GovernmentCase Study

Swindon Borough Council: AI-Powered Fly-Tipping Detection Cuts Cleanup Time 60% at £230/Month

Swindon Borough Council: AI-Powered Fly-Tipping Detection Cuts Cleanup Time 60% at £230/Month

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Swindon Borough CouncilGovernment & Public Sector200,000 residents · £400M+ annual budget

Key People & Companies

Swindon Borough Council

Fly-tipping Reporting System

Swindon Borough Council · Internal

Report It

Swindon Borough Council · Internal

StreetSmart

Swindon Borough Council · Internal

Sarah Peña

Emerging Technologies Lead / Head of Emerging Technology and Business Improvement at Swindon Borough Council

AWS

cloud platform and AI services provider for image recognition and ML

Rekognition

AWS · Image Recognition

Councillor Robert Jandy

Cabinet Member for Organisational Excellence at Swindon Borough Council

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Key Results

  • Average cleanup time dropped from 10 days to 4 days—a 60% reduction—enabling faster response to hazardous waste and reducing citizen complaints. Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, stated: 'Swindon Borough Council, for example, now takes an average of four days, instead of 11, to clear up fly-tipping after developing AI software to process reports submitted by residents and then work out the most efficient way for street teams to tackle them' [src-06].
  • Annual savings of £28,000 in fuel and staffing costs, with 2,137 staff hours saved on ground operations and £3,000 in fuel costs alone [src-06, src-05, src-15].
  • 83% efficiency increase in case resolution, with 98% of citizens rating the new system 'good to excellent' in satisfaction surveys [src-10, src-02, src-12, src-15].
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AWS was really engaging, easy and open to work with, and seemed to really care about the people of Swindon and the potential social good this project could do. The changes we have made with AWS have made it much easier for citizens to report, to be able to be updated on cases and we now have faster turnaround times.

Sarah Peña, Emerging Technologies Lead at Swindon Borough Council

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