The Problem
All UK Local Authorities are looking to make substantial budget savings over the coming years. How do they achieve these savings? What local services will be cut? It’s a very difficult decision.
A service which can be easily tackled is their street cleaning operations. Throughout cities, towns, villages and places of interest there sits a humble street litter bin. Local Authorities can’t just remove these bins hoping no litter will be generated. But efficiencies in servicing these bins can be addressed very simply with a cost-effective solution.
Firstly, establish how often your street cleaning crew visit these bins. Too frequent visiting wastes valuable resource in crew’s time, fueland the associated collection vehicle’s running costs. Too infrequent visits can cause an overflow situation which then leads to complaints having to be actioned, which again generates costs which stretch the budget even further.
The Cause of the Problem
The lack of visibility and therefore the need to physically check every single street litter bin across the Local Authority’s boundary lines. This is both time consuming, costly and unproductive.
Operatives can and often will report incorrectly, perhaps protecting their personal interests, and therefore Managers arrange their scheduled empty too early to remove the possibility of costly reactions to complaints and a clean-up team being dispatched.