London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

Finally, the authorities were asked if construction and demolition wastes are collected by or on
behalf of the authority. Five respondents did not answer this question. Six of the authorities
who did answer (four WCAs and two UAs) do not collect construction and demolition wastes.
Of the seven authorities (four WCAs and three UAs) that did collect commercial and industrial
wastes, six collected from residential properties, three from commercial sources and two from
industrial.
Waste Disposal
All four of the waste disposal authorities (WDAs) responded to the questionnaire along with
seven of the 12 unitary authorities. Therefore, the baseline for this part of survey on waste
disposal is 11 authorities out of a total possible of 16.
All but one of the respondents (i.e. 10) use external companies to manage the handling,
treatment and disposal of commercial and industrial wastes on their behalf. The exception was
one of WDA who is not divested and uses a number of approaches:
• Operates three waste transfer stations itself with private sector haulage and
disposal;
• Uses private contractors for the removal and disposal of wastes from five civic
amenity sites operated by WCAs
• Directs some wastes to four private sector transfer stations; and,
• Uses private sector contractor for industrial end of life vehicles.
Eight of the respondents (five UAs and three WDAs) used a single contract to handle and
dispose of commercial and industrial waste. Two of the UAs used two private companies.
These 12 contracts were let to seven waste management companies, of which Cory
Environmental Ltd had four contracts, SITA had two and one each for Cleanaway, Onxy, Waste
Recycling Group, London Waste Ltd and Shanks East London. The size of our sample is
insufficient to confirm the overall trends, and whilst it does appear that Cory has the greatest
number of contracts it is interesting that most of the major waste management companies do
have at least one contract in London. There was a wide variety in contract dates
Of the twelve private waste contracts, our sample returns suggests that the WDAs have longer
term contracts in place as illustrated in Table E7.
Table E7: Date of Renewal for Private Waste Handling and Disposal Contracts
Date of Contract
Renewal
UA WDA 1 Total
2004 2 2 2
2005 1 1
2008 1 1
2009 1 1
2014 1 1
2015 1 1
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