About us

Yorwaste specialises in creating environmentally sound waste management and recycling solutions for our customers across the UK.

We see waste a resource that, wherever possible, needs to be recovered, recycled and re-used and to this end we invest continually in the latest state-of-the-art technologies to facilitate this recovery.

Key facts and figures:

• We handle over one million tonnes of waste each year
• We employ nearly 250 staff, the majority of which have worked for us for five years or more
• In 2010/11, we recycled 903,934 tonnes of material that came into our facilities
• We compost over 200,000 tonnes of green waste each year
• We process and recycle over 200,000 televisions and computer monitors each year
• In 2010/11, we produced 59,690 MWh of green electricity from the capture of landfill gas
• We now have over 10MW of electricity generating capacity at our landfill sites
• 67% of the total area of our landfill sites have been restored
• The recycling rates at our household waste recycling centres are over 65%
• In 2010/11, we provided grants of around £600,000 to fund community projects near our landfill sites.