Welcome to ESA
The Environmental Services Association (ESA) is the trade body representing the UK's resource and waste management industry. While people talk about the circular economy, our members are helping to bring it about every day.
A sustainable, low-carbon economy of the future depends on quality recycled materials and world-class resources and waste management. ESA members collect, process and deliver these resources and are innovating and investing for a long-term zero-waste, zero-carbon future, building sustainable infrastructure and creating jobs.
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BE INFORMED
Members can access accurate up to date information to help inform you and your business. You are also contributing to the development of industry best practise and standards.
BE HEARD
Whether it’s a specific issue unique to your business, or an issue affecting the whole sector, ESA membership provides you with a means to get your voice heard with government and regulators.
BE INFLUENTIAL
ESA’s campaigning expertise is able to reach the highest levels of government. We represent our members views – we make a difference.
News and Views
Advancing social value through collaboration
ESA members are present in virtually every community up and down the UK, making us ideally placed to maximise the benefits of our activities for the good of our economy, our environment and society, increasingly referred to as social value. Read More
Biodiversity work to highlight how waste sector can get nature-positive
Work to look at the industry’s contribution towards protecting, restoring & enhancing biodiversity as well as developing best practice standards for the sector along with exploring and quantifying the industry’s impacts on biodiversity has started Read More
Timing of ETS for energy recovery is crucial to success
Inclusion of fossil-based emissions from energy recovery in the UK ETS will become a necessary component to achieve net-zero but the timing of its introduction is of vital importance to a successful outcome in our sector Read More
