Blue Top Bin Recycling

I have only one report for the next Executive _ covering new arrangements for the recyclables from blue top bins.  At the moment we pay Veolia to process these, but we reckon wee can get a much better deal from a different company.  What strikes me most is that there was a huge variation in the prices offered by different companies when we put the idea out to tender.  I presume that is just the nature of a commodity market, that the prices are quite unpredictable even to the companies that operate in the market.