Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Clean and Green Environment.

RESOLVED THAT

1. A further extension of the Printwaste Ltd contract be agreed and Ubico take on the dry recyclable material bulking operation thereafter

2. A project team, sponsored by the Managing Director of Ubico, oversee the transition to the new service delivery for both materials recycling and materials marketing and sales

3. In the framework of the budget cycle, Council be recommended to allocate up to £390K of capital expenditure in the 2015-16 capital budget for this project

4. Responsibility for the sale of the dry recyclable material be taken back by the authority and arrangements be made for the day to day management of material sales to be undertaken by the Joint Waste Team.

The Cabinet Member Clean and Green Environment introduced the reportand explained that Cheltenham Borough Council had a contract in place with Printwaste Ltd for the bulking of recycling material collected from the kerbside, bring sites and through the Swindon Road Household Recycling Centre. The current contract extension was due to expire in April 2015. He said that the Gloucestershire “Joint Waste Committee” (JWC) included in its 2014-17 business plan a project “tendering of a new contract for the sale of recyclable material with consideration of associated bulking and transfer operations on behalf of CBC. The Joint Waste Team acting on behalf of the JWC, considered two options, firstly a procurement process through a service concession contract and secondly an option whereby Ubico Ltd would take on dry recyclable material bulking and the JWT having responsibility for marketing and sales of the dry recyclable materials as outlined in paragraph 2.2. of the report.

The Cabinet Member then referred to some minor corrections to the recommendations which Members supported.

RESOLVED THAT

1. A further extension of the Printwaste Ltd contract be agreed and Ubico take on the dry recyclable material bulking operation thereafter

2. A project team, sponsored by the Managing Director of Ubico, oversee the transition to the new service delivery for both materials recycling and materials marketing and sales

3. In the framework of the budget cycle, Council be recommended to allocate up to £390K of capital expenditure in the 2015-16 capital budget for this project

4. Responsibility for the sale of the dry recyclable material be taken back by the authority and arrangements be made for the day to day management of material sales to be undertaken by the Joint Waste Team.