Straight secures £900,000 contract to provide city’s waste recycling scheme

Leeds-based Straight will manufacture more than 200,000 kerbside recycling boxes for support services group May Gurney’s new mixed plastic recycling scheme. Straight will also supply 68,000 specialist caddies for food waste collection.

The new scheme is expected to save Bristol City Council around £2.5m a year and will also help towards the council’s goal of sending no untreated waste to landfill within the next three years.

All of the containers will all be made from recycled plastic at Straight’s factory in Hull.

Straight has secured the Carbon Reduction Label on both of the product ranges as part of its commitment to the environment.

The group’s chief executive Jonathan Straight said: “We are delighted to be working with May Gurney again on yet another major implementation.

“Our working relationship has grown over the years and this contract further reinforces the high quality products and service that Straight provides.”

The contract will start before Christmas of this year and will continue until March next year.

Straight is the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of specialist kerbside recycling containers.

The company has supplied more than 25 million kerbside boxes, baskets and caddies to local authorities across the UK.

The group made two acquisitions last year, changing the business model, which previously relied on outsourced manufacture.

It bought the UK business of Helesi, giving it a proprietary position in the wheeled bin market.

This was followed by the acquisition of Powell Plastics, a key supplier of injection moulded products to the group.

The Powell factory, in Hull, has since been developed to include a blow moulding capability.

Almost two thirds of its products are now made in Straight’s own factory.

May Gurney supplies environmental services for 20 local authorities, covering more than 2.2 million households across the UK.