Waste and environmental management services
Mitie are changing the conversation about waste management, from throwaway culture to circular economy.
Reduce waste creation, carbon emissions and costs
Mitie can support you in preventing waste creation, cutting costs and reducing your carbon footprint through better waste disposal management and sustainable recycling services. Whether hazardous, clinical, biochemical, office waste or everything in between, we deliver innovations such as sensors and mini recycling facilities to help you minimise waste and maximise impact.
Supporting a healthcare giant
With an objective to optimise resource efficiency in waste management, we aimed to maximising the resources that could be extracted from a medical organisation’s waste streams, ensuring zero waste to landfill while adhering to safe and compliant waste disposal practices.
We helped them reduce their carbon impact by developing a long-term strategy to extract reusable materials from waste streams and use them for new products.
The organisation has now achieved ‘zero to landfill’ accreditation that has been independently verified. Their total recycling rate is now 85%.
How can we help with waste management?
How can we help with waste management?
Supporting a healthcare giant
With an objective to optimise resource efficiency in waste management, we aimed to maximising the resources that could be extracted from a medical organisation’s waste streams, ensuring zero waste to landfill while adhering to safe and compliant waste disposal practices.
We helped them reduce their carbon impact by developing a long-term strategy to extract reusable materials from waste streams and use them for new products.
The organisation has now achieved ‘zero to landfill’ accreditation that has been independently verified. Their total recycling rate is now 85%.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Helpful information about Mitie’s waste management services, solutions and technology and how we can help your organisation.
Waste management is the strategic process of collecting, sorting, treating, recycling and disposing of waste materials to reduce environmental impact, safeguard compliance and boost operational efficiency.
Confidential waste includes documents or materials containing sensitive, personal, financial or proprietary data or information that must be securely destroyed in order to prevent unauthorised access or misuse.
Hazardous waste includes materials that pose risks to health or the environment due to toxic, flammable, corrosive or infectious properties. It requires specialist handling and disposal procedures to safeguard people and the environment.
The most sustainable approach to waste management is to prevent waste being created in the first place. Mitie adopts this approach of eliminating waste and is also guided by the waste hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remove. This prioritises prevention, resource efficiency and environmental impact reduction.
Clinical waste must be carefully and safely segregated, stored and treated, usually through sterilisation or incineration. This prevents the risk of harm and complies with the stringent health and safety regulations that apply to clinical waste.
This approach aims to eliminate waste entirely by promoting reduction, reuse and recycling of materials so that over 90% of waste is avoided. Eliminating waste before it is created is by far the most sustainable form of waste management.
Mitie manages general, recyclable, hazardous and confidential waste streams, ensuring compliance and improved recycling performance.
Smart bins, tracking systems and analytics provide visibility of waste streams, helping reduce costs and improve sustainability reporting.
Yes. Services include clinical, hazardous and specialist waste, delivered by trained teams with full compliance assurance.
Mitie delivers comprehensive waste management services, including waste collection, disposal, recycling and more. Its approach focuses on reducing waste at source, improving recycling and supporting a shift towards a circular economy.
Mitie develops tailored waste management plans that prioritise prevention before disposal. By reducing waste creation and improving segregation, organisations can lower disposal costs and reduce environmental impact.
Mitie treats waste as a potential resource rather than something to discard. This philosophy supports reuse, recycling and recovery, helping organisations move away from landfill and towards more sustainable outcomes.
Mitie manages a wide range of waste streams, including commercial, industrial and specialist waste, alongside dedicated recycling services. Solutions are tailored to each organisation’s operations and compliance needs.
Mitie provides specialist recycling services designed to keep materials in use for longer. By optimising waste streams, Mitie helps clients increase recycling rates and contribute to a circular, low carbon economy.
Yes. Mitie designs waste reduction and circular economy programmes aligned to operational needs and ESG targets. By reducing waste and diverting materials from landfill, services cut carbon emissions, lower environmental impact and support net zero ambitions and sustainability reporting.
Mitie delivers waste services across sectors including retail, healthcare, manufacturing and transport. Each solution is adapted to sector specific risks, regulations and sustainability priorities.
A trusted waste management partner in all sectors
Waste management awards and accreditations
Our waste management work is achieving significant recognition.
Green Apple Environment Award 2024, awarded to Network Rail and Mitie for their efforts in reducing Euston station’s carbon footprint and improving sustainability and waste practices
RoSPA Gold Award 2024
IEMA
Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM)
WasteSmart training approved (CIWM)
ISO45001
ISO14001
ISO9001
SafeContractor
RoSpa
CHAS
Investors in People
Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register
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