LondonWaste awards three organic waste contracts

LondonWaste is owned by the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) and the company is responsible for managing household waste from the seven north London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.

While it will continue to process over 30,000 tonnes of mixed food and garden material each year at its own compost centre atits EcoPark in Edmonton, north London, it has awarded contracts to TEG Environmental, County Mulch and Viridor to process an additional 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes in total per annum.

These contracts will begin from April 1 and are for an initial three-year term.

LondonWaste said that, since the development of North Londons EcoPark compost centre five years ago, the success of organic waste recycling in North London had increased significantly. Last year nearly 70,000 tonnes of North Londons organic waste was diverted from landfill.

North London residents mixed food and garden waste is separated by householders and delivered into the EcoPark by borough collection vehicles. The company then uses a series of compost tunnels to transform the material into a BSI PAS 100 compost. In total, 10,000 tonnes of compost was produced at the EcoPark last year and 4,000 tonnes was returned to the local community for growing projects in local allotments, parks, gardens and landscaping. The remaining compost was used in agriculture within the M25 area.

EcoPark is set on a 43-acre site in the London borough of Enfield and houses recycling, composting and energy-from-waste services primarily for North London.

David Sargent, managing director of LondonWaste Ltd, said: North London residents are diligently recycling their food and garden waste and it is thanks to them that we were able to divert 70,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfill last year.

We want to continue to recycle this precious resource and cope with any further increases efficiently so have decided to go into partnership with three other highly regarded firms. It is great that we can also give something back to the residents in North London. Within 16 weeks of green waste arriving at our compost centre it is turned into peat-free compost, enabling thousands of tonnes of the nutrient rich material to be returned to the community for use in allotments, parks, gardens, farms and other open spaces.

Lots

LondonWastes award of these contracts, for processing mixed food and green waste (mixed waste), and green waste only will be for an initial three-year term, commencing in April 2011. The contracts were awarded in lots as follows:

TEG Environmental for the processing of mixed food and green waste.
County Mulch for the processing of green waste and compost oversize.
Viridor for the processing of green waste

The total quantity of the mixed food and green waste is expected to be between 12,000 – 15,000 tonnes, and the total annual quantity of green waste is expected to be 20,000 tonnes. The contracts have an option to be extended to April 2017 if this is necessary.

TEG

The deal with LondonWaste represents organic waste specialist TEG Environmentals first waste supply contract in London. It expects to handle an annual volume of mixed food and green waste of between 12,000 and 15,000 tonnes.

The mixed food and green waste TEG handles will initially be processed at the companys in-vessel composting site at Carleton Rode in Norfolk, until next year when TEGs new anaerobic digestion (AD) and in-vessel composting (IVC) plant will becomes operational at Dagenham, East London (see letsrecycle.com story).

TEGs chief executive, Mick Fishwick said: We are delighted to have secured our first contracted waste in London and look forward to the development of our AD and IVC facility in Dagenham. It is very pleasing to have the support of LondonWaste which will very much assist the development of the Dagenham plant.