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What we offer

Sustainable solutions for the retail industry

Retail

Stena Recycling – your circular partner for sustainable retail waste management

Today, we have more products to choose from and more ways to buy them than ever before. But this comes at a price. We now have more packaging, more production waste, more deliveries leading to higher emissions and more used products to take care of as well. To tackle this problem, the retail industry is starting to think more sustainably. But there is always more to be done. As your circular partner, we can take care of all your waste-related matters in a way that benefits your business and the environment.

We have the experience, expertise and services you need

At Stena Recycling, we have been working with the retail industry for decades and have helped tens of thousands of businesses – both large and small – operate more sustainably. Today, our customers include international retailers and logistics companies as well as customers working within e-commerce, the food industry and more. Using our extensive experience and expertise, we have created a complete range of retail waste management services that can help you reach your sustainability goals, meet new environmental legislation and create the greatest value for your business – from reducing waste and increasing recycling to lowering your emissions and costs.

Whatever materials your business deals with, whatever the volume – whether its paper, plastic, metal, wood, process waste or even hazardous waste – contact us and let’s discover your potential together.

From plastic waste to a flowering garden

As the amount of plastic packaging waste grows, we must come up with increasingly innovative ideas to take care of it safely and sustainably. See how Stena Recycling, Castorama and Deko Eko came up with the idea of turning plastic packaging waste into sustainable flower pots.

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How can we help your business become more sustainable? Our team of retail waste management experts can find the right solution for your needs. Fill in the contact form and one of our experts will get back to you.

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Are you interested in buying high-quality recycled raw materials for use in your production? Using recycled raw materials will reduce your CO₂ emissions.

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Services we offer

Recycling and waste collection
Total waste management
Stena Circular Consulting
Circular process and product design
Recycling and waste management optimization
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Our complete range of services

A complete circular partner for all your waste-related needs - Why you should work together with Stena Recycling

Today, more businesses are looking for one trusted partner to help them take care of all their waste-related needs. When you work together with Stena Recycling as your circular partner, we help your business become more sustainable through more effective circular waste management – from optimizing waste collection and increasing recycling to reducing emissions and setting sustainability goals.

With Stena Recycling as your circular partner, we can help you:

Increase your recycling rates and reuse more
Reduce your climate impact and meet legislation
Collect your packaging and transport waste
Optimize your waste collection
Secure a reliable source of high-quality recycled raw materials
Responsibly source materials
Ensure greater traceability
Safely handle and destroy confidential information
Set sustainability goals and KPIs
Design for recycling
Become more circular with Stena Circular Consulting

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How Stena Recycling creates the greatest value

At Stena Recycling, we offer a complete range of retail waste management services, including containers for properly sorting your waste, optimized waste collection as well as recycling on an industrial level. We can also provide a reliable source of high-quality recycled raw materials for use in the manufacturing of new products. When you work together with us, we help you set sustainability goals and KPIs as well as collect all your necessary waste data for use in your sustainability and environmental reports. But it’s not just physical waste that we deal with.

For your business and the environment

With the growth of e-commerce, there is now a wealth of confidential information such as personal data, customer data and confidential agreements stored in end-of-life electronics and customer databases that needs to be taken care of securely and responsibly. With our confidential service, we ensure the safe handling and secure destruction of confidential or sensitive material. When you choose Stena Recycling as your circular partner, we work together so you can run your operation more sustainably, while taking care of your waste materials in a way that benefits your business and the environment.

Our services help your business become more sustainable

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Waste collection and Recycling

Whatever the materials, whatever the quantity, we have the processes in place to deliver advanced and efficient recycling on an industrial level. We also offer flexible, reliable and cost-effective waste collection and sustainable transport solutions.

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Total waste management

At Stena Recycling, we can take care of your waste – no matter how great the volume or complex the material. Our total waste management offer is tailored to your needs and includes waste collection, sorting and recycling as well as training, labeling and reporting.

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About Stena Circular Consulting

Our experts can help implement sustainable solutions that deliver the greatest economic and environmental value for your business. Together, we can design and develop products, process flows and business models to reduce your climate impact and help you on the way to full circularity.

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Confidential services

Our service for confidential information guarantees the safe destruction of materials or end-of-life products that carry sensitive information. Once destroyed this information can never be re-created, but the material – paper, electronic waste, etc. can be recycled.

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Current sustainability trends in the retail industry

As demands for greater sustainability grow from both consumers and lawmakers, businesses are taking action. To help build a more sustainable profile, businesses in the retail industry want:

One trusted partner to provide all waste-related services – from collection and recycling to taking care of confidential information
To reduce their CO₂ emissions and their reliance on the earth’s natural resources
To reduce their waste and use more recycled raw materials in their products
To use less packaging, while the packaging they do use should be recyclable
Greater transparency and traceability throughout the value chain

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Consumers want the sustainable choice

We wanted to find out what today’s consumers expect from the manufacturing industry when it comes to sustainable products. So, we carried out a survey of 5,000 people in five different countries.

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80% want manufacturers to use recycled materials in their products.

70% think it’s important that the products they buy can be recycled.

40% decided against buying products that didn’t meet their sustainability expectations.

*The Circular Voice – a Stena Recycling survey of 5,000 consumers about attitudes towards circular products and materials

Case

Transforming packaging waste into a flourishing product

In Poland, the French retailer of DIY and garden supplies, Castorama, came up with a new way of using their waste plastic packaging together with Stena Recycling and Polish upcycling e-commerce platform Deko Eko. All waste plastic packaging was collected, sorted and then recycled into new raw materials, which were then used to make stylish Eco Logical flower pots for a more positive impact on gardens and the planet.

Turning process waste into planting soil

Through an innovative collaboration together with Blomsterlandet and paper producer Ahlstrom-Munksjö, Stena Recycling has developed a climate-smart planting soil made from 100% recycled material. Peat, which is usually found in planting soil, is replaced by fiber mulch, which is a waste from the paper industry. The collaboration has created a more circular product, which is better for the planet and will make gardens bloom.

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