The waste management and recycling industry faces some key challenges: Public perception of a dirty and low skilled industry

Legal and environmental drivers pushing for more sophisticated waste management solutions

Developing a workforce capable of operating and maintaining high tech plant & processes increasingly, new recruits need higher levels skills

Industry expansion

The purpose of the Apprenticeship is to support the industry to address these challenges by developing occupational competence in a wide range of job roles in the collection, transfer, treatment and final disposal of waste and resources