Straight wins Bournemouth caddy contract

The contract will see the Leeds-based manufacturer supply its new Food Waste Inner Caddy a container designed to sit inside the top of a 140 litre wheeled bin allowing for the collection of two waste streams which was officially launched at the RWM exhibition in Birmingham yesterday (September 10).

Alongside the inner caddy, Straight is also set to supply kitchen caddies for indoor use and 23 litre kerbside caddies as well as Compost-a-Bag compostable liners. The delivery of the containers to residents is expected to begin in late 2013.

Under the scheme, standard households will receive an indoor and kerbside caddy while flats with wheeled bins will receive the 12 litre insert caddy. Those with communal bins are required to opt-in to the scheme.

Food waste makes up 38% of residual waste thrown away in Bournemouth, according to the council, with approximately 17,000 tonnes of the material thrown away every year in the borough.

The food waste collections are being funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLGs) weekly collection support scheme (see letsrecycle.com story) which saw Bournemouth receive 7.1 million to enhance its fortnightly recycling collection service alongside the introduction of food waste recycling.

Benefits

Georgina Lamb, waste and resource projects manager at Bournemouth borough council, said: As the market leader in the industry, and with its expertise in the manufacture of inner caddy products, Straight was a natural partner for the development of this product. Use of the new inner caddy containers should demonstrate value for money, increase recycling performance and deliver significant environmental benefits through waste reduction.

Jonathan Straight, founder and chief executive of Straight plc added: We are delighted to have been invited to fulfil this contract and that the pioneering spirit we are well known for continues to go from strength to strength.

Confidence

The contract award follows a positive start to the year for Straight which said it had renewed confidence after returning to profit in the first half of 2013 (see letsrecycle.com story).

The firm had been sitting on 3.2 million net debt in June 2012 but had won a number of contracts since then, including a 1.07 million deal to supply recycling boxes and caddies for Dumfries and Galloway council (see letsrecycle.com story) and a 1.7 million deal with Serco to provide bins and caddies to households in Canterbury (see letsrecycle.com story).