The contract will include plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays, metals tins, drink cans, aerosols and food and drink cartons.
It is set to last up to five years and is projected to see 5,600 tonnes of mixed plastic and metal container sent for recycling.
The containers will be collected from council waste transfer stations in Invergordon, Inverness, Caithness, Portree and Lochaber to be transported to Wyllie Recycling’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Perth.
After sorting, aluminium, steel, HDPE plastic and PET plastic will be taken to UK manufacturers to be made into new containers.
Councillor Graham MacKenzie, chair of the communities and place committee for the Highland council said: “Wyllie Recycling Limited’s impressive end-to-end recycling service will provide reassurance to our residents and business waste collection customers that their efforts in recycling are absolutely worthwhile and that the items they separate for recycling are being recycled here within the UK.
“The programme to implement the new twin stream recycling in Highland is going very well with over 80,000 households now using the new waste and recycling service in the region.
“Initial feedback from Wyllie’s is the quality of the material sent to them from the Highlands so far is good. This is really positive and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the public for their time and effort with the new recycling services.”
Households in the area have been asked to separate their recycling into two bins – paper/card into a blue bin and mixed plastic and metal containers into a green bin.
John Gilmour, commercial manager at Wyllie Recycling, said: “Wyllie Recycling are delighted to have been awarded this significant contract by the Highland council. This is a huge achievement and testament to the hard work of all our team”
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