The initial two-year deal, with a three year extension option, will see the East Midlands-based waste management firm manage up to 44,000 tonnes of mixed household dry recyclables, municipal refuse, garden waste, wood, transfer station wastes and highways arisings per year.
The new contract will extend the company’s partnership with the local authority, which has been managing waste on behalf of the city council for a decade.
Around 21,000 tonnes per year of recyclables will be sent to Wastecycle’s materials recycling facility (MRF) in Colwick in the East of the city.
The MRF has capacity to sort around 60,000 tonnes a year, following the company’s decision to double the size of the facility in 2011 (see letsrecycle.com story).
The Colwick site also includes facilities for sorting commercial, industrial and construction waste, as well as a plant for processing refuse-derived fuel (RDF).
Up to 25,000 tonnes of Nottingham’s municipal refuse will be processed here into RDF, which is then burnt at FCC Environment’s Eastcroft energy from waste facility in the city. In January, FCC confirmed plans to increase the capacity of the EfW plant by 140,000 tonnes per year (see letsrecycle.com story).
Both the recycling and residual waste lots of the contract are valued at around £9 million and £10 million respectively.
Wastecycle
Based in Leicester and Nottingham, Wastecycle processes over 450,000 tonnes of waste and materials through its recycling facilities every year.
Commenting on the contract, Kevan Wilcockson, director of recycling at Wastecycle, said: “We have worked with Nottingham city council for over 10 years now, delivering high levels of recycling and recovery.”
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