Sustaining and improving the environment is the reason we recycle.
Environmental Benefits
The concept of sustainable waste management is accurately represented in the waste hierarchy. This establishes an order of how to deal with waste materials to result in minimising the negative impact waste has on the environment.
The waste hierarchy:
We continuously look for opportunities to maximise the percentage of waste you recycle. Recycling as part of a sustainable waste strategy benefits the environment by:
• Providing a material that can be used instead of virgin material – encouraging resource efficiency
• Saving energy – as it takes less energy to reprocess recyclable material than manufacture virgin material
• Minimising the amount of waste either being incinerated or going to landfill
Many companies operate to the requirements of an environmental management system such as ISO 14001:2004. We provide key information about the waste you produce to enable you to be able to monitor, measure and set targets and objectives for how you deal with the impact your waste has on the environment.
SWR gain 9001 Accreditation
SWR have gained accreditation of the International Quality Standard (ISO 9001:2008) for providing a single point of contact for the solution of customers’ recycling and waste management requirements. Click here to read more
Latest Legislation
The Environmental Liability Directive is a piece of European legislation that will bring the principle of ‘the polluter pays’ into legal force. Click here to read more