Municipal waste collections information

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Dear East Hertfordshire District Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following information in the context of domestic waste bin/sack collection services, as opposed to trade/commercial collections or waste disposal.

1. Are you currently in a partnership with other councils for waste IT system operations or procurement? If in a partnership please name the partner councils?

2. Do you currently operate waste services (collections) directly, or through a waste contractor such as Biffa, Suez or Veolia. If through a contractor, please name them.

3. Which of the IT systems below do you use for the management of day to day municipal bin collections:
a. Yotta
b. Bartec Collective
c. AMCS Clear
d. Whitespace/Powersuite
e. Contender/Swift Datapro/Agile
f. Selected Interventions / Echo
g. Core (Suez)
h. Webaspx
i. Microsoft Excel or similar
j. No IT system
k. Other: [please name]
Response.....

4. When is your current contract for the IT system OR outsourced waste contract for waste collections management due to expire?

5. Please provide contact information for the service manager responsible for waste collections.

I would like to thank you in advance for your help with this.

Yours faithfully,

Mr David Patrick

eastherts@infreemation.co.uk, East Hertfordshire District Council

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and the information that we hold is enclosed.

 1. Are you currently in a partnership with other councils for waste IT
system operations or procurement? If in a partnership please name the
partner councils?

East Herts Council is in a share waste service with North Herts District

 2. Do you currently operate waste services (collections) directly, or
through a waste contractor such as Biffa, Suez or Veolia. If through a
contractor, please name them.

Our Shared waste service contractor is Urbaser.

 3. Which of the IT systems below do you use for the management of day to
day municipal bin collections:

Our contractor subcontracted Whitespace for their IT system

a. Yotta

b. Bartec Collective

c. AMCS Clear

d. Whitespace/Powersuite

e. Contender/Swift Datapro/Agile

f. Selected Interventions / Echo

g. Core (Suez)

h. Webaspx

i. Microsoft Excel or similar

j. No IT system

k. Other: [please name]

4. When is your current contract for the IT system OR outsourced waste
contract for waste collections management due to expire?

This will expire with the collection contract which is May 2025.

 4. Please provide contact information for the service manager responsible
for waste collections.

The Manager for the Shared waste Service is Chloe Hipwood
[1][email address]

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