Devon County Council (UK) has launched a tender process to seek a private partner to develop a waste transfer facility.

The private partner will be responsible for the finance, design and construction of the waste transfer facility at Brynsworthy. The site has planning consent for construction of a waste transfer facility and will be purchased by the Authority and leased to the preferred bidder for the duration of the contract.

The project also entails the reception at the above-mentioned waste transfer facility, of around 41,000 tonnes of waste collected by the District Councils of North Devon and Torridge, as well as around 3,000 tonnes residual waste from the Devon County Council's household waste recycling centres (HWRC).

The service provider will transfer the waste delivered to the transfer facility to his processing facilities for recovery or disposal. The District Councils collected waste element of the contract waste will have to be processed using a non-landfill processing solution with a recovery target of 90%, while the HWRC element of the above-mentioned waste can be processed using any authorized means of waste disposal, including landfill.

Subject to the parties' mutual agreement, the contract can be extended up to a maximum of 5 further years beyond the initial 10 years of service.

The project total cost amounts to £50 million (US$64.4 million).

Further information is available here.