A successful Leyland utilities firm is celebrating again after winning a multi-million pound contract to collect Liverpool's bins.
Enterprise will take over Liverpool City Council's waste and recycling collections from current contractor Veolia Environmental Services in November.
The seven-year deal is a bid to boost the council's 22 per cent recycling rate and will see Enter
prise rolling out a weekly blue box recycling service to 31,000 terraced properties at the start of 2009, on top of the service the council already provides to 212,000 properties.
The 'Enterprise-Liverpool' partnership already handles street cleansing services in Liverpool and the council hopes the appointment will help to boost the city's historically low recycling rate.
A spokesman for the council explained that Enterprise offered the best service and value for money compared to the other bidders.
Enterprise, on Centurion Way, is already the UK's largest supplier of asset management services to the public sector.
It turns over £1.2b per annum and provides services to more than 70 local authorities and all the main utility companies, providing employment for 14,000 staff across the UK. Most of these are in Leyland, South Ribble and the north west.
Enterprise carry out similar refuse collection, recycling and other environmental services for South Ribble Borough Council.
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