At CIRQLR we help all manner of organisations, large or small, achieve a shared mission to “give waste a second life”. We reduce waste, boost recycling rates and extract greater resource value from the materials our customers consume and dispose of. There is excellence in all we do.
Need to Know
We all need to know what it takes to make the change to a more circular economy. CIRQLR’s people across our Network are ready help you manage the latest regulatory developments. We explain how to prepare and benefit from the transition to circular practices cost-effectively, efficiently and safely. A trio of recycling regulations coming into force will help give waste a second life and make materials go further.
Solutions
We can enable your CIRQLR economy to start now.
Together we will give waste a second life, making materials go further.
Find out more on how as a business, public sector organisation, or individual you can benefit from changes cost-effectively, efficiently and safely.
CIRQLR's Dynamic Journey
Where we have come from, where we are going
15000 Customers
600 Staff
Over 300 Vehicles
£150m Turnover
3 Hazardous Waste Sites
600k Tons Material
19 Recycling Facilities
8 MRF's
10 Transfer Stations
CIRQLR is on a journey of dynamic growth
CIRQLR is on a journey of dynamic growth in response to business and public sector need to move towards a more circular economy with circularity driving economic growth and prosperity.
A combination of regulatory pushes with a pull from business wanting to do the right thing will give waste a second life.
For the past two years we have brought into our Company like-minded regional leaders all united in a vision to give waste a second life. We help customers and the UK economy retain more of our valuable resources, improve materials security, reduce waste to landfill while increasing recycling rates, all to drive the nation towards greater circularity and growth.
Buy, build and reinvest for our customers is wired into CIRQLR’s DNA.
Today as a nation we consume raw materials at the pace as if we had three planets to extract from. By recovering more secondary raw materials and giving them a second life, we will enable the Government’s industrial growth plans while at the same time reduce the burden on virgin raw materials and the emissions which stem from their extraction.
Together CIRQLR across its regional network of operating subsidiaries cares for:
• 600,000 tonnes of materials each year • 19 waste & recycling facilities • 8 MRFs – Materials Recycling Facilities • 10 TS – Transfer Stations
• 15,000 customers • 600 staff • Over 300 vehicles • £150m of annualised turnover
We reinvest all this for further growth
Find out more about our operations at Castle Environmental, Chambers Waste Management, Cox Group, Eco Waste and Recycling, Ellgia, KP Waste, Select Environmental, Wilrose.
Industrial Strategy, Recycling Infrastructure
CIRQLR has through its operating subsidiaries made significant investments into recycling and materials recovery infrastructure. We are primed to invest at least £100m more into new modern recycling infrastructure over the next five years, all to help business and the public sector realise the Government ambition to create a more circular economy.
This new recycling infrastructure will be fit to adapt to the raft of changes underway over the next years to support business and Government’s twin-desire to transition to circular economy and underpin a policy and shared vision of economic growth.
At CIRQLR we have the investment necessary to equip your business to meet its circular ambitions.
Green Jobs
New jobs will be created and CIRQLR expects to double its workforce to over 1000 over the next five years as it expands its footprint across the North, Midlands and South-East of England and develops its infrastructure and services offerings.
Minimising waste and increasing volumes and rates of recycling means fewer emissions from residual waste disposal and more resources circulating in our economy through the extraction of secondary raw materials.
Ours is a CIRQLR vision which looks to capture more materials so they can stay longer in circulation. The prevention of materials loss into the waste stream reduces the impact on the earth’s finite natural resources.
The time for the creation of greater local circularity and capture of secondary raw materials has never been more pertinent.Strengthening our local manufacturing base through the application of an industrial strategy becomes even more urgent in times of heightened global trade restrictions.
By giving waste a second life, we can reduce the economy’s over-reliance on imports, stabilise material supply, and create the green jobs that we all need.
New recycling legislation will drive growth in recyclables
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The move to a fully circular economy is at a tipping point. The sector twenty years ago was waste-focused, almost entirely dependent on landfill treatment, and is now focused on capturing materials and value. The recycling journey is only half complete, with over half of materials used still not recycled. – CIRQLR’s Views
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Over the next 10 years up to 10 million tonnes of “second life” materials will be recoverable for reprocessing back into the metals, glass, plastics, paper and card used in packaging. £10 billion worth of business investment is needed to build all the domestic recovery and recycling infrastructure needed to capitalise on that opportunity. CIRQLR is at the forefront of the private sector readiness to invest and help Britian build back better. Today the UK exports for waste or recycling:
600,000 tonnes of plastic, 1.6 million tonnes of RDF (energy), 8.2 million tonnes of metal, 37,0000 tons WEEE (electronic).
Tomorrow’s opportunity is that, once Simpler Recyclingand EPR for Packaging (pEPR) regulations bite, official forecasts are that the markets for the packaging materials available for reprocessing will grow from 2020 levels as follows by 2035:
Glass – Up 22%, to 2 million tonnes.
Capacity investment opportunity – 72,000 tonnes per year
Metals – Aluminium and steel UP 24%, to 550,000 tonnes per year.
Capacity investment opportunity – 203,000 tonnes per year
Paper/board – Packaging UP 39% to 5.3 million tonnes per year.
Capacity investment opportunity 1.7 million tonnes per year
Plastic – Packaging UP 52% to 1.6 million tonnes per year.
Capacity investment opportunity of 324,000 tonnes per year
The plastics capacity opportunity for UK investment could be greater depending on the outcome of consultation on a government proposal to ban the export of plastic wastes to non-EU countries and non-OECD members ( Organisation for the Economic Cooperation and Development).
Separately collected Food Waste UP 100% to 4.8 million tonnes per year.
Potential forecast investment opportunity for Anaerobic Digestor facilities of 1.375 million tonnes per year. This will depend on whether closed composting facilities cannot provide an extra capacity outlet for separate food waste eg via mixing at the front gate.
