WASTE management firm O?Brien Waste Recycling Solutions has created new jobs and expanded after landing a ?2m deal to help Europe?s biggest shopping centre reduce its environmental impact.
The contract will see the North East-based company recycle 96% of the waste produced by the Metrocentre, Gateshead, with the aim of making it the greenest shopping centre in the UK in 2012.
The business will divert almost all of the waste from the retail centre which may have previously gone to a landfill to processing plants where it will be fully recycled, while also providing additional training for centre staff about recycling.
O?Brien has added four new members of staff to its 320-strong workforce and increased its fleet by two vehicles to facilitate the new contract and has also invested in expanding its materials recovery facility.
Nathan O?Brien, director of waste management at the company, said: ?This is an excellent contract to have been awarded.?
Dave Dixon, environmental services manager at the Metrocentre, said: ?The partnership between O?Brien and Metrocentre will help to reinforce all of our waste management practices that we have undertaken over recent years.
?O?Brien will also allow us to achieve one of our main targets, which is to send zero waste to landfill. This was a major factor in our decision to enlist O?Brien to work with us.?
Every year the Metrocentre generates around 4,500 tonnes of waste, of which 70% is recycled.
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