Viridor is a waste management

Waste management

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal,managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics...

 company in the United Kingdom, owned by Pennon Group

Pennon Group

Pennon Group plc is a British water utility and waste management company based in Exeter, Devon in the United Kingdom. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...

, a FTSE 250 based plc focused on the water and waste management industries.

Viridor was formed in 1993, by purchasing companies in the landfill

Landfill

A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...

 market. As part of an acquisition trail that today has generated a business valued at £1.5Bn, they acquired part of Churngold's waste business in June 2003, and Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 LAWDC

LAWDC

A LAWDC is an acronym for a local authority waste disposal company These companies were created in the UK as arms length waste management operators when the waste management industry was privatised...

 Wyvern Waste in 2006.

Viridor were awarded the Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

 Waste PFI contract

Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is a waste disposal authority created under the Local Government Act 1985 to carry out the waste management functions and duties of the Greater Manchester County Council after its abolition in 1986....

.

On 12 August 2010, the company was featured on Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 documentary Undercover Boss

Undercover Boss

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 in which Chief Executive Colin Drummond went undercover as a new recruit inside the company.

See also

• Waste management
  Waste management
  Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal,managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics...
  
  
• List of waste management companies
• List of solid waste treatment technologies
• Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
  Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
  The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is a waste disposal authority created under the Local Government Act 1985 to carry out the waste management functions and duties of the Greater Manchester County Council after its abolition in 1986....