How to win: Flatflex Waste Composition Analysis

About this contract

The Government's collection and packaging reforms represent the biggest change to the UK's waste and recycling sector for c.25 years. Simpler Recycling aims to make it easier for households and businesses to recycle, including making provisions by 31 March 2027 for all local authorities in England to collect plastic bags and wrapping (flexibles) for recycling from all households. The FlexFlats project aims to understand how local authorities can provide an efficient and effective flexibles collection service to residents who live in purpose-built flats and share bins (communal bins). The pilots will be carried out in partnership with three London local authorities with five pilot sites (blocks) in each. The local authorities are: • London borough of Bexley (twin-stream dry recycling service) • London borough of Lewisham (comingled dry recycling service) • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (commingled dry recycling service) The pilot will trial a range of methods for flexibles plastics collection in 15 blocks of flats across the three boroughs. Each block will have a minimum of 25 households and will have a residual waste and dry recycling collection service already in place.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — London Waste and Recycling Board operating as ReLondon scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £45,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 23 July 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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