Household bulky waste collection and re-use in England

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This research has made a thorough assessment of current management practices for household bulky waste in England.  Local authority collections services for bulky waste were evaluated, and the potential for re-use and recycling assessed.  The current and potential role of re-use organisations was then evaluated, and operational changes that would be required to maximise the recovery of household bulky waste in England were identified.

It was found that re-use of local authority-collected bulky items is currently far below capacity, at only 2-3%, whilst re-use organisations reuse approximately 85% of the items they receive.  Local authorities tend not to have the infrastructure to enable re-use.  Charitable re-use organisations, on the other hand, were established for this very purpose, and establishing good working partnerships between local authorities and re-use organisations will be key to improving recovery in this waste stream.  Promoting a better understanding of the social as well as environmental benefits of furniture and appliance re-use would help to bring about the change in attitudes, and then behaviour, of local authority waste managers to enable this to be achieved.

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