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A WRG team goes to work

The management team handling the con-tracts at Barnsley, Doncaster, and Rother-ham, three of the most important cities in the metropolitan area of South Yorkshire in northern England recently participated in the “Going down to work for a day” initiative launched at four of the solid waste recycling facilities managed by FCC’s English subsi-diary. Members of the three city councils also joined this initiative.

Paul Mace, one of the supervisors in the contract department came up with the idea and Warren Steele, the manager of the con-tract contributed to bringing it to fruition.

one day at several recycling sites

The company started to provide servi-ces to the three city councils in October 2009. It is in charge of the operations of 14 urban waste recycling facilities (six in Doncaster, four in Barnsley, and four in Rotherdam).

Since October 2008

The objective of this initiative was to put themselves in the place of those who work at the urban waste recycling sites to be able to gain an understanding, from a different perspective, of the level of effciency and requirements.

Session for the exchange of ideas

The experience was studied in detailed at Doncaster in order to be able to improve the service and the collaboration expecta-tions. Their remarks were generally positive and some of the city council employees ex-pressed their desire of participating in simi-lar initiatives since they believed that it was a good way to gain frst-hand knowledge of what was being done well and what needs improvement at these sites.