Utilise waste streams as a source of secondary resources and recover waste for reuse and recycling.
Ioniqa has developed a game-changing technology to produce high-grade raw materials from PET waste. It was awarded the 2016 Accenture Innovation Award in the circular economy category.
Renewi, formed from the merger of Shanks and Van Gansewinkel, is a leading waste-to-product business that operates across nine countries. The company focuses on transforming waste materials into a wide range of useful products.
The recycling operative's job consists of sorting through recyclable waste and separating materials to be recovered. This sorting and separating constitutes an essential element in the recycling process, which involves the 'use waste as a resource' strategy, and thus presents itself a circular job. Day to day activities of the recycling operative include physical labour and machine handling such as forklift driving.