Waste management company AmeyCespa has been awarded a five-year recycling contract from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership (RECAP).
The company already provides waste management services on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council as part of a 28-year private finance initiative (PFI) contract. The new contract will see it separate recyclable materials from co-mingled recycling bins collected from households in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough at its Waterbeach materials recycling facility (MRF).
AmeyCespa will also take responsibility for the onward transportation and sale of these materials for reprocessing, as well as bulking, storing and loading materials through its network of transfer stations.
The contract is with all six district councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, which will introduce the new service at different times. The contract with Peterborough City Council began in September, with the Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and Cambridge City Council agreements starting last Sunday (16 November). The contracts with South Cambridgeshire and East Cambridgeshire District Councils start in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
As part of AmeyCespa’s waste education service, schools and community groups will also be able to visit the MRF to find out more about what happens to their waste after it is collected from their homes.
Paul Greenwell, Managing Director of AmeyCespa, said: “We are delighted that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership has chosen AmeyCespa to process the county’s household recyclables. We are able to provide a local solution for processing this waste, using state-of-the-art technology.
“We look forward to drawing on our existing waste contracts and local expertise to support RECAP in increasing recycling rates and reducing waste across the county.”
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