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We’ve been working in partnership with North Somerset Council since 2010 and our current contract runs until 2017, with an option to extend for a further seven years. Under the contract we provide refuse and recycling collections and operate and manage the council’s household waste recycling centres (HWRCs).
What can you recycle?
The materials we collect at the kerbside are: paper, thin card, glass jars and bottles, food tins, drinks cans, foil, textiles and shoes, aerosol cans, non-window envelopes, plastics, all types of cardboard, food and drink cartons and household batteries.
The materials and items you can bring to the HWRCs are:aluminium cans, bulky household waste, car batteries, cardboard, engine oil, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, food tins and foil, fridges and freezers, glass, glass bottles, green garden waste, hazardous household waste, paper, plastic (types 1, 2, 5 and 6), 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 currently collect refuse on a weekly basis from approximately 87,000 households, and from 6,000 communal properties on a twice-weekly basis. We also collect from a number of schools, community halls and similar establishments, and operate bring bank, bulky waste and clinical waste collections.
Collecting refuse on a fortnightly basis, and all recyclables including food waste every week, has transformed the service in North Somerset.
All households now have sufficient kerbside boxes for at least 110 litres of recyclable items, which has increased the volume of recycled materials captured to more than 19,000 tonnes per annum. We have also reduced the proportion of waste sent to landfill by 25% - which equates to more than 16,000 tonnes and has resulted in a £1m saving in landfill taxes.
It is estimated that the new service could save £15m in landfill costs over the contract’s life by reducing biodegradable waste to landfill, which in turn will reduce landfill disposal and haulage costs.
We have increased the kerbside recycling rate to more than 60% and North Somerset is on track to become the best performing unitary authority in England in terms of recycling rate.
What’s more, the council’s citizens’ panel shows that 81% of people say the new recycling and waste collection service implemented is ‘better’ than the old system.
We’ve also refurbished all of North Somerset’s HWRCs with new signage, new containers and traffic management systems designed to make the sites safer, easier and more pleasant to use.
All of our employees are trained as recycling advisors and encouraged to meet, greet, support and inform customers. They also offer assistance to customers with unloading of cars and carrying items to containers and are on hand to offer advice on recycling matters.
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