Waste Contract
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In December 1998 Herefordshire Council and
Worcestershire County Council signed a 25 year contract to provide
waste management facilities to be operated on our behalf by Severn
Waste Services.
The waste contract enables the Council's long term strategy for
the management of household waste in Herefordshire and
Worcestershire to be implemented. It includes the provision
of Household Recycling Centres, transfer stations, a landfill site
and a range of treatment and disposal methods including a
Commingled Materials Reclamation Facility (EnviroSort) and a
Central Composting facility.
The following Waste Management facilities
are presently operated by Severn Waste Services in Worcestershire
and Herefordshire on behalf of the two Councils:
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EnviroSort
In November 2009 a sorting facility for recyclables, EnviroSort, opened in Norton, near Worcester.
EnviroSort, accepts all of the
recyclables collected in your recycling collection and is operated
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Household Recycling Centres
Household Recycling
Centres are provided in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
for the residents of the two counties to
recycle and dispose of their household
waste. The
Commercial Vehicle and Trailer Permit Scheme is in
operation at all Household Recycling Centres
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Central Composting
Green waste collected from the Household Recycling Centres
and household garden waste collections is composted at a central composting site
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Transfer Stations
Waste collected by some district council lorries is compacted
into larger quantities before transport to disposal facilities.
This reduces the number of journeys needed to dispose of waste.
There are four transfer stations (Bromsgrove, Hereford, Leominster
and Redditch).
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Residual Waste Treatment
Currently, the majority of rubbish produced in Herefordshire and
Worcestershire that isn't recycled goes to the landfill site at
Hill and Moor that is operated on our behalf by Severn Waste
Services. As space there is limited and legislation requires us to
find alternatives to landfill, a treatment
facility is required.
In May 2010 our contractor submitted a planning application to
Worcestershire County Council proposing a new Energy from Waste facility, called EnviRecover, on a site in Hartlebury, near
Kidderminster.
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Landfill Sites
The majority of rubbish collected from households in
Herefordshire and Worcestershire that isn't recycled is disposed of
in the landfill
site at Hill and Moor, near Pershore
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This page was last reviewed 29 July 2011 at 9:34.
The page is next due for review 24 January 2013.