The Global Waste Marketplace
About Us
WasteTrade is a pioneering new online marketplace that connects the producers, recyclers and manufacturers of waste material globally. On the WasteTrade platform you can browse our live material listings and filter by preferences, whether that’s location, quantity, volume or to find a specific grade of material or recycled product.
WasteTrade’s innovative features will calculate shipping costs, compliance, documents, exchange rates and carbon footprint all at the click of a button. WasteTrade has partnered with the artificial intelligence tool ThinkCarbon to provide carbon footprint analysis of any proposed deals prior to agreement and to allow for informed and carbon-efficient decision making.
Our Mission
In recent years our concern for the trajectory our climate is heading in has been growing. The breaking point for us was the publication of the highly alarming IPCC 2021 report that stated beyond any doubt the urgency of the situation surrounding climate change. Confronted by the scientific consensus around the climate emergency we are in, we could not sit by and watch as the world around us changes for the worse.
The IPCC report made it clear: We need to make drastic changes without delay if we hope to succeed in limiting global temperature increases to 1.5°C. Despite the immediacy of the problem, we could not see any real effort being made to hold the global economy accountable for the emissions it produces. A great deal of irreversible damage has already been done to the environment, but if we act now then we have the power to prevent the worst of it.
Meet the team
Bevin Tumulty
Co-Founder
Beginning her career in law and property valuation has allowed Bevin to build a sound knowledge around processes and compliance. She has been nurtured in the end of life vehicle industry from a tender age as part of her other family business. This ignited her passion for recycling. Bevin has worked extensively in the waste industry in Ireland and England before founding the Let’s Recycle It group and has been a stellar figure in European recycling projects and companies for over a decade.
John McKenna
Co-Founder
John is an award-winning chemical engineer and the co-founder of the Let’s Recycle It group. He has an extensive background in the pharmaceutical industry and industrial gasses. John is very technically proficient in the constantly evolving nature of recycling and partnered with Bevin has been a key player in the development of major recycling and production enterprises throughout the UK and Europe.
Our Vacancies
Waste Trade Career Opportunities
If you share our passion for sustainability, circular economics and combatting climate change, then you could be the next addition to the WasteTrade team. Working with us gives you the chance to make a real contribution in the fight against the climate crisis as part of a forward-thinking team of committed individuals.
News
Latest News
England’s Single-Use Plastic Ban | Defra Publishes Guidance
Single-Use Plastic Ban The United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recently made public its advisory on the impending ban of single-use plastics across England, set to come into effect from the 1st of October, 2023. On the 14th of January, Thérèse Coffey, the Environment Secretary, released a statement announcing that…
May 31, 2023
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Roadmap to a Greener Future: The UN Strategy for Reducing Plastic Pollution 80% by 2040
By George Kiernan |
UN Plan to Tackle Plastic Waste The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the environmental arm of the United Nations headquartered in Kenya, published a detailed plan on Monday aiming to diminish plastic waste by a staggering 80% by the year 2040. According to the report, the proposed reduction in plastic pollution can be achieved with…
May 24, 2023
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WasteTrade at PRSE 2023: Changing Course to a Greener Future
By George Kiernan |
Last week, WasteTrade exhibited at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2023 in Amsterdam. Over the course of two days, we had the chance to meet and network with a broad range of individuals and organisations from within the plastics recycling industry throughout Europe and around the world. We found the event to be a…
May 19, 2023
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UK Gov Suggests Alterations to Plastic Packaging Tax to Promote Chemical Recycling
By George Kiernan |
The UK government has declared its intention to hold a consultation on amending the Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) to incentivise investment in chemical recycling. Mass Balance Approach: A Game-Changer for UK Recycling? The consultation aims to gather opinions on whether a “mass balance approach” should be permitted for determining the percentage of recycled content in…
May 5, 2023
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