- CEO
- Giuseppe Sica
- Full Time Employees
- 873
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Credit Services
- Address
- Viale Lodovico Scarampo, 15 Milan MI Italy 20148
- IPO Date
- Dec 20, 2024
- Business
- Biffa plc (Ticker: BFFBF) operates as a leading UK-based integrated waste management company, providing collection, treatment, recycling, energy generation from waste, and disposal services to commercial, industrial, public sector, and local authority customers nationwide. Founded in 1912 and headquartered in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the company offers core products and services including general waste collection; dry mixed recycling; food waste collection and surplus redistribution; single stream recycling; hazardous waste collection, treatment, and asbestos disposal; unplanned waste removal; skip hire; bin cleaning; household waste services such as recycling collections, refuse collection, street cleansing, bulk haulage, and waste transfer stations; waste electrical and electronic equipment collections; textile collections; domestic tanker cleaning; environmental consultancy; and producer responsibility compliance schemes, supported by a fleet of 2,900 collection vehicles and facilities processing 190,000 tonnes of plastic annually. Biffa serves sectors including construction, facilities management, hospitality, events, logistics, manufacturing, production, public services, retail, and utilities across 95% of UK postcodes, with a focus on sustainable solutions like transforming waste into resources, achieving a 37% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2019, and generating 566 GWh of electricity from waste. Recent major changes include its acquisition by Energy Capital Partners in January 2023, completing approximately 20 acquisitions under this ownership such as the £125 million purchase of Renewi UK's municipal operations in October 2024 adding five long-term residual waste treatment contracts with local authorities in England and Scotland and 550 staff; the full acquisition of Esterform in October 2025 merging PET recycling operations to form an end-to-end circular PET packaging business under the Esterpet brand ahead of the 2027 Deposit Return Scheme; and the acquisition of Keenan Recycling in late 2024 to enhance food waste collection capabilities in anticipation of mandatory collections under Simpler Recycling legislation.