5 UK Waste Management Companies Most Likely to Empty Your Bin

The 5 UK Waste Management Companies Most Likely to Empty Your Bin

UK Waste Management Companies Listed for their top turnovers, making them the most likely to empty your bin.

The top 5 UK Waste Management Companies, by turnover (2016) are Veolia Environmental Services, Biffa Group, Suez Environment UK, Viridor, and FCC Environment. Now we will give you a short summary of what we found out about each of them.

1- Veolia Environmental Services

The UK leader in environmental solutions, Veolia provides a comprehensive range of waste, water and energy management services designed to build the circular economy and preserve scarce raw materials.

It employs 169,000 staff, has operations in 35 countries around the world, and generated revenues of almost €1.5 billion in 2015.

2 - Biffa Group

Biffa Group Limited is a leading UK waste management company headquartered in High Wycombe, United Kingdom.

It provides collection, recycling, treatment, disposal and technologically-driven energy generation services across four operating divisions. Biffa services over 2.5 million households, and collects 4.1 million bins per week within its municipal division, and has over 72,000 industrial and commercial customers.

It generated revenues of nearly €1 billion in 2015.

3 - Suez Environnement UK (previously known as SITA in the UK).

SUEZ is active on all five continents where it brings real-world solutions to local authorities, industry, consumers and agriculture for the efficient and sustainable management of their resources.

From its headquarters in Paris it trades in more than 70 countries around the world across in excess of 40 different brands.

Suez generated revenues of nearly €860 million in 2015.

4 - Viridor Waste Management

Viridor (from the Latin 'to become green') is a recycling, renewable energy and waste management company in the United Kingdom, owned by Pennon Group, a FTSE 250 plc focused on the water and waste management industries. It is based in Somerset, UK.

It generated revenues of nearly €800 million in 2015.

5 - FCC Environment (FCC)

FCC Environment (UK) Limited is a waste management company headquartered in Northampton, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Spanish company "Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas".

It was formed in 2012 through the merger and rebranding of Focsa Services and Waste Recycling Group.

The company provides a range of services, from collecting business and municipal waste to recycling and processing, and the generation of green energy from waste.

They have 36,000 employees.

We hope you found this quick summary of the top 5 UK waste management companies useful.

Our sources were Wikipedia, and each company website, and they were ranked based upon Statista data for the financial year 2015 to 2016.

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5 Construction Waste Recycling Methods Which Save Building Costs

Building Costs Can Be Saved 5 By Adopting These Construction Waste Recycling Methods

Here are 5 construction waste recycling methods through which sustainable builders achieve recycling and reuse of building waste in construction projects.

1 – Segregating timber waste on site and sale for re-use

Large timbers from older or unique structures can be salvaged and reused as structural elements in new buildings.

Lumber to be reused as a structural element, would need to be re-certified by a lumber inspector first.
Some firms offer certified lumber inspectors that can grade lumber for use on site.

2 – Storing reusable bricks and roof tiles from demolition phase, for use in later phases.

Many people prefer the beauty of old bricks and roof tiles for new construction.

There are monetary savings in doing this, as well as the satisfaction of performing an environmentally friendly act.

3 – Segregating metal waste on site

Metal waste is generally categorized into Ferrous and Non-ferrous types.

Prices paid do vary month by month.

but for iron scrap are in the range £100 and £150 per tonne.

The value of non-ferrous demolition materials at the gate of a metal scrap dealer varies between £400 and £3,600 per tonne.

4 – Segregating paper and cardboard waste and baling on site prior to disposal

Construction waste includes a high proportion of packaging waste, especially during the fit-out stage.

If this was sent to landfill it would cost over £100 per tonne in landfill disposal fees at the gate.

By sending it for recycling you are unlikely to be paid much, but will save the landfilling charges.

5 – Test Soil Using ‘CL:AIRE’ and if Satisfactory Avoid the Material Carted Off-Site Being Considered to be a Waste

Clean soil from excavation can be tested using ‘CL:AIRE’ methodology and then if satisfactory be dealt with as “Material Transfers to be reused on another site”.

That means that a sustainable alternative to disposing of waste in landfill sites is then possible.

There are many concepts for reuse and recycling of construction and demolition waste.

These were just 5!

For more recycling methods visit our blog at: https://wastersblog.com/cwr

The Gas Flare Secret Why Flaring is 34 Times Better Than Not Flaring

Gas Flares and Why They Reduce Climate Change.

The Gas Flare Secret Why Flaring is 34 Times Better Than Not Flaring

A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, is a gas combustion device used in industrial plants such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants, natural gas processing plants as well as at oil or gas production sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills.

Keep watching to learn why gas flares reduce climate change.

Flare stacks are primarily used for burning off unwanted flammable gas released by pressure relief valves, for the following reasons:

1 - Flare stacks are often used for the planned combustion of gases over relatively short periods such as when carrying out new gas plant start-ups.

2 - During unplanned over-pressuring of plant equipment, including emergency breakdown of equipment.

3 - During plant shutdowns, which are usually for equipment maintenance.

4 - In the case of landfill gas, flaring is done when the amount and quality of the landfill gas is too low for economic use.

5 - To reduce climate change.

Methane's estimated global warming potential is 34 times greater than that of Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

Therefore, to the extent that gas flares convert methane to CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere, they reduce the amount of global warming that would otherwise occur.

Source: Wikipedia "Gas Flare".

Visit https://landfill-gas.com/landfill-gas-flares for more info.

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