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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. We support more than 23,000 businesses, manage over 5 million tonnes of waste every year, and divert 98.5% of that material from landfill through recycling and recovery. Our services are delivered through our specialist brands, backed by a network of over 1,000 fully compliant regional supply chain partners providing extensive coverage across both regions.
Waste management services we provide
Environmental compliance expertise at scale
Commercial waste services
With 30 years of experience in business waste management and recycling, Reconomy's specialist brands provide comprehensive commercial waste collection and disposal services for businesses of all sizes and sectors. Whether you need scheduled collections, ad hoc removals, or a fully managed waste programme, our nationwide network of supply chain partners ensures reliable, compliant service. The outcome: reduced waste costs, improved recycling rates, and clear reporting to support your sustainability targets.
Hazardous
Hazardous waste management
Hazardous waste requires specialist handling, and Reconomy's specialist brands provide a fully managed service for businesses that generate technical or hazardous materials. From electrical equipment and chemicals to asbestos and clinical waste, our teams handle collection, documentation, and compliant disposal end to end. Businesses benefit from reduced compliance risk, correct duty of care documentation, and the confidence that all materials are managed in line with current environmental regulations.
Office
Office recycling
Reconomy's specialist brands help thousands of businesses every year build effective office recycling programmes, from setting up clearly labelled segregation stations to scheduling collections around your operational needs. Our service covers paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, food waste, and mixed recyclables. The result is less waste to general disposal, lower collection costs, and measurable progress against your organisation's sustainability and zero waste commitments.
Skip hire
Skip hire
Reconomy's specialist brands supply commercial skip hire for businesses, contractors, and construction sites across the UK, with standard skips from 2 yards up to 16 yards and larger roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) containers for high-volume projects. For more complex requirements, we also offer wait and load skips, enclosed skips, hazardous waste skips, and caged vehicles. Every skip hire is backed by compliant disposal and waste transfer documentation, giving you full duty of care coverage.
Single stream
Single-stream recycling
Single-stream recycling simplifies the process for businesses by allowing multiple recyclable materials to be collected together and sorted downstream. Through our specialist brands, we handle plastic, glass, paper, food waste, metal, wood, cardboard, and a range of niche waste streams. This approach reduces the number of collections needed, lowers operational disruption, and helps businesses improve recycling rates while meeting sustainability targets and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations.
Soil sampling
Soil sampling
Reconomy's specialist brands provide fully managed soil sampling and classification services for construction, infrastructure, and development projects across the UK. From initial site assessment and material sampling through to laboratory classification and compliant disposal, our teams handle the process end to end. Accurate soil classification reduces the risk of incorrect disposal, helps projects stay on programme, and ensures compliance with waste management legislation and site waste management plan requirements.
Wheelie bins
Wheelie bin hire
Reconomy's specialist brands supply commercial wheelie bin hire for businesses requiring a flexible, cost-effective solution for general waste and recycling collections. Options include standard 240-litre wheelie bins for smaller premises, larger 1100-litre bins for high-volume sites, and heavy-duty rear-end loader and FEL bins for industrial or commercial applications. Collections are scheduled to suit your operational requirements, with waste transfer documentation provided as standard to support duty of care compliance.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.
Download our guide
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.
Related services
Explore the related services fulfilled through our specialised brands in the Recycle Loop,
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.
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, and disposal of waste materials to minimise environmental impact. Reconomy provides outsourced waste management services across the UK, including commercial waste collection, hazardous waste handling, and digital compliance reporting — helping businesses reduce costs, meet regulatory obligations, and divert more material from landfill.
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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