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Yorwaste starts work on new recycling contract

Waste management and recycling company Yorwaste has been awarded a major five-year, contract to process and sell recyclable material on behalf of Redcar and Cleveland Council.

Starting in September, the Northallerton-based company will begin handling all dry recyclate – paper, glass, cans, cardboard and plastic bottles - generated by households in the borough.

In total, Yorwaste expects to recycle 11,000 tonnes of material each year over the course of the contract.

The materials collected from houses across the borough will be delivered to a waste transfer station in Redcar, before being taken for recycling to Yorwaste’s Resource Recovery Centre at Seamer Carr, Scarborough.

At this facility the recyclables will be sorted, separated, baled and then sold on the recycling markets, with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council then receiving a significant income from the sale of their recycling materials.

Yorwaste MD Steve Grieve said: “We are absolutely delighted to be awarded this contract and are looking forward to working with Redcar and Cleveland Council to maximise the value of the recyclable materials that are collected from kerbsides throughout the borough.

“We have a proven track record of being able to deliver the best prices for our customers at the same time as helping them to meet waste reduction and recycling targets which are now so important with the cost of waste disposal increasing year on year.

“The new contract also further expands the geographical range of Yorwaste’s operations and in our 20th anniversary year it is pleasing that our growth continues.”

In April this year, Redcar and Cleveland Council introduced a new blue wheelie bin for the collection of recycling materials.

The council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Rural Affairs, Christopher Massey, said: “We are committed to delivering excellent value for money across all of our services.

“Innovative schemes like this one build upon our existing environmental work and stand to save our residents many thousands of pounds.

“We are very much looking forward to working with Yorwaste.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Martin Walker .