WRG will collect used glass from 300 bring bank sites across Cambridgeshire. The company expects to collect 4,000 tonnes of material each year.
The contract is the first for glass to be awarded by a consortium of Cambridgeshire county council and East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdon, South Cambridgeshire district councils.
The contract will see WRG working with glass recycling companies Berryman and Rockware. It will cover provision and maintenance of bring banks as well as the collection and recycling of glass.
WRG recycling manager Julie Sturman said: “This is an important business gain for Waste Recycling and confirms our glass recycling activities in Cambridgeshire.”
The company also operates glass collections in Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Essex, Northamptonshire and Enfield and Barnet London boroughs. It collects about 35,000 tonnes of glass annually and claims to be the biggest collector of bottle banks in East Anglia.
General manager Mike Snell said: “We are always looking for opportunities to extend our glass collection business and we expect to do so.”
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