Greyhound seal council bin deal

DUBLIN City Council has signed a multi-million euro
deal with Greyhound Recycling and Recovery for its commercial and domestic
waste collection business.

The six year contract consolidates Greyhound’s
position as Ireland’s largest collector of domestic and recyclable waste. The
company will take over control of collecting the green, brown and grey bins
from the council’s 140,000 customers on January 16. Greyhound has already been
contracted by the council to collect green bin recycling waste for the last
three years.

Under the new agreement Greyhound will maintain its
current scale of charges for the first six months but may apply for an increase
to bin charges to off-set the next increase to the Government’s landfill levy,
due to take effect in July.

Waiver schemes currently in place will remain in force
throughout 2012.

Assistant City Manager, Seamus Lyons, said the council
was

“very happy

? with the deal.

“All existing customers will see a seamless transfer
from collection by the City Council to the new arrangement with Greyhound
Recycling and Recovery,

? he added.

“Collection calendars will not be affected and
customers can expect to receive the same level of service as previously
delivered by the council. The council will be writing to all of its domestic
and commercial customers over the coming weeks to give them full details of the
new arrangement.

?

The deal is the second that Greyhound has completed
this year having already purchased South Dublin County Council’s waste
collection business last March.

“We are delighted that we have been appointed as the
successful bidder by Dublin City Council and look forward to providing
customers with the best service and value for money,

? said Michael Buckley, CEO
of Greyhound.

“Our appointment will help Dublin City Council to save
in the region of

?¬60 million over the next six years and assures customers that
we will recycle more of their waste than any other waste collector.

“We send less material to landfill and are in a
position to offer customers the most competitive prices because of the higher
recycling and recovery rates that we achieve.

?

Greyhound has also invested in new online technology
which allows customers to view their account details, their bin lift history,
grey, green and brown bin collection calendars and to track how much waste
they’re recycling.

Greyhound was advised on the deal by Dan Ennis from
Kish Capital.