Capabilities
Zero-to-waste planning
Most zero-to-landfill claims are a procurement exercise: the same skips leave site, and somewhere down the chain the residue goes to energy recovery instead of a hole in the ground. That is a change of destination, not a change of practice. A zero-to-waste plan starts further back, at the point the material is created.
- Best suited to
- Sites chasing a landfill, cost or recycled-content target
- Starts with
- The free waste audit
- Written plan
- Two to three weeks after the site visit
- Implementation
- Segregation inside a month; contracts at notice
- Evidence
- Duty of care, chain of custody, end destination
Built from what actually leaves site
We start with twelve months of transfer notes, weighbridge tickets and invoices, then walk the floor to see what those documents are describing. The two rarely agree. Material that appears on paper as a single mixed stream usually turns out to be three or four segregable ones that were never separated because nobody asked for it.
From that we build a stream-by-stream plan: what is produced, where it is produced, how it should be contained, who takes it, and what it is worth. Every line has a name against it, because a plan nobody owns is a document, not a process.
Written to survive audit
If your customers, your certification body or your parent company are going to test the claim, the plan has to hold up under someone else's scrutiny rather than your own. We write it with the evidence trail attached (duty of care documentation, chain of custody, end-destination confirmation), so that when it is challenged, the answer is a file rather than a phone call.
That matters more each year. Recycled content claims, EPR reporting and customer sustainability questionnaires are all converging on the same requirement: prove it.
Designed against your targets, not ours
Some sites are chasing a landfill diversion percentage. Some are chasing a cost per tonne. Some are chasing a recycled-content figure for a specific product line. These pull in different directions, and a plan that optimises for the wrong one is worse than no plan at all.
We agree the target first, in a number, and design backwards from it.
“A plan nobody owns is a document, not a process.”
What you end up holding
- 01A stream-by-stream plan with a named owner against every line
- 02Container, segregation and collection changes specified for the floor
- 03An evidence file that holds up to a customer or certification audit
- 04One agreed target, in a number, with the route to it
Common questions about Zero-to-waste planning
Is zero-to-waste the same as zero-to-landfill?+
No. Zero-to-landfill only says material did not go to landfill; energy recovery satisfies it. Zero-to-waste is about reducing the amount of material that leaves site as waste at all, and recovering value from what does. It is a harder standard and a more defensible claim.
How long does a plan take to put in place?+
The written plan follows the audit, typically within two to three weeks. Implementation depends on how much has to change on the floor. Segregation and container changes can happen inside a month; contract and outlet changes usually align to notice periods on your existing agreements.
Do we have to change waste contractor?+
Often not. A good number of the savings we find sit inside the contract you already have: unclaimed rebates, wrong container sizes, collections billed on schedule rather than fill. We will tell you when a change of contractor is genuinely the answer, and when it is just churn.
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Next step
Find out what your waste is actually worth
Tell us what you make and roughly what leaves site. We will tell you whether an audit is worth your time before either of us spends any, and if it isn’t, we will say so.
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 09:00–17:00