Guernsey Waste seeks household recycling firm
EXPRESSIONS of interest are being sought to find companies to recycle a range of household items.
Guernsey Waste is seeking companies to carry out collection, on-island sorting and processing prior to shipping, transport, and reprocessing of materials delivered to the Household Waste & Recycling Centre at Longue Hougue.
The list includes car and household batteries, electrical equipment, fridges and cooling units, scrap metal, TVs and monitors.
Other items are printer cartridges, light bulbs, CDs and DVDs, scrap metal, and disposable vapes.
More than 1,500 tonnes of these items are recycled by local households each year.
Guernsey Waste contracts & compliance manager Rachel Lowe said that the contracts for processing materials that are received by Guernsey Waste were regularly reviewed and re-tendered.
‘We want to ensure that the contracts we have in place for all the different items that households can bring to the HWRC represent best value for the island,’ she said.
‘On this occasion we had several contracts due for renewal around the same time.
‘We have therefore opted to invite expressions of interest for all of them together.
‘The responses that we get will help us decide how we eventually tender them, to get best value.
‘It could be by combining some, or keeping them separate.’
It is expected that all the materials will be exported for reprocessing off-island, but local operators may be involved in the on-island logistics and export.
Potential contractors have until 25 June to register their interest.
Subject to any further negotiation, all new contracts are expected to commence in January 2025.
