1. WASTE PREVENTION TOOLKIT
Measuring the Impact of Household Waste
Prevention Initiatives
Emma How
Eunomia Research & Consulting
19th March 2015
2. “The objects flying
through the air would take
40 hours to clean, except
that no housewife need
bother. They are all meant
to be thrown away after
use.”
LIFE Magazine, 1955
3. “One barrier identified by local authorities
is the difficulty making the case for waste
prevention to prioritise spending because
of a lack of data”
Defra, Consultation on the Waste Prevention
Programme for England, August 2013
4. What is the Waste Prevention Toolkit?
• Started out as Waste Avoidance Toolkit for Welsh local
authorities
• Modified for use across the UK as Waste Prevention Toolkit
• Available free to all Local Authorities.
• Easy to use Excel Based Model.
• A way to systematically assess the financial and
environmental impact of 10 preloaded waste prevention
initiatives and 3 “other” initiatives.
• Backed up by 54 case studies - mainly from across the UK
with some from Europe
5. How Does it Work?
• There are three core areas to the Waste
Prevention Toolkit:
• Set –Up:
• Baseline inputs.
• Cost assumptions.
• Choose Initiatives and define inputs:
• Choose initiatives.
• Individual initiative tabs.
• Results/Outputs:
• Tables and Charts.
6. Set-Up
• Baseline inputs:
• Current and planned waste treatment options
• Recycling rate
• Projected waste arisings and population
• Cost assumptions
• Labour costs
• Gate fee data
• Material prices
8. Choose Initiative(s)
• Choose from 10 individual initiatives
Waste Prevention
Reuse
Recycling
Recovery
Disposal
Scope of
initiatives included
within the model
Scope of
environmental
and financial
impacts
19. Choose Initiatives & Define Inputs
• Choose your initiatives
• Input data into individual initiative tabs
20. Results & Outputs
• Tonnes of Waste Avoided
• Annual Implementation costs
• Financial Impacts (£)
• Carbon avoided – tonnes of CO2 eq and
number of cars taken off the road
• Impact on recycling rates.
22. Toolkit Constraints
• Usability vs complexity
• Finding comparable case studies
• Social benefits not included
• Reuse of bulky waste not yet included
23. How Can the Toolkit Help Local
Authorities?
• Provides an evidence base backed up by
case studies.
• Saves time and money in research and
planning costs.
• Enables the strategic planning over a five
year period.
• Includes ongoing tech support and
updates.
24. You may not have to
wash the dishes, but
somebody has to
clean up after you!
LIFE
1955
25. Download the Toolkit
• Request a free version of the tool at:
www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-tools/waste-
prevention-toolkit/
