The move comes after a shake-up of collection services in July 2019, which saw East Hampshire district council end its waste agreement with Winchester and begin a new partnership with Havant borough council (see letsrecycle.com story).
Previously, under a contract signed in 2011, Winchester and East Hampshire councils ran a joint service with Biffa which was due to expire in September 2019. Winchester then extended this by a year while it procured a new contract, which Biffa has now won.
Winchester noted that the authority has now “procured the services of an experienced municipal waste collection contractor to provide waste collection services, household recycling and associated services.”
The duration of the contract is for an initial eight years with the option to extend for a further eights. Over the course of 16 years, its total value was put at £75 million, around £4.7 million a year.
Lib-Dem run Winchester council serves approximately 125,000 residents and recorded a 36.1% recycling rate in the 2018/19 Defra figures.
Conference
Waste and recycling collection services will be on the agenda at the Collection Conference, to be held on 25 March. More information can be found here.
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