Strategy and Development

DCC Environmental’s strategy continues to be to grow its position as a leading broadly based waste management and recycling business in Britain and Ireland by positioning the business to take advantage of the trend towards more sustainable waste management with a particular emphasis on resource recovery and recycling. The strategy includes delivering superior value adding services to all its customers by way of a deep understanding of customer’s requirements and the development of innovative solutions to their problems. Furthermore DCC Environmental is aligning its business to support the transition to a low carbon economy through resource rather than waste focus, developing internal climate change expertise and ever improving its recycling capability.

There is growing recognition that there is value in waste material both as a commodity and energy source and DCC Environmental’s recycling led infrastructure is ideally positioned to capitalise on this. In addition to processing recyclable waste such as paper and plastic, DCC Environmental processes residual waste into a fuel for use in cement kilns as a direct substitute for fossil fuels. DCC Environmental will also shortly commence sending organic waste to Scotland’s largest anaerobic digestion plant and discussions are progressing to divert further residual waste, which cannot be recycled, from landfill into energy from waste facilities.