The Implementation and Use of ‘Pay As You Throw’
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RFID, Municipal waste, Landfill tax, Supply chainAbstract
The UK Government has set targets for local Government to reduce municipal landfill, a key to achieving this is to increase household recycling. Despite investment and initiatives, the amount paid in landfill tax continues to rise, (Business Link, 2010). One proven initiative is ‘Pay as you throw’ RFID enabled schemes to monitor household waste and/or recycling levels. The literature review highlighted a number of benefits of the technology when considered in a supply chain application. It was suggested that fundamentally the technology allows a much greater vision of the inventory within a supply chain (Kazim, 2010; Kim and Garrison, 2010; Park, Koh and Nam, 2010). Adoption of RFID technology for the household waste in order to reduce landfill will be effective at adding value within a supply chain by reducing waste, increasing efficiencies and increasing customer service. The aim of this study is to consider the views of residents, from two County Council areas in UK, towards the use of such technology to monitor their waste and recycling. Neither area is currently on target to achieve 65% of all household waste being recycled by 2020, despite both implementing various initiatives, (GCC, 2010; GMWDA, 2010). The study was completed via two case studies as initiated by Yin in 2003. Secondary data was considered and the research was completed using six focus groups, three for each area. This research recommends that a larger scale study would allow greater social and economic factors of the participants to be considered. Overall the research concluded that with RFID there would be an increase in recycling rates but also an increase in fly-tipping. Usage of an effective method as RFID to manage municipal waste could be substantial savings in terms of landfill taxes on a local and national level and more importantly an improvement in the environmental impact of our current culture.
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