19th November 2020
A lot has been written, since the onset of Covid-19, about how it has accelerated change. The huge shift to home working amid the pandemic is the most obvious. And it, in turn, has unfolding ramifications for urban offices and shops, the housing market, public transport services, traffic levels, and more. But could these impacts also include speeding up progress
6th November 2020
Pressure on retail and hospitality sectors is mounting There is little doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of UK businesses in all sectors. Business face dealing with front line staff absences, increasing service demand – online retail and waste management for example – and the furloughing of staff with uncertainty about their return to work. Not to
21st October 2020
Who do you trust in a crisis? It’s a question we answer instinctively as we think of friends and family. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, that same question has been asked ever more increasingly in respect to companies, government and other institutions.
7th October 2020
Being positive One of the things I really look forward to each year since joining SUEZ, has been our customer conference for local authority clients, when over the course of two days we provide an informal and welcoming environment in which our customers, from collection, processing and disposal contracts around the UK, can come and learn about sectoral developments, can
2nd October 2020
The eagerly anticipated outcome from the government consultation on changes to the Social Value Act of 2012 was launched last week and the message is clear, the £4 billion of annual government spend at all levels will be evaluated and monitored in order to maximise the social, economic and environmental benefits it creates.
28th September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic may be unprecedented, but like most if not all previous crises, it has accelerated change. Most obvious is the shift to working from home. When push came to shove – or rather, pandemic to shutdown – many organisations and employees surprised themselves with their own agility. But of course, agile working means more than working from home,
24th September 2020
As we near the end of Recycle Week 2020, we thank the country for continuing to recycle over the pandemic. For those of us who work in the recycling and resource management industry, it is also a time of immense pride as we reflect on how the thousands of key workers in our sector have worked to keep one of
21st September 2020
What’s on this week? Here we are heading towards the end of September, and where are we on the big news issues? BREXIT continues, the schools are back, and many industries are re-opening. However, the inevitable increase in COVID-19 cases has been realised and more local lockdowns are being announced on an almost daily basis.
21st August 2020
Blog by Dr Adam Read (External Affairs Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK) We live in interesting times, and even during the global pandemic, the growing interest of the media, consumers and society at large, on the waste and resources sector has continued. The sector’s frontline staff have been thanked on many occasions for continuing to work through the lockdown,
17th August 2020
As a business we’ve been promoting tele-conferencing for internal meetings for over 10 years and more recently video meetings with our introduction of Microsoft Teams. Along with car sharing, it is one of many SUEZ’s initiatives for managing the carbon footprint of our activities. The need to have a fairly large number of our people working remotely has certainly increased
