Retail2025
Northgate Retail: 62-store rollout
Northgate Retail
Re-laid back-of-house waste areas across 62 stores, lifting diversion from 51% to 93% in a single quarter without any new staff training.
- 93%
- Diversion
- £186k
- Saved / year
Case studies
Projects, and the numbers behind them
Every project below reports a verified diversion rate. Where a target was missed, the figure shown is the one we actually achieved.
- Independently audited
- Weighbridge-verified
Selected work
Six projects from the last two years
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Showing 6 projects.
Healthcare2025Avonside Hospitals: clinical stream separation
Avonside Hospitals
Separated offensive from infectious waste across four hospital sites, cutting high-temperature incineration volumes by 62%.
- 62%
- Less incineration
- 4
- Sites
Hospitality2024Brightwater Hotels: food waste to energy
Brightwater Hotels
Routed kitchen waste from 18 hotels to anaerobic digestion, recovering 1,340 MWh of energy and removing 640 tonnes from general waste.
- 1,340
- MWh recovered
- 640t
- Diverted
Logistics2024Kestrel Logistics: packaging reduction
Kestrel Logistics
Switched three distribution centres to reusable transit packaging, cutting cardboard volumes by 71% and collection frequency by half.
- 71%
- Less cardboard
- 50%
- Fewer lifts
Education2024Meridian Schools: 24-school trust
Meridian Schools Trust
Consolidated 11 waste suppliers into one contract across 24 schools, with a pupil-led monitoring scheme that holds the recycling rate above 88%.
- 11→1
- Suppliers
- 88%
- Diversion
Manufacturing2023Halcyon Manufacturing: process waste audit
Halcyon Industrial
Identified £94,000 of recoverable polymer going to refuse, and set up a closed-loop return to the original supplier.
- £94k
- Recovered value
- 100%
- Closed loop
In depth
Northgate Retail: 51% to 93% in one quarter
Northgate run 62 stores with a shared back-of-house waste area in each. Their recycling rate had been stuck in the low fifties for three years despite staff training rounds.
Our composition audit found the problem was not behaviour. The general waste bin was the closest one to the door in 58 of 62 stores, and the card bale cage was outside in the yard. People used the nearest bin, as people do.
We re-laid every back-of-house area, put colour-coded bins at the point of waste, and moved the card baler inside. We changed nothing about the training.
- 93%
- Diversion rate
- £186k
- Annual saving
- 1 qtr
- Time to target
Across every project
What these projects added up to
- Projects delivered
- 38
- Across six sectors since 2023.
- Client savings
- £2.1m
- Verified against the twelve months before each project.
- Diverted from landfill
- 28,600t
- Client satisfaction
- 4.9/5
- From post-project reviews.
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