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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Recycling space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vikas saluguti
Co-Founder and Director of Fourth Partner Energy
Vikas’ early career was spent as an investment banker with ABN Amro in Europe for over 10 years. Since his return to India, he has been a serial entrepreneur and investor in a variety of ventures in the area of water treatment, healthcare, IT and education. Vikas brings with him extensive experience in setting and scaling-up of businesses successfully.
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About Fourth Partner Energy: Fourth Partner Energy provides turnkey rooftop solar energy solutions for customers in India.
Robert Sant
Managing Director of AO Recycling Ltd
Robert Sant has been the Managing Director of AO Recycling since 2017. Prior to this he was and the Managing Director of The Recycling Group Ltd. The Recycling Group Ltd changed was renamed AO Recycling after a merger with AO World PLC. He has been managing companies in the recycling sector since 2002. AO Recycling is one of the largest processors and recyclers of fridges and waste electrical appliances (WEEE) in the UK. AO Recycling’s state of the art Andritz MEWA fridge and WEEE recycling plant is largest and the most advanced in the UK. The plant now processes more than 750,000 fridges per year at its Telford site. In addition to fridges the site processes other waste electrical equipment and is one of the largest reprocesses of white goods packaging in the UK. At the heart of the plant is a bespoke Andritz MEWA shredding machine which can process over 100 fridges an hour. The new cutting edge materials recovery technologies that Robert Sant helped to design and develop at Telford, have delivered a plant which is a jewel in the crown of UK recycling and which boasts industry-leading recovery rates for all of the materials. AO Recycling sell materials from the recycled fridges and LDA’s , including high quality shredded steel, plastics , compressors, motors, Polyurethane (PU) foam, copper and aluminium. The packaging processing system used at Telford was designed to achieve the highest quality separation of packaging. At its Telford facility AO Recycling also operates one of the largest reuse and refurbishment facilities in the UK. At this facility most categories of electrical appliances can be repaired for resale. The recycling plant in Telford is setting new standards in the recycling industry. It has recently also been awarded the highly coveted WEEELABEX standard. This not only proves the plant is world class, but always proves the operation meets the highly stringent requirements of WEEELABEX. Robert Sant is a specialist in all aspects of end-to-end recycling and materials recovery, as well as large scale project management, software development and systems analysis and have been the Managing Director of a recycling company for over sixteen years. Prior to this, and following his graduation from Liverpool University with a degree in mathematics and physics, he worked in IT for several years as a Senior Project Manager. The company specialised in developing and delivering software for large implementations within the areas of logistics, freight forwarding and shipping lines. They developed and implemented software all around the world for large Logistics customers such as TNT, DHL, Wincanton, Tibbet and Britten, Tech companies of the time such as Nokia and Hitachi, and Shipping companies such as Yang Ming . Robert Sant now lives near Chester with his wife Alison and their daughters Maddie, Jessica and Gabriella. When time allows he enjoys skiing, sailing and the outdoors.
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About : AO Recycling part of AO.COM PLC
Toby McCartney
Managing Director of MacRebur
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About MacRebur, Toby & Kate McCartney: A UK-based company that uses waste plastics to create stronger, longer lasting roads.
Rosalie McMillan
Co-Founder and Director of Smile Plastics
Rosalie McMillan is the co-founder and director at Smile Plastics Ltd.
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About Smile Plastics: Smile Plastics manufactures hand-crafted panels from waste materials.
Patrick Graham
Non Executive Director of RiverRidge Rethinking Resources
Patrick joined the BGF in early 2012 and is responsible for identifying and successfully executing investments for the Fund. He will also sit on the Board of some of the Fund’s investee companies. Patrick has over 11 years of experience in the investment and corporate finance sector. Prior to joining the BGF, Patrick was Investment Director at Sigma Capital where he worked for six years investing development capital into the general tech and clean tech sectors across the UK and Europe. During his time at Sigma, Patrick worked on more than 30 investment rounds as well as various other transactions including restructurings, and trade sales, and worked closely with a number of portfolio companies. Prior to this, Patrick spent four years at Deloitte & Touche, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and working in the Financial Services team as well as the Corporate Finance department specialising in SMEs. Patrick has an honours degree in Law from Edinburgh University.
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About Business Growth Fund, RiverRidge Rethinking Resources: RiverRidge is regarded as Northern Ireland’s largest independent waste management company.
Adrian Mills
Advisor / Director of Waste into Water
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About : Waste into Water aims to provide solutions to waste waters in mobile locations.
Ben Smart
Managing Director of Whitham Mills Engineering
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About Whitham Mills Engineering: Whitham Mills Engineering designs, manufactures, installs and maintains high-quality waste processing equipment to customers.
Peter Lillie
Co- founder and Commercial Director of GRN Sportswear
Peter Lillie is a co-founder and commercial director of GRN Sportswear.
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About GRN Sportswear: GRN Sportswear is a sportswear manufacturer out of recycled and sustainable materials.
Peter Lillie
Co- founder and Commercial Director of GRN Sportswear
Peter Lillie is a co-founder and commercial director of GRN Sportswear.
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About GRN Sportswear: GRN Sportswear is a sportswear manufacturer out of recycled and sustainable materials.
Colin Bolam
Sales & Distribution Director of Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling Ltd
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About Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling Ltd: Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling Ltd is a provider of recycling services.
Steve Johnson
Managing Director of Johnsons Aggregates and Recycling
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About Johnsons Aggregates and Recycling: Johnsons Aggregates and Recycling is a privately held company that supplies recycled incinerator bottom ash aggregate in East Midland.
Trevor Gibson
Director of Environmental Advantage
Trevor is currently Smart City Leadership and Development Manager with Opportunity Peterborough and was part of the Peterborough team which successfully bid to be one of the UK’s four Future City Demonstrators funded by the Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK). He continues to help develop and deliver the resultant “Future Peterborough” programme and chairs the British Standards Institute (BSI) Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Committee (SDS/2) which, amongst other activities, oversees the development of BSI’s suite of Smart City Standards. Prior to his smart city experience, Trevor spent almost thirty years in the public sector, most recently as Director of Environment and Community Services at Peterborough City Council, where he was responsible for the strategic management of a wide range of front-line services including, regulation, development control, transport and leisure.
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About Environmental Advantage: Environmental Advantage is a waste treatment, environmental services & recycling company
Trevor Gibson
Director of Environmental Advantage
Trevor is currently Smart City Leadership and Development Manager with Opportunity Peterborough and was part of the Peterborough team which successfully bid to be one of the UK’s four Future City Demonstrators funded by the Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK). He continues to help develop and deliver the resultant “Future Peterborough” programme and chairs the British Standards Institute (BSI) Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Committee (SDS/2) which, amongst other activities, oversees the development of BSI’s suite of Smart City Standards. Prior to his smart city experience, Trevor spent almost thirty years in the public sector, most recently as Director of Environment and Community Services at Peterborough City Council, where he was responsible for the strategic management of a wide range of front-line services including, regulation, development control, transport and leisure.
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About Environmental Advantage: Environmental Advantage is a waste treatment, environmental services & recycling company
Peter Lohan
Commercial Director of Acumen Waste Services
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About Acumen Waste Services: Acumen Waste Services is a multi-disciplined garbage management firm that handles all elements of waste disposal.
