The consortium, formed by Australian MBT company Global Renewables, is competing with SITA UK for the Lancashire contract. A decision is expected next month.
” What impressed me most about Global Renewables was their understanding of the technology “
– Robin Tweedale, JWS Waste
Mr Tweedale's involvement in the consortium came after Global Renewables approached his own company, JWS Waste and Recycling Services, which has some existing contracts for recycling with Lancashire.
Also involved in the consortium is Churngold, which is run by former Environmental Services Association chairman Ross Ancell and several other as yet unnamed companies. Mr Ancell was recently in the news when he was appointed chairman of bin and container manufacturer Taylor (see letsrecycle.com story).
Haulage
JWS Waste and Recycling Services was bought by Mr Tweedale in August 2004 after his departure from haulage giants Eddie Stobart where he was group managing director for eight months. Prior to that he spent three years as Biffa landfill director and was formerly managing director of UK Waste.
Mr Tweedale told letsrecycle.com: “What impressed me most about Global Renewables was their understanding of the technology. The company sees waste as a resource and started at completely the opposite end to the way that most companies have approached me.”
As part of the consortium JWS Waste has been developing outlets for Lancashire's recyclate. Mr Tweedale said that outlets had already been guaranteed with a number of companies for the material.
JWS is also providing transport services for materials, taking them to recyclate outlets or landfill as appropriate and operating transfer and MRF facilities.
Clean process
Mr Tweedale commented: “I believe that the risk involved with PFI contracts lies with the technology end rather than the traditional collection issues.
“I was interested to see that Lancashire had concluded this too and had put their PFI bid in terms of reducing planning risk. This has allowed for a much cleaner PFI process and allowed a lead bidder to be a technology bidder,” he added.
Global Renewables, which has its UK headquarters in Salford, has also brought over several high profile Australian directors to work with the UK team.
For its Lancashire proposal, the company is putting forward technology currently on display at its existing plant at Eastern Creek in Sydney. The Sydney plant is the only one in the world using the UR-3R (Urban Resource – Reduction, Recovery, Recycling) technology.
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