Eric Wright Group hires waste management partner

The Eric Wright Group has agreed a £1m, two-year sustainable waste management services deal with Manchester-based Kenny Waste Management Social Enterprise (KWMSE) to help achieve its environmental goals.

KWMSE will support the Preston-based group's construction, civil engineering, homebuilding, water and health & care businesses across the UK, with a focus on the North West.

As the preferred framework partner, it will advise on diverting waste from landfill and recycling across Eric Wright’s construction sites, delivering educational programmes on waste reduction and implementing management plans to ensure waste is segregated and sorted correctly.

Kenny Waste Management’s portal reporting system will be providing data-driven analysis to monitor waste production and disposal that is transparent, accurate and uniform across the whole of the UK.

Through the Eric Wright Learning Foundation, KWMSE will also be working with students to educate them on construction site waste management.

Jeremy Hartley, Eric Wright Group’s managing director, said: "Delivering sustainable social value in the communities where we work is central to our principles and Kenny Waste Management’s net-zero strategy and social enterprise model aligns closely with our ethos and values.

"We are conscious that the money we spend through procurement has the power to drive additional benefits and KWMSE will be putting in place a series of education initiatives to deliver improvements across our business and to help educate our employees.

“Eric Wright Group has set a target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and our environmental management team is working closely with all of our suppliers to ensure we achieve this goal."

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