Mitie will look after all elements of the waste and recyclables process including dry waste and skip services to waste reduction, recycling and energy recovery for the company which produces soft drinks. Work will also include delivering strategies on bulk effluent streams, office recycling and commodity trading.
Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s notes that its current recycling rate is over 99% at its Coleford manufacturing site in Gloucestershire, with a drive now to achieve 100%, while generating revenue from routine commodities such as card, plastics and metals. Mitie’s work will also include servicing the company’s head office in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Darren Kenney, sales director at Mitie Waste and Environmental, says: “Mitie are very pleased to work in partnership with Lucozade Ribena Suntory, not only to maintain their zero waste to landfill status but to drive towards achieving 100% recycling through our unique ‘resource not waste’ approach.
“Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s focus on the circular economy and sustainability echoes the Mitie philosophy and provides us with the ideal platform to deliver further financial and environmental benefit across the business.”
Recycling
The soft drinks company already operates a closed loop system for the recycling and re-use of PET (polyethylene terephthalate). PET bottles are recycled then sent for re-processing where they are granulated by a third party before being re-introduced for bottle blowing by Logoplaste.
Leyton Powell, head of environment health and safety at Lucozade Ribena Suntory said: “Mitie’s expert knowledge of waste resources and innovative processes will now be accessible to us and will help drive even more efficiency in the Lucozade Ribena Suntory waste streams.
“By using innovation, we can improve our focus on beginning to end of life processes, as well as waste reduction at the source.”
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