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Tech-enabled waste management services in the UK and North America
Reconomy delivers tech-enabled waste management services across the UK and North America, helping businesses manage materials more efficiently while supporting more circular and sustainable resource management.
Delivered through our specialist brands, our services are supported by a network of over 1,000 fully compliant regional supply chain partners, providing extensive coverage across both regions. We conduct thousands of annual site visits to assess operational performance, environmental credentials and health and safety compliance, ensuring reliable service while driving continuous improvement across the waste sector.
By combining operational expertise with strategic insight, Reconomy helps businesses move beyond viewing waste as a by-product and instead treat it as a valuable resource that can be recovered, reused or repurposed.
Waste management services we provide
Environmental compliance expertise at scale
Commercial waste services
With 30 years’ worth of experience in business waste management and recycling, specifically waste collections and disposal, Reconomy’s waste management brands are tried and trusted partners for comprehensive waste collection and disposal services.
Hazardous
Hazardous waste management
We don’t expect you to be an expert, which is why Reconomy’s specialist brands offer a fully managed services for the collection and disposal of technical and hazardous waste materials.
Office
Office recycling
We help thousands of customers every year implement robust office recycling stations, helping to aid the segregation of your office waste and tailor your scheduled collection dates to ultimately reduce your cost.
Skip hire
Skip hire
Our selection of brands supplies standard skips – from 2 yards up to 16 yards – as well as larger roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) containers. Because every project is different, we also offer specialist skip and container hire services, including wait and load skips, enclosed skips, hazardous waste management, and caged vehicles.
Single stream
Single-stream recycling
Through our specialist brands, we provide single stream recycling options for plastic, glass, paper, food, metal, wood and cardboard, together with other niche waste streams.
Our industry experts are on hand to reduce waste, create additional resources from your waste and help meet sustainability and social value goals.
Soil sampling
Soil sampling
Our specialist bands have the necessary skills and knowledge to oversee every aspect of your soil testing requirements, from initial samples and classification of your soils or other materials, all the way through to eventual disposal.
Wheelie bins
Wheelie bin hire
A variety of commercial bin options suitable for general waste collection and more. These include standard 240-litre wheelie bins, larger 1100-litre bins, and heavy-duty rear-end loader, FEL bins and Roll on Roll off skips.Our Recycle Loop brands
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Supporting better waste management with people, technology and insight
People-powered waste expertise
Reliable waste management is built on skilled people.
Across our Recycle Loop brands, experienced teams work alongside customers to ensure waste is managed safely, efficiently, and in line with regulatory requirements.
From operational staff and drivers to compliance specialists and waste management experts, our teams help businesses optimise waste processes, improve recycling performance, and maintain high service standards across every site.
Smart tools and digital waste insights
Technology plays an important role in helping businesses manage waste more effectively. Reconomy provides digital tools and platforms that give customers greater visibility of waste performance and environmental impact.
Key capabilities include:
- RecoTek – our innovation hub, supporting organisations in tracking waste data and ESG metrics
- Customer portals – online dashboards providing access to waste reports and compliance documentation
- Smartphone apps – tools for scheduling services, receiving alerts, and monitoring performance on the go
Together, these tools help businesses make more informed decisions about waste management and sustainability performance.
Dedicated customer support and access
Managing waste should be straightforward for businesses of any size. Reconomy provides easy access to waste management services and expert support through a combination of digital platforms and dedicated people.
Through our specialist brands, customers benefit from:
- Online customer portal – real-time access to waste data, reports, and compliance documentation
- Dedicated account management – expert guidance to optimise waste services and disposal solutions
- Online services – convenient scheduling, documentation access, and performance tracking
- Quote and support calls – fast, consultative access to tailored waste management solutions
This combination of digital capability and human expertise ensures customers always have visibility, control, and confidence in their waste management arrangements.
Circular economy and waste management
Effective waste management is just the beginning. To truly reduce environmental impact and unlock long-term value, businesses must shift from linear thinking to circular strategies.
Learn what the circular economy is and how it redefines waste as a resource, helping your organisation move beyond disposal towards regeneration, reuse, and smarter material flows.
Learn about the Circular EconomyWaste legislation and recycling guidance
Keeping up with changing waste legislation can be challenging. Reconomy helps businesses understand and prepare for regulatory changes through practical guidance and expert support.
DEFRA’s Simpler Recycling legislation for England
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has released guidance on the Simpler Recycling legislation, which launched on 31 March 2025. The legislation initially impacts businesses before also applying to households.
If you require additional support preparing for these changes, Reconomy can help. Our waste management solutions support a consistent and sustainable approach to recycling, helping organisations remain compliant and improve resource recovery.
Learn about Simpler RecyclingWorkplace recycling: Welsh businesses
Reconomy has published the Separated Waste Collections for Workplaces guide to help partners prepare for new workplace waste reforms. As part of Wales’ Beyond Recycling strategy, the goal is to recycle 70% of waste by 2025 and achieve zero waste by 2050.
The guide outlines compliance requirements and highlights that violations can result in unlimited fines or civil sanctions.
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Making waste management simple
Effective waste management starts with understanding how to improve circularity efforts. Reconomy plays an active role in education, delivering regular ‘Tool Box Talks’ to help businesses, organisations, and communities improve circularity and ultimately prevent waste.
Through practical guidance, training, and data-led insights, we help you understand:
- Segregation fundamentals – what can and cannot be recycled across key waste streams
- Recyclable materials – including food waste, glass waste, plastics, paper, and cardboard
- Rules and legislation – staying compliant with evolving UK and international regulations, such as DEFRA’s Simpler Recycling.
- Improving recycling rates – using clear signage, tailored collections, and performance reporting
By educating employees, suppliers, and partners, we help build sustainable communities and embed circular economy thinking into everyday operations. Recycling education is a core part of our mission to help businesses move from waste disposal to resource recovery.
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Related services
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Specialist site services
Through our specialist Recycle Loop brands, we deliver fully managed site welfare and equipment hire solutions for construction, housebuilding and infrastructure projects across the UK.
Arranging welfare units, accommodation and plant hire across multiple suppliers can be time-consuming and complex. Different compliance requirements, regional variations and operational pressures make procurement challenging, particularly on fast-track construction projects. That’s where we step in.
Recycling equipment
Our experienced team provides innovative and reliable waste recycling equipment for businesses across a wide range of sectors, and for of all sizes.
How you collect and contain your waste and recyclables is not just an aesthetic consideration. Storing waste and recyclables in suitable, secure conditions makes them safer, cleaner, and easier to handle and as such they can achieve their optimum value for recycling, reuse, or recovery.
Print Waste Management and Display Recycling Services
Our specialist teams provide cost-effective, compliant and innovative print waste recycling solutions that move materials up the waste hierarchy — prioritising reuse, recovery and renewable recycling routes over disposal.
Beyond day-to-day collections, we partner with businesses to deliver strategic transformation projects that improve profitability, productivity and long-term sustainability performance.
Aggregates supply
Our aggregates supply service is designed to support projects of all sizes, from local groundworks to complex, multi-site infrastructure developments. By combining access to regional supply with central coordination, we help reduce delays, manage costs, and support more sustainable construction outcomes.
FAQs: Waste management
Waste management is a system fuelled by the waste hierarchy that is put in place to help reduce, reuse, and recycle waste being generated.
Waste management is required for businesses of all sizes to help with their waste and recycling challenges, aiming to save them time and money to improve their overall performance.
Because every project, site, or location comes with its own unique set of waste management challenges, our service offering is exceptionally broad. Thanks to our nationwide supply chain network, we can procure almost anything you can think of relating to waste and resource management to help you make your way up the waste hierarchy.
Waste management refers to the activities involved in collecting, destroying, and disposing of waste. This includes waste materials such as paper, plastic, glass, metal, and organic matter. Other terms for waste management include waste disposal, garbage disposal, and recycling.
Through our Recycle Loop brands, we provide a comprehensive range of waste management services. This includes commercial waste collection, business waste disposal, confidential waste disposal, office recycling solutions, hazardous waste management, total waste management, and more. Our tailored services cater to the specific needs of businesses, industries, and communities.
Reconomy provides these services with technology in mind, by providing several smartphone apps and a reporting portal to help customers on their journey to zero waste.
You may hear some refer to waste management in 5 types, which have been adapted over the years, but we use the principles of the waste hierarchy in all our tailored plans. The waste hierarchy principles we adopt in our customers’ waste management plans are Prevention, Re-use, Recycle, Recover, and Dispose. You can find the full breakdown of this methodology below.
For businesses, waste management costs tend to be varied depending on the size of the requirements and are often negotiated based on factors such as the volume and type of waste generated, frequency of collection, and if there are any special collections required for hazardous items.
Total waste management offers so many benefits, from cost savings to efficient resource utilisation, compliance with the latest legislation, reduced carbon rates, and even brand USPs. All of this is important to a business, but our main aim is to help you promote sustainable thinking in your business to support a circular economy.
A construction site waste management plan (SWMP) sets out how waste will be managed, reduced, reused, and recycled throughout a construction project. It helps businesses understand what waste will be produced, how it will be handled, and where it will go.
Most businesses use a combination of waste management solutions tailored to their operations, locations, and waste volumes. Common solutions include scheduled waste collections, recycling services, skip and container hire, food waste collections, and hazardous waste management.
Hazardous waste must be handled, transported, and disposed of in strict accordance with environmental and health and safety regulations. This includes specialist containers, trained operatives, compliant documentation, and approved treatment or disposal facilities.
Smart waste management uses technology and data to improve how waste is handled, measured, and reduced. This includes digital reporting, real-time waste tracking, performance dashboards, and data-led insights.
The circular economy in waste management focuses on keeping materials in use for as long as possible. Instead of a linear “take, make, dispose” model, waste is designed out, resources are reused, recycled, or recovered, and value is retained.
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