Behaviour Change for Waste Reduction in the Workplace

As a sustainability lead with waste reduction, recycling targets or a Simpler Recycling rollout, do you need everyone to play their part?

• Are you tasked with Rolling out Simpler Recycling in March and want to ensure your binfrastructure and communciations engages employees especially those who aren’t environmentaly motivated to segregate their waste?

• Does your organisation have recycling targets to meet and contamination issues to address?

• Are you trying to engage people with Reduce and Reuse yet people still think Recycling is the best option?

Dedicated time to solve your waste challenges

Are you struggling to carve out the time to address your waste challenges with all of your other commitments. Are you craving actionable ideas and inspiration to engage people who don’t seem to care like you? 

In this practical session you will discover:  

• Ways to engage the non-environmentally motivated in your teams
• Best practice for your binfrastructure roll-out
• How to address those commonly contaminated items

Tried and tested solutions grounded in behavioural science 

In this interactive workshop you will be taken through a structured 3-step process and hear about successful initiatives delivered in other workplaces so you will leave the session with: 

• Actionable solutions to apply after the session.
  
• Tried and tested waste communication messages.
• Behavioural science frameworks and tools to apply to other challenges in your workplace.
  

Step 1 - Uncover why the existing behaviour is happening

Step 2 - Identify the barriers to the desirable waste behaviour

Step 3 - Ideate on solutions that you can apply to your workplace

“I have two actions I can take now that require zero budget and just require me changing the choice architecture for our waste layout” - Clare, Sustainability & Energy lead NHS

This is for you if you are a sustainability lead with….

• Waste and recycling targets to meet.
• Simpler Recycling on your to-do list.
• Frustrations about the state of your bins and the level of contamination.

Recordings and slides are available if you can't join live.

“Really fantastic session, lots to get busy with in terms of infrastructure & comms at the college to improve recycling! Thank you” - Ian Poyser (workshop attendee)

About the trainer

Livvy Drake has been applying behavioural science to waste and recycling campaigns since 2015. She has worked on plastic reduction campaigns with City to Sea including the Refill campaign and Refill- Return Cup. 

As part of her mission to support sustainability changemakers be more impactful, she has trained over 1000 people in behavioural science for pro-environmental action, which includes a dedicted 6.month programme for sustainability leads tackling workplace employee engagement. 

Livvy has worked on employee engagement with organisations including Arla Foods, Baly Solentache (construction),  Hafnia (shipping), Hilary’s Blinds (manufacturing), Tuath Housing (social housing), London Marathon (events), Chartered Institute of Waste Managers.

“Livvy recently ran a workshop aimed at waste and recycling related behaviours for CIWM (Chartered Institute of Waste Management) and to say it was a valuable is an understatement, her extensive knowledge and thought provoking perspectives on the topic, were insightful and gave everyone plenty to take away and apply.” - Sarah Ottaway - Suez

Investment

As well as a jam-packed live solutions workshop, you will also receive the background ‘Behaviour Change Theory’ as a pre-recorded video to enlighten you into all the nuances of human behaviour and how to overcome these- you may be surprised about how irrational our actions actually are!

Tiered pricing 

• Corporate and large organisations = £79
• SME’s & Non-Profits = £59
• Solopreneur/Consultants = £49

Thank you for paying the price point your organisation can afford. This will support the scholarship places and the charity that is receiving 10% of the proceeds.

10% to provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. An international, independent medical humanitarian organisation
We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.

*Scholarships*

There is a scholarship programme available for people working in grass-roots community organisations. Please email through the contact box to get a free place.