Bradford council has awarded its waste management contracts to Waste Recycling Group and YorWaste.
Waste Recycling Group's contract, worth 10 million, is to handle 160,000 tonnes per year of waste from a transfer station in Bradford.
YorWaste will handle 60,000 tonnes a year from Keighley's transfer station, in a contract thought to be worth some 4 million.
Both contracts run from 1 July until April 2008.
The council received 13 expressions of interest when it advertised the contract. Six firms submitted tenders.
A report to the council's executive said that Bradford had decided not to use incineration, and that landfill was therefore the only realistic option after recycling and composting.
It pointed out that landfill sites for municipal wastes are plentiful in and around West Yorkshire.
The landfill tax costs Bradford 2.86 million a year at current rates, while landfill site gate fees cost a further 2.11 million annually.
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