Straight secures another recycling supply contract

Recycling group Straight has won its third deal in a fortnight with an £800,000 contract to supply a new recycling and waste service for Cheshire West and Chester Council.

Leeds-based Straight will manufacture and supply almost 400,000 recycling containers including kerbside boxes and food waste caddies to residents in the borough.

Straight won the contract with May Gurney, the support services specialist.

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As part of the new contract, May Gurney will introduce a weekly dry recycling and food waste collection covering more than 147,000 properties in the area.

Each household will receive two 55-litre Ergo Kerbside Boxes to collect their dry recyclables, a seven-litre Kitchen Caddy to collect food waste in the kitchen and a 23-litre Kerbside Caddy to store collected food waste outside the home.

Straight said the new service will transform the area’s three individual existing kerbside recycling collections into a single, unified borough-wide service.

The council said the deal will help it to deliver higher recycling rates and improve customer service and value for money.

The council currently has a recycling rate of 49 per cent.

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It hopes that by providing a weekly collection of these services it will increase its recycling rate to 63 per cent once the scheme is fully up and running. The scheme is expected to save the council over £1.5m a year.

The new collection will be rolled out in three phases over the next eight months.

It will allow residents to recycle glass bottles and jars, mixed paper, cardboard, food and drinks cans, aluminium foil, mixed plastic food packaging, textiles, food and beverage cartons, household and car batteries, spectacles, small electrical items, mobile phones, used cooking and engine oil, shoes, printer cartridges, garden waste and kitchen waste.

Jonathan Straight, chief executive of Straight, said: “This is another significant contract win for Straight and is testament to our market-leading proposition. We are delighted to be working with May Gurney on another pioneering recycling project.

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“We admire the ambition of setting a target higher than the average and I am looking forward to seeing this achieved.”

The contract follows a new framework agreement with the YPO, the UK’s largest public sector procurement organisation, announced last Tuesday. The two-year contract is estimated to be worth approximately £25m spread across five suppliers.

Last Monday it won a three-year contract worth over £1m with Severn Trent to supply nearly 200,000 water saving products and accessories.

Many of the products, such as water butts and shower heads, will be free or heavily subsidised by Severn Trent to inspire customers to become more water efficient.

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