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ECT RECYCLING EXPANDS ITS WEST COUNTRY BASE WITH NEW MULTI-MILLION POUND 10-YEAR CONTRACT
05/11/2007
Leading social enterprise, ECT Recycling, the UK’s largest community recycling provider, has signed a new multi-million pound 10-year contract with Bath and North East Somerset Council to provide doorstep recycling to the borough’s 75,000 households.
The contract is due to initially run for 10 years, and will follow-on directly from the previous contract that ECT had with the Council for household waste recycling.
It will cover the Bath and North East Somerset area stretching from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.
Under the contract, ECT will provide a weekly green box collection service which will include the collection of aluminium foil and trays, batteries, engine oil, glass, mobile phones, oil filters, paper, plastic bottles, shoes, spectacles, textiles, tins and cans, toner cartridges and yellow pages.
ECT operates a ‘source separated collection system’ which results in 99.5% of materials collected from doorsteps being recycled. With the scheme, materials are separated into different compartments on the recycling trucks and stored at ECT’s recycling depot before being sent to reprocessors to be recycled or distributed for reuse and there is a clear audit trail so residents can be confident that what they put out on their doorstep will end up being recycled.
Commenting on the signing of the contract, Andy Bond Managing Director for ECT Recycling, said: “We are delighted to extend our partnership with Bath and North East Somerset Council by winning a new 10 year contract to provide their doorstep services.”
Councillor Charles Gerrish, Cabinet Member for Customer Services, commented: "Bath and North East Somerset Council is delighted to be continuing its successful partnership with ECT. The Council looks forward to working alongside ECT to realise its target of 50% waste recycled by 2010 and provide a convenient waste and recycling collection services for local residents."
For more information about recycling in Bath and North East Somerset, visit www.bathnes.gov.uk