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ECT STARTS WORK ON LARGEST WASTE MANAGEMENT CONTRACT EVER AWARDED TO SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

28/02/2005

Today (28 February) leading social enterprise ECT begins work on Clean and Green – an integrated waste management contract awarded by Ealing Council at the end of 2004. Worth around £9.8m a year, and initially for a seven year period, this is the largest waste management contract ever awarded to a social enterprise.

ECT will be providing a range of environmental services in Ealing including household waste collections, street cleansing, collection of clinical and commercial waste and the kerbside recycling it has delivered in the borough since 1995.

Andy Bond, Managing Director of ECT, says: ‘We are delighted to be working with Ealing Council to provide a range of improved services to residents, schools and commercial organisations. As a not for profit organisation, ECT invests its profits back into the services it provides thus benefiting the community, staff and partners.

‘We hope other social enterprises hear about what we are doing in Ealing and realise they can get in there and compete for council contracts. And we want local authorities to consider that keeping services in house or using large private companies are not the only options.’

ECT is one of the UK’s largest social enterprises with 900 staff and a £40 million turnover. It started 25 years ago providing transport services to Ealing residents and now provides services in public and community transport, recycling and engineering across the UK.