The City Council of University Park, Texas has formally awarded FCC, the global environmental services, infrastructure and water management group, a five year service contract for the treatment and marketing of all the recyclables of the City. The materials will be processed at a single-stream Material Recovery Facility (MRF) located in Dallas, which is currently being constructed by FCC and is due to open on 1st January, 2017.
The City of University Park is located in Dallas County with a population of approximately 24,000 residents. FCC will collect and process approximately 3,200 tonnes of recyclable material per year from its inhabitants. The service commencement date of the contract is 2nd January 2, 2017, with a possible extension for an additional five years.
FCC was awarded the contract to build the state of the art MRF on the McCommas Bluff Landfill site in southern Dallas, Texas in November 2015 with construction starting earlier this year. The turnover volume for the plant is around 270 million euros (300 million dollars) over the course of its lifetime.
The plant will use the latest sorting and classification techniques, including artificial vision, as well as optical and gravimetric sorting machines. All of the waste collected in the single recycling container will be sorted into different categories. It will recycle and give thousands of tonnes of paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and metals produced by the citizens of Dallas, back to the market, thereby following the circular economy principles.
Inigo Sanz, CEO of FCC Environmental Services, the US subsidiary of FCC Group, said: “FCC has a growing presence in the US waste sector, and following recent awards in Orange County and Dallas, securing the University Park contract is another important step for us. By processing the recyclable material at our state of the art recycling facility we will make a huge difference to the management of waste for the local community.”
Last month FCC received the P3 Bulletin Award for the single-stream Material Recovery Facility (MRF) on the McCommas Bluff Landfill site in southern Dallas, Texas in the category Best Waste/Energy/Water Project. The P3 model that FCC proposed stood out because it was the highest scored in all areas: technical, educational, operational and financial, guaranteeing a positive financial value to the City along the contract term. The judges for the award were enthusiastic because the project provides a model for the US for waste reduction in the future, offering a strong and efficient solution to a potentially growing problem in the country.
FCC Group has over 100 years of experience in environmental services. It currently serves more than 53 million people in 13 countries, with a network of more than 120 recycling facilities and 10 existing waste to energy projects with a capacity over 2.6 million tons and 300 MW power output.
FCC’s backlog in environmental services was 11.826 billion euros at the end of last year, the business area also accounted for 51.7% of FCC Group’s EBITDA in 2015. In October 2016 FCC reached financial close on the Edinburgh & Midlothian EfW facility, it has also been shortlisted for the Belgrade EfW facility in Serbia. In 2015 FCC also secured a contract to manage a solid waste collection contract in Orange County, FL.
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