Though the council told letsrecycle.com the value of the contract was “commercially sensitive”, according to a tender document published by Nottingham city council on Mansfield’s behalf on 26 January it is worth approximately £80,000.
Documents published by Mansfield suggest the contract, which starts today (1 April) and could be extended by a further two years, covers an estimated 2,500 tonnes of kerbside-collected glass from the depot each year.
The deal could generate the council around £160,000 in revenue over the initial two years, Mansfield estimates.
Mansfield is approaching the first anniversary of the roll-out of its in-house kerbside glass collections, and the council told letsrecycle.com it “shattered” its annual target of 2,000 tonnes in just 10 months (see letsrecycle.com story).
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According to a report written by Mansfield’s waste and recycling manager, Ryan Oliff, the council received three tenders to collect and recycle the glass which were evaluated in terms of specification requirements, quality, and price.
URM tendered the highest price per tonne of glass, Mr Oliff said, which, alongside their “robust qualitative information” regarding the collection and reprocessing arrangements, gave them the highest score during the evaluation process.
URM will collect the glass and transport it to Knottingley, West Yorkshire, where it will have any contaminants removed and be sorted into different colours, ready for reprocessing into glass containers by Ardagh Glass on the same site.
In his report, Mr Oliff said: “This increases the value of the glass and reduces the carbon required to reprocess it by keeping the reprocessing and manufacturing processes in one location.”
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The mixed glass URM will collect from the depot comes both from the kerbside and a small number of publicly accessible bring sites, according to the tender.
Mansfield district council rolled out separate kerbside glass recycling collections in April 2021 in the hope it would help tackle contamination rates.
The in-house service uses 140L bins, which are black with a teal-coloured lid, take glass jars and bottles of any colour, and are emptied every eight weeks.
Glass recycling company Recresco previously held a one-year deal from the inception of the service to take material from the Hermitage Lane depot.
In his report, Mr Oliff said: “This provided an interim arrangement to enable more accurate information on tonnages and storage capacity to enable a longer-term contract to be secured from year two onwards of the scheme.”
Representing an estimated population of nearly 110,000, Mansfield district council had a household waste recycling rate of 30.9% in the 2020/21 financial year.
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