Biffa has a long-standing relationship with Cannock Chase Council. Having managed its recycling since 2012, it won the contract again for both residential waste and recycling in 2016 and was successful in its renewal bid last year, with the new seven-year service agreement starting from April 2025.
The contract supports 46,000 residential properties in the heart of Staffordshire over a ten-day cycle, collecting domestic, recycling and organic waste. With a garden waste subscription of around 22,000 properties, there are approximately 56,000 lifts per week across the waste streams.
To service the contract, Biffa has taken delivery of six 26-tonne Dennis Eagle Olympus Twin Pack Elite+ RCVs with a 65:35 split, enabling the team to collect both residential waste and recyclables on the same round.
A further eight Elite+ 26-tonne RCVs with single-compartment Olympus bodies were also delivered, with all vehicles specified with Terberg hydraulic bin lifts. With this 14-vehicle fleet dedicated to the entire contract, the operational fleet will continue to rely solely on Dennis Eagle.
Biffa’s Tony Darbyshire, senior business manager, Cannock & South Staffs said: “A major motivator for us is providing our teams with the best tools for the job, to make it as easy and as comfortable as possible for them to complete the work.”
This includes the visibility that the Dennis Eagle vehicles offer. “The seating position is good; it’s higher than others on the market, so the visibility is great with few blind spots,” explained Darbyshire. “We’ve had the 360O cameras on our Dennis Eagle fleets since 2018 as an additional safety measure, so the crews are used to them and find them a real benefit, too.”
