WHAT WE DO

OUR SERVICES

Our street cleaning teams and specialized vehicles ensure urban and rural areas
stay pristine.

Mechanical sweeping
Special vehicles maintain highways, main roads, pathways and car parks. We optimize routes, increasing frequency in high-profile areas or where more waste is produced. Our fleet includes several vehicle types depending on the terrain.

Manual sweeping
Teams sweep roads, streets and pavements on foot and empty litter bins in residential and commercial area. Routes are planned to ensure that waste is removed promptly and streets remain clean.

Street washing
Vehicles equipped with water tanks and high-pressure pumps and water-jets ensure that roads and paved areas are maintained in line with agreed cleaning schedules.

Marine & beach cleaning
As well as keeping sandy areas and shorelines clean, special vehicles pick up floating debris within marinas and lakes.

Tunnel cleaning
Special vehicles fitted with high-pressure hot-water systems and detergents use brushes and spray bars to clean walls, ceilings and lighting strips in tunnels and crossings.

Benches, lights & signposts
We clean any street furniture including statues, traffic-lights, public phone booths, planters, street name and directions signs.

Graffiti removal
Graffiti build-up in a number of public areas is removed chemically. Surfaces frequently at risk are treated to limit repeated damage.

Public toilets
Public conveniences are maintained and cleaned on a regular basis.

Tree trimming
Trees must occasionally be cut back to maintain public thoroughfares. Trimming is carried out on request with the collected material recycled where possible.

Our teams handle everything from regular household waste to hazardous industrial material.

Municipal solid waste
Teams in compactor vehicles pick up refuse from residential neighbourhoods, commercial areas and industrial zones. Various procedures are deployed from bag collection to containerised methods.

Construction waste
Debris generated during construction, renovation and demolition work is collected and disposed of by dedicated vehicles.

Liquid waste
Many industries create unwanted liquid by-products from their processes. Waste tends to be stored on the customer’s site and removed on request by tanker vehicles that transport it for safe disposal.

Hazardous waste
A number of industries generate waste that can be harmful if not properly handled. It must be segregated from other solid waste, stored, transported and disposed in the correct way. Special vehicles transport waste to the relevant treatment facility.

Medical waste
Healthcare facilities and laboratories generate a variety of waste which is sorted at the point of generation and placed in special containers, bags and boxes, ready for collection. Specialist teams seal the waste before transporting it for safe treatment and disposal.

Skips & containers
We offer the complete range of containers that enable customers to dispose of items in one convenient place before we come and remove the skip ourselves.

White goods
Bulky items, such as fridges and washing machines, are collected on request and transported to sites for treatment and disposal. Discarded electronic devices are also collected and components recycled.

Electronic waste
Computers, mobile phones and other devices all contain elements that are harmful if disposed of carelessly but which can be reused if separated from the plastic body.

Recycling
We provide appropriate containers for commercial and residential customers to separate their waste at source. We also install reverse-vending machines in supermarkets, and other convenient points, so that people can return bottles and other recyclables in return for vouchers.

Deep collection
Special receptacles are sunk into the ground leaving only the top visible to receive waste. Advantages include greater storage capacity, less frequent collection, reduced odours and a minimal profile on the streets.

Pneumatic collection
An underground pipeline transports waste directly from source to collection centres where it is either processed on site or compacted for further treatment. Collection points can be placed directly within the premises themselves or outside on the streets.

Abandoned vehicles
Abandoned cars, vans and trucks—and discarded heavy machinery—are removed from streets or public car parks on request.

Dead animals
Specialist teams are on hand to respond to requests for the collection and disposal of dead animals or carcasses from slaughterhouses.

Through recycling, composting and thermal energy generation, we make the most of materials that were once simply thrown away.

Compacting
We often use transfer stations to store and distribute waste. At these facilities, waste is usually compacted for more efficient transportation to its final destination.

Separating
We separate waste manually and mechanically, recycling items whenever possible. Bulky items are downsized and stripped of recyclable components. Special care is taken to remove toxic materials. Organic material is sent for composting or thermal treatment. Rejects are also sent for thermal treatment or to sanitary landfills.

Recycling
Metal, glass, paper and cardboard go to manufacturing plants for reuse. Plastics are typically turned into pellets and sold back to the market. E-waste components are stripped for reuse or safely disposed of. Crushed concrete is often used in further construction work or as daily covering for sanitary landfills.

Composting
Organic matter is decomposed gradually, turning waste into a beneficial compound. The resulting compost is used as a natural fertiliser. Composting techniques vary from open windrows, where land is plentiful, to closed controlled tunnel composting in urban areas.

Refuse-derived fuel
Solid waste with a residual high-calorific-value can be separated during the sorting process and used as an environmentally friendly fuel by cement producers, electric generation plants and in other thermal-based processes.

Thermal
Techniques range from incineration to advanced treatments such as pyrolysis and gasification. Any gases produced are further treated to prevent toxins from reaching the atmosphere. Clean energy is created in the form of heat or electricity. The end-product ash goes to landfill sites.

High-tech monitoring systems ensure our landfill sites operate optimally, maintaining hazard-free conditions that protect the environment.

Landfilling
Sanitary landfills are operated to stringent standards, with gases and groundwater carefully treated to provide a safe and clean environment. When sites reach capacity, they are capped.

Grass seeding creates a natural surface that creates a public green space, unrecognizable as a former landfill site.

DID YOU KNOW?

More aluminium goes into drinks cans than any other product. 350,000 aluminium cans are produced every minute.

An aluminium can that is thrown away will still be around 500 years from now.

But recycling one aluminium can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. And the number of times aluminium cans be recycled is unlimited.

Recycling one ton of aluminium is equivalent to not releasing 13 tons of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) into the air. So recycling certainly makes sense.

At one time, aluminium was more valuable than gold. Maybe it will be again.

A banana skin can take up to two years to decompose if not disposed of properly. An average person throws away 74 kg of organic waste each year, which is the same as 1077 banana skins.

Making compost from kitchen and garden waste can reduce 40% of all refuse going to landfill.

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

Industrialized nations, with 20% of the world's population, consume 87% of the world's printing and writing paper.

The average annual paper consumption worldwide - a whopping 48 kg per person - makes paper manufacturing the third largest user of fossil fuels worldwide.

Packaging as the single largest category of paper use at 41% of all paper used, way ahead of books and magazines.

Packaging and junk mail typically make up 25-35% of dustbin waste by weight.

For every one ton of paper produced, the manufacturing process requires 98 tons of other resources.

Yet the amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

We produce and use 20 times more plastic today than we did in the 1950s.

Electronics, health care, construction, transportation, automotive, and food packaging industries account for most plastic products.

The plastics industry is second only to the chemical industry in generating toxic releases that damage the ozone layer. A major problem is that plastics are durable and resist the natural processes of degradation.

Globally, an estimated one million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from entanglement in, or ingestion, of plastics.

Some 220 tons of earth are excavated to produce just a ton of copper.

Recycling copper takes seven times less energy than processing ore, yet only 13% of copper consumed worldwide comes from recycled sources.

Making steel from recycled materials saves 75% of the energy needed to make steel from raw materials.

Recycling one ton of steel reduces air pollution by 86% and water pollution by 76%. It also saves 74% of the energy and 40% of the water that would have otherwise been used. Recycling reduces the need for virgin materials by 90 percent.

Glass is 100% recyclable and can be endlessly recycled with no loss in quality.

The energy saved from recycling a single glass bottle will operate a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.

In fact, producing glass from virgin materials requires 30% more energy than from used glass when it’s crushed.

It takes approximately one million years for a glass bottle to break down at the landfill.

Making glass from recycled materials cuts related air pollution by 20% and water pollution by 50% compared with making a new bottle from raw materials.

If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.

Manufacturing one ton of office and computer paper with recycled paper stock can save between 3,000 and 4,000 kilowatt-hours more than the same ton of paper made with virgin wood products.

Producing recycled paper causes 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution.

Recycling one ton of newspaper is equivalent to not releasing 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

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