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About the community waste sector
The community waste sector is extremely diverse, comprising local community groups, charities, community-based waste management companies and other social enterprises, all of which contribute to the delivery and promotion of sustainable resource management.
The community waste sector also provides both permanent and voluntary employment to a wide range of people.
Community waste sector organisations work at neighbourhood, local, regional and national levels, delivering a huge variety of services to communities through reduction, re-use, recycling and composting project.
The community waste sector is able to assist local authorities in meeting their household waste recycling and composting targets, whilst providing additional local community benefits and successfully delivering the ‘Triple Bottom Line’:
- income and profits are retained and invested in the local economy
- social benefits include work and training opportunities, affordable goods and services and infrastructure improvements for people in local communities
- environmentally, schemes reduce CO2 emissions and the amount of local pollution caused by long-distance waste management activities