At the end of last year, it looked as though European Metal Recycling (EMR) and a consortium led by Exeter-based property developers, the Michael Baker Group, would go head-to-head for the London Remade funding to develop fridge recycling. The funding should ease the crisis which has been caused by the Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) regulations and mean that the CFCs from fridge foam have to be removed before they can be recycled. But at the last minute, a proposal from ECT Recycling in partnership with German/Dutch company Louwman Haushaltsgerte means that three consortia are now bidding for the funding.
Hugh Carr-Harris, chief executive of London Remade, said: “We have received three really interesting proposals, they are all very good and very different. But there was no clear winner and so at the end of the month all three will present to a panel.” Mr Carr-Harris added that the bids were of a very high standard and the process was now very competitive.
A decision on which consortium would receive the funding was due to be made at the beginning of January but the three consortia will now present to a London Remade panel on January 30.
ECT Recycling is the largest not-for-profit, community owned, recycling organisation in the UK and as a result of contract gains last year provides a doorstep recycling service to more than one in six Londoners. ECT's local authority contracts include Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, Lambeth, Vale of White Horse, Waltham Forest Council and West Oxfordshire. ECT markets over 50,000 tonnes of recycled material per year.
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