FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading waste and resource management companies. We provide a range of services, from collecting business and municipal waste to recycling and processing, and the generation of green energy from waste. We minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources. Put simply: we collect waste – from businesses, local authorities, and households – and process it to ensure we fully realise its potential as a resource producing 117mw of green energy each year.
We employ nearly 2,400 people across the UK and operate a range of waste management sites and hold more than 100 contracts across some 60 local authorities.
Our five core services have been developed to work together – Business waste solutions, municipal services, recycling, green energy and waste processing.
We are at the forefront of the Government’s clean growth ambitions, with world-leading environmental standards and support for the circular economy. Every day we collect and process recycling and waste from households and businesses it is then recycled or converted into clean, green energy to power and heat our homes. We are long-term custodians of land and take our stewardship of our land holdings seriously, especially across our brownfield sites.
We are the UK’s leading operator of household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) for local authorities, with 104 sites and more to come. We’ve also invested in recycling technology to extract the most from the waste we collect and process.
As well as designing, building and operating HWRCs FCC Environment also operates a number of other waste processing facilities. These range from Materials Recycling Facilities to Transfer Stations, Mechanical Biological treatment to in vessel composting.
Our aim is to recycle as much as we can, but extracting value – in the form of energy – from the waste we can’t recycle is an equally important part of our approach. The waste that cannot be recycled can be used as a fuel for our fleet of modern EFW’s or it may be compressed and baled to create Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), that is also used to power EfW facilities.