North Lincolnshire Council has awarded SITA UK Ltd with a seven-year recycling contract.
From early November, SITA UK will provide a range of recycling services to North Lincolnshire residents and council, including collecting household recycling boxes on a weekly basis, operating bring sites, receiving council-collected recyclables and transporting materials from household recycling centres.
North Lincolnshire currently operates a kerbside sort recycling collection system, which will continue under SITA UK. The contract changeover will not affect residents.
“This contract is very significant as it will set the boundaries for recycling over the next seven years. Many residents are recycling regularly, but there are those that don’t bother and it is these people we need to target to find out why this is and somehow try and encourage them to do so”, said Councillor Nigel Sherwood, cabinet member for Highways and Neighbourhood at North Lincolnshire Council.
In joint effort with the council, SITA UK will use education and campaigns to promote recycling among residents and businesses.
Nick Browning, the recycling company’s Logistics General Manager, said: “We are delighted to be working with North Lincolnshire Council and look forward to providing local homes and businesses with a quality service that delivers high levels of recycling.”
The contract was awarded based on a competitive process, with SITA UK being the winning bidder. The company, a subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement, will be taking over the North Lincolnshire contract from Palm Recycling in November.
SITA UK has also this week been granted planning permission to construct a 50,000-tonne capacity anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at its Packington site in Warwickshire. The proposed facility will treat food and garden waste (amongst other organic wastes) from the local area and is expected to produce 1.6 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power up to 2,800 homes.
Further information can be found on SITA UK’s website.
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