Resource Efficient Data has agreed a 12-month deal to provide the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) with waste data flow insight.
The deal grants Alupro access to the Cardiff-based data start-up’s UK waste data platform. This platform houses open source data from Waste Data Flow, the web-based system for municipal waste data reporting used by local authorities.
Alupro hopes to use the Resource Efficient Data platform to to analyse the impact of its MetalMatters programme
Rick Hindley, executive director of Alupro, said: “We immediately saw the benefit and ease of use of using Resource Efficient Data’s platform of UK waste data.
“It will help us to analyse and compare data even further, in particular with our MetalMatters programme we run with our local authority partners.
“Data we have traditionally received to analyse the impact of this programme ranges from very good to quite poor, which sometime makes analysis very difficult.
“This platform will certainly aid us with our programme analysis to achieve clearer results, and also to identify new local authorities who could benefit from our support.”
MetalMatters is an industry-funded programme which aims to increase the capture rate of metal packaging collected for recycling at the kerbside.
Experience
The co-founders of Resource Efficient Data, Steve Hooley and James Kay, have experience in data analysis and waste management respectively.
“We are confident the objectives Alupro have will be simplified by using our tool”
Mr Kay is also the director of Resource Efficiency Wales, a government service which aims to provide individuals and businesses with information energy and water use and how to reduce waste arisings.
In a statement Mr Hooley and Mr Kay said: “We are delighted Alupro have found value in the Resource Efficient Data UK waste data platform.
“We are confident the objectives Alupro have will be simplified by using our tool. It is exciting to be working together.”
Data
Local authorities use several different management systems to handle and collate data relating to waste and recycling.
In February 2020 English councils were surveyed by Devon county about the different ways in which they manage waste data in the hope that local authorities could team up to procure a standardised waste data management system (see letsrecycle.com story).
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