Renewi plc is a leading

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waste management Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...

company operating primarily in the

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region. It is listed on the

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and

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History

The Company was founded by Guy Shanks and Andrew McEwan in 1880 as a construction company operating primarily in the West of

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

under the name of ''Shanks & McEwan''.Shanks Group: History
In 1988 the Company acquired London Brick Landfill and with it an enormous

landfill A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...

capacity north of

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. The Company was first listed on the

in 1988. In the mid-1990s, the Company sold its remaining construction interests to concentrate solely on waste management. In 1998 the Company went on to buy four

companies in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. It changed its name to ''Shanks Group'' in 1999. In March 2000, the Company bought ''Waste Management Nederland B.V.'' in the

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. In July 2004, the Company sold its UK landfill and

landfill gas Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent methane, ...

power assets to

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. In 2006, the Company went on to buy ''Smink Beheer B.V.'' in the

for

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62m. In September 2016, the company reached an agreement to buy the Dutch recycling firm Van Gansewinkel Groep BV for €432 million as part of a merger that, upon completion on 28 February 2017, created to newly rebranded Renewi plc. In 2019, as part of a strategy to focus the business on its core operations and regions, the company sold its Canadian operations to Convent Capital and its Reym-branded industrial cleaning business to

Remondis Remondis is German multinational company for recycling, water resource management and industrial and communal services with headquarters in Lünen Lünen is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located north of Dortmund, on bot ...

Operations

The company's current operations are concentrated within the following three countries: * UK: activities include long term local authority

municipal solid waste Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. "Garbage" can also refer specifically to food waste, ...

(MSW) contracts, the anaerobic digestion of food waste, and the production of lower-carbon

alternatives to fossil fuels Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as greenho ...

. *

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: activities include collections, sorting and processing, re-use and

recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the p ...

, soil cleaning,

composting Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant, food waste, recycling organic materials and manure. The resulting m ...

, refuse-derived fuel production and industrial cleaning. *

: activities include collections, recycling, soil cleaning, refuse-derived fuel production, waste treatment and

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, ...

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

, and

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

References

External links

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