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Have your say on proposed Energy Recovery Facility

March 9, 2012

A major public consultation has been launched to canvass the views of local people on proposals to build an Energy Recovery Facility in Beddington Lane, Sutton. 

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Viridor named as ‘Preferred Bidder’ for contract that will signal the end for landfill

December 16, 2011

Viridor has been chosen as the ‘Preferred Bidder’ by the South London Waste Partnership for its 25-year residual waste treatment contract.

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Statement of Accounts 2010-2011

September 29, 2011

Each year, The Partnership produces a Statement of Accounts which provides information about costs and income of the Partnership’s services for the financial year and liabilities and assets at the year end.

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Statement in response to the BBC’s Panorama programme

May 16, 2011

On Monday 16 May, the BBC Panorama programme ‘Track my Trash’ revealed that three non-working television sets left at Civic Amenity sites in Croydon and Merton had been, or were in the process of being, exported to Africa in contravention of the Waste Electrical and Electronic (WEEE) Resources Regulations 2006.

The contract to manage these Civic Amenity sites and handle the waste brought to them is held by Environmental Waste Controls.  The contract was awarded and is managed by the South London Waste Partnership. 

The South London Waste Partnership provided Panorama with a statement, which the programme producers unfortunately chose not to feature in the broadcast.

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Top of the recycling table for HRRCs

May 9, 2011

Recycling rates at the Household Reuse and Recycling Centres (HRRCs) in the four boroughs that make up the South London Waste Partnership (Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton) are amongst the highest in the country.

Figures obtained from WasteDataFlow*(the national system used by local authorities to report waste data figures to government) reveal that all four boroughs appear in the top 12 out of the 135 authorities listed.

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Just two remain in residual waste treatment contract negotiations

April 5, 2011

Just two companies now remain in the running to secure a major residual waste treatment contract from the South London Waste Partnership.

Viridor and WRG have been invited to advance into the final round of ‘competitive dialogue’ meetings with the Partnership’s procurement team.  This final stage will allow the two remaining bidders to put the finishing touches to their proposals before they submit Final Tenders in the summer. 

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Procurement negotiations will continue despite loss of PFI credits

October 29, 2010

The South London Waste Partnership today confirmed that it intends to continue with its existing procurement negotiations for new waste treatment facilities, despite the withdrawal of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding.  The Partnership remains well placed to procure a value-for-money solution to the challenge of diverting 200,000 tonnes of waste away from landfill.

On 21 October, Defra announced that PFI credits were being revoked from seven waste infrastructure projects, including the South London Waste Partnership.  It goes without saying that the Partnership was disappointed by this decision; but PFI funding was an option for the Partnership and not something it was entirely reliant on.

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Three bidders progress in residual waste contract negotiations

September 28, 2010

Three waste treatment companies have made it through to the next stage of the South London Waste Partnership’s procurement process.

WRG, Veolia and Viridor have been invited to further ‘refine’ their proposals of how they would treat up to 200,000 tonnes of residual household waste every year that would otherwise be destined for landfill.  Strict procurement rules mean that the details of each bid must remain confidential while the ‘competitive dialogue’ procurement process is ongoing.

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Four bidders progress in waste procurement process

March 22, 2010

Four bidders have been invited to submit detailed proposals for treatment facilities to deal with 200,000 tonnes of household waste that is currently sent to landfill every year.

Resources from Waste, Viridor, Veolia and Waste Recycling Group have successfully made it through to the ‘Invitation to Submit Detailed Solutions’ (ISDS) stage of the South London Waste Partnership’s procurement process.  After through evaluations of the solutions proposed, two of the four will be chosen to submit ‘Final Tenders’ in January 2011 with the contract being awarded to the successful bidder in May 2011.

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Additional sites for waste management – have your say

February 8, 2010

The boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton have launched a six-week consultation period giving residents an opportunity to comment on the suitability of eight sites for waste management purposes.

The sites under consideration are:

  • Land west of Hawkhurst Road, Croydon
  • Open area of land adjacent to Chessington Garden Centre, Kingston
  • Land to the south of Silverglade Business Park, Kingston
  • Land at the Hogsmill Valley, Kingston
  • Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, Merton
  • Former gravel extraction works sites (the old Cemex site), Beddington Farmlands, Sutton
  • Wandle Valley Trading Estate, Hackbridge, Sutton
  • Land to the north of Jessop’s Way, Beddington, Sutton

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