Five new local authority waste contracts have been secured by Wastewise.
The additional business is worth more than £7 million to the firm and sees it take in work from Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Rotherham and North Lincolnshire.
Now operational, more than 74,000 tonnes of waste is being handled at various locations established by the business, including a recently opened facility in Crewe.
James Landau, managing director at Willerby-based Wastewise, said: “We are committed to delivering unparalleled recycling and waste treatment solutions for our customers who are entrusting us to help in driving up recycling rates whilst meeting environmental goals and providing value for money.
“All waste is professionally treated in purpose built, state-of-the-art facilities which provide positive outcomes for the community and businesses alike.”
Wastewise already process around 20,000 tonnes of biowaste a year from Greater Manchester Combined Authority. It will now provide additional support in the management of a further 25,000 tonnes of mixed garden and food waste from across all of its ten councils. The two-year contract sees the councils collect and deliver the waste into several transfer stations across Greater Manchester from where it is transported to Wastewise’s new in-vessel composting facility for treatment.
Wastewise has also welcomed Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, with 16,000 tonnes of garden waste a year anticipated. A new waste transfer facility has been set up by Wastewise in conjunction with Stobart Energy, the 海角视频’s leading provider of biomass fuel. Wastewise then collect the material, using a combination of their own vehicles and third-party hauliers, prior to treatment. The contract is for an initial three-year term with an option to extend for a further two years.
In West Yorkshire, Leeds City Council and Bradford Council have each awarded garden waste contracts to Wastewise as part of a 12-year deal. The 15,000 tonnes of waste from Leeds is being delivered directly to the treatment facility and 18,000 tonnes from Bradford is being collected by Wastewise from two transfer stations.
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Garden waste from Leeds, Bradford and Rotherham is all treated at one of Wastewise’s composting sites within Yorkshire. An additional site has been recently introduced to help process the waste from these new contracts.
Wastewise has also won a one-year interim contract to manage all recyclables from North Lincolnshire Council. Following the internalisation of its waste collection services, the Scunthorpe-headquartered authority has contracted Wastewise to provide a short-term solution, moving and brokering the recyclable materials, while the council looks to procure a longer-term solution.
Mr Landau, who had just welcomed Mick Wheatley to the operations team to support the additional work, said that following the successful period of growth, “the company continues to seek opportunities to broaden its waste-processing infrastructure, which includes composting, materials recycling, biomass and alternative fuel production facilities”.