In the broadest sense Outsourced can be defined by the opposite to InHouse in that in the context of a Waste Collection Authority it is an expression of when the services required are delivered by a third party private company that has successfully been awarded the work under competitive tendering rather than the services being undertaken by the Waste Collection Authority itself. The OutSourced arrangements can bundle with other services (i.e. beach cleaning) or keep different collection aspects separate (i.e the collection of Dry Recyclables may be separate from the collection of Residual Waste).

Legally the Waste Collection Authority is required to periodically demonstrate that it is economically more advantageous to take an InHouse approach and if that is not possible then they should move to an OutSourced arrangement

By selecting the 'What links here' in the index to the left of this page, the Waste Collection Authority that utilizes the arrangement is listed for reference.