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 Intermediate and Advanced Apprenticeship is to support the industry to address these challenges by developing occupational competence in a wide range of Operative and Supervisor level job roles in the collection, transfer, treatment and final disposal of waste and resources.