Mitie secures waste management contract

Mitie has won a contract with soft drinks manufacturer Lucozade Ribena Suntory to provide a complete waste management service for its UK sites, including the manufacturing site at Coleford in the Forest of Dean and the UK headquarters in Uxbridge, London.

Mitie will be responsible for capturing all elements of waste and recyclables process across the Lucozade Ribena Suntory estate, including dry waste and skip services through all channels of the waste hierarchy – waste reduction, re-use, recycling and energy recovery.

Already a high achiever in waste management practices, Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s current recycling performance at the Coleford site is over 99% with revenue generation from routine commodities such as card, plastics and metals.

Darren Kenney, sales director at Mitie’s waste business, says, “Mitie are very pleased to work in partnership with Lucozade Ribena Suntory, not only to maintain their zero waste to landfill status but to drive towards achieving 100% recycling through our unique ‘resource not waste’ approach. Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s focus on the circular economy and sustainability echoes the Mitie philosophy and provides us with the ideal platform to deliver further financial and environmental benefit across the business.”

Leyton Powell, head of environment health and safety at Lucozade Ribena Suntory, adds, “Mitie’s expert knowledge of waste resources and innovative processes will now be accessible to us and will help drive even more efficiency in the Lucozade Ribena Suntory waste streams building on best available techniques. By using innovation, we can improve our focus on beginning to end of life processes, as well as waste reduction at the source.”

The company already operates a closed loop system for the recycling and re-use of PET.