A Doncaster-based UK recycling, waste and energy-from-waste company, part of Spain's FCC Group, serving councils and businesses across the UK.
FCC Environment describes itself as one of the UK's leading recycling and waste management companies. It lists five core services: business waste, municipal services for councils, recycling and reuse, energy from waste, and waste processing. Its stated aim is to help councils and businesses send less waste to landfill by turning it into useful resources. What can be recovered is reused, and what cannot be recycled is turned into energy. A company directory entry says it recycles around 1.5 million tonnes of waste a year and generates more than 167 MW of energy, enough capacity to power a large town.
Its history is a series of joining-ups. Waste Recycling Group (WRG) bought Hanson Waste Management in 2000 and grew through the early 2000s. In 2006 the Spanish group Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, known as FCC, took it over, and in 2012 merged it with its own collections arm, Focsa Services, to form FCC Environment. In 2023 and 2024 it took on the UK waste business of Urbaser, and in late 2025 it bought Cumbria Waste Group, apart from its landfill operations. The parent group says it works in more than 25 countries and has over 67,000 employees. Chief executive Steven Longdon is named on Wikipedia.
FCC Environment's UK headquarters is in Doncaster, at 3 Sidings Court. The trade wiki wikiwaste lists its energy-from-waste sites as Allington in Kent, Greatmoor, Millerhill, Javelin Park and Lincolnshire, plus EnviRecover at Hartlebury in Worcestershire, run through the Mercia Waste Management joint venture for Worcestershire and Herefordshire councils. Lincolnshire County Council has marked one million tonnes treated at its energy-from-waste plant. Staff numbers vary: Wikipedia says about 2,400, while a directory entry says 4,222, which may reflect the Urbaser deal.
The company's own pages say little about culture or values beyond a priority of caring for customers and the environment, so we have not invented more. Its work with councils means many of its people are based in local communities, from the staff running recycling centres to the engineers keeping energy plants running. Anything about its approach comes from the company's own description.
People work at FCC in operational roles, such as plant operators, drivers and site supervisors, in engineering and maintenance, in environmental compliance, in contract and account management for councils, and in finance, HR and IT. If you like practical work and want to understand how local government and private companies work together on services every household uses, FCC's long council contracts are an interesting example to read about.
Website: www.fccenvironment.co.uk
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