Following our recent webinar, ‘Effective waste prevention strategies for the public sector’, Niamh Yates, Communications Intern at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, shares her insights and key takeaways from the session. In our latest webinar, chaired by Dr Adam Read, our panel of industry experts Sarahjane Widdowson from Intelisos, Steve Palfrey from Suffolk County Council, and Karen Marks from City of London discussed a SUEZ commissioned waste prevention toolkit. During the webinar the panel explored how the toolkit could support local government waste management and climate change priorities ..read more

The UK uses a whopping five million tonnes of plastic each year, much of which is disposable. Despite many single-use plastics having a useable lifespan which lasts a matter of minutes, it can take hundreds of years for these items to degrade in landfill, being particularly problematic for the environment. This month marks Plastic Free July – a global movement that encourages people to reduce their use of plastic, promoting cleaner streets, oceans, and communities. The campaign encourages businesses to act too. Beyond positive environmental impacts, reducing the amount of plastic in your busin ..read more

Following our recent webinar on ‘Reviewing the circular economy in action’, Bethany Ciftci, Internal Communications Executive at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, shares her thoughts and takeaways from the session. In our latest webinar, chaired by Dr Adam Read, our panel of industry experts talked about their journeys to going ‘more circular’ and discussed the very real barriers to innovation and disruption that are holding organisations back. Maya De Souza from Business in the Community (BITC), Ann Beavis from Crown Workspace and our own Wendy Storey from SUEZ  shared their thoughts on ho ..read more

Blog By Siobhan O’Dell, Community Liaison Manager at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. Last Friday, SUEZ hosted a webinar on the topic of Green skills for a better tomorrow, chaired by Dr Adam Read. Adam was joined by four expert panellists – Sarahjane Widdowson from Intelisos, Katie Cockburn from CIWM, Fiona Dear from The Restart Project and SUEZ colleague, Claire Townsend. They came together to discuss the sector’s transition over the last decade in relation to the demand and supply of skills, the current roles and competencies needed by the sector, and importantly how we can get our sector sk ..read more

Our Social Value and Sustainability Intern, Emily Nurse, shares her key learnings from her week of visiting various SUEZ locations across the UK. The last week of January was a real treat, involving a trip up North from the South East, as I continue on my journey with SUEZ to broaden my waste site portfolio and knowledge of waste and resource activities. With some knowledge already under my belt from previous site tours, I looked forward to seeing the variance between other SUEZ sites that carried out the same process, but also to see some new forms of processing, including a landfill (both cl ..read more

Blog by Emily Nurse, Sustainability and Social Value Intern at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. In order for re-use and repair to become economically viable and the norm, it needs to be large-scale, accessible, and easy. As the third and final webinar in SUEZ’s three-part series on repair, released in conjunction with our latest re-use guide, ‘seizing the opportunity’, this session looked forward into the future of re-use. Chairing this week’s session, Dr Adam Read, Chief External Affairs and Sustainability Officer at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, introduced the webinar before handing over to ..read more

We caught up with Bethany Ciftci, Internal Communications Executive at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, to find out her key takeaways from our recent webinar: Carbon in a waste world. We are very used to policy and metrics based on weight, however the need to measure the waste and resource sector’s services and outcomes in carbon is upon us, underpinned by the journey to net zero. SUEZ recycling and recovery UK’s recent webinar, chaired by Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief Technical Development and Innovation Officer, explored the drivers, linkages and measurements that are needed to profile the car ..read more

If you feel you’re falling behind when it comes to business recycling, you’re not alone. A recent study found half of small businesses do not have access to the most basic recycling facilities, with many not knowing where to start. However, recycling is vital to running a sustainable business as it reduces the use of raw materials, helping to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change. Here are six ways to help you boost your business’ recycling rates and reduce your environmental impact. Get employees on board Whether you’ve just implemented a recycling scheme or have had one in place for ..read more

Blog by Emily Nurse, Sustainability and Social Value Intern at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. Today, repair is increasingly working its way towards centre stage, gaining traction and acknowledgment by society in a multifaceted bid to save money, protect the environment, and to reduce consumption. Chairing this week’s webinar, Dr Adam Read, Chief External Affairs and Sustainability Officer at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK strengthened this notion when opening up the conversation, through emphasising the importance of moving products up through the waste hierarchy and away from disposal and ev ..read more

Blog by Bethany Çiftçi, Internal Communications Executive at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. How do we know if we’re making progress towards a more circular economy? What data are we collecting and measuring? What do we need to target or measure in the future and what could be done to improve our understanding and evidence base? These questions formed the foundation of our recent webinar. Chief External Affairs and Sustainability Officer at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, Dr Adam Read, chaired the session, and was joined by a panel of industry experts to explore the topic of metrics for a circ ..read more