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Palm Recycling Wins Bring Bank Contract

11 January 2012

Palm Recycling has won the contract to manage the bring bank recycling facilities for five local authorities across the North East

The five-year contract, with options to extend, sees Palm Recycling providing, servicing, maintaining and streamlining the entire bring bank recycling facilities for Gateshead Council, Newcastle City Council, Sunderland City Council, North Tyneside Council and South Tyneside Council.

Over 180 bring bank sites will be managed by Palm Recycling through a "dual stream" collection system that reduces the number of different container types required.

Gateshead Borough Council acted as lead authority as part of the North East Purchasing Organisation (NEPO), an organisation, which seeks to secure economies of scale through greater buying power, whilst also simplifying the tendering process for suppliers.

Ross Johnstone, Business Manager, Palm Recycling, said: "With all sites across the five councils now managed by Palm Recycling, the contract delivers considerable savings and logistical advantages through economies of scale as well as through a reduction in the number of servicing contractors. We have worked with these local authorities over a number of years and look forward to a continued working partnership."

Palm Recycling expects to see an improvement in recycling rates based on the mixed-stream container bank system which allows for the recycling of a large range of materials in just the one location. Palm will provide the Authorities with a monthly reporting of statistics in order to monitor the levels collected.

Councillor Martin Gannon,　Gateshead's Cabinet spokesman for customer services, said: "These new recycling banks promise to make people's household recycling simpler and a whole lot easier.

"The more we can encourage people to recycle, the less Landfill Tax we will have to pay and the more we will have to spend on essential services. It's simple, it's logical and now it's much easier to do."

www.palmrecycling.co.uk

Darrel Moore