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Wexford County Council has announced that, following a competitive
process, AES, Bord na Móna’s Resource Recovery company, has
purchased the Council’s waste collection business.
This means that on the 6th February, AES will take over the
delivery of waste and recycling bin collection services to
the households across the county currently serviced by Wexford
County Council.
All services will continue to be operated by Wexford County
Council until Friday 3rd February 2012 and will transfer to
AES on Monday 6th February 2012. There will be no change to
the current pricing structure and collection schedules for
existing Wexford County Council customers will remain the
same.
Key features of this new arrangement include -
- AES will maintain the existing levels of service provided
by Wexford County Council
- There will be no price increase for any existing Wexford
County Council customer in 2012, regardless of proposed
increases in the Government landfill levy, with the majority
of customers receiving an immediate 5% reduction on last
years standard charge
- Customers in receipt of a waiver from Wexford County Council
will continue to have their bins accepted on the same basis
as before until December 2012. AES is committed to maintaining
the existing waiver offering to existing customers until
December 2012, after which AES intends to offer a discounted
service charge to these customers.
- AES will continue to provide the same level of service
at the current rates to School customers, allowing a ‘non-use
period’ during the summer months
- AES will continue to provide service to Holiday Home customers
at the current discounted charge
- AES will continue to honor all existing arrangements with
local charities, community groups and other voluntary groups
until December 2012 and will provide service free of charge
to these organizations to December 2012.
- A Brown bin collection service for organic/food waste
will be rolled out in late 2012
AES expects that securing this new contract will mean recruiting
a number of additional staff in customer service and service
provision from February 2012 onwards. All staff currently
employed by Wexford County Council in the refuse management
business will be reassigned to alternative roles within the
Council, and have been fully briefed in advance of a public
announcement.
For a full list of FAQs for affected customers - Click
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