About Us
Business Overview
Biffa is a leading integrated waste management business in the UK which operates across the breadth of the waste management value chain. It provides waste collection, treatment and recycling, and disposal services to around 75,000 local and national customers in the industrial, commercial and municipal sectors.
Biffa's business is grouped into four operating divisions:
- Collection
- Special Waste
- Landfill
- Power Generation
Collection
Biffa has one of the largest waste collection networks in the UK, with 86 depots and over 1,500 vehicles which collected over four million tonnes of waste last year from around 75,000 industrial and commercial customers and over one million households, including through two fully integrated waste management contracts under the Private Finance Initiative with Isle of Wight Council and Leicester City Council.
Special Waste
Biffa provides a range of specialised services for the collection, treatment and recycling, and disposal of solid and liquid hazardous waste for industrial and commercial customers. The special waste division operates throughout the UK, including specialist transfer stations, liquid treatment plants and a dedicated fleet of specialised vehicles.
Landfill
Biffa is one of the top three operators of landfill services in the UK, and in FY 06/07 handled more than 7.0 million tonnes of waste at its operational landfill sites. At the end of the FY 06/07, our 32 operational landfill sites totalled consented and operational void of 74 million cubic metres, of which 11 million cubic metres is leased to another landfill operator. Additionally we had 6 million cubic metres of consented but not operational void, whilst also continuing to control 22 million cubic metres of potential void. The landfill division's customers include Biffa's collection division, local authorities and most other major waste collection businesses operating in the UK.
The division also incorporates Biffa's dry waste treatment and recycling business. This comprises 42 facilities for the bulking up of waste and for the sorting of recyclable materials such as paper, card, metal, plastics and glass.
Power Generation
Biffa is a significant provider of renewable energy in the UK with interests in approximately 109MW of installed capacity.
