Straight secures contract with May Gurney

The contract, for a new recycling and waste service for Cheshire West and Chester Council, is worth more than £800,000 and will see Straight manufacture and supply almost 400,000 recycling containers including kerb side boxes and food waste caddies to residents in the borough.

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

The new service will transform the area’s three individual existing kerb side recycling collections into a single, unified borough-wide service.

The council believes this will help meet its objectives of delivering higher recycling rates, improved customer service and value for money.

The council, which currently has a recycling rate of 49 per cent, hopes that providing a weekly collection of these services will maximise participation and enable them to achieve a recycling rate of 63 per cent once the scheme is fully implemented.

The new recycling scheme is also set to save the council in excess of £1.5m a year.

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

Jonathan Straight, the 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.

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