Sustainable Waste Management
SLR is a leading global provider of environmental consultancy services to the waste and resource management sector. Our proven expertise has been built up over 30 years of providing pragmatic advice and deliverable, cost effective solutions to a diverse portfolio of clients around the world.
Overview
SLR’s experienced team works across global waste and resource supply chains delivering independent, commercially focused advice to a range of clients including waste producers, service operators, public sector bodies and the wider waste management industry including its regulators and investors.
Our international presence ensures that we can advise on global best practice from first-hand experience and apply that knowledge to the development of appropriate local solutions.
Our team of resource management, circular economy and sustainability specialists has an unrivalled breadth of collective experience within consultancy as well as local authority and private sector contractor roles, meaning that we bring real world services and facility experience and knowledge that adds significant value to our technical advisory support.
Get in touch with our Sustainable Waste Management teamMany of our team have previously worked in operational and contract management positions for local authorities and waste contractors, which means we provide real world experience of service design, delivery and management, with a collective industry knowledge that adds significant value to our technical advisory support.
Our large, inhouse team of experienced sustainable waste management experts ensures we have the range of skillsets, experience and capacity to deliver projects on time, on budget and fully in accordance with our clients’ expectations.
SLR also has a significant breadth and depth of inhouse specialists available to support projects from end to end, allowing us to rapidly draw on the expertise of colleagues within engineering, planning, permitting and many other environmental disciplines. This wide-ranging capability ensures we provide comprehensive solutions that deliver optimal outcomes across all relevant aspects of each project we undertake, adding significant value and efficiency throughout the project delivery process.
Sustainable Waste Management Capabilities
Public sector support
SLR’s substantial portfolio of projects spans almost 30 years of successful support to local authority, governmental and other public sector clients, with particular expertise in service reviews, options appraisals, and development of forward-thinking waste strategies.
- Service review and optimisation
- Strategy development
- Procurement support
- Waste flow and cost modelling
- Options appraisals
- Infrastructure design / development / reviews
Private sector support
Our expertise encompasses a core of technical specialists in resource and waste management, civil/process engineers, permitting and compliance experts, and planning consultants - supported by a wealth of other specialist advisors. This breadth of experience enables us to support a diverse range and scale of waste and recycling projects, across the UK and internationally.
- Bid development
- Market analysis
- Infrastructure location / development / upgrades
- Technical due diligence and waste technology advice
- Carbon capture
- Hydrogen solutions
Circular economy
The circular economy keeps products and resources at their highest utility and value for as long as possible and so minimises the use of new materials and the generation of waste through the design of the product or service, or the business model.
- Supply chain sustainability
- Better product design
- Circular business models
- Resource and energy efficiency
- Waste valorisation
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Training services
Energy and carbon modelling
As a registered Expert User of the Environment Agency WRATE software, SLR undertakes lifecycle analysis (LCA) and carbon-based assessments to support strategic decision making by local authorities, investors and facility owner/operators.
- Carbon impact modelling of waste treatment technologies using WRATE or bespoke Excel models
- Development of carbon monitoring tools to allow client measurement and reporting of facility performance across months/years
- Decarbonisation strategies
Built environment
SLR specialises in the provision of waste management advice across all stages of new development and redevelopment projects.
- Design review and advice to architects/clients regarding operational waste requirements
- Building management team timing analysis
- Site waste management plans
- Waste EIA input
- BREEAM pre-assessments
Alternative vehicle fuels
With greater focus on reducing environmental impact, alternatives to diesel are becoming increasingly attractive for local authorities, commercial waste collection companies, and facility operators with large fleets of vehicles.
- Multi-faceted quantitative and qualitative modelling
- GIS analysis
- Site layout optioneering
- Infrastructure requirements
- Safety advisory
Circularity of Resources (CORE) Assessment
SLR has developed the Circularity of Resources (CORE) Assessment process to critically review business operations, looking for opportunities to reduce and valorise the wastes created.
- Data capture and analysis
- Site investigations
- Reporting
Using a set of CORE metrics, we will assess your current status and reveal the full potential of your business, helping you to achieve your sustainable waste management and resource circularity goals.
Sustainable Waste Management Projects
Our Team Includes
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Richard Garfield
Technical Discipline Manager
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Paul James
Technical Director
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Conor Walsh
Technical Director
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Munashe Musarurwa
Associate Consultant
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Natasha Wilcox
Senior Consultant
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Tim Good
Technical Director - Sustainable Waste Management
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Andrew Sampson
Technical Director
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Christopher Porter
Principal Sustainability Consultant
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We're here to support you in Making Sustainability Happen. Get in touch for a collaborative discussion about what that could look like for your organisation.
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