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BDR reduces shortlist for waste PFI

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Councils have reduced their waste PFI shortlist down to just two bidders.

The original shortlist of four bidders is now down to just Sita Lend Lease and 3SE, a consortium of Shanks Group plc and Scottish and Southern Energy Ltd.

£77.4m of PFI credits has been secured from central government's Waste Infrastructure Development Programme to deliver the waste treatment development.

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils will now move ahead to the next stage of the procurement for the waste treatment facilities, working together as the BDR Waste Partnership.

BDR Waste Partnership Board Chair Richard Russell said: "The project is vital to achieve our aim of reducing the amount we send to landfill. All local authorities must do this – if we don't we face very heavy fines. At the moment, most of this leftover waste goes to landfill, but landfill sites across the country are almost full, and they produce harmful greenhouse gases which damage the environment.

"We want a solution which will be environmentally friendly. It will also create up to 300 jobs during the construction phase with up to 80 permanent jobs after that, many of which will be filled by local people."