Our Sustainability Strategy
We work alongside our customers
to achieve their sustainability goals
Sustainability is at the heart of what we do
We aim to be recognised as the UK’s leading sustainable business operating in the environmental services sector.
Thanks to our national reach, extensive supply chain and diverse client-base, we are uniquely positioned to influence the resource management and sustainability practices of all those we interact with.
Our Portal gives you online visibility of:
- All compliance certificates
- All new and historic invoices
- All waste transfer notes
Our aim is to help all our customers to operate further up the waste hierarchy.
We will continue to lead the waste industry by promoting innovative, sustainable solutions to bring about both short and long-term changes in attitudes and practices.
51.1%
reduction in carbon intensity against turn over
£188m
social and economic value from SME spend
98.5%
diversion of waste from landfill
150,000
waste movements per month
51.1%
reduction in carbon intensity against turn over
£188m
social and economic value from SME spend
98.5%
diversion of waste from landfill
150000
waste movements per month
Sustainability and social value
Environmental sustainability has been part of our business strategy since our inception in 1994. Many of the greatest pressures we collectively face come from an over-reliance on the limited resources our planet makes available to us, and the impact that their overuse has on the environment. Through our many years of waste management knowledge and expertise, we are well placed to advise our clients on how to maximise resource usage, but it is critical that we practice what we preach.
Sustainability is the core to our overall business strategy and we believe this makes us a better company to work for, to do business with and to invest in.
Three core values that underpin our strategy are..
Environmental
We'll reduce our impact by working with customers and suppliers to develop circular solutions, reducing materials used and increasing the value of materials to be disposed of.
Social
We'll use our unique position working with customers and suppliers to invest in and build community relationships. Promoting volunteering, seeking to address the skills gap and barriers to employment.
Business
We'll ensure compliance, maximise efficiency and work with our suppliers, including voluntary, community social enterprises, small and medium enterprises, to develop innovation through partnerships, focusing on customer needs.
Reconomy Social Value Programme (RSVP)
The Reconomy Social Value Programme (RSVP) gives back to communities both locally and nationwide. Through increased social value, we can bring about change to the environmental sector, address the industry’s skills gap and help our customers meet their objectives.
- Bridging gaps for young people leaving care: in partnership with the National House Project to provide internships and work experience for young people leaving care.
- Breaking barriers for hard-to-reach groups: in partnership with RMF, we’ve created Reconomy FreshStart to provide training and employment support to vulnerable groups.
Reconomy Environmental Action Plan (REAP)
The principal goal of REAP is to achieve net zero carbon across the Reconomy companies by 2028. To successfully deliver this, we are setting science-based targets linked to a carbon reduction plan that we will allow us to work smarter, greener and more efficiently.
Through our industy-leading knowledge and expertise, we will work alongside our customers to reduce their waste and carbon. We will encourage our suppliers to improve their working practices and support them towards circular economy thinking.
Reconomy Social Enterprise
The Reconomy Social Enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC) serves as an umbrella organisation for various social enterprises and charities. These enterprises address challenges from managing hard-to-recycle materials to helping socially disadvantaged and vulnerable people access employment.
Through Reconomy Social Enterprise CIC, we create partnerships between the charities we work with and Reconomy customers to find new, innovative uses for preloved or surplus materials. This simultaneously drives circular practices, social value, and community connection. By building new material streams, we help businesses find uses for surplus materials, giving them a new life and diverting them from landfill.
Closing the circularity gap
Reconomy’s #CloseTheGap campaign looks at the circularity gap to see the difference between the world we have now and the world we could have. It is important for every business to actively work to repair, reuse and recycle to prevent the creation of waste.
Right now, over 90% of the materials we extract from the Earth every year are wasted. We take, we use, we throw away. This is the circularity gap – the space between the world we have and the world we could create. One where resources don’t end in landfill, where waste is a failure of imagination, not a fact of business.
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We're trusted experts
We go beyond just managing waste. We utilise our in-house experts to knowledge share and educate the industry on the ever-changing waste management landscape. Check out some of our resources below, or connect with us on socials to stay in-the-know.