75,000 tonnes of waste. Mainly direct delivered from Hillingdon but other waste will start going in there too.
Serc - This has just entered construction (April 2014). From 2015/16 it will take all the residual waste from West London that currently goes to landfill. It will be a state of the art facility that generates energy that will be sold to the national grid.
FYI - The point of the new facility and the contract we entered in to for disposal from January 2014 is
High diversion from landfill at an affordable price
Long term security of performance and price
Increased recycling if cost effective
Reduced carbon impact
Closed loop solution
Future flexibility - Assumed boroughs achieve 50% recycling rate by 2020, Maximum Tonnage of 300ktpa, Guaranteed Minimum Tonnage of 235ktpa

9. What A Waste
WLWA aims to reduce the amount of waste collected and sent for disposal
Putting it into action –
Examined the waste that is being thrown away
Researched a Waste Strategy and Action Plan to help us get started
Identified 5 key streams of waste – Electricals, Food, Furniture, Nappies and Textiles
WLWA budget for 2013/14 was £57.7 million, this year every tonne of rubbish sent for disposal will cost £116 a tonne whereas reducing, re-use or recycling is a lot cheaper e.g. £55 a tonne for mixed food and garden waste.
Most of what’s thrown away has a value
Monetary – value of the material used to make a product and what it’s worth to someone who can turn an unwanted item into a new item or the value to the new owner
Environmental impact – creation of an item uses resources and the materials have to be gotten from somewhere, throwing them away doesn’t do anything with that resource. Burying items in the ground returns no value to the material flows used for making new products or being used in exactly the same form by someone else.

10. It’s easy to save a few £’s
Over the last 5 years a lot of research has been carried out looking at food in rubbish bins. This national and local research means that we now know:
For every 5 bags of shopping bought, the content of 1 is thrown away
In BOROUGH approximately 30% (40% in Hillingdon) of the rubbish by weight is food
You pay 3 times for your food if you throw it away
1) You buy it
2) Pay to cook it, and prepare it (your time)
3) Pay to have your rubbish and recycling collected and then sent for disposal

11. Who throws away the most?
16 – 24
25 – 34
35 – 44
45 – 54
55 – 64
65+

12. We all throw away food PROP – A food item weighing 200g AND
A food item weighing 1.2kg
The graph comes up with an extra click, before you bring it up on screen ASK THE AUDIENCE – Do you think the amount of food thrown in the bin is different if you’re older or younger?
Once you have a couple of answers from the audience – bring up the graph.
Discuss – the difference between the ages is only USE PROPS
ASK THE AUDIENCE - is that what you expected?

13. Why is food thrown away?
Overall in the UK each year the amount of food thrown away weighs 7.2 million tonnes. It’s worth around £12 billion at current food prices. Some of the food items cannot be eaten (potato peelings, orange rind etc)
Explain what avoidable food items are – something that you can eat and would form part of a meal. But why do we throw away food?
Preparing too much - If you’re used to cooking a certain amount (say 2 children at home) but not everyone is home for dinner (perhaps 1 child has left for university) you could peel too many potatoes or carrots
Serving too much - The size portion you eat is different to the one eaten by your friend and you put the same amount on both plates OR your son eats a whole tomato but his friend doesn’t like them very much and will only eat half
Cook too much - You’re not sure how much spaghetti or rice you need and just pour it in to the saucepan, when it’s cooked there’s too much
Not used in time - You buy a packet of minced beef with a use by date of this Friday, but your husband/wife surprises you with takeaway tomorrow and you’re eating at your in-laws on Thursday and on Friday you feel like pizza.
Link your 2 food items to avoidable food waste

14. How many slices are thrown away every day?
24 million or
24,000,000 every day
The quantity of portions will come up on a second mouse click
ASK THE AUDIENCE – How many do they think?
Give an example of how you can store and use up bread…
Use these as you think are appropriate:
Bread can be frozen and taken out slice by slice
Bread kept in the fridge will go stale more quickly as it’s a dry environment
If you know you don’t eat a lot of bread, freeze half when you buy it and leave the rest in a bread bin or on the side out of the sun
If crusts aren’t liked cut them off and make breadcrumbs for use in cooking, breadcrumbs can be frozen too (put them in a plastic box until frozen and then transfer in to a bag so it takes up less room in the freezer)
Various sweet and savoury dishes can be made with bread – bread and butter pudding is well known but there are lots of others you can search for online

15. How many portions are thrown away every day?
4.1 million or
4,100,000
every day
The quantity of portions will come up on a second mouse click
ASK THE AUDIENCE – How many do they think? OR Do you think the number of these thrown away is higher or lower than the previous example/tomatoes
Give a storage tip to help them last longer OR a using up recipe idea
Use these as you think are appropriate:
Store them in the fridge not the fruit bowl – they’ll last about 2 weeks longer if you do
If apples are soft use them in smoothies or desserts and you’ll not taste the difference between firm and soft
Use up apples in a variety of dishes including smoothies ( fruit crumble with oat topping ( and fruit bowl buns ( Lots more ideas online.

16. How many portions are thrown away every day?
1.1 million or
1,100,000
every day
The quantity of portions will come up on a second mouse click
ASK THE AUDIENCE – How many do they think? OR Do you think the number of these thrown away is higher or lower than the previous example/tomatoes
Explain the float/sink test AND how to freeze them OR a using up recipe idea
Use these as you think are appropriate:
If eggs are almost at their best before date and you won’t eat them in time you can cook them and leave them in the fridge for a couple more days
If you’re not sure whether the egg has gone off or not try the sink/float test – put it in a jug of water and if it FLOATS you should throw it away
Freeze eggs (yes you can!). Separate the white and yolk and put them in separate containers in the freezer – label them so you know how many whites or yolks are in them. Or crack them and freeze whole.
If you like baking, use eggs you won’t eat in time to make cakes and then freeze the cakes to eat later!
What does this actually mean for us though?....

17. How much could you save each month?
In financial terms…
UK householders are throwing away £12.5 billion worth of good food and drink every year.
£470 per household per year
£700 per household with children per year
Savings of up to £60 a month
Explain the stats
ASK THE AUDIENCE – What would you buy with that money?
Give some examples of what £60 or £700 can buy
Perhaps a computer game, a ticket to a West End show, save up for a new fridgefreezer or perhaps a spa weekend…

18. How to reduce food waste?
Plan your meals
Perfect portions
Savvy Storage
Know Your Dates
Explain the stats
ASK THE AUDIENCE – What would you buy with that money?
Give some examples of what £60 or £700 can buy
Perhaps a computer game, a ticket to a West End show, save up for a new fridgefreezer or perhaps a spa weekend…

19. Food shops are helping too
Explain how each of these help to reduce food wastage
Give stat for how much food is throw away from the supply chain versus homes
Packaging myth – packaging isn’t always a bad thing

20. WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Anything electrical that is powered by a plug or a battery, and is often made from finite resources, e.g. plastic used in most electricals is made from the fossil fuel oil.
The fastest growing waste type in Europe, with over 75% ending up in landfill.

21. 25% of WEEE that is thrown away still works
Between 2012 and 2020 people in the UK will buy 10 million tonnes of electricals, and in your lifetime you will create 3.3 tonnes of WEEE
It takes 50 times more energy to make a battery than it will give out

22. Electrical Events
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment or WEEE

23. What Can You Do? Use rechargeable batteries or mains based charging.
Give it to a charity shop or listing it online
Recycle!
Put them out with your recycling in an untied carrier bag to be collected!
Nearest recycle site is Space Waye

24. Textiles Did you know the clothes in most homes are worth £4,000
In the UK we spend £44 billion on buying new clothes each year, around 1.14 million tonnes in weight
Consumers in the UK spend about £780 per person on clothing per year
ADDRESS THE CONCERN ABOUT SECOND HAND BEING DIRTY
One concern people have mentioned to me is about second-hand clothes being unclean. I understand why someone may think this. Charity shops sort clothes before they are hung up and priced, when you buy from something new from a shop (give age appropriate e.g. i.e. M&S New look etc) you don’t know how many people have touched it, have tried it on or bought it taken it home and returned it which is why you will wash it. Second hand is the same, wash it and then wear it yourself.

25. Textiles
As a society we purchase 400% more clothing today than we did just 20 years ago.
31% of clothing ends up in the landfill in the UK amounting to around 350,000 tonnes of used clothing with an estimated value of 140 million pounds every year
Today, we wear our clothing on average of only seven times before we get rid of it.

26. Textiles – Why does it matter?
Every ton of discarded textiles reused saves 20 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Carbon emissions generated by the clothing of an “average” British household is the equivalent to driving 6,000 miles (London to Bangkok)

27. Textiles
An average cotton t-shirt can require 2,700 litres of water and an average pair of jeans can use over 10,000 litres of water. Enough water for one person for 900 days!

28. What Can We Do? Buy clothing that is manufactured sustainably
Line-dry clothes whenever possible.
Wash clothes at 30oC and use eco-friendly cleaning technologies
Only wash your clothes when necessary. Jeans in particular can be worn multiple times before washing.
Have a look on Love Your Clothes Website

29. Swish!

30. Why Swish? Free clothes swap
Social event run for public or between friends
It reduces textile waste by swapping clothes no longer wanted and giving them a new home!
Saves you money on buying new clothes!
Leftovers are donated to charity!

31. Want to find out more? www.westlondonwaste.gov.uk/
Surf the web for ideas
Ask friends and neighbours for their ideas
Ask us to talk to a local group
Visit our information stand at events
Chat with us on Facebook and

32. Any questions?