Dudley Council will no longer be offering its paid-for commercial waste collections service, due to it currently not being cost effective and there being no certainty on future take-up.
The council’s existing commercial waste collection service offers paid for waste collections and a limited number of recycling collections to businesses. It is one of a number of providers which offers this service for businesses to buy.
With the introduction of new government waste collection requirements, meaning firms will need separate recycling and food waste collections, some from this March and all by March 2027, the council carried out a review of the service.
It estimated about 30 per cent of the council’s existing customers would have to contract a food waste service from April 2025.
Councillor Damian Corfield, cabinet member for environment, said: “With the new requirements coming in, for us to continue to provide this service would require significant investment, including on a specialist vehicle, which would spend long periods of time not in use due to limited demand.
“It wouldn’t be a cost-effective service for the council to run and it would cost more for businesses to buy the service from us. We just can’t compete with the private sector.
“We would also have no certainty about future take-up of the service, so we took the decision to cease it. All customers have been written to.”
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