About Us

Waste Exchange UK Ltd., was formed in January 2000 with the objective of providing an Internet based mechanism through which industry and commerce in the UK can achieve the EU's strategic objective of waste reduction. Many Companies have demonstrated the profit benefit in reducing waste but few have obtained the further benefit of significantly reducing their materials purchased costs by acquiring resources through the waste exchange. The aim of the waste exchange is to provide UK industry with a low cost one-stop-shop for waste management and waste management information over the Internet.

Chairman, Colin Hygate and Managing Director, James Hygate have been involved in waste management for more than a decade providing innovative solutions for the management of waste (see www.environmentals.com). Colin has worked at the forefront of waste management technology development that has resulted in many speaking engagements both nationally and locally and as Managing Director of the Waste Company he developed and managed the UK's first Local Authority Waste Disposal Company (LAWDC). He has also been invited to work on a number of central government waste policy related committees. He is the only Gloucestershire based member of the Environment Agency's Midland Region Environmental Protection Committee (REPAC). He is Secretary of the Western Region and Vice Chairman of the Midlands Region of the Environmental Services Association (the waste industry's trade association). On their behalf he ran a number of national seminars during the introduction of the Landfill Tax. He is a founder member of the Composting Association and continues to work at developing the market place for compost in the UK. He is a member of the management committee of The Natural Step and is a member of the Environmental Policy Panel of the Institute of Directors. He has also been at the forefront of the development of energy from waste concepts (see Wastegen Ltd.)