Residual Waste Treatment, Recyclate processing, & Food Waste Treatment Services

Warrington Borough Council is a unitary local authority that provides waste collection and disposal services to some 90,500 households accommodating a population of around 211,000. The Council provides a range of household waste collection services including residual, dry recycling, and garden waste collections. Additional waste streams handled by the Council include bulky wastes and street cleansing wastes.

The Environment Act (2021) may require the Council to alter and augment its current household waste services, through the introduction of a source separated food waste collection, and separately, through the streaming of the current comingled dry mixed recycling service.

The Council are looking to enter into contract(s) for the provision of waste treatment and recycling services for the waste streams that are currently collected by the Council as well as future waste streams that the Council may collect following the Environment Act reforms. These waste services are being procured in three Lots which include:

Lot 1 – Residual Waste Treatment;

Lot 2 – Recyclate Processing; and,

Lot 3 – Food Waste Treatment

The scope of the service required in each Lot includes the provision of a reception point for Council vehicles to make deliveries of waste, treatment recycling and/or disposal of material, all transport of waste and resulting fractions, and the marketing and management of all process outputs (e.g. products and residues) from the treatment process. The scope of each lot also includes managing the service, collecting and reporting service information, reducing carbon emissions associated with managing the Councils waste, and providing social value within the Warrington administrative area.