The consortium, comprising of Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley awarded a five year contract to the two Wolverhampton based companies Simpro Ltd and Jack Moody Ltd.
The councils hope that this contract will help them recycle around 60,000 tonnes of green waste per annum. The waste that the two companies will deal with is currently collected through kerbside collections within the areas of the consortium as well as from household waste sites.
Simpro will be offering the local authorities a network of on-farm composting sites around the West Midlands to which the green waste will be delivered for composting and onward use and sale.
David Tipton, operations director for Simpro, said: “We are very excited at being jointly awarded this green waste recycling contract and look forward to working with all the local authorities in the consortium.”
Organic
The company has said that it converts 100% of the green waste it receives into organic compost using proven processes and technology.
Mr Tipton said: “We currently hold a number of individual local authority contracts but this is a first and offers a number of advantages to both ourselves as the contractor and the local authorities.
“This is probably the largest contract of its kind in the country that has been awarded by a consortium for a network of on-farm composting sites and we are very proud as a local based company to have been selected as one of the consortium's preferred contractors,” he added.
This contract is the second that the authorities have handed out as a consortium. In 2003 Aylesford Newsprint won a contract to recycle the paper collected by the four councils. (see letsrecycle.com story)
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