Creating Social Value Through Recycling and Waste Management - Video

A growing and aging population, economic volatility and global supply chain issues are placing funding pressures on public services. Trade-offs have to be made to prioritise statutory services, so it is more important than ever that core public services like recycling and waste management, also deliver on wider objectives that benefit society by building social value into procurement and service delivery. The Environmental Services Association (ESA) believes that social value is an increasingly valuable way to understand, measure and respond to the impact made through recycling and waste management projects or services, or by organisations within the sector. These impacts can have wide-ranging outcomes for an organisation’s stakeholders, its people, the communities it serves and operates in, the planet and both the local and national economy. The ESA has published a Social Value Charter setting out both a mission statement for its members with regard to social value, and a framework to help service providers and commissioners to embed social value into procurement and service delivery.