For our Christmas Webinar for 2021, Stuart was joined by sustainable consumption and product design expert, Professor Tim Cooper, of Nottingham Trent University, who discussed how his 1994 report ‘Beyond Recycling’ included many of the strands within circular economy thinking,  and why his particular interest in extending product life is a key element of the circular economy. Rachel Barnes of Barnes and Binns General Store in Hove talked about setting up a waste-free store and how they are building relationships with the local community and with closed loop suppliers.
Live, Christmas music was supplied by Simeon Walker, pianist and composer.

See the webinar below:

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We hosted a Webinar on RouteSmart Macro-Language on 25th November 2021.

Want to save time by automating tasks in RouteSmart? 

RouteSmart Macro-Language (RML) is a basic scripting language that automates RouteSmart procedures. RML can be run within RouteSmart itself or combined with Python scripting to save time by cutting down on manual/ repetitive tasks. Examples include:

• Assigning Service Locations to Streets 
• Regularly updating the service location layer
• Regularly exporting summary information
• Performing dynamic routing (e.g. bulky waste)
• Updating assisted collections
• Automatically running solver iterations during high-level modelling

View the webinar in Freshdesk here.

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We hosted a Webinar looking at Time Commitments in RouteSmart on 30th September 2021.

Have you ever wondered how to control your routes to force or avoid service at certain times of the day?

You are in luck… this webinar will talk you through time commitments (time windows and blackout windows). 

By using Time Windows or Blackout windows, you can tell the software when service is allowed and when it is not permitted. Perhaps, you want to service an area after the school drop-off, and before pick-up. It can be set-up simply by populating associated fields in the Service Location layer.

View the webinar in Freshdesk here.

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On Wednesday 18th August 2021, we hosted a webinar with guest speaker Joanne Wood. Joanne is a founder of WikiWaste, a powerful resource for everyone within the environmental sector.
Joanne gave us an introduction to WikiWaste along with a detailed explanation of it's functionality and how to use it effectively.

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On 29th June 2021 we held our first Ask Us Anything Webinar, answering queries from our RouteSmart usership and investigating issues that are sometimes faced when using RouteSmart for ArcGIS.

View the Webinar here.

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In our most recent webinar we investigated some of the most valuable technology implemented in Waste Management, Streets Maintenance and other infrastructure services. Stuart spoke to James and Shaun from Vision Techniques about the value of CCTV on service vehicles. Stuart also spoke to Ges from Rugged Mobile about the value of in-cab, rugged computing.

See the webinar below.

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On 27th May 2021 our RouteSmart Consultant, Beth Webb, hosted a webinar investigating in depth the uses of the Attributes table in RouteSmart.

The Attribute Manager allows you to save attributes in one workspace for your service location, street, or facility layers, and then load them into another workspace. It replaces the need for table joins in order to copy attributes between workspaces. So if you made changes to property street assignments in one workspace for example, you can quickly and easily move them to another workspace. 

Freshdesk users can view the webinar here.

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On Friday 16th April we hosted a webinar with our friends Sarahjane Widdowson and Paul Frith, investigating carbon and carbon reduction as a reminder to those of us who have targets to meet.

If you are in waste management and need to get your head around the basics of carbon & carbon reduction and how it relates to your role, then this webinar is for you.

• Basic Carbon facts- what's the problem again? - a refresher
• Carbon footprints, Carbon accounting and Carbon targets
• Local authority actions on Carbon
• What about Carbon and Waste Management, recycling & the waste hierarchy and the Circular Economy?
• Thoughts on Reducing Carbon in Waste Management Services?

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