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Gordon Fergus, commercial manager of the
WRG Group.
Waste Recycling Group’s (WRG’s) growing
expertise in the redevelopment and ma-
nagement of household waste recycling
centres on behalf of local authority clients
across the UK has been underlined with a
further contract success.
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
in South Wales has awarded a £10.5 mi-
llion, six-year contract with a possible two-
year extension for WRG to manage two
HWRCs and a small transfer station from
April 2012.
The award comes on the back of the
company’s £11 million contract from
Warwickshire County Council to develop a
modern household waste recycling centre
to serve Nuneaton and Bedworth.
This 15-year contract, with a fve-year ex-
tension option, will see WRG design, build
and operate the recycling centre on a
brownfeld site on the outskirts of Nuneaton
town centre adjoining the existing Judkins
recycling centre which has served the bo-
rough since 1991.
The new centre is due to be opened in
2014/15 and will save the county council
around £175,000 a year in disposal costs
and landfll tax. The site design and build
WRG, in United Kingdom
will be managed by WRG and Judkins will
remain open throughout the construction of
the new centre – ensuring a seamless and
uninterrupted service for site users.
Subject to necessary project permit, the
new split-level site will incorporate a pur-
pose-built second-hand shop which will
be managed by 2nd Chance, a Nuneaton-
based charity.
“We’re currently managing more than 84
urban waste recycling facilities on behalf
of 17 local authorities across the UK and
in the last 6 months alone, we’ve secu-
red new business from 3 local authorities
to manage an additional, 12 centres,” said
WRG’s Group Commercial Manager, Gor-
don Fergus.
“Cost effectiveness is important but it’s
clear that quality services and a fexible
response to new regulations and recycling
markets are proving equally compelling for
our clients as part of the tendering pro-
cess.”
Gordon continued: “Our ability to exceed
targeted recycling rates and environmen-
tal performance standards, and sustain
high rates of customer satisfaction will be
essential for helping the business develop
new business opportunities.”
A new, three-year contract from Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council will see Waste
Recycling Group (WRG) boost the authority’s recycling rates; divert more waste from
landfll and save money.
The new £590,000 contract, with a possible two-year extension, comes into force
shortly and will see WRG manage and oversee the processing of the Council’s road-
sweepings and gulley waste in order to divert them from landfll.
Under the contract, WRG will handle around 5,000 tonnes of the waste a year and
reprocess it into soils, aggregates and compost. WRG already manages 14 household
waste recycling centres (HWRCs) as part of a join contract with Barnsley, Doncaster
and Rotherham Councils.
“This is a signifcant development that will deliver a number of benefts,” said WRG
Group Commercial Manager, Gordon Fergus. “The new arrangements will see the
waste diverted from landfll, improving recycling rates and reducing costs for the beneft
of the Council’s hard-pressed budgets.”
Recycling contract in Barnsley