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History Maurice Dickerson began operating as a haulage contractor in 1925 and in 1937 he founded M Dickerson Ltd. The company initially operated from premises in Gloucester Street, Cambridge, now part of the Castle Park complex, behind Shire Hall.In the late 1930s some of his main contracts were for the Government, hauling materials for airfield construction. During the war, the company was kept busy carrying bombs and munitions from the Midlands to the East Anglian docks. By the end of the war, the company fleet of 5-ton lorries had increased from 10 to 32. In 1948, the present site at Waterbeach (off the A10, north of Cambridge) was bought for the extraction of sand and gravel. During this time the company also operated a petrol station, car sales and vehicle recovery service from Teversham Corner Garage on Newmarket Road. In 1960 Maurice Dickerson retired and handed over the reins to his son John. The company continued to grow and in 1964 moved from Gloucester Street to a new three acre site at King’s Hedges Road in Cambridge. During the 1960s and 70s the company demolished the majority of East Anglia’s disused airfields and produced a recycled material which was used in road building. Concrete from the perimeter of Wattisham airfield, for example, was used to build the Ipswich by-pass and bridge over the River Orwell. In 1969 Donarbon Ltd was formed as a skip hire business and to landfill the void that was left by the mineral extraction at Waterbeach. The company quickly outgrew the site at Kings Hedges Road and in 1970 they moved to the present headquarters on the Waterbeach site. Frimstone Ltd was bought in 1975 to operate sites to serve the Norfolk market.  Sadly, in 1999 John Dickerson passed away and left the companies to his immediate family. In 2002 Donarbon won the household waste disposal contract with Cambridgeshire County Council to take the majority of 'black bag' waste from across Cambridgeshire, plus the contract to compost the garden waste from most of the household recycling centres in the county. In 2003 Donarbon earned the title of the first fully licensed commercial ABPR compliant site in the UK, through its innovative 'in-vessel' composting facility, and started composting kerbside mixed food and garden waste from some of the District Councils in Cambridgeshire on a commercial basis.In 2006 Donarbon's partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council resulted in some of the UK's highest recycling diversions. Subsequently Cambridgeshire County Council was granted Beacon Status authority. In 2007 the waste management park won the Award for Climate Change at the Royal Town Planning Institute Awards.  In 2008 Donarbon signed the Cambridgeshire PFI 28 year contract for recycling and waste disposal in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council. This partnership resulted in the running of nine household recycling centres and the construction of new facilities including transfer stations at March and Alconbury, a larger in-vessel composting facility and the MBT, which is the centre piece of the PFI contract. November 2009 saw Donarbon move into the MBT office and the opening of the Education Centre to schools and local groups.1st September 2010 saw AmeyCespa acquire Donarbon. AmeyCespa is a 50/50 joint venture between Amey and Cespa, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Ferrovial. In October 2010 AmeyCespa (East) took the first delivery under contract from South Cambridgeshire District Council's new blue bin kerbside mixed recycling scheme. |
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