Vehicle Mileage and Carbon Emissions

Councils are under increasing pressure to account for and reduce their carbon emissions, not to mention the constant pressures on operating budgets.

Refuse collection vehicles typically return well under 10 miles per gallon, which roughly equates to at least 1 kg of carbon per mile and as much as £1 per mile for fuel.

The most effective way to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions is to reduce the distance travelled by waste collection vehicles. Every household in the collection area has to be visited, so how can mileage be reduced?

• reduce recalls for missed bins
• recall vehicles whilst on round, not next day
• optimise collection rounds

You can save money and reduce your carbon footprint with Waste Collector!

The Solution - Waste Collector Live!

Waste Collector gives you everything you need to run your fleet of collection vehicles in the most efficient manner possible, in an easy-to-use application with the latest in 3-dimensional mapping and visualisation tools.

Reducing Recalls

Recalling vehicles back to premises for missed bins is serious waste of money! Our clients estimate that each missed bin costs at least £50 and generates approximately 100kg of CO2. Depending on the scale of your missed bin problem you could be generating as much as 100 tonnes of CO2 as a result of missed bins alone!

Waste Collector Live! is proven to dramatically reduce missed bins on waste collection rounds. Crews are kept fully informed of previous missed bins, assisted collections, new bins and any other special arrangements that can lead to a bin being overlooked. The result is dramatic savings in operational costs and measurable reductions in carbon emissions.

Reducing Recall Distances

Waste Collector doesn't just reduce missed bins. By processing information from the crews and calls from householders in real-time you can react to events much more rapidly and rectify more missed bins on the same day.

By sending back the same crew on the same day the distance travelled can be slashed, reducing the time, money and carbon wasted. Waste Collector unlocks your communications so that information flows faster.

Optimising Collection Rounds

Collection rounds are constantly changing. New builds, changes to the road network and the seasonality of green waste collection means that your rounds can quickly become inefficient.

Waste Collector lets you visualise each collection round on a 3-dimensional map and quickly identifies where rounds may overlap or work inefficiently. You can also compare the actual route taken by vehicles with the planned route and investigate where mileage is being wasted.