- The Reprocessing of Materials from Mid and East Antrim Household Recycling Centres.

Tenders are invited from suitably qualified and experienced economic operators for the following services:

• The provision of treatment and recycling of waste materials from recycling centres as specified in this document brought into 5 recycling centres within Mid and East Antrim Borough area.

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is committed to improving its effect on the environment by using environmentally friendly materials, practices and technologies where available. To achieve this aim, we wish to work with like-minded organisations who can demonstrate a similar commitment.

The Circular Economy Package set a target of 55% of municipal waste recycled by 2025, 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035 and less than 10% waste to landfill by the same year. The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 includes the need to develop a waste management sectoral plan, which must ensure that at least 70% of waste is recycled by 2030.

The Council wishes to move the treatment of materials further up the waste hierarchy away from landfilling, recovery and open loop recycling, and into the realms of closed-loop recycling, remanufacturing, reuse and repair.

Council wishes to promote and support the development of Circular Economy solutions to keep goods and materials in circulation, to make the best use and get the greatest value out of them.

3. Scope of the Contract

The primary duty of the Contractor/Contractors is to ensure the treatment and recycling of a range of waste materials delivered from the following Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Recycling Centres:

• Waveney Road Recycling Centre, Waveney Road, Ballymena, BT43 5BA

• Sullatober Recycling Centre, 10 Marshallstown Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 9DE

• Redlands Recycling Centre, Harbour Highway, Larne, BT40 1AX,

• Glenarm HRC, Dickeystown, Glenarm BT44 0BA

• Larne South HRC, Island Road Lower, Ballycarry BT38 9 HB

Household Recycling Centre (HRC) Opening Hours

Site opening hours can be found at:

https://www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk/resident/waste-recycling/household-recycling-centres/

The Contractor is to:

• Provide a service to treat and recycle the specified contract waste from Council Recycling Centres so as to divert waste from landfill;

• Divert ALL non-contaminated waste from landfill by means of reuse, recycling or recovery;

• Provision of a licenced facility with weighbridge for the reception of the waste materials

• Maximising the recovery of materials for recycling

• Recovery on non-recyclable materials to the relevant EFW (Energy From Waste)/RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel)/SRF (Solid Recovered Waste)

• Provision of all required management information reporting including all required dockets, certificates and/or evidence required by legislation and NIEA (WAMITAB Certification)

• Collect data and produce reports detailing the quantity of Contract Waste collected - by material type, final destinations and end uses of all outputs;

• Provision of an undertaking that recyclable materials collected will not be deposited at landfill sites (Form D, end destination)

• Confirm that all waste collected from Council will be processed and treated to meet end of waste criteria as required by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.