No-one was injured in the blaze at the Carmarthenshire-based company’s site. The fire began on 24 April and was still smouldering two days later (see letsrecycle.com story).
Last week, CWM Environmental issued a tender for a £1.8 million contract which could be extended by a further six months.
The contractor would be required to collect dry mixed recyclables from designated collection points at Carmarthenshire county council’s Nantycaws, Trostre and Wernddu household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) for processing.
A tender document published on 14 June reads: “Due to a fire that occurred at its dry mixed recycling facility, CWM Environmental requires an emergency contract arrangement to engage (through a competitive tender process) with a recycling processor for an emergency 12-month contract, which may be extended on a three-monthly basis thereafter, for no more than two extension periods (another six months).”
Interested parties have until 16 July to apply.
Fire
The “significant” fire began at the ‘blue bag’ MRF just before 3.30pm on 24 April.
Sean Gallagher, CWM Environmental’s managing director, said in a statement on 27 April: “The fire service arrived quickly at the scene and the fire was contained to this area. Thankfully the shift had already finished, and no-one was injured. We can confirm that our fire plan was carried out successfully.”
Mr Gallagher said the recycling centre, the food waste facility, the garden waste facility and the black bag facility at the site were all unaffected by the fire.
No-one was injured and an investigation into the fire’s cause was launched. The HWRC reopened on 5 May, having been closed for nearly two weeks.
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire county council manages waste through CWM Environmental, which is the local authority’s own company.
CWM operate two MRFs at Nantycaws. Its ‘black MRF’ processes waste historically destined for landfill, while its ‘blue MRF’ was purpose-built to recycle waste from blue household recycling bags and commercial collections.
The waste management company also manages four HWRCs at Nantycaws, Trostre, Wernddu and Whitland.
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