SUEZ UK Chief Sustainability Officer Adam Read on collaborative sustainability: ‘You need a small spark, but you need lots of them’
Waste management firm SUEZ UK operates in what Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer Adam Read calls a “revolutionary policy landscape” – with numerous new segregation and recycling obligations being placed on companies in the UK.
New regulations, including 2023’s Report Packaging Data and the Simpler Recycling law requiring English companies with 10 or more employees to separate food waste, paper/cardboard, and dry recyclables from general waste from Mach 2025, have been a long time coming.
“It's been a little slow in getting to completion,” Read comments. “I've been at SUEZ seven years, and I spent most of those seven years on the same set of policy reforms: extended producer responsibility, polluter pays, deposit returns, and digital tracking [which is set to become mandatory in 2026].”
