In an effort to boost its 22% recycling rate, the Liverpool City Council has announced that its new recycling contract will go to Enterprise-Liverpool. Enterprise-Liverpool is a partnership formed between the Liverpool City Council and Enterprise Plc, a Lancashire-based services firm. The new partnership will assume the city’s waste and recycling collections from its current contractor Veolia Environmental Services. The contract change will take place in November.
Enterprise-Liverpool already provides the city’s street cleaning services. The council hopes the new contract for recycling will help to increase the city’s “historically low recycling rate”.
Unless there are any successful appeals, the seven-year contract will begin at the start of 2009, when Enterprise’s weekly blue box recycling services will begin handling waste for 31,000 terraced properties. This does not include the council’s service which already serves 212,000 properties.
Enterprise Plc also has other plans, such as instituting bank holiday waste collections, creating a plan to improve the city’s trade waste service, and equip refuse vehicles with updated technology so that any enquiries and requests regarding collection services are answered in a timely manner.
Liverpool currently provides blue wheeled bins for fortnightly collections of plastics, glass, cans, cards, and paper. This service is in addition to the weekly refuse collections and alternate weekly collections of garden waste.
Councillor Berni Turner, Liverpool City Council’s Executive Member for the Environment, said: “Liverpool’s waste and recycling service has been very successful so far, but we want to make more improvements to improve quality and reliability.”
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