DUNDEE could net around £200,000 a year from recycling card and paper, the city’s council has said.
It comes as the local authority looks to agree a tender bid to handle the city’s recycling of the materials.
The council said that a bid from Smurfit Kappa UK has been deemed the most economically advantageous, with it offering around £200,000 of additional income annually.
If approved, the firm would begin work in December and cover transport for collection, onward transfer and reprocessing of mixed paper/card and cardboard.
The contract would run for two years with an extension option of up to a maximum of two further one-year periods.
It comes following the creation of a new facility for recycling the materials at the council’s Marchbanks Depot, which it said meant a revised contract process was needed.
Anne Rendall, convener of Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services committee, said, “Moving storage to Marchbanks gave us the chance not only to handle more of the process in house but to retender in a way that enables us to go from paying a contractor to recycle this material to them paying us.
“The way we deal with paper and cardboard in the city, with the high levels of support we receive from householders, means that compared with other places Dundee’s paper and card is of such a high quality that it has a value to those companies who recycle it.”
