Recycling firms will have to show social benefits

By Emma Rigby, Third Sector, 5 December 2007

Four local authorities are to take part in a pilot scheme that will require organisations bidding for waste and recycling contracts to provide social benefits, charities minister Phil Hope will announce today.

Medway, Braintree, Leeds and Bury local authorities will include social clauses in their waste and recycling contracts. "Local authorities can ask 'what else can you do as well as providing the service we are contracting for?', then that goes into the contract as a social clause," said a Cabinet Office...

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