In the face of tighter budgets, local governments have recently considered privatization of municipal waste services. Public/private partnerships often lead to more cost-effective waste collection and disposal operations. IntelliWaste's waste management consultants are aware of key issues surrounding public/private partnerships and can assist both local governments and private waste haulers and collectors in evaluating such aspects as:

• Varying levels of public/private ownership
• Degrees of system management
• Cost-benefit analyses
• Franchise agreements
• Stability of private sector entity.

IntelliWaste staff recently published an overview of public/private partnership arrangements at the request of Deloitte & Touche LLP, which was distributed nationwide in the firm's Public Sector Review newsletter.