Recycling

Veolia has offered to sell the Suez business in the UK to assuage the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) concerns that the merger of the waste management firms would mean a loss of competitiveness in the market.

Commercial cleaning contractor Cleanology is extending its operations from London into the rest of the country.

UK waste management provider Biffa plc has received a takeover proposal from US private equity firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP) that values the company at £1.36 billion.

Biffa has been appointed as the official waste management and recycling provider for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are keen to be more sustainable but are struggling to make changes like recycling. 

Reconomy has been appointed as Karbon Homes’s waste and recycling partner for around 30,000 of the housing association’s properties across the north-east of England and Yorkshire. 

Report: FM’s role in managing embodied carbon

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has elected Tim Walker as its junior vice-president. 

Zest Recycle has been awarded a five-year contract by Blackrose Pubs to manage waste resources at its 40 pubs across the UK.

Mitie has saved 80 tonnes of old Interserve uniforms from going to landfill using an innovative nationwide recycling project.