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  • Business Environment

    Business Environment 06/02/2012

    With locations across London and the South, Business Environment operates business centres and serviced offices approaching 1,000,000 sq ft. All locations are in city centres and offer flexible office space, meeting rooms and conferencing facilities.
    The issues
    1. Decentralised management of waste

    A common problem for multi-location businesses is that facilities are managed ‘bottom up’ [...]

  • Edinburgh Airport

    Edinburgh Airport 14/11/2011

    Edinburgh Airport serves some nine million passengers and has 2,500 staff employed in its’ many retail outlets, restaurants, and bars. The airport generates around 2,000 tonnes of waste a year from a variety of sources, including aircraft, catering and retail establishments, general maintenance and construction operations.
    The Issues
    The social and environmental impact of any airport operation [...]

  • Klondyke Garden Centres

    Klondyke Garden Centres 08/09/2011

    Klondyke is the UK’s largest family owned, independent group of garden centres located across the North or England, Scotland and Wales. The six Scottish based centres trade as Klondyke Garden Centres, with the 19 garden centres in England and Wales operating under the name of Strikes Garden Centres. SWR manages the waste contract for all [...]

  • Arnold Clark

    Arnold Clark 05/09/2011

    Arnold Clark is Europe’s largest, independently owned motor dealer. Founded over 50 years ago by Sir Arnold Clark, and still family run, the business has expanded from a single car showroom to a nationwide organisation with 150 dealerships across the UK. It now employs more than 8,000 people with a turnover in excess of £2 [...]

  • Macdonald Hotels

    Macdonald Hotels 22/06/2011

    With over 40 locations nationwide, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts offers luxury accommodation and leisure services. Each hotel is unique in style and character and offers a range of leisure facilities including golf, fitness centres, spas, restaurants and bars. As such, the waste streams produced are numerous and varied. SWR currently manages the waste streams of [...]

  • Notcutts

    Notcutts 26/05/2011

    Notcutts is a family-owned group of garden centres, with 19 sites spanning the Midlands, South and East of England.

    As well as the usual types of waste you would expect from a garden centre, e.g. cardboard, paper, plastics, metal, wood, compostable waste and general waste, Notcutts also had various waste streams generated from its onsite [...]

  • Dobbies Garden Centres

    Dobbies Garden Centres 06/05/2011

     

    Dobbies is one of the largest garden centre retail groups in the UK.
    With a well-established history dating back to 1865, Dobbies boasts 25 stores across Scotland and England, all of which now employ SWR to manage the multiple waste streams being produced on site.
    The Issues
    Prior to engaging with SWR, Dobbies encountered major issues with their [...]

  • Promanex

    Promanex 21/04/2011

    Promanex is an industrial support service company offering a range of in-house and outsourced environmental and FM services across the UK.

    Promanex turned to SWR to manage all waste being produced by one of their clients on their Berkeley and Coryton power plants.

  • Sytner Group

    Sytner Group 27/09/2010

    The Sytner Group is one of the UK’s top motor retailers for new and approved prestige and executive cars.
    Sytner Sheffield is a fairly unusual site in that it is located over two floors – the showroom, used car sales and workshop are on the ground floor, with the body shop situated on the floor above.
    The [...]

  • Sidey

    Sidey 20/05/2010

    Sidey makes, supplies, and fits windows, doors, conservatories, kitchens and bathrooms. With a long and proud history, this Scottish company is fully committed to providing energy efficient products and preserving the natural environment.

  • Brewers & Sons Ltd

    Brewers & Sons Ltd 16/02/2010

    Brewers & Sons Ltd is an independent supplier of decorating materials with 130 branches covering the South and Midlands. As the country’s largest independent merchant, Brewers stocks and supplies a wide range of paint, wallpaper, decorating accessories and sundries.

  • UK Select Accident Repair Centre

    UK Select Accident Repair Centre 23/09/2009

    UK Select Accident Repair Centre is an independent Accident Repair Centre in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The business has a large workshop with 19 productive technicians. Uk Select require a waste management solution that was cost effective, legally compliant and environmentally friendly.

  • Alan Day Volkswagen Group

    Alan Day Volkswagen Group 08/09/2009

    Alan Day Volkswagen Group are an approved VW dealer with branches in the greater London area. They deal with used and new cars and after sales services. With scrapage schemes, a parts exchange and several body shops, Alan Day were producing a lot of waste, which at the time was all being compacted. We introduced a Waste Management Programme that would be capable of meeting all of Alan Day’s recycling needs.

SWR Develops New Waste Plan for YHA

SWR Develops New Waste Plan for YHA

SWR has won a major waste contract with the UK Youth Hostel Association (YHA). Under the new deal SWR will help the charity organisation improve its environmental performance, while achieving savings estimated at 17% over 3 years. Click here to find out more.

Auto retailers warned of rising waste costs

Auto retailers warned of rising waste costs

SWR’s Richard Brown has warned delegates at the AM Afterslaes Conference of rising cost of waste disposal from dealership as the Government escalates tax on landfill disposal from £56 to £84 per tonne in the next three years. Click here to read more.