Waste management company New Earth Solutions has signed a three-year contract (with optional eight-year extension) to treat residual waste from Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen County Borough Councils.
According to the councils, the contract was awarded to New Earth Solutions following a ‘competitive procurement process’, which found the New Earth tender to be the most ‘economically advantageous’.
Under the new treatment and disposal contract, around 40,000 tonnes of residual waste per annum from both authorities will be treated and disposed of using mechanical biological treatment (MBT) and landfill disposal.
Around 80 per cent of the waste will be sent for treatment at New Earth’s integrated MBT and renewable energy facility in Avonmouth, Bristol. The remaining waste, not suitable for treatment, will be sent to landfill.
In a joint statement, Councillor Keith Hayden, Executive Member for Environment at Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, and Councillor John Cunningham, Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services at Torfaen County Borough Council, said: “We look forward to working with New Earth over the coming years to deliver this contract and we are also extremely pleased to have been able to deliver this procurement as a collaborative project and look forward to working together over the next few years to jointly manage the delivery of this contract.”
Richard Brooke, Commercial Director for New Earth, added: “New Earth is delighted to have been awarded this residual waste treatment and disposal contract from Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen County Borough Councils.
“The majority of the residual waste will be treated at New Earth’s Avonmouth facility which will deliver recycling, landfill diversion and carbon benefits for the councils.”
The New Earth Solutions site officially opened in September 2011 and currently has a residual household waste contract with the West of England Partnership that comprises Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council.
Read more about the New Earth Solutions Avonmouth MBT plant.
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