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Business Principles That Drive Quality

The driving force behind Verdant’s continuing business expansion is listening and responding to the needs of all stakeholders: councils, their residents and its own staff.

This helps create tailored services that meet and exceed council – and resident - expectations by improving waste collection and recycling, and raising public awareness and involvement.

The company’s lean structure and lead-from-the-front management style devolves decision-making and action back to local managers. With short lines of communication to their local authority clients, they respond to the varying needs of local communities with greater speed and efficiency.

This ‘finger on the pulse’ approach enables Verdant to develop and implement partnership programmes to educate and motivate the public, whether for minimising waste, introducing new service formats, increasing recycling awareness and participation, or improving cleansing.

Addressing Priorities Today and Tomorrow

Environmental concerns and action continue to dominate international and national agendas. At the local level, councils face increasing regulation, ever-higher waste minimisation and recycling targets, and escalating disposal costs and penalties.

Verdant’s fresh approach to delivering efficient municipal services focuses on understanding local needs, developing local solutions and working with all local interests.

This enables councils to introduce new ways of collecting and recycling waste with residents’ support. With the environmental agenda remaining a top priority, further change can be expected.

This could range from launching more alternate week collections, capturing kitchen and green waste, and managing WEEE (waste electronic and electrical equipment) schemes to introducing compulsory domestic recycling or pay-by-weight schemes, as suggested by the 2007 Lyons Report.

However this public service area develops, Verdant’s operational insights and versatility, coupled with its strong community focus, will continue helping councils to manage change.

Knowledge Services

Verdant’s extensive experience of all facets of local authority waste collection, recycling, cleansing and grounds maintenance, together with equivalent skills in the commercial world, is available through its consultancy service.

This can cover, for example, waste stream audits, waste process analysis and system planning, business case analysis, best practice benchmarking, access to government and other funding, and landfill tax credit schemes.

Of particular interest to local authorities is Verdant’s experience of changing public attitudes to waste reduction, reuse and recycling schemes. Education and communication programmes, particularly for schools and community groups, are proven to positively change habits and participation.

Council partners can also benefit from Verdant’s employment of dedicated education and recycling officers who develop and implement plans tailored to a partner council’s unique needs.