On 11th December 2020, we held a Christmas webinar looking at the Wastes of Christmas Past, Present & Future. We were fortunate enough to have an array of guests looking at various aspects, they were:

• Gill King from the Museum of London Archeology
• Paul Frith from Frith Resource Management
• Sarahjane Widdowson from Intelisos
• Sarah Knapp from Integrated Skills
• and Simeon Walker, pianist & songwriter

There were insights provided into the evolving waste composition that has been collected over the past couple of centuries as well as how it was managed. Then looking at current expectations in waste management but also recent developments under the circumstances of Covid-19 in 2020. There was then consideration of how to improve our approaches as a society but also approaches to sustainability and better circular economy. Simeon provided a wonderful soundtrack with some of his music and a rendition of a Carol, keeping things festive. View the webinar below:

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In this webinar, consultant James Baker investigates the Export Wizard and it's applications as it allows you to export data for many uses outside RouteSmart. See how to quickly and consistently export a selection or all data by allowing users to save templates for ongoing use. James also looks into how export data from other layers in your workspace.

James shows how to create a template within the export wizard and also answers questions that we get in our support portal, Freshdesk.

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On 25th September 2020, our RouteSmart consultant, James Baker hosted a webinar masterclass looking at the Set Segment ID and Side tools in RouteSmart.

'When properties are assigned to the wrong streets, this leads to inaccuracies and can add unnecessary travel time to routes. Sometimes properties are collected from different locations depending on the service and it can also be difficult syncing property assignments between workspaces.

During the webinar below we explore the Set Segment ID and Side tool (alongside others) to show how these issues can be addressed and we will also demonstrate our Street Assignment Visualiser tool which helps users see, at a glance, which streets properties are linked to.'

This webinar can be viewed on our Freshdesk portal here.

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On Friday 21st August 2020, we hosted a webinar investigating the approach Leeds City Council took in order to open re-use shops at two of their household waste sites. Hearing from Liz Behrens, we were given a comprehensive understanding of the steps required to successfully deliver such a project as well as other practical elements including the management, space and funding required.

Liz elaborated on the steps she and her team took to establish the first shop and how the responsibilities were divided. They were keen to allow retailers to manage that aspect of their operations. Which segues neatly into our net guest, from Louise Megson from Revive Leeds - the shop itself. 'Revive Leeds is a partnership between St Vincent De Paul, a charity helping alleviate poverty and SLATE, a charity supporting people with learning disabilities. Any profits are pumped straight back into the organisations supporting local people.'

Louise emphasised the community element of the Revive project and how valuable it has been for the volunteers and some 30 employees.

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View the slides here.

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On 17th July 2020, we hosted a webinar investigating the uses of RouteSmart Solvers.

Exploring each solver in detail our RouteSmart Consultant, James Baker, provides practical examples of their uses and great potential.

Freshdesk users can view the webinar here

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Key concepts and latest developments every Waste & Environmental Manager should know.

On Friday 19th June 2020, we hosted a webinar discussing the Circular Economy model with Stuart Henshaw of Integrated Skills and Brian Mayne, a leader on the subject. Brian set out the key concepts and explained the latest developments resulting from the approach and investigated how local authorities can adapt.

Brian Mayne is a fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, a fellow of the RSA, Chartered Environmentalist and an ISWA International Waste Manager. Previously, the regional director (Wales) for Ricardo Energy and Environment, Brian has managed the delivery of local government waste management services, and is also a specialist in marketing, communications and behaviour change. Brian has been involved in the development and delivery of a number of UK wide awareness campaigns and has lectured at Cardiff, Reading, Leeds, Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities. He has also developed and delivered a range of training on environmental and waste issues including the circular economy. He is a writer and is currently producing a series of articles on the Circular Economy.

Stuart is Business Development Director at Integrated Skills and leads their wider waste awareness webinar programme.

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Circular Economy Masterclass

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Integrated Skills put together an ad-hoc webinar in response to the COVID-19 emergency on Wednesday 8th April. Sarahjane Widdowson discussed the emergency and implications for waste services across the UK. She provided a briefing on the current impact of the virus and outlined issues which local authority waste management service providers should be considering, including:

• Workforce - Sickness rates, Social/physical distancing, Cleaning, redeploying staff from other frontline services
• Service delivery - changes to services – reduction in food and garden waste
• HWRCs - closure / changes to operations / opening times
• Fly tipping and litter - Incidences of fly tipping
• Treatment and Disposal - Availability of treatment and disposal
• Resident behaviour - Panic buying and changes to waste composition
• How will this change services in the long term?

Sarahjane is a Director at Intelisos and specialist in public policy development for waste, with experience working with NHS service providers, an author of best practice guides and advisor to local authorities on clinical waste collections. Click here to view Sarahjane's presentation.

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Integrated Skills runs a monthly webinar series, which supports both its clients and non-clients with topical information and discussion on waste and environmental services issues as well as technical training in its own software solutions.

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On Friday 27th March, we hosted a webinar with Paul Frith of Frith Resource Management. Paul gave a detailed explanation of the benefits a local authority can welcome when selecting In-sourced and Outsourced service support and provision. View the webinar below:

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Local Government Service Approaches Frith Resource Mgmt

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On Friday 28th February we hosted a webinar which provided the latest update on the Government’s progress on its Resources & Waste Strategy launched in 2019. Victoria Hutchin, of Serco provided the latest news which is a useful reference document for local authorities. Sarah Knapp of Integrated Skills highlighted why Waste composition Analysis is coming of age with the requirements of the Resources Strategy, and gave examples in her 16 years work in this area. View the webinar below:

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