Collective Modules

Collective is a powerful, modular cloud platform built to revolutionise local authority waste and recycling operations.

It brings every front-line service together: waste collection, commercial accounts, street cleansing, grounds maintenance, and inspections, into one seamless, high-performance system.

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Collective encompasses three products:

Collective Performance
Collective Communities
Collective Safety

Our comprehensive waste management software can be tailored to meet the individual needs and challenges of every council, no matter their size.

Collective Performance

A single, connected platform giving councils and local authorities visibility and control of their waste and street cleansing operations.

Collective Performance turns insight into action, enabling councils to deliver reliable, efficient, and optimised waste services every day:

Integrated Operations: Manage assets, premises, customers, schedules, vehicles and crews together in one place - covering everything from planned collections to reactive work.
Real-Time Operational Insight: Live metrics, mapping, and gazetteer data provide immediate visibility to optimise routes, allocate resources efficiently, and maintain high-quality service delivery.
Empowered Front-Line Teams: Proven in-cab and telematics technology delivers live task updates, safety alerts, and actionable information directly to crews.
Data-Driven Management: Clear reporting and analytics help managers track performance, evidence progress, and make informed decisions that drive continuous improvement.

Route Optimisation: Enhance Performance

Experience Collective Transport Planner, our AI-driven, cloud-based route optimisation and service design solution, built specifically for waste and recycling operations.

Reduce operational costs, optimise your existing routes, and develop new working patterns that save money and improve the safety of your crews.
Adapt to changing workloads with Dynamic Optimiser - the real-time route optimisation solution for waste and recycling services that frequently change.
Dynamic Optimiser ensures flexible, efficient, and responsive waste collections, keeping operations on schedule and crews productive.

Commercial Operations Module: Council-to-Business Services

Commercial Operations is a comprehensive module for trade waste and other council-to-business services requiring pricing, billing or contract management.

A Trading Platform Designed for Municipal Operators: Built for council trade waste operations and tightly integrated with LLPG and all major municipal financial systems, Collective supports mixed domestic and commercial operations.
Integrated In-Cab and Mobile Working: Crews get clear routes with built-in navigation and safety information. Seamless switching between domestic and trade collections keeps routes efficient.
Automatic Billing and Payments: Easy invoicing via the council FMS minimises admin and audit worries so you can offer whatever model works for your clients, whether they pay in advance, arrears or by weight.
For Now, and For the Future: Operational modules for quotations, e-docs and online services mean Collective can support your business as it grows.

Discover Bintuition: Litter and Street Bin Service Optimisation

This simple-to-use system has been designed to locate and optimise your dog, litter and street bin services. By scanning a QR code once the bin has been emptied, you can receive valuable insights into where and when servicing is required.

Bintuition records the exact time and location of every operation and immediately updates your back-office systems, website and business applications.

Gatehouse Software Module: Accurate Weight Information with Minimal Effort

Gatehouse software records all your disposal transactions for accurate weight information with minimum administrative effort.

Automatic Records of Every Tip: Weighbridge transactions from all your internal and third-party sites flow into Collective, eliminating manual administration and data entry errors. Records are automatically validated and linked to the collection round.
Highlights Errors, Over-Weights and Excess Tips: Immediate alerts to common errors, such as off-fleet vehicle, vehicle presenting over-weight, vehicles with excess tips and vehicles which never tipped. Rapid alerts mean issues and errors can be resolved quickly and efficiently.
Costs and Weights Accurately Assigned: Accurate tonnages lead to accurate cost estimates, showing the profitability of each commercial route and the cost and utilisation for domestic collection routes. Granular weight information allows for better route optimisation and strategic planning.
On-site Validation and ANPR: Gatehouse published your daily fleet list to disposal facilities, allowing efficient entry and exit validation using ANPR.

Collective Communities

Collective Communities connect residents directly to their waste and recycling services, improving satisfaction and reducing avoidable contact for councils and local authorities.

Providing councils with a connected, accessible channel to empower residents, streamline operations and foster cleaner, better-informed communities:

Resident Self-Service: The Resident Portal provides real-time collection updates, alerts for delays or disruptions, and guidance on presenting bins correctly - helping residents stay informed and reducing missed collections.
Two-Way Communication: Residents can report missed bins, request additional services, and access information on garden waste, bulky collections, HWRCs, bin orders and business services. Collective Newsfeed allows councils to share updates quickly and cost effectively.
Reya Virtual Assistant: Reya provides 24/7, multilingual support, automating routine enquiries and delivering accurate, real-time information to residents, freeing staff to focus on complex tasks and improving operational efficiency.

Resident’s Portal: Bridging the Gap Between Councils and Communities

Collective Resident’s Portal provides residents with an instant view of all their waste and recycling services. The live, on-screen service calendar has real-time updates that track the completion stage of each waste collection, so your residents are kept informed and engaged.

Councils benefit from a connected, accessible channel, designed to empower residents, streamline operations and foster cleaner, better informed communities.

Collective Newsfeed is an optional module for Resident’s Portal, giving waste and recycling teams new and exciting ways to contact users quickly, effectively, and at a very low cost.

Garden Waste Online: Growing Your Subscription Service

Garden Waste Online is a comprehensive system for residents to subscribe to, pay for, and manage their garden waste service. It helps councils implement a subscription service quickly with minimum risk and total integration.

Did you know? Many of the UK’s most successful garden waste services are run on Collective Resident’s Portal!

Subscribe and Pay Online: Residents can easily subscribe to annual garden waste services and pay securely online or over the phone in a single transaction, all within Portal.
No-Fuss Renewals: Resident’s Portal supports fully-automatic renewal with recurring payments by credit card or direct debit. Retain more subscribers and eliminate the administration.
Multiple Payment Options: Portal integrates with all the major payment providers, including Access Group Pay360, Civica Pay and GoCardless, with options for recurring payments, direct payments and secure telephone payments.
Higher Take-Up: Resident’s Portal is proven to maximise subscriptions, supporting fixed-year and rolling-year payments, multiple bin quantities and sizes plus ‘pay as you go’ options.
Efficient Service Delivery: From subscription to service delivery, everything is automated. Delivery of bins, email receipts to residents, scheduling of collections - all instant and zero-admin.

Book Specialist Collections and Online Orders: Empowering Residents

Introducing Special Collections Online, a powerful, off-the-shelf system for residents to book collections of bulky waste, waste electricals and other one-off items. This modern, connected facility allows residents to book bulky waste collections on the website, by phone, or on a mobile device.

✓ Flexible bookings, multiple payment options and automatic communications increase resident satisfaction.

Discover Clinical Waste Online, an accessible, easy-to-use system for scheduled and on-demand collection of clinical waste and sharps boxes, providing an engaging solution so residents can access your services when they need them – reliably and securely.

✓ Accurate customer records, scheduled and on-demand collections, and a personalised service enhance trust.

Explore Containers Online, an integrated solution allowing residents to order additional bins and sacks with built in payment options, simplifying the request, approval and fulfilment of sacks and bins with automatic workflows.

✓ Online requests for bins and sacks, automatic approvals, integrated payments and delivery workflows simplify container fulfilment.

Experience HWRC Online, the comprehensive online booking and management system for public waste and recycling sites – making requests, approval and fulfilment of sacks and bins orders simple, with automatic workflows and built-in payment facilities.

✓ Multi-site support, real-time bookings and capacity management, simple check-in and admission, and analytics and service management improves public waste services.

Recycle Coach: Educate and Inform Residents

Recycle Coach is a unique app that’s free for councils and is available to the general public for a modern, online waste, recycling and environmental service.

Educate and inform residents about all waste streams, powered by the Recycle Coach mobile app and technology.

Recycle Coach Plus: Extends the power of Recycle Coach with council-specific service information and updates, including live collection data, missed bins reports and other localised information, all powered by Collective and fully automatic.
Endlessly Extendable: Powerful add-on modules put council garden waste subscriptions, special collections and bin/sack orders right into the Recycle Coach app.
Accessible For All: Recycle Coach is built by waste professionals for people who aren’t waste professionals. No jargon, no buzzwords - just a simple, fun app with complete WCAG 2.2 compliance.

Business Portal: Helping Businesses Adapt to New Legislation

Collective Business Portal gives businesses online access to their waste and recycling services. The live calendar offers updates in real-time, whilst options for additional collections and new services help the business grow.

Councils can win, retain and develop new waste and recycling customers to build a profitable and sustainable service

Collective e-Docs: Removing the Need for Paperwork

Collective e-Docs makes your waste transfer notes and contracts fully electronic, removing the need for paperwork, manual checks and postage costs.

By automating key administration tasks and ensuring compliance, waste teams are free to concentrate on developing their service.

Automatic Document Generation: New and amended contracts, annual Waste Transfer Notes and other compliance documents are generated, signed and delivered instantly and automatically.
Electronic Signatures: Documents are signed electronically on any web-enabled device and attached to the customer record. Fully auditable, contracts can be accessed via the Collective Business Portal and sent to internal document management systems.
Compliance Checks: Collective e-Docs automatically sends reminders for outstanding documents and flags any non-compliant accounts for follow-up.
Flexible Cost Model: With Collective e-Docs, you pay for the documents you use to maximise the savings as the commercial operation grows.

Collective Safety

Collective Safety helps councils and local authorities protect crews, vehicles and the public through connected tools that monitor, assess and improve safety in daily operations.

Collective Safety delivers a connected, proactive approach to building safe, resilient and well-supported waste operations:

Proactive Safety Management: Monitor vehicle use, identify risks and unsafe behaviours, and address issues early to prevent incidents and reduce costly fleet damage. Collective also supports risk assessments and street-level safe systems of work to help standardise safer practices.
Crew Wellbeing: Integrated wellbeing resources, including access to Andy’s Man Club, support both the physical and mental health of front-line teams.
Daily Debriefing & Safety Feedback: Supervisors can quickly review safety concerns, vehicle check results, defects, and any speeding or exclusion zone infringements. Crews can provide real-time safety feedback to ensure issues are captured and acted on immediately.
Safer Working Programme: Our audit and advisory service helps councils benchmark performance, conduct safe working audits, and receive expert guidance to raise and maintain high safety standards across waste and recycling operations.

SafeActive: Reduce Risk with Remote Auditing

SafeActive protects crews, the public and the council’s assets by remotely ensuring crews are working safely at all times. It is proven to reduce risks to crews and the public from waste collection vehicles.

Standardise on Best Practice: SafeActive lets councils define how waste vehicles and facilities should operate and measure against a consistent ‘best practice’ model.
Measure Improvements, Not Accidents: Consistent, granular audits reveal problem areas and show operators how to make evidence-based interventions to continually improve safety - before accidents or near-misses happen.
Manage Safety Around the Clock, Around the World: Remote, camera-based audits can be done in real-time or later so you can support multiple shifts from anywhere, without working around the clock.
Industry-Leading Connectivity: Standard integrations to online camera systems from Contel, FleetClear, Brigade, Vision Track and Vision techniques allows councils to audit mixed fleets with minimum fuss.

Mobile Working: Experience Full Connectivity

Collective Mobile and CollectiveX puts your front-line services on the road, working safely and efficiently with full connectivity.

At Bartec, we invented mobile waste management with the UK’s first in-cab system. Twenty years on we are still innovating to make recycling services safer and more reliable:

Android and IOS Support: A secure application with remote management, automatic updates and a user interface designed specifically for waste, recycling and environmental services, supported on any current Apple or Android phone, tablet or mobile device.
Flexible Working: Licensed per-unit or per-user, Collective allows any number of users to collaborate on each piece of work to get the job done.
Safety Built-In: Comprehensive daily vehicle checks, safety notices, single-sided collections and built-in risk assessments and reporting make Collective the safest operating platform. Collective also has built-in access to wellbeing and mental health resources.
Automatic Context-Switching: Collective switches between map and list views, commercial and domestic collections and day/night displays quickly and easily so crews always have the user experience they need to get the job done.

Collective CallSafe: Communication and Compliance Combined

Collective CallSafe is a safe and secure method for crews to stay in contact with their depot team, without mobile phones or radios. Unique in the waste and recycling industry, CallSafe combines modern video calling with safeguards to ensure compliance and responsible use.

Group Calling with Voice or Video: CallSafe supports voice and video calls between mobile and desktop users, either one-to-one or in groups. If you need to deliver a team talk to a distributed team, CallSafe can get your team together quickly when you need them.
Safe and Configurable: CallSafe will not interrupt a driver whilst the vehicle is in motion, nor will it let them make or take a call. CallSafe can be configured to allow or prevent specific call routes (e.g. vehicle-to -depot, vehicle-to-vehicle, crew-to-supervisor).
Reduces Dashboard Clutter: Running natively in Collective Mobile, CallSafe makes radios and mobile phones redundant, reducing driver distraction and in-vehicle displays.
Auditable: Unlike radio systems, CallSafe’s logs show who called who and when, so managers can monitor the system and manage usage.

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Collective Modules

Explore Collective

Collective Performance

Route Optimisation: Enhance Performance

Commercial Operations Module: Council-to-Business Services

Discover Bintuition: Litter and Street Bin Service Optimisation

Gatehouse Software Module: Accurate Weight Information with Minimal Effort

Collective Communities

Resident’s Portal: Bridging the Gap Between Councils and Communities

Garden Waste Online: Growing Your Subscription Service

Book Specialist Collections and Online Orders: Empowering Residents

Recycle Coach: Educate and Inform Residents

Business Portal: Helping Businesses Adapt to New Legislation

Collective e-Docs: Removing the Need for Paperwork

Collective Safety

SafeActive: Reduce Risk with Remote Auditing

Mobile Working: Experience Full Connectivity

Collective CallSafe: Communication and Compliance Combined

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Case Studies

South Ayrshire Council

Havant Borough Council

Cheshire West Recycling

West Suffolk Councils

Thurrock Council

Tamworth and Lichfield Joint Service

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council

Oxford City Council

Guildford Borough Council

Durham County Council

Dorset Council

Chichester District Council

Cardiff Council

Bath and North East Somerset

Amber Valley

Aberdeen City Council

Adur and Worthing Councils

Exeter City Council

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