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The creation of a LAWDC required the [[Waste Disposal Authority]] to be at arms-length, with the shares able to be owned wholly by the Authority but with less than 20% representation at the LAWDC's board level. The transfer of the assets (i.e. sites) to the LAWDC also entailed the transfer of staff and in most cases some form of [[Disposal]] and/or [[Treatment]] contract. | The creation of a LAWDC required the [[Waste Disposal Authority]] to be at arms-length, with the shares able to be owned wholly by the Authority but with less than 20% representation at the LAWDC's board level. The transfer of the assets (i.e. sites) to the LAWDC also entailed the transfer of staff and in most cases some form of [[Disposal]] and/or [[Treatment]] contract. | ||
As time passed, many of the LAWDCs were sold to privately owned waste management companies, especially through the late 1990s. There are now only a limited number of LAWDCs that remain, although the underpinning legislation requiring their creation has been repealed. | As time passed, many of the LAWDCs were sold to privately owned waste management companies, especially through the late 1990s. There are now only a limited number of LAWDCs that remain, although the underpinning legislation requiring their creation has been repealed. The remaining LAWDCs are: | ||
The new arrangements for a [[Waste Disposal Authority]] and/or [[Waste Collection Authority]] that is seeking to create an arms-length company for the delivery of waste services (primarily for waste collection services but increasingly for the delivery of HWRC contracts for example) are through a [[Local Authority Trading Company]]. | * [[Amgen Rhondda Limited]] (Amgen Cymru) | ||
* [[Cumbria Waste Management]] Limited (CWM) | |||
* [[CWM Environmental Limited]] | |||
* Norfolk Environmental Services Limited (NEWS) now part of [[Norse Environmental Waste Services]] | |||
* [[Silent Valley Waste Services]] | |||
* [[Yorwaste]] | |||
The new arrangements for a [[Waste Disposal Authority]] and/or [[Waste Collection Authority]] that is seeking to create an arms-length company for the delivery of waste services (primarily for waste collection services but increasingly for the delivery of [[HWRC]] contracts for example) are through a [[Local Authority Trading Company]]. | |||