The Defra-funded body will manage the schemes, which are expected to be up-and-running by May 2010 and to run for at least six months, with the intention of developing “commercially viable” models for the service which can then be rolled out across England.
They are being run to achieve the first aim made by Defra in its October 2009 policy statement for commercial and industrial waste, which committed to fund a pilot trade waste bring bank scheme (see letsrecycle.com story).
Business parks
In Bristol, steel storage containers will be located in “accessible” places on two yet-to-be-named business parks on the outskirts of the city, with businesses that sign up to the initiative being able to use the containers to recycle glass, cardboard, paper, cans and plastic bottles.
Incentives including free waste reviews and free glass collections will be used to attract businesses to the scheme, which will be managed by consultancy Resource Futures and operated by services company May Gurney.
Meanwhile, the Merseyside trial will involve a bring bank site being installed next to a cash and carry warehouse, with the scheme operating on a membership basis where SMEs will sign up via a bespoke website to use the site to recycle paper, cardboard, rigid and flexible plastics, and WEEE.
WRAP said the pilot, which will be operated by Widnes-based Centrol Recycling Group and managed by consultants Gordon Mackie Associates with support from Envirolink Northwest, would provide businesses with a “viable, cost-effective opportunity to recycle their waste”.
Commenting on the projects, Linda Crichton from WRAP said: “We hope that these schemes will overcome some of the barriers encountered previously by SMEs and make it easier for small businesses to recycle their waste. We look forward to the results of the trials.”
WRAP aims to review the pilots after six months and said that, if they were successful, it would encourage the role out of the models more widely.
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