Last week, Waste Recycling Group (WRG) announced its 2001 results which showed that the group increased profits by 15.5% over the last year and said that it saw local authority contracts as key to building on this success.
Norfolk County Council has now awarded Waste Recycling Group a contract to manage eight household waste recycling centres in the county. The contract, which starts in April, runs for the three years with the possibility of two, one-year extensions.
Ed Bastow, managing director of Waste Recycling Group, South Eastern Division, said: “We are very pleased to have won this contract and we are looking forward to working with the people of Norfolk on improving recovery rates at the recycling centres, as well as helping Norfolk County Council to achieve its own best value performance targets.”
Under the contract, Waste Recycling has been set a target of achieving a minimum 50% recycling rate at all of the sites during the second year of the contract. The company must also provide green waste composting facilities. The eight sites handle a total of 25,000 tonnes of waste a year and it is expected that the company will help divert 13,500 tonnes of waste a year from landfill.
Mr Bastow said: “It’s a challenging target, but Waste Recycling has a good track record in managing such centres across the UK and we are confident that we will meet – and exceed – the required recycling rates.”
The sites recycle a wide range of items including: Glass, paper, timber, garden waste, engine oil, car batteries, cardboard, soils and rubble, textiles, bric-a-brac and furniture.
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