Recycling services run by a social enterprise company that went into administration earlier this year look set to be taken over by West Dunbartonshire Council.

Councillors will decide next week whether a range of collection and processing services previously carried out by Greenlight Environmental should be brought “in house”.

If agreed, the move would create 40 jobs - 19 full time and 21 on a seasonal basis.

It is proposed that glass, cardboard and “dry recyclate” collection from high rise blocks and tenements be run by the council, covering about 15,000 households.

Processing of the dry recyclate would be delivered externally, along with confidential waste processing.

WDC does not have the facilities or equipment necessary to process the dry recyclable material, so a contract will have to be procured.

One significant change being proposed is to cancel glass collections from high rise and tenement households and ask residents to use the existing network of 125 community recycling points for recycling their glass containers.

The household waste recycling centres at Dalmoak, near Renton, and at Ferry Road, Old Kilpatrick, will be run by the council, if the plan is agreed.

Officers are proposing the care of gardens scheme is also delivered as an in-house service.

A report to be considered by councillors at their meeting on November 28 warns there will be a significant increase in costs, running to £321k, for the services previously provided by Greenlight.

Greenlight Environmental provided a range of services to West Dunbartonshire Council, Argyll and Bute Council and Inverclyde Council before they collapsed into administration, causing a range of frontline services to be temporarily disrupted.

Attempts to find a buyer for the company fell through.

To ensure continued service, 30 former Greenlight employees who were previously employed to carry out work for WDC were recruited by the council on fixed-term contracts to deliver services.

WDC spent about £1.4million on service level agreements and contracts with Greenlight, which had a total income of £2.8m.

Jackie Baillie MSP said: “This will be helpful in ensuring at least 40 former Greenlight employees have jobs.

“However, there were approximately 100 people who were made redundant and I am keen that we try and find alternative employment for them.”