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 this Higher Apprenticeship at level 4 is to support the industry to address these challenges by developing occupational competence in a wide range of management level job roles in the collection, transfer, treatment and final disposal of waste and resources.