Company Brochure - Viridor
GIVING THE WORLD'S RESOURCES NEW LIFE
The world is changing. Once there was ‘waste’. Now there are potentially valuable resources society must challenge itself to reuse, recycle and recover. Viridor, with its innovative services, is an integral part of this transformation. The world, the industry and our clients now see Viridor in a different light. And we’re up for the challenge.
Society’s resource challenge By transforming domestic and commercial waste and recyclables into high-quality raw materials or renewable energy, we’re making a substantial contribution to improving both our customers’ and the UK’s resource efficiency. 01
Viridor has invested in some of the UK’s most advanced recycling and energy recovery facilities. This social infrastructure enables a pioneering resource management service which knows where every last bit of material ends up. It’s smart technology, safely operated by smart people. And with Viridor, it’s not talk, it’s action.
Most advanced We’ve invested over £1 billion in a network of Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs). These work alongside our advanced Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs) and collection and contract services. Trident Park ERF Cardiff 02
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Transforming industrial, commercial and domestic ‘waste’ into high-quality raw materials and vital energy means investment in infrastructure, equipment and people. Quality is at the heart of everything we do. That’s what creates value for Viridor and for our clients.
Quality assurance Each year Viridor transforms over two million tonnes of materials into high quality recyclates. Viridor Resource Management (VRM) has the expertise and long-term relationships to allow us to trade these materials ourselves to markets in the UK, Europe and around the world. Recycled HDPE polymers 04
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Our values
Sales, service, safety, sustainability, social responsibility. All are stronger when we collaborate and work in partnership – with customers, colleagues and communities. At all times, Viridor takes a positive attitude to working with others for everyone’s benefit.
Working together We use smart technology operated by smart people. From user-friendly household waste recycling centres for the general public, to some of the most advanced materials recycling facilities and energy recovery facilities in Europe. Viridor’s Roy Griffin and Tracy Carney, Runcorn ERF 06
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We keep our customers well-informed of all the latest legislation and duty of care requirements; provide a responsive and tailored recycling-led service, including containers and on-site solutions; arrange collection at customers’ convenience, and give them the best value for money. Making today’s goods tomorrow’s resources.
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Our customer commitment: Wherever we can we put waste back into action.
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Our contribution towards a ‘circular economy’ QUALITY RECYCLED MATERIALS Out of Sight Products and consumables thrown away Into Action Recycling collections from home and office Transfer Viridor checks all waste streams and directs material to MRFs Sorting Dry recyclables are sorted and graded at Viridor MRFs
Reprocessing Viridor reprocesses recyclables into high quality raw materials Quality Viridor Resource Management sells high quality recyclate Manufacturing Manufacturing of high quality goods using recyclates as raw materials Retail and Business Consumer goods incorporate increasing amounts of recycled materials
VITAL RENEWABLE ENERGY Out of Sight Products and consumables thrown away
Fuel Processing Waste becomes fuel for ERFs or AD plants
Into Action Residual waste collections from home and office
Renewable Power Generation Optimum efficiency as waste transformed into electrical power and heat
Transfer Viridor checks waste streams and directs to treatment facility
Heat and Power Vital heat and power supplied to homes and businesses
Sorting Any remaining recyclables extracted
By-product Recycling Bottom ash and residues recycled
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Quality Recycled Materials
Vital Renewable Energy
We continue to increase our recycling capacity through investment in new facilities and acquisitions. We work with our local authority and commercial customers to find a recycling solution that suits them. This includes supporting collections that sort materials at source, providing commingled, dry mixed recycling services, and operating user-friendly household waste recycling sites. In some cases we also manage recycling operations on the customers’ own sites.
After reducing, reusing and recycling as much as possible, recovering energy from our waste is the next big thing. We’re investing over £1billion in Energy Recovery Facilities in the coming years, which use state-of-theart technology to generate heat and power. We also operate anaerobic digestion plants to generate electricity, which break down organic waste to release heat and energy. Gas produced and harnessed to generate power from existing landfill sites also provides a major contribution. Energy recovery from waste (both biodegradable and non-biodegradable) accounts for c.8% of total UK renewable energy. Viridor believes that by 2020 UK energy recovery from waste could produce 13% of the total forecasted UK renewable energy. It will be a vital contribution given predicted capacity shortage in the energy sector.
ADVANCED MATERIAL RECYCLING FACILITIES (MRF)
PAPER
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WASTE ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT (WEEE)
PLASTIC
GLASS
HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRES
METALS
MECHANICAL BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT
COMPOSTING
QUALITY MATERIALS
ENERGY RECOVERY FACILITIES (ERF)
LANDFILL GAS RECOVERY
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
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The many ways we transform waste
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Education centres Advanced material recycling facilities Household waste recycling centres Anaerobic digestion facilities Composting/organics recycling Energy recovery facilities Liquid waste services
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Collection services (depots) Waste/recyclate transfer stations Landfill gas power plants Landfill disposal, restoration and habitat creation
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Our people are our greatest resource We employ over three thousand highly trained people. We provide apprenticeships, graduate recruitment and management training schemes to nurture skills. Our investment in their future equips them to overcome tomorrow’s challenges. Above all, we actively promote a culture of health and safety, working towards our objective of zero accidents.
A positive difference You can’t learn about waste management too soon. This is why we invite schools to visit our environmental education centres at our facilities across the UK, helping to promote better understanding and best practice in waste prevention, recycling, recovery, resource management and sustainability. We have open days at many of our sites where the general public can see for themselves what a positive difference we are all making. It’s our hope that they will encourage their friends and families to recycle more and waste less.
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Behind the scenes we continue to work with trade associations and all levels of government on the UK’s resource, energy and waste management strategies.
Working in partnership We engage with and support the communities and environment in which we serve, through an active programme of community funding and charitable giving. Every day we rely on the cooperation of people living and working near our sites and operations, with Viridor colleagues joining in and helping at events, projects, in education and with sports teams. We have planted trees, helped toddler groups, attended summer fetes, run, cycled and canoed to raise sponsorship. We also provide millions in funding for Viridor Credits, an independent environmental charity, which delivers funding for community, amenity and conservation projects in areas close to our operating landfills.
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Investing in the communities we serve
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Land stewardship is important to us, and to local communities, plants and wildlife. Since 2008 Viridor has sought to restore and manage our closed landfill sites in accordance with the Wildlife Trusts’ Biodiversity Benchmark Scheme (BBS). By the end of 2013 we were pleased that a total of six sites had achieved/retained the certification, with plans for more in the future. Our core services in recycling and renewable power generation can help deliver significant environmental and carbon reduction benefits. We ensure our growing fleet of trucks is economical, efficient and driven by people who understand the importance of cutting emissions and saving fuel.
Viridor Street Trees Initiative Environmental education centres STEM and GO4SET: educational sponsorship Glasgow Contract Community Benefits: education, training and local capacity building Lakes at Beddington restored landfill site
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“ This iconic project is designed to bring world-class recycling, waste management and renewable energy infrastructure to Greater Manchester. Viridor Laing’s well-structured and transparent approach to this contract has enabled us to remain on track.” Councillor Neil Swannick Past-chair of Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
“ Viridor made the most progress in building a successful partnership with Coca-Cola Enterprises. This has supported us in our aim to reduce, recycle and recover all waste from our manufacturing process.”
David Cowell Vice President, Procurement, Supply Chain Coca-Cola Enterprises CCE Supplier Summit
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“ With Viridor on board we are confident that we will continue to develop more waste minimising and recycling strategies, ensuring that we preserve our green and eco-friendly community here at MediaCityUK.” Stephen Wild Managing Director of Real Estate, Media City UK
“ Viridor put in a new recycling system for us which has saved us quite a lot of money over the last three years. It’s also kept us compliant, which is critical in the print business.” Gary Kiernan Lonsdale Print Solutions
Giving the world’s resources new life “The world can’t afford to wait: it’s time to throw away old thinking about waste and recognise its real value as a resource.“ Ian McAulay Viridor Chief Executive
Design: 375.co.uk
Viridor Head Office Viridor House Youngman Place Priory Bridge Road Taunton TA1 1AP Tel: 01823 721 400
Regional Offices South East: 01732 229 200 South West: 01823 728 800 North: 01204 654 611 Scotland: 0141 781 9151
viridor.co.uk
[email protected]
When you have finished with this brochure please recycle it. This brochure is printed on 100% recycled paper stock.
The world is changing. Once there was ‘waste’. Now there are potentially valuable resources society must challenge itself to reuse, recycle and recover. Viridor, with its innovative services, is an integral part of this transformation. The world, the industry and our clients now see Viridor in a different light. And we’re up for the challenge.
Society’s resource challenge By transforming domestic and commercial waste and recyclables into high-quality raw materials or renewable energy, we’re making a substantial contribution to improving both our customers’ and the UK’s resource efficiency. 01
Viridor has invested in some of the UK’s most advanced recycling and energy recovery facilities. This social infrastructure enables a pioneering resource management service which knows where every last bit of material ends up. It’s smart technology, safely operated by smart people. And with Viridor, it’s not talk, it’s action.
Most advanced We’ve invested over £1 billion in a network of Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs). These work alongside our advanced Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs) and collection and contract services. Trident Park ERF Cardiff 02
03
Transforming industrial, commercial and domestic ‘waste’ into high-quality raw materials and vital energy means investment in infrastructure, equipment and people. Quality is at the heart of everything we do. That’s what creates value for Viridor and for our clients.
Quality assurance Each year Viridor transforms over two million tonnes of materials into high quality recyclates. Viridor Resource Management (VRM) has the expertise and long-term relationships to allow us to trade these materials ourselves to markets in the UK, Europe and around the world. Recycled HDPE polymers 04
05
Our values
Sales, service, safety, sustainability, social responsibility. All are stronger when we collaborate and work in partnership – with customers, colleagues and communities. At all times, Viridor takes a positive attitude to working with others for everyone’s benefit.
Working together We use smart technology operated by smart people. From user-friendly household waste recycling centres for the general public, to some of the most advanced materials recycling facilities and energy recovery facilities in Europe. Viridor’s Roy Griffin and Tracy Carney, Runcorn ERF 06
07
BY-P HEAT RO , P DU O C
F OC U E L E SS ING
We keep our customers well-informed of all the latest legislation and duty of care requirements; provide a responsive and tailored recycling-led service, including containers and on-site solutions; arrange collection at customers’ convenience, and give them the best value for money. Making today’s goods tomorrow’s resources.
08
SO R T
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TR AN SFE R
TR
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SF E
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LE AB RE NE W ER N POW ATIO GENER
Y LIT QUA
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RE PR OC ESS ING
Our customer commitment: Wherever we can we put waste back into action.
OU SIG T OF HT
N CTIO OA INT
& ING ER CL W ECY TR
OUT OF SIG HT
O INT ON TI AC
MAN UFA CTU RIN G
& AIL RET INESS S BU
G TIN SOR
Our contribution towards a ‘circular economy’ QUALITY RECYCLED MATERIALS Out of Sight Products and consumables thrown away Into Action Recycling collections from home and office Transfer Viridor checks all waste streams and directs material to MRFs Sorting Dry recyclables are sorted and graded at Viridor MRFs
Reprocessing Viridor reprocesses recyclables into high quality raw materials Quality Viridor Resource Management sells high quality recyclate Manufacturing Manufacturing of high quality goods using recyclates as raw materials Retail and Business Consumer goods incorporate increasing amounts of recycled materials
VITAL RENEWABLE ENERGY Out of Sight Products and consumables thrown away
Fuel Processing Waste becomes fuel for ERFs or AD plants
Into Action Residual waste collections from home and office
Renewable Power Generation Optimum efficiency as waste transformed into electrical power and heat
Transfer Viridor checks waste streams and directs to treatment facility
Heat and Power Vital heat and power supplied to homes and businesses
Sorting Any remaining recyclables extracted
By-product Recycling Bottom ash and residues recycled
09
Quality Recycled Materials
Vital Renewable Energy
We continue to increase our recycling capacity through investment in new facilities and acquisitions. We work with our local authority and commercial customers to find a recycling solution that suits them. This includes supporting collections that sort materials at source, providing commingled, dry mixed recycling services, and operating user-friendly household waste recycling sites. In some cases we also manage recycling operations on the customers’ own sites.
After reducing, reusing and recycling as much as possible, recovering energy from our waste is the next big thing. We’re investing over £1billion in Energy Recovery Facilities in the coming years, which use state-of-theart technology to generate heat and power. We also operate anaerobic digestion plants to generate electricity, which break down organic waste to release heat and energy. Gas produced and harnessed to generate power from existing landfill sites also provides a major contribution. Energy recovery from waste (both biodegradable and non-biodegradable) accounts for c.8% of total UK renewable energy. Viridor believes that by 2020 UK energy recovery from waste could produce 13% of the total forecasted UK renewable energy. It will be a vital contribution given predicted capacity shortage in the energy sector.
ADVANCED MATERIAL RECYCLING FACILITIES (MRF)
PAPER
10
WASTE ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT (WEEE)
PLASTIC
GLASS
HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRES
METALS
MECHANICAL BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT
COMPOSTING
QUALITY MATERIALS
ENERGY RECOVERY FACILITIES (ERF)
LANDFILL GAS RECOVERY
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
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01
02
07
08
03
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The many ways we transform waste
12
01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Education centres Advanced material recycling facilities Household waste recycling centres Anaerobic digestion facilities Composting/organics recycling Energy recovery facilities Liquid waste services
08 09 10 11
Collection services (depots) Waste/recyclate transfer stations Landfill gas power plants Landfill disposal, restoration and habitat creation
13
Our people are our greatest resource We employ over three thousand highly trained people. We provide apprenticeships, graduate recruitment and management training schemes to nurture skills. Our investment in their future equips them to overcome tomorrow’s challenges. Above all, we actively promote a culture of health and safety, working towards our objective of zero accidents.
A positive difference You can’t learn about waste management too soon. This is why we invite schools to visit our environmental education centres at our facilities across the UK, helping to promote better understanding and best practice in waste prevention, recycling, recovery, resource management and sustainability. We have open days at many of our sites where the general public can see for themselves what a positive difference we are all making. It’s our hope that they will encourage their friends and families to recycle more and waste less.
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Behind the scenes we continue to work with trade associations and all levels of government on the UK’s resource, energy and waste management strategies.
Working in partnership We engage with and support the communities and environment in which we serve, through an active programme of community funding and charitable giving. Every day we rely on the cooperation of people living and working near our sites and operations, with Viridor colleagues joining in and helping at events, projects, in education and with sports teams. We have planted trees, helped toddler groups, attended summer fetes, run, cycled and canoed to raise sponsorship. We also provide millions in funding for Viridor Credits, an independent environmental charity, which delivers funding for community, amenity and conservation projects in areas close to our operating landfills.
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Towards social, environmental and economic sustainability 01
03
04
05
Investing in the communities we serve
01 02 03 04 05
Land stewardship is important to us, and to local communities, plants and wildlife. Since 2008 Viridor has sought to restore and manage our closed landfill sites in accordance with the Wildlife Trusts’ Biodiversity Benchmark Scheme (BBS). By the end of 2013 we were pleased that a total of six sites had achieved/retained the certification, with plans for more in the future. Our core services in recycling and renewable power generation can help deliver significant environmental and carbon reduction benefits. We ensure our growing fleet of trucks is economical, efficient and driven by people who understand the importance of cutting emissions and saving fuel.
Viridor Street Trees Initiative Environmental education centres STEM and GO4SET: educational sponsorship Glasgow Contract Community Benefits: education, training and local capacity building Lakes at Beddington restored landfill site
15
“ This iconic project is designed to bring world-class recycling, waste management and renewable energy infrastructure to Greater Manchester. Viridor Laing’s well-structured and transparent approach to this contract has enabled us to remain on track.” Councillor Neil Swannick Past-chair of Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
“ Viridor made the most progress in building a successful partnership with Coca-Cola Enterprises. This has supported us in our aim to reduce, recycle and recover all waste from our manufacturing process.”
David Cowell Vice President, Procurement, Supply Chain Coca-Cola Enterprises CCE Supplier Summit
16
“ With Viridor on board we are confident that we will continue to develop more waste minimising and recycling strategies, ensuring that we preserve our green and eco-friendly community here at MediaCityUK.” Stephen Wild Managing Director of Real Estate, Media City UK
“ Viridor put in a new recycling system for us which has saved us quite a lot of money over the last three years. It’s also kept us compliant, which is critical in the print business.” Gary Kiernan Lonsdale Print Solutions
Giving the world’s resources new life “The world can’t afford to wait: it’s time to throw away old thinking about waste and recognise its real value as a resource.“ Ian McAulay Viridor Chief Executive
Design: 375.co.uk
Viridor Head Office Viridor House Youngman Place Priory Bridge Road Taunton TA1 1AP Tel: 01823 721 400
Regional Offices South East: 01732 229 200 South West: 01823 728 800 North: 01204 654 611 Scotland: 0141 781 9151
viridor.co.uk
[email protected]
When you have finished with this brochure please recycle it. This brochure is printed on 100% recycled paper stock.
