A waste contract - potentially worth over £6 million - has been awarded to Veolia by Warwickshire County Council.

And as the council announces the award of the new residual waste deal today (March 31), it has also called on residents to do their bit and recycle as much as possible.

The council recycles around half of Warwickshire's household rubbish but still manages in the region of 130,000 tonnes of residual waste every year.

Approximately 100,000 tonnes of this waste is sent to energy from waste facilities, where energy is extracted from the waste in the form of electricity and/or heat.

The remaining 30,000 tonnes is sent to landfill, but the council says half of this could now be treated and disposed of by Veolia. 

Mark Ryder, strategic director for communities group, said: "Although our target is to only send less than 10 per cent of Warwickshire's household waste to landfill, this method of disposal is hugely costly to tax-payers and equally costly to our environment.

"The good news is that there are a range of things that all our residents can do to reduce the amount of residual waste that is produced and the amount of this that is disposed of in landfill.

"We have made tremendous progress in Warwickshire reusing, recycling and composting our waste and we hope to see these positive behaviours continue and spread as we strive for a Warwickshire that is sustainable now and for future generations."

Find out more about household waste recycling in Warwickshire, here.