For councils
Getting a reverse-logistics pilot live — a pathway for councils
Work through it in order. Each step is a question only your council can answer. If you've completed our survey, your answers already give us a head start on Stage 1.
Stage 1 · Confirm what we know
You may have started this in the survey
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What already moves today
From your surveyWhich materials, if any, already leave on a backhaul or shared run — and what works about it.
Your survey answers are the starting point. Correct them; don't redo them.
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What's stuck — and what it costs you now
The baselinePick your worst one or two streams. Then the number that matters: what you spend today, or the cost of doing nothing — stockpiling, landfill, litter, fire risk.
No baseline, no value case.
Stage 2 · Build the load case
The work that makes a carrier say yes
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Where can it actually go?
Destination firstName a receiver who will take it — a processor, buyer or scheme. Some sit nearby; many sit further afield.
If no one will take it, freight can't fix it. Destination first.
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How much, how often?
Council estimateRough is fine. How much accumulates, how fast — and does it fill a container in a sensible window?
A load that takes two years to build isn't a pilot.
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What holds it — and how does the empty get back?
Platform + councilCage, bulka bag, half-cube, skip. Who owns it, who pays for it, who returns it.
The platform tracks containers as items on each load, so they come home. This is often the hidden blocker.
Stage 3 · Line up the carrier & go
Where we do the heavy lifting with you
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Which corridor are you on?
Pooling the demandWhich way does your freight already run? You pool volume with the councils on your corridor, not with every council — this decides who you partner with.
Pooling the demand.
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Who already drives your road — empty?
The backhaulNot just your waste contractor. The freight that comes in with groceries, fuel and building supplies and goes home empty.
That empty run is the opportunity.
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Make a real offer, not a one-off job
Platform → carrierA named material, a volume, a frequency, a destination — and other councils on the same run. That's what a carrier will price properly.
We make the approach with you.
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Test the route before anyone commits
PlatformRates gathered confidentially, the run modelled. If it doesn't stack up, you find out before you commit — not after.
Decision support, no obligation.
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Go live — book, move, prove
Council + carrierBook the load, verified handoff, counts and photos, chain of custody, exportable data for your reporting. Then repeat it, and add the next material.
Then repeat it, and add the next material.
The readiness test — a material is pilot-ready when all four are true
- ✓Somewhere for it to go
- ✓Enough volume to fill a container in a sensible window
- ✓A carrier already running that route
- ✓Somewhere to hold it until the load is full
Missing one? That's the work — and that's the conversation.
Ready to start?
You don't need all the answers — even a rough sketch of Stages 1–2 is enough for us to start scoping a real pilot with you.