Permitted processing capacity
2.4m t
tonnes per year
AcqWaste · The combined group · 2026
Eight businesses. One integrated waste group.
Recycling, processing, haulage, aggregates, skips, fuel and specialist services — eight trusted regional businesses united into one processing-led platform that turns waste into the materials Britain builds with.
- tonnes / year permitted capacity
- 2.4m
- operating sites
- 16
- vehicles
- 300+
- people
- 520+
Bringing together eight established operators
Combined strength
Stronger together, by every measure.
Each business brings its own permits, fleet, people and customers. Together they form a platform with the scale, infrastructure and breadth to serve customers end to end.
- Anglian
- LW Skips
- Scott Bros
- CW Russell
- Sanderson
- RMR
- Quickskip
- Transwaste
Operating sites
16
across four regional clusters, plus a national brokerage hub
Vehicles
300+
skip loaders, RoROs, tippers, grabs, sweepers
People
520+
drivers, operators, engineers and specialists
Customers
1,700+
contractors, councils, utilities, businesses
Service lines
7/7
from skips to specialist brokerage
- Recycling
- Brokerage
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Fuel
- Products
Combined service area
41,700 km²
17% of UK land is within reach of a group site — explore it on the map below
Combined operating history
230
years — the oldest business founded in 1972
Circular by design
94%
of waste recycled or recovered
View the data by business
| Business | Cluster | Founded | Sites | Vehicles | People | Permitted t/yr | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Waste Recycling | East & Midlands | 2007 | 1 | 40 | 100 | 75,000 | 800 |
| LW Skips | East & Midlands | 1982 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 51,850 | 200 |
| Scott Bros | North East | 1972 | 4 | 68 | 129 | 1,000,000 | 400 |
| CW Russell | North East | 1993 | 4 | 85 | 76 | 325,000 | 150 |
| Sanderson Environmental | National | 2002 | 1 | — | 4 | — | 70 |
| RMR Sand & Aggregates | South West & Wales | 2018 | 1 | 25 | 28 | 75,000 | 140 |
| Quickskip | South West & Wales | 2002 | 3 | 31 | 39 | 75,000 | — |
| Transwaste | Yorkshire & Humber | 2002 | 1 | 50 | 134 | 771,250 | — |
| AcqWaste | 5 clusters | 1972 | 16 | 307 | 529 | 2,373,100 | 1,760 |
Figures from management information and public registers; brokerage operates through partner hauliers and licensed outlets, so it adds reach rather than fleet or permits.
Combined reach
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Service area
41,700 km²
17% of UK land within reach
Capacity, t/yr
2.37m
Sites
16
Vehicles
307
People
529
Service lines 7/7
- Recycling
- Brokerage
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Fuel
- Products
All eight businesses switched on — the full combined group.
Diversity of services
Every service. One partner.
Seven service lines across the whole chain — from a single skip to a national specialist waste stream. Customers can hand the group everything, and every stream has more than one route to value.
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01
Recycling & Processing
Permitted transfer stations, picking lines, shredders, crushers, screens and soil-wash plants that turn mixed waste into clean, separated material streams.
Delivered by 8 businesses -
02
Brokerage
A national specialist brokerage that places complex streams — sewage sludge, AD residues, gypsum, liquids — with the right licensed outlet, compliantly and at scale.
Delivered by 1 business -
03
Haulage
Tippers, grabs, hookloaders, walking floors, low-loaders and road sweepers moving waste and materials for construction and infrastructure.
Delivered by 7 businesses -
04
Specialist Services
Demolition, asbestos removal, earthworks, remediation, scaffolding and plant hire across the full site-redevelopment lifecycle.
Delivered by 5 businesses -
05
Skips & Waste Collection
Skips, roll-on/roll-off containers and wheelie bins for households, trades and businesses — scheduled or on demand.
Delivered by 6 businesses -
06
Fuel Generation
Refuse-derived and solid recovered fuels, wood and biomass — recovering energy from material that cannot be recycled.
Delivered by 2 businesses -
07
Product Sales
For construction: Type 1 and Type 2 secondary aggregates, clays, sands, soils and concrete. PAS 100 compost from Scott Bros. And from our commercial skip businesses, the everyday recovered streams — scrap metal, cardboard, plastics and wood — sold back to market.
Delivered by 7 businesses
| Business | Recycling | Brokerage | Haulage | Specialist | Skips | Fuel | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| LW Skips | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Scott Bros | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| CW Russell | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Sanderson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| RMR | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Quickskip | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transwaste | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Businesses | 8 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
Waste to product
We don’t just move waste. We turn it back into product.
Owning collection, processing and end markets lets the group keep more of every tonne in its own loop — fewer third-party gate fees, more recovered material, more value.
Collect
Skips, roll-on/roll-offs, commercial bins, grab and tipper hire, road sweepers and bulk haulage bring waste into the group.
300+ vehicles on the road
Process
Permitted transfer stations, picking lines, shredders, trommels, crushers, screens and soil-wash plants separate every stream.
2.4m tonnes a year of permitted capacity
Recover
Metals, aggregates, soils and sands, wood, green waste and refuse-derived fuel are recovered — so far less goes to landfill.
Metals, minerals, organics, fuels
Supply
Type 1 and Type 2 secondary aggregates, clays, sands, compost, concrete and fuels go back into construction, land and energy — with scrap metal, cardboard, plastics and wood sold on to reprocessors.
Waste returned as product
The businesses
Local leaders. One group.
Each business keeps the name, people and relationships its customers trust — now backed by the scale, systems and shared infrastructure of the group.
Anglian Waste Recycling
East Anglia's multi-service contractor: demolition, asbestos, remediation and waste & metal recycling
- People
- 100
- Vehicles
- 40
- Permitted t/yr
- 75k
- Sites
- 1
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Products
LW Skips
Skip hire, waste transfer and recycling for Staffordshire and the West Midlands
- People
- 19
- Vehicles
- 8
- Permitted t/yr
- 52k
- Sites
- 1
- Recycling
- Skips
- Products
Scott Bros
Circular waste management, recycled aggregates, plant and haulage on Teesside
- People
- 129
- Vehicles
- 68
- Permitted t/yr
- 1m
- Sites
- 4
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Products
CW Russell
Haulage, plant hire, crushing & screening and aggregates for construction
- People
- 76
- Vehicles
- 85
- Permitted t/yr
- 325k
- Sites
- 4
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Products
Sanderson Environmental
National specialist brokerage for organic, liquid and hard-to-place waste
- People
- 4
- Vehicles
- Partner fleet
- Permitted t/yr
- Asset-light
- Sites
- 1
- Recycling
- Brokerage
- Haulage
- Specialist
RMR Sand & Aggregates
Washed sand and recycled aggregates from construction waste, across South Wales
- People
- 28
- Vehicles
- 25
- Permitted t/yr
- 75k
- Sites
- 1
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Products
Quickskip
Skip hire, collections and recycling for Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches
- People
- 39
- Vehicles
- 31
- Permitted t/yr
- 75k
- Sites
- 3
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Specialist
- Skips
- Fuel
- Products
Transwaste
Recycling, waste-derived fuels and aggregates for Hull and East Yorkshire
- People
- 134
- Vehicles
- 50
- Permitted t/yr
- 771k
- Sites
- 1
- Recycling
- Haulage
- Skips
- Fuel
- Products
Heritage
230 years of combined operating history.
Family firms and founder-led specialists, several now into their second generation. The group is built on their reputations — not instead of them.
- 1972 Scott BrosBillingham, Teesside
- 1982 LW SkipsCannock, Staffordshire
- 1993 CW RussellMiddlesbrough, Teesside
- 2002 Sanderson · Quickskip · Transwaste 3 businesses founded
- 2007 AnglianAttleborough, Norfolk
- 2018 RMRBlackwood, Caerphilly
- 2026 AcqWaste The combined group
Leadership
Experienced leadership. Local accountability.
A group board sets strategy and governance; local managing directors keep running the businesses they know, with the customers who know them.
Executive Chairman
Paul Roach
Former CEO of BP Global Waste with more than 30 years in the waste industry. Leads board governance and shareholder engagement, sets group strategy and guides acquisition and integration priorities.
Group Chief Executive Officer
Appointment to be announced
Accountable for group operating performance, regional leadership and integration, and delivery of the agreed business plan.
Group Chief Financial Officer
Appointment to be announced
Leads financial reporting, forecasting and controls, monitors operating-company performance and supports acquisition execution.
Group Chief Commercial Officer
Appointment to be announced
Leads group commercial strategy and pricing, develops key customer relationships and coordinates cross-selling across the businesses.
Locally empowered. Centrally supported.
Regional teams keep day-to-day operations, customer relationships and local commercial decisions. The group adds common systems, purchasing power, compliance and a single sales engine that cross-sells every service to every customer.
- Strategy & M&A
- Finance & reporting
- HR & people
- HSEQ & compliance
- IT & systems
- Procurement
- Sales & tendering
- Integration
Vision
Built to grow.
To build a scaled, processing-led waste and recycling platform across construction, demolition and commercial markets — anchored by regional clusters of permitted facilities and supported by collection, haulage and specialist services.
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01
Organic growth
Recurring waste flows from long-standing customers, in a market growing with regulation and construction activity.
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02
Platform optimisation
More waste processed in-group, denser routes in each cluster and every service cross-sold across the customer base.
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03
Growth investment
Soil-washing capability rolled out to more sites, larger transfer capacity and new treatment capabilities such as sludge.
-
04
Further acquisitions
A repeatable regional playbook: add density, processing capacity or specialist capability where the group is already strong — and open new clusters.
Regulation is moving in the group’s direction
- UK waste management market, 2025
- c.£32bn
- Share held by the top five operators
- c.20%
- Registered UK waste businesses
- 5,000+
- 2018Resources & Waste StrategyThe national blueprint for a circular economy by 2050.
- 2021Environment ActThe legal backbone for waste reform; drives domestic recycling capacity.
- 2025Extended Producer ResponsibilityProducers fund packaging collection and recycling.
- 2025–26Simpler RecyclingMandatory separate collection for businesses — rewards compliant sorting.
- 2027Deposit Return SchemeA new high-quality recovery stream for drinks containers.
Sources: GOV.UK, DEFRA, ONS, IMARC Group.
One group. Built with purpose.
AcqWaste brings together eight strong regional operators — preserving what made each of them successful, and adding the capital, systems and shared infrastructure to grow.
