The report, entitled 'One Day,' draws comparisons between today's
environmental achievements and the standards that will need to be met in the future.
It shows how far Biffa has gone towards meeting these standards by
highlighting the company's environmental performance over the last two years, including how it has achieved a 23% increase in the
amount of waste collected for recycling.
The report says that: “We have developed nationwide recovery and recycling streams for materials as varied as paper, fibreboard, beer bottles and fluorescent lamps. To maximise diversion from landfill, we offer our large customers site-based, cost-effective “one stop shop” facilities including waste collection, separation, treatment, recovery and recycling.”
Biffa points to its development of waste minimisation initiatives and reports that it is an “industry leader” in providing such services, including techniques “to separate, freeze, crush, distil, burn and biodegrade waste in order to re-use it or reduce its mass”.
A total of 204,175 tonnes of waste was either recycled or composted by Biffa’s landfill division in 1999/00 and in the year the company composted 8,600 tonnes of “green” waste (food and garden vegetation) on the Isle of Wight.
The full report is available on the Biffa website.
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