FCC has this week secured two contracts for waste services with Chorley council and Hertfordshire county council.
The contract with Chorley is to provide refuse and recycling collections, worth just over £26 million.
FCC Environment has secured a waste collections contract with Chorley council
FCC has also been awarded a seven-year contract for the provision of bulking, transfer and waste haulage for Hertfordshire county council, worth an estimated £100 million. FCC also held the previous contract with the authority.
Chorley
The contract with Chorley council is for an initial period of 10 years from 1 April 2019, with an option to extend up to a further two years.
As part of the contract, FCC will provide collections services to around 50,500 households in Chorley, Lancashire, with potential for another 1,120 properties in an adjacent council’s area.
Residual waste, dry recycling (commingled plastic bottles, cans and glass) and garden waste will be collected on an alternate weekly basis with commingled paper and card collected every four weeks. The contract will also deliver a bulky waste collection service to households.
The council received five tenders for the contract, which was weighted highly on price (60%). The service is currently carried out by Veolia.
Hertfordshire
FCC’s contract with Hertfordshire county council is for the management and operation of the council-owned Waterdale transfer station and management and operation of the Hitchin transfer station to serve northern Hertfordshire.
The contract will cover the haulage of waste from a waste collection authority (WCA) depot directory to the point of disposal. The services will also include the bulking of waste, handling clinical waste and ancillary services.
According to Hertfordshire county council, in 2016/17 Waterdale handled approximately 165,000 tonnes of residual waste from seven WCAs and seventeen HWRCs. It also provided a bulking facility for approximately 18,000 tonnes of dry recyclable material. The northern transfer station received approximately 21,000 tonnes of LAC waste.
The council said it looked to procure a service that offered the council “optimum value for money”.
‘Strategic importance’
When contacted by letsrecycle.com, a spokesperson for Hertfordshire county council said: “Waste Transfer Stations (WTS) are an important aspect of the waste management process for Hertfordshire’s LACW [local authority collected waste] due to the lack of disposal options within the county. They enable waste to be bulked prior to transportation to the point of disposal/treatment, mitigating both cost to authorities in Hertfordshire and the environmental impacts associated with direct delivery to regional facilities.”
The spokesperson explained that the Waterdale transfer station currently receives residual waste from seven of the ten Hertfordshire waste collection authorities and is of “significant strategic importance” to the county council.
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