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Our contract to collect refuse and recycling and manage household waste amenity sites across Bridgend commenced in 2010 and runs until 2017 with an optional extension of a further seven years.

What can you recycle?

The materials we collect at the kerbside are: paper, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, aerosols, mixed plastic food packaging, cans, Tetrapaks, household batteries, food waste and textiles.

The materials that can be brought to the household waste amenity sites are: cans, bulky household waste, car batteries, cardboard, engine oil, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, food tins and foil, glass, glass bottles, green garden waste, hazardous household waste, paper, plastic residual waste, scrap metal, small and medium sized electronic waste and electrical equipment, steel drinks cans, textiles and shoes, white goods (fridges, freezers and cookers), wood and timber, asbestos.

Our service

We collect dry recyclables (including food waste) from the kerbside on a weekly basis. We also collect bulky waste and clinical waste and manage four household waste amenity sites.

Our collection system is designed to make recycling as easy as possible and residents have responded incredibly well. Their actions, coupled with our joined up approach with Bridgend Council, resulted in an immediate improvement in recycling performance.

The recycling rate has increased from 13% to more than 50% in less than a year and Bridgend is now the most improved area in Wales for recycling - having leapt from being the second worst of the 22 Welsh local authorities to being in the top five.

Bridgend now has the highest recycling percentage for dry recyclables and food waste from the kerbside of any Welsh authority, and is the only local authority in the UK to exceed a recycling rate of 50% without collecting garden waste at the kerbside.

What’s more, the amount of household waste has reduced by nearly 150 tonnes per week, giving further environmental benefit.

The Bridgend recycling contract won an Environmental Award in the 2011 Green Apple Awards, a national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. It was also shortlisted for three more awards during 2011.

During an interview in May 2011, Jane Davidson, the outgoing Welsh environment minister said: “Bridgend has changed its operator to May Gurney, adopted a new kerbside sort system and is saving £1 million a year – 25% of its waste budget – and the public love it.”

The service fully reflects Welsh Assembly Government targets as set out in its 2009 Waste Strategy ‘Towards Zero Waste’. These include a 70% recycling and composting rate by 2025 and a reduction in the amount of residual household waste produced per head, per annum, with a 295kg goal set for 2012/13, falling to just 150kg by 2024/25.