Waste Collection and Transport Within the City of Westminster, London.

Zabezpečenie zberu a prepravy odpadov v rámci mestskej časti Westminster, Londýn.

Westminster City Council is undertaking work to replace its entire 200-strong waste management vehicle fleet, in the biggest decarbonisation programme of its kind by a UK local authority. Electric trucks were the only option for the city council that provided the robustness and reliability required. Many of these vehicles will be housed at the new fully electric depot at Landmann Way in south London. The electric vehicles will charge their batteries by drawing renewable electric power direct from an adjacent energy recovery facility which uses the waste collected from homes and businesses in Westminster as fuel. Westminster’s waste management fleet completes 50 million collections every year and each electric vehicle saves up to 89% CO2e compared to a diesel-powered model.

Due to the service’s extremely high profile, this monumental change could only be accommodated with the most rigorous of planning and project management to ensure service reliability would never be compromised. Failure was simply not an option.

This presentation will outline the planning and management of the biggest fully electric waste management fleet in Europe, from inception to mobilisation of this £50M project.

Jarno Stet is a member of the United Kingdom’s Chartered Institute of Waste Management and a specialist in local authority waste management. He holds a double degree in Facilities Management and has over 17 years’ experience in resource and waste management.

As Waste and Recycling Manager for Westminster City Council he looks after its waste management provisions that provide services to a resident population of 250,000, 34,000 businesses as well as 1 million daily visitors, commuters, and tourists.

Jarno is the current Secretary of the National Association of Waste Disposal Officers (NAWDO). NAWDO is the primary network for senior local authority waste managers with statutory responsibilities for waste disposal.  It represents the interests of the client side of waste management for LA waste disposal authorities.

Westminster City Council is the local authority serving the heart of London. The City of Westminster stretches from Pimlico and Victoria in the south through the West End, Marylebone and Bayswater to Paddington and Queen’s Park in the north-west. It includes the capital’s principal areas of government, shopping, entertainment and tourism and the headquarters of innumerable commercial and professional organisations together with extensive residential areas of all types.

The resident population now stands at approximately 255,000 but it is estimated that about 1 million people set foot in Westminster at some time during the day. There are also tens of thousands of people who live in the city for short periods or on a part-time basis who are not included in the permanent resident population.

The City Council employs about 4,800 staff who work flexibly over a number of office and site locations, almost all of them within the city boundaries.

Westminster City Council employs 700 waste management staff which on a 24/7/365 basis collect 200,000 tonnes of waste and recycling each year, sweep and flush 10,000km of streets every week, remove 22km2 of graffiti and flyposting and clear up around 700 tonnes of litter after major events.