Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of our business strategy, driving everything we do.

Demonstrating our circular progress

At Reconomy, sustainability is embedded into how we operate, innovate, and support our customers.

Through our Action: 2030 strategy, we are accelerating the transition towards a more circular economy by reducing waste, cutting carbon, empowering people, and building responsible supply chains.

Sustainability strategy

Our sustainability strategy

Our approach is centred around
purpose, thoughtful planning, and
long-term vision.

Download the 2025 report

Our impact in 2025

We are making significant progress across multiple areas, continuously measuring our impact and implementing initiatives to improve sustainability throughout the business.

£30m

invested in closed-loop technologies

8.5m

tonnes of material managed

97%

EV or hybrid car fleet in operation.

94.5%

renewable electricity used

Our Close The Gap campaign

The circularity gap represents the distance between today’s linear economy and the waste-free system we could achieve.

Through our CloseTheGap campaign, we are working to make circularity more accessible and to show that it’s an opportunity for businesses, not a cost.

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Shining a light on circularity

Reconomy’s monthly Think Circular Award showcases the achievements of organisations that are making proactive strides towards a more sustainable future.

Each month, Reconomy representatives nominate customers, suppliers or partners they have witnessed showing remarkable dedication and progress towards circularity.

See our winners

Learning the Circular Economy

Reconomy enables the circular economy for businesses through three service loops: Recycle, Comply, and Re-use, helping organisations reduce waste, meet compliance targets, and extract full value from their resources.

Explore our Media Library

Explore our Media Library,  a collection of informative, fascinating, and fun video resources all about Reconomy, our colleagues, customers, the varied services we provide, and the impact we make.

Earth Overshoot Day

Tracking circularity through Earth Overshoot Day

At Reconomy, we believe sustainability must be measurable. That’s why we track our impact using Earth Overshoot Day — the point each year when humanity’s demand for natural resources exceeds what the planet can regenerate.

In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on 24 July. Through our activities with customers, we estimate that we pushed the date back by 12 minutes in 2024 and 15 minutes in 2025. With more closed-loop initiatives underway, we expect this positive contribution to grow. To understand how our business helps delay Earth Overshoot Day, CircuLab focused on building the foundations for long term impact – mapping material flows, identifying data gaps, and running life cycle assessments (LCAs) to understand where value and environmental impact sit across key waste streams. The team developed circularity metrics and dashboards, mass flow Sankey diagrams and a regulatory scanning capability aligned with emerging legislation.

The key factors assessed included:

  • Avoided impact (Reconomy vs industry average)
  • Total impact (Reconomy)
  • Earth’s biocapacity
  • Global ecological footprint
Learn about Earth Overshoot Day

Learn more about circularity

Circularity insights


Read the latest circular economy insights, resources and thought leadership from Reconomy’s specialists across waste, compliance, reuse and sustainability.


View circularity insights

The circularity gap


Understand why valuable resources are still being lost from the economy and how circular thinking can help businesses close the gap.


Explore the circularity gap

Earth Day

World Earth Day 2026 offers a moment to pause, not to make claims, but to ground environmental action in fact, systems and insight.

Learn about Earth Day

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