The company’s Integrated Waste Management (IWM) division – which was restructured following a strategic review – increased its workload ten-fold by winning seven contracts with customers including Gatwick airport, Drax power station and Sheffield Forgemasters over the course of the past year.
In addition, Biffa said that the IWM was currently tendering for a further £5 million worth of contracts with clients in the automotive, food manufacturing, transport infrastructure, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Edward Pigg, general manager of Biffa IWM, said: “The combination of IWM’s track record of delivering impressive customer benefits with significant operational scale and reach is proving irresistible for many large organisations intent on improving their environmental performance.”
The full list of the seven contracts won by IWM in 2010 is: Gatwick airport; Drax power station; Burton’s Biscuits; Maple Leaf Bakery; food processor Moy Park; paints and coatings manufacturer PPG; and, steel producer and engineer Sheffield Forgemasters.
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A spokesman for Biffa said that the firm had secured the majority of the new contracts in the “later part of 2010” and said that he was unable to discuss the commercial value of the individual deals.
Operation
IWM operates by placing dedicated staff, equipment and vehicles at customer sites, such as manufacturing and production locations. This is with the aim of helping those companies to significantly reduce the volume and cost of waste usually sent to landfill.
This is then interlinked with other Biffa divisions and external transport to extract recyclable material from waste streams and, where necessary, find end markets for recovered material.
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The approach is undertaken, in most cases, with the aim of helping customers to achieve zero waste to landfill and includes sending materials, such as organic waste, to Biffa’s existing anaerobic digestion treatment facilities.
Biffa claims to currently boast the UK’s largest commercial and industrial waste treatment network, serving over 70,000 customers with 1,450 collection vehicles over a total of 128 locations.
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