Circular Consulting

Zero waste consulting

Achieve zero-waste goals, maximize material recovery, reduce hazardous waste, and divert waste from landfills.

  • Turn waste into value
  • Minimize hazardous waste & contamination
  • Reduce landfill & incineration reliance
  • Optimize on-site recycling operations
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Zero-Waste Consulting Services

Realize your zero-waste ambition with expert support that helps you manage complex waste streams, reduce hazardous waste, and increase recycling rates. Our zero-waste consulting services guide you in climbing the waste hierarchy and transforming waste into valuable resources.

Why Zero-Waste Matters Today

As EU regulations - including the Waste Framework Directive and the Landfill Directive - continue to tighten, companies face growing pressure to decrease waste volumes, improve transparency, and recover more materials. At the same time, customers and investors demand products and operations with lower environmental impact. Zero-waste strategies are now essential for compliance, competitiveness, and long-term resilience.

How We Support Your Transition

We help you stay ahead of regulatory and market requirements by reshaping your waste-management approach. From reducing landfill dependency and minimizing hazardous waste to optimizing on-site recycling, we deliver practical, data-driven solutions that improve performance and unlock material value. With operational insights and expertise from the Stena Recycling Group, we ensure that improvements are both realistic and implementable.

Start Your Zero-Waste Journey

Whether you’re taking your first steps or scaling advanced circular practices, our offering supports you at every stage. Explore our services - or begin with a quick-win assessment such as our recycling report for improved manufacture-waste performance, designed to reveal immediate improvement opportunities.

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Site-based recycling

For businesses aiming to build or enhance own on-site recycling capabilities, we provide end-to-end support in designing, setting up, and optimizing sorting and recycling operations.

We analyze material flows, streamline handling processes, explore technical solutions and strengthen sorting efficiency through data-driven design concepts. The result is a more effective, well-structured recycling setup that increases performance and reduces operational effort.

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Manufacturing waste optimization

We help companies reduce hazardous waste, divert materials from landfill and incineration, and increase recyclability through optimized processes and innovative waste-management solutions.

By identifying contamination sources and inefficiencies, we keep more materials non-hazardous and suitable for high-value recycling. Through waste-flow mapping, segregation improvements, and updated process routines, we support your transition up the waste hierarchy while lowering environmental impact and disposal costs.

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Waste-to-value development

We support companies turn residual waste into market-ready material and product concepts.

By identifying high-potential waste streams, we evaluate applications, conduct early-stage feasibility checks, and outline value-creation opportunities. Our structured process, from material assessment to concept-to-market pathways, helps businesses unlock new revenue streams and strengthen circularity through practical, implementable Waste-to-Value solutions.

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Mattias Nilsson is an expert in zero waste and strategy & compliance.

Mattias Nilsson, Head of Stena Circular Consulting

Mattias Nilsson

Head of Stena Circular Consulting
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Landfill & incineration diversion

We identify and support the implementation of recycling solutions that help you move higher up the waste hierarchy and minimize losses.

This includes both low-value materials and recyclable items that are discarded due to poor sorting or contamination, inefficient manufacturing processes, and insufficient waste sorting. Our expertise includes mapping waste flows, feasibility studies, innovative recycling methods, and material recycling initiatives. Our data-driven approach enhances resource efficiency and processes while reducing environmental impact from waste, from creation to landfill.