Client: A leading European company making and supplying renewable fuels for homes and industry.

The client needs to find reliable, low-carbon materials to support both their existing products and new ideas, without affecting performance cost or consistency. We work alongside their senior team, R&D and project staff across a range of live projects, focusing on sourcing materials that lower costs, cut carbon and build their in-house knowledge.

Faced with a raft of environmental legislation, many manufacturers are rightly concerned about the significant costs to their businesses from the drive towards the circular economy.  Not least producer responsibility obligations, stringent recycling and decarbonisation targets.

However, sustainability measures are now increasingly embraced as an opportunity for product innovation. Once discarded materials are being repurposed and creating profitable revenue streams across a variety of different sectors, from plastics to wood, metal, paper, glass and aggregates.

Did you know that a typical standard rules waste transfer permit has over 200 material codes. That’s a vast array of material types that could potentially be accepted by the same site! However, we’ve seen from experience that many facilities only use a handful of these codes and typically those common materials such as; plastic, metal, rubber, inert, organic and so on.