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From above a shop to UK-wide coverage: SUEZ celebrates impressive milestone
IN NOVEMBER, recycling and recovery fi rm Suez UK celebrated its 30th anniversary of trading within the UK market. SUEZ is now one of the country’s largest recycling and waste management companies, employing more than 5,000 staff at hundreds of locations, from Aberdeen to Cornwall, delivering a full range of services to the public and private sectors. These services include recycling and waste logistics, to the operation of large scale infrastructure such as Energy-from- Waste power stations.
The business, which was
formerly known as SITA UK and re-branded to SUEZ in 2015,
started in modest offi ces above a shoe shop in Egham, Surrey, in 1988 with just a dozen
people, and won its fi rst public sector collection contract in 1989 with Erewash Council.
The business now achieves annual revenues in excess of £800 million, handling over 10 million tonnes of
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waste a year – which is a significant proportion of the UK’s total waste – and serves millions of people every day.
SUEZ’s anniversary was marked with a celebration at its
headquarters in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and with the launch of a new fi lm depicting the breadth and scale of SUEZ’s operations across the country.
Chief Executive Offi cer, David Palmer- Jones, has been with SUEZ since February 1989, shortly after it was incorporated, and refl ected on the major transformation of both the business and the sector. He said: “I am very proud to mark this milestone anniversary for SUEZ in the UK, and to be able to refl ect upon our whole journey to date, as the only remaining employee from our early days above the Stead & Simpson shoe shop in Egham back in 1988. Our business journey has coincided with, and therefore refl ects, three decades of change in UK waste management, which started with the privatisation of council
waste services in the 1980s and which, particularly in the past decade, has moved Britain from 0% recycling to nearly 50%. This required a huge transformation by SUEZ, and the wider waste management industry, to move waste material out of landfill and into complex new facilities and global value chains – bringing with it new jobs, skills, challenges and opportunities to make the most of waste materials.
However, I believe that the next 30 years promise even greater change and will require yet another transformation of our sector. There is a strength of government support and public appetite for change in this vital area that we have not seen before and, on behalf of SUEZ, we look forward to continuing to invest and play our part over the next 30 years to help the UK achieve a circular economy.”
SHWM December, 2018 5
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