Our Recycle Loop
Through our Recycle Loop, we’re redefining how businesses manage their resources, helping organisations move away from linear “take, make, dispose” models and towards a circular economy; where materials are kept in use for as long as possible.
Powered by people and enabled by technology, our range of Recycle Loop services are fulfilled by our specialist brands, using cutting-edge data insights, and hands-on expertise to help businesses:
- Maximise material use
- Reduce costs and environmental impact
- Demonstrate measurable sustainability progress
- Close the circularity gap
Across the Recycle Loop, we have established close working partnerships with thousands of businesses that we’re working with every day to build a waste-free world.
Our services
Across Reconomy’s Recycle Loop, we offer a complete suite of recycling and resource management services, tailored to the unique needs of each customer. Our goal is to make circularity simple, practical, and commercially beneficial.
Waste management
End-to-end outsourced services for businesses of every size, from small single-site companies to complex, multi-site organisations. We automate processes, streamline supply chains, and deliver measurable efficiencies while diverting managed waste from landfill.
Material Management
Our teams maximise recovery and recycling opportunities by sorting, trading, and reprocessing materials. With advanced technology, we track performance and generate insights to improve recycling rates and reduce dependency on virgin materials.
Recycling Equipment
Modern, innovative recycling equipment designed to enhance operational performance. From on-site compactors to advanced segregation systems, we help businesses increase recovery while improving financial returns.
Specialist Support Services
Whether you’re in construction, retail, manufacturing, or logistics, we provide specialist services that keep sites compliant, safe, and efficient. From site welfare and soils testing to emergency response, our experts ensure nothing is left to chance.
Discover the Recycle Loop brands
Explore the brands that form part of our Recycle Loop service offering:
Testimonials
Working with Reconomy Connect, we can make a difference and achieve tangible steps towards our waste and carbon footprint goals.
Telent
Testimonials
Donating to charities such as the YMCA has been made all the easier through our partnership with Reconomy Connect, and aligns with our commitment to reducing waste.
McDonald's
Testimonials
Reconomy Connect has been an integral part of driving our digitalisation process. We look forward to continuing our working relationship whilst developing our fully digital solution.
Balfour Beatty
Helping businesses across the UK
Through data-driven insights and expert strategies, we empower sustainable growth while working towards a waste-free future.
Technology and innovation
Technology underpins the Recycle Loop, making waste and resource management simpler, more transparent, and more impactful. Our digital platforms and applications are designed to streamline operations, improve accuracy, and deliver actionable insights:
On-site management applications
Enable teams to quickly book, manage, and track waste services directly from the site, improving efficiency and responsiveness.
Digital tipping and delivery tools
Replace paper records with electronic proof of delivery and tipping data, reducing errors and strengthening compliance.
Centralised reporting platforms
Provide a single hub for managing waste streams, giving businesses complete visibility of performance and resource use.
Environmental benchmarking tools
Such as the Zero Waste Index- measure and compare the impact of waste activities, supporting data-led sustainability decisions.
Case studies
We don’t just talk about circularity, we deliver it. Each case study demonstrates our core principle: circularity made simple, impactful, and commercially smart.
McDonald's furniture reuse
See how Reconomy, McDonald’s, Murray & Willis and YMCA Together created a scalable reuse initiative that diverts furniture from waste, cuts carbon and delivers meaningful social value.
See case studyBalfour Beatty
See how Reconomy and Balfour Beatty introduced the waste sector’s first large-scale PunchOut procurement system, delivering a fully digital, end-to-end waste management solution.
See case studyTilbury Douglas
Discover how Tilbury Douglas is partnering with Reconomy to turn ambition into action, using data, engagement, and circular practices to reduce waste and support its People, Planet, and Performance strategy.
See case studyMorgan Sindall Property Services
See how Morgan Sindall Property Services and Reconomy are working together to improve waste efficiency, strengthen digital processes and deliver meaningful social value across Basildon’s social housing portfolio.
See case studyRedrow: ‘Reduce the Rubble’ Project
Learn how Redrow and Reconomy worked together to uncover detailed insights into construction waste, supporting smarter design decisions and more sustainable housebuilding practices.
See case studyThe Co-operative Bank
See how The Co-operative Bank partnered with Reconomy to design and deliver a bold zero-waste strategy, from improved segregation to closed-loop recycling and the successful recovery of 80,000 card readers.
See case studySunrise Senior Living UK
Discover how Reconomy is supporting Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare with compliant, reliable waste services across 64 care homes, even through the challenges of the pandemic.
See case studyClosing the circularity gap
The world is only 6.9% circular, meaning more than 93% of natural resources are still wasted, lost, or locked away instead of being reused. This widening gap represents the difference between the world we live in today and the waste-free future we could create.
Reconomy is leading the movement to close the gap. We make circularity simple and achievable by:
- Helping businesses rethink resources – ensuring materials are designed for recovery and reuse.
- Offering accessible, scalable solutions from on-site waste reduction services to the provision of Reverse Vending Machines that support Deposit Return Schemes.Turning sustainability into a business driver – proving that resource efficiency reduces costs and drives growth
Our approach ensures that every business, no matter the size or sector, can contribute to closing the gap, because small steps, taken together, create lasting change.
Awards and accreditations
Throughout 2024, we drove positive change through innovation and sustainability, always striving to make a meaningful impact. We are honoured that our efforts have been recognised with several sustainability rankings and prestigious awards.
Explore our full range of capabilities
Organised into three loops, each provides opportunities for circularity within the wider resource cycle.
Comply Loop
As regulations shift and evolve, we're right there with you, turning complex environmental challenges into profitable opportunities that offer a competitive edge.
Find out moreRe-use Loop
Providing intelligent technology platforms and circular logistics that enable us to provide the best sustainable, omnichannel pre-retail and returns experience worldwide.
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