The new contract will see the Norfolk county council-owned waste management company initially collect sack waste as 100,000 wheelie bins are delivered to the district's households.
Clive Whitaker, commercial director of NCS, said: “The large investment in a brand new fleet of refuse freighters highlights the commitment by NCS to the district council and residents of North Norfolk.”
Fifteen vehicles from Dennis Eagle will be used by NCS as it rolls out an alternate week collections of refuse and dry recyclables across the district. The collections will use a grey wheeled bin for residual waste and a green bin for paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and containers, aluminium and steel cans, aerosols and foil.
NCS plans to begin the delivery of the bins and alternate week collections in June and to cover the district by October 2004.
In 2002-03 North Norfolk council recycled 16% of its waste but Mr Whitaker said that NCS is looking to increase this with the new service.
He explained: “In theory in the beginning we will have six dedicated freighters on refuse and four on recycling. Obviously we are hoping that, as we increase residents' recycling, this will change to six to four in favour of recycling.”
Contamination
The mixed recyclables will be taken to Norfolk Environmental Waste Services' recently renovated materials recycling facility in Costessey (see letsrecycle.com story). But Mr Whitaker added that if the NCS finds the contamination of paper is too high it will consider adapting the collection scheme to collect paper separately.
In addition to the refuse and recyclable collections, residents in North Norfolk can now sign up for a third brown bin for garden waste.
Starting in May 4, 2004 and costing 30, the service will provide 240-litre wheeled bin to be emptied for composting by NCS every fortnight by a dedicated vehicle.
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