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Biffa on the lookout for a new Change Maker

Sustainable waste management company, Biffa, has launched a nationwide search for its next Change Maker, as part of its What Iff campaign.  One sustainably minded entrepreneur using waste to create new products or improve existing recycling rates, further enabling the ...

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NEC Group cuts carbon emissions by 222 tonnes per annum

The live events company has announced ground-breaking environmental achievement of carbon savings through improved waste management practices Working in partnership with international facilities service specialist OCS Group and sustainable waste management company Biffa, the NEC Group has reduced its carbon ...

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Biffa calls on the Government with policy asks to reach ‘Waste Net Zero’

Biffa has launched a ground-breaking report ‘From Waste Hierarchy to Carbon Hierarchy: Biffa’s Blueprint for Waste Net Zero’, which outlines policy asks at each stage of the ‘carbon hierarchy’. The sustainable waste management company is urging the Government to go further ...

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Nearly one fifth of recycling waste is contaminated

Nearly one fifth (17 per cent) of England and Wales’ waste (from both businesses and households) cannot be recycled due to contamination, according to new research by waste management firm Biffa.  The experts analysed the latest available WRAP waste collection data ...

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Biffa and Northern Trains trial smart technology to increase recycling

Northern Trains and waste management partner Biffa are deploying smart bin sensors to help increase recycling and support sustainability at 70 stations across the Northeast. Manufactured in the UK by IoT Solutions Group, these sensors give Northern Trains real-time recycling ...

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Sustainability is ‘very important’ for most SMEs but less than half use a recycling service

New research from waste management firm, Biffa, has found that whilst SMEs are keen to be more sustainable some are struggling to make changes like recycling. The survey of over 1,000 small to medium-sized businesses in the UK revealed 59 ...

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Biffa receives takeover offer from Energy Capital Partners

National recycling and waste management provider, Biffa, has received a series of unsolicited and indicative takeover proposals from private equity firm, Energy Capital Partners (ECP), which values the company at £1.36 billion. ECP’s proposal is in respect of a possible ...

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Biffa appointed for waste and recycling services at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

Biffa has been appointed as the official waste management and recycling provider for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The event, which is expected to attract more than one million spectators to the city, will take place across the West Midlands ...

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Biffa completes the acquisition of Viridor’s collections business

National recycling and waste management provider, Biffa has completed its acquisition of the collections business and certain recycling assets from Viridor Waste Management Limited. Biffa announced on 21 May that it had agreed to buy the collections business and certain ...

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Biffa grows plastics recycling capability in Scotland

Sustainable waste management business, Biffa, has completed a deal to acquire Scotland’s only post-consumer plastics recycling facility (PRF) from Green Circle Polymers Ltd (GCP) located in Grangemouth for the sum of £10 million. The Grangemouth facility is one of the ...

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