U.K.-based Renewi, an international waste management company, has announced plans to increase its recycling rate to 75 percent by 2025.
According to a news release from Renewi, the company currently has a recycling rate of about 64.7 percent. The company has also announced goals to reduce the CO2 impact of its collection activities in The Netherlands and Belgium by 2025.
Over the past year, Renewi recycled a greater percentage of the waste than it handled, increasing its recycling and recovery rate to 90.8 percent.
“Within five years 100 percent of our fleet of collection vehicles will be clean low emission EURO VI trucks,” says Otto de Bont, CEO of Renewi. “This will increase our carbon avoidance to over four million [metric tons] annually. We also intend to introduce 65 new electric trucks to our fleet. The first one will start services in the Amsterdam region in August 2020.
“Going forward, we will also increase the volumes of secondary materials produced with new and innovative processing technology fivefold, from 200,000 [metric tons] to over 1 million [metric tons].”