London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

2016 3 3
2027 1 1
2032 1 1
Totals 9 3 12
Notes:
1. Excludes reply from one WDA which is discussed separately below.
2. Respondent put 2003/5 in their answer
The WDA that is not divested and not included in the above table uses 15 individual contracts
with 10 private companies: Shanks Waste Services Ltd, Waste Recycling Group Ltd, English,
Welsh and Scottish Railways Ltd, Surrey Waste Management Ltd, Generay Ltd, McGovern Bros
(Haulage) Ltd, Powerday Ltd, Ace Waste Ltd, Car Spares of West Drayton Ltd and Technowaste
Ltd. Four of these had contract renewal dates between 2007 and 2009, three were annual
contracts and the remaining eight were roll over contracts.
All of the respondents plan to continue using their current services for the future handling and
disposal of commercial wastes. However, the one WDA that is not divested noted that in the
long-term it expects to enter into a single long-term contract because of the joint waste
strategy being produced with the constituent WCAs due to the capital investment requirements.
The authorities were then asked how commercial and industrial wastes are handled. Eight of
the eleven respondents (six UAs and two WDAs) handle commercial and industrial wastes
always mixed with other wastes. One of the WDAs commented that this answer did not quite
fit how they handle fridges and end of life vehicles. The remaining four authorities (one UA
and two WDAs) sometimes or usually mixed commercial and industrial wastes with other waste
streams.
We then asked the authorities about the way that they transport commercial and industrial
wastes. Five authorities (three UAs and one WDA) use exclusively diesel fuelled lorries. Three
of the authorities (one UA and two WDAs) use exclusively river transport. One UA used a
mixture of predominately diesel fuelled lorries (>76%) with between 6-25% by boat. The final
respondent (WDA) had between 51-75% by rail and 26-50% by diesel fuelled lorry. One WDA
did not answer this question.
We asked the authorities to provide information on the total tonnages of commercial and
industrial wastes handled by or on behalf of the WDA and how much was from the WCAs and
other sources. Three of the four WDAs answered this question. One WDA only receives
commercial wastes from WCAs – a total of 690,426 tonnes. A second handles a total of
213,000 tonnes, of which 130,000 tonnes were from WCAs and 83,000 tonnes from other
sources. The third WDA handles a total of 32,500 commercial and industrial wastes but did not
specify whether this was solely from WCAs or included other sources.
With regard to the UA tonnages, it was assumed that they will dispose of all waste collected
within their authority. Since they had been asked for this figure earlier (see waste collection
section above), they were only asked if they handled commercial or industrial wastes received
from sources other than the authority. One UA received 2,826 tonnes of commercial wastes
from sources other than the authority. One UA wrote “unknown” which suggest that they do
receive some wastes from other sources but did not provide any tonnages. Two of the UAs did
not receive any wastes from non-authority sources. Three UAs did not answer this question.
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