Bradford Council is looking to award five separate contracts for the next five years to deal with the district’s household waste mountain.

The deals would run from October with the option to extend them up to 2017 if necessary and would deal with the treatment of up to 150,000 tonnes of rubbish a year.

The agreements are essential to prevent the Council having to pay increasing landfill tax costs – which are to rise from £48 per tonne to £80 per tonne by April 2014.

A report, which will be discussed by the authority’s environment and waste management overview and scrutiny committee, states these waste treatment services are “critical to meeting EU targets for the reduction of biodegradable municipal waste to landfill” across the district.

In the report, strategic director for environment and neighbourhoods, Ian Bairstow, said: “Collaborative working with Calderdale has enabled efficiencies in procurement and may have provided beneficial tender prices for a larger tendered tonnage.

“The contracts will support the delivery of the long-term waste treatment strategy by providing the opportunity for the Council to extend the term of this five year contract for up to two one-year increments to provide continuity of service.”

Last month the decision-making executive agreed to a number of flexible landfill deals.

The latest agreements will follow the scrapping of a five-year £35m deal last year with Bradford company Waddington Recycling and Yorwaste.