The local authority is looking for a contractor who will collect mixed waste wood from the Council’s two household recycling centres, the Old Welton Recycling Centre in Midsomer Norton, and the Pixash Lane Reuse and Recycling Hub in Keynsham, to the contractor’s treatment facility.
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The contact period will run for 12 months from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025 and is valued at approximately £308,000.
The authority is asking potential bidders to estimate the costs and expenses of transporting, sorting and processing the waste wood, such as the gate fees per tonne to remove the wood from the recycling centres.
The council says recycling the wood will help to meet its own policy of net zero carbon by 2030 after it declared a climate emergency across Bath & North East Somerset in 2019.
Waste wood is commonly recycled into feedstock for panel boards and animal beddings, with the majority being used for the biofuel sector – 63 per cent according to the Wood Recycler’s Association (WAR) – which has been buoyed by government subsidies and higher energy prices due to the war in Ukraine.
Around 4.5 million tonnes of waste wood is created in the UK each year, with an impressive 4.3 million tonnes being recycled and sold back into supply chains; the remainder is often burnt for informal uses such as bonfire night celebrations and a small amount ends up in landfill.
For submissions to the tender the final deadline is 5th February. However the closing date for clarification questions to be submitted is 19th of January.
Contactors making a bid can expect to hear back with a decision by the end of February.
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