Date: 25/08/23
Edinburg
- The capital of Scotland and the second largest city in the country, with a population around 482,000. Edinburgh is known for their growing student body which produces approximately 193,341 tonnes of waste annually.
- Following Glasgow, this makes Edinburgh the second largest contributor of waste in Scotland on a yearly basis.
- Therefore, the Edinburgh Council have issued an initiative with the objective of reaching a zero-landfill target by 2025.
- Like the Republic of Ireland, Edinburgh bin collection is also
ENVA
- Commercial Waste Collection in Edinburgh.
- Operation of 4 principal waste streams:
- Hazardous materials
- Non-hazardous materials
- Hydrocarbons
- General waste recycling
- Also concentrate on:
- Metal Recycling
- Water Services
- Plastic Recycling
- Glass Recycling
- General Waste Collections
- Enva values sustainability and are committed to resource recovery and recycling which creates the foundations of their business strategy.
- Enva recovers a wide range of waste materials for reuse in construction/production and energy conversion.
- Manages a significant amount of WEEE and plastics from small household appliances to bigger items, namely fridges. Vast majority of the material is then further processed becoming recycled polymers suitable extrusion and injection processes.
- Waste oil is tested and treated in their licensed facilities.
- Glass is 100% endlessly recyclable, making it the perfect circular economy material.
ENVA Sustainability Report
- Linked https://enva.com/sr22
- Enva saved 11 times more carbon from sustainability managing customer’s waste than we have produced from our own operations.
- This figure has increased from 10 times in 2021.
- With the implementation of circular economy principles and the sustainable recovery of customers waste, Enva escaped 336,000 tonnes of C02.