Cooee cost-effective software for council waste inventory

Necessity is the mother of invention, and this well-known proverb can be put into play when it comes to ASK Waste Management Consultancy and its Cooee software.

The software was designed after ASK principal Giles Perryman saw a need for a waste facility data management and reporting system suitable for smaller waste facilities. While there are a few such systems available for high-end enterprises, Perryman found that they could be prohibitive for those facilities that were of a smaller scale.

Cooee came about after ASK had spent more than a decade producing waste strategies for regional and rural local councils. Giles and his team asked the question, “where’s the data on the waste you are collecting?” The councils typically didn’t have any, which was problematic. It also became apparent that any type of data collection software was out of the price range of the smaller waste processing facilities.

“There were a few systems already in the market, which were generally focused on the bigger 100,000 tonnes-plus facilities,” said Perryman. “And these smaller facilities just couldn’t justify that cost. After about 10 years of finding this being a common issue with several councils and facilities, we just thought, ‘well, how hard can it be to invent our own?’”

Read more at Inside Waste.