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John Richards made this Freedom of Information request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
The request was successful.
From: John Richards
8 December 2010
Dear Wirral Borough Council,
Could you please tell me the actual name of the company that the
council contracts to empty the refuse bins. also what is the annual
cost for this service and what reduction/refund, if any, is given
when collection is not completed.
Yours faithfully,
John Richards MBE
From: InfoMgr, FinDMT
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
15 December 2010
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your enquiry shown below; the contractor is Biffa Waste
Services, Dock Road South, Bromborough Wirral, CH62 4SQ. The cost of the
Waste and Recycling element of the contract is worth
£ 6.5 million per year adjusted each year by the Retail Price Index.
The way the charges work is that the payment is for collection of the
waste; so in other words if the waste is collected late or early, it is
still collected, and the contribution made via council tax is accounted
for.
I hope you find this information of use.
Jane Corrin
Information Manager
This information supplied to you is copyrighted to Wirral Council and
continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non commercial
research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other
reuse, for example commercial publication, would require our specific
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From: John Richards [mailto:[FOI #54079 email]]
Sent: 08 December 2010 15:42
To: InfoMgr, FinDMT
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Company name and cost for refuse
collection
Dear Wirral Borough Council,
Could you please tell me the actual name of the company that the
council contracts to empty the refuse bins. also what is the
annual
cost for this service and what reduction/refund, if any, is given
when collection is not completed.
Yours faithfully,
John Richards MBE
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From: John Richards
15 December 2010
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
I wish to inform you that you are incorrect. The waste is not
collected late or early. In fact my waste bins where not emptied
for four weeks which meant that I had to take rubbish to the tip
using my own vehicle. I could not just keep putting filled rubbish
bags on the floor at the side of my bins. I am sure that most
people have to do this when bins are not emptied for long periods
so whoever agreed this contract needs to be spoken to as it is
clearly in favour of the company not the council and more
importantly the council payers. I am assuming that the brown bins
are emptied free of charge then as I was told by street-scene when
I called about the green bins not being emptied that the brown bins
would not be emptied the day they were due and would be left for
four weeks to allow the contractors to catch up on the green bins
that were not emptied? Are the brown bins emptied free of charge or
do the council pay for this? if so what reduction is made for the
missing period? I cannot believe that anyone would agree a contract
worth 6.5 million a year on the understanding that they will get
round to it sometime!
Yours sincerely,
John Richards
From: InfoMgr, FinDMT
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
16 December 2010
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your further enquiry shown below, I can confirm that there
is no charge for Brown bin collections.
I hope you find this information of use.
Jane Corrin
Information Manager
Wirral Council
This information supplied to you is copyrighted to Wirral Council
And continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents
Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including
any non
Commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news
reporting. Any
Other reuse, for example commercial publication, would require
our
Specific permission, may involve licensing and the application of
a charge
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