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The waste and treatment sites allowed to do more.

A recycler cannot take a new material, and a treatment works cannot discharge more, until its permit says so. Each new permit or variation names the tonnage, the materials and the date, which makes them the most precise public record of where waste and water capacity is growing.

Cards since 21 September 2026
36
tonnes a year added, where stated
1.28m
Regions with activity
9

Last updated 6 November 2026. To quote a figure: “CapexRadar, capexradar.uk/waste-and-water, 6 November 2026”.

See the cards on StanfellStanfell is where suppliers read the cards, with the company and how to reach it. Try it with a work email.
  • Scotland0
  • Northern Ireland0
  • North East2
  • North West7
  • Yorkshire and the Humber8
  • Wales0
  • West Midlands3
  • East Midlands1
  • East of England5
  • South West1
  • London6
  • South East3
By region, all months36 in all

By region

RegionCardsShare
Scotland0
Northern Ireland0
North East2
North West7
Yorkshire and the Humber8
Wales0
West Midlands3
East Midlands1
East of England5
South West1
London6
South East3

A region comes from the postcode of the site or centre. Where the record has none, the card is counted as not placed rather than guessed.

By month

A month gets its own page once it holds 5 or more cards.

Companies are named here a month after their card is published; the first in this sector appear on 21 October 2026.

How this page counts

What is counted
A new environmental permit, or a variation that raises capacity or adds materials or operations, at a waste, recycling, anaerobic digestion or water treatment site.
What is left out
Surrenders, transfers, administrative variations and consultations that change nothing on site.

Why it matters to a supplier

  • A permit that adds a material or a process is close to a specification for the plant that has to be bought: shredders, balers, treatment stages, monitoring.
  • Most of these changes need no building work, so they never show up in construction statistics.
  • New permits come with duties to monitor, report and protect against fire, each of which is bought from someone.

Questions

Why is tonnage missing on some sites?
Because the record does not always state it, and the engine never guesses. Where a change in capacity is stated, it is counted; where it is not, the site is still listed.
Does this include water company programmes?
Only where a specific site's permit changes. Framework programmes let to a handful of contractors are not what this page is for.

The cards behind these numbers

On Stanfell, every card in this sector carries the figure, the date, the company behind it and a reading for your trade, the day it is published.

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