WASTE management and recycling company Yorwaste has won a major new contract to handle waste generated by the University of York.

The company was successful in a competitive tender to provide a general waste and mixed recycling collection and processing service for the university, which will involve the collection of 1,073 tonnes of general and mixed recycling a year.

Over the course of the three year contract, which has an option for a further seven years, Yorwaste has been tasked with increasing recycling by 30 per cent in the first year of the contract, from the current rate of 54.7 per cent.

Gill Mulroe, Yorwaste key account manager, said: “We are delighted to have been re-awarded the contract to provide waste and recycling services on behalf of the University of York.

"We have worked closely with the university over the last five years of the contract to improve recycling but this new contract will result in us achieving even higher recycling and landfill diversion rates."

Yorwaste will carry out 4,000 bin collections each month on behalf of the university, all the material from which will be taken for processing to the company’s Harewood Whin Resource Recovery Centre in York.