Sustainability impacts of regenerate
| Pillar | Sustainability effect | Evidence and source |
|---|---|---|
| Social sustainability | Donations to local charities | Contractually agreed, “100,000 pounds each year was dedicated to be donated to [local] charities, £ 220,000 to the community fund. And that has helped 90 projects. The contract extension has just happened now. After the [complete extended contract will be delivered], it would be 1.5 million pounds that we would have generated for [the local community]” (“Regenerate” manager) |
| Local employment and training | “In the wider contract, [Waste management organisation] created a variety of apprenticeships in engineering, vehicle maintenance, waste management, business administration and furniture restoration” (Local municipality annual report on social value, 2022–23). As a result, “In July, three apprentice maintenance technicians and one business administration apprentice joined the [Local municipality] team” (Waste management organisation newsletter August 2022) | |
| Reintroducing ex-offenders into work and employment | Through partnership with a local social enterprise, who run one of the work areas within “Regenerate”. “This charity runs 8-week placements for people on probation to give them basic work skills in electricals, aiming to reduce homelessness and reoffending by supporting [them] into stable housing and employment” (Contract renewal announcement) | |
| Local social impact | “[Waste-management company] reported £240,659,235 worth of social value created through their waste contract with the [local municipality for ‘Regenerate’] during the 2022–2023 financial year. [Waste-management company] used Loop to quantify their social value generated on the waste contract through an array of initiatives undertaken in [the local community]” (Local municipality annual report on social value, 2022–23) | |
| Environmental sustainability | Waste diversion | In addition to waste diversion, the waste produced through repairing pre-used items in comparison to linear-economy set-ups is vastly reduced as the Lead bike technician explained: “the amount of waste produced in a shop [in my previous role] was phenomenal. A brand-new bike packaged in its box would include single use plastics, Styrofoam, zip ties and so on. Over the duration of a day, you build 10–15 bikes in the shop, so you produce so much waste. Now that was apparent my whole way through working and I didn’t see much change in that. […] Here, we don’t have new bikes. The waste coming from the bikes is pretty minimal” (Lead bike technician) |
| Local biodiversity and environmental conservation | As part of the contract for “Regenerate”, the waste management company “has planted 1,498 trees […], donated over 350 tonnes of compost to community groups and has taken a range of actions to improve biodiversity […] within the first five years of the contract” (Contract renewal announcement) |
| Pillar | Sustainability effect | Evidence and source |
|---|---|---|
| Social sustainability | Donations to local charities | Contractually agreed, “100,000 pounds each year was dedicated to be donated to [local] charities, £ 220,000 to the community fund. And that has helped 90 projects. The contract extension has just happened now. After the [complete extended contract will be delivered], it would be 1.5 million pounds that we would have generated for [the local community]” (“Regenerate” manager) |
| Local employment and training | “In the wider contract, [Waste management organisation] created a variety of apprenticeships in engineering, vehicle maintenance, waste management, business administration and furniture restoration” (Local municipality annual report on social value, 2022–23). As a result, “In July, three apprentice maintenance technicians and one business administration apprentice joined the [Local municipality] team” (Waste management organisation newsletter August 2022) | |
| Reintroducing ex-offenders into work and employment | Through partnership with a local social enterprise, who run one of the work areas within “Regenerate”. “This charity runs 8-week placements for people on probation to give them basic work skills in electricals, aiming to reduce homelessness and reoffending by supporting [them] into stable housing and employment” (Contract renewal announcement) | |
| Local social impact | “[Waste-management company] reported £240,659,235 worth of social value created through their waste contract with the [local municipality for ‘Regenerate’] during the 2022–2023 financial year. [Waste-management company] used Loop to quantify their social value generated on the waste contract through an array of initiatives undertaken in [the local community]” (Local municipality annual report on social value, 2022–23) | |
| Environmental sustainability | Waste diversion | In addition to waste diversion, the waste produced through repairing pre-used items in comparison to linear-economy set-ups is vastly reduced as the Lead bike technician explained: “the amount of waste produced in a shop [in my previous role] was phenomenal. A brand-new bike packaged in its box would include single use plastics, Styrofoam, zip ties and so on. Over the duration of a day, you build 10–15 bikes in the shop, so you produce so much waste. Now that was apparent my whole way through working and I didn’t see much change in that. […] Here, we don’t have new bikes. The waste coming from the bikes is pretty minimal” (Lead bike technician) |
| Local biodiversity and environmental conservation | As part of the contract for “Regenerate”, the waste management company “has planted 1,498 trees […], donated over 350 tonnes of compost to community groups and has taken a range of actions to improve biodiversity […] within the first five years of the contract” (Contract renewal announcement) |
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