It’s National Recycling Week, which as you can imagine, is very close to our hearts here at Kenny Waste Management. The theme this year is “Resist the Rubbish Bin” – and we divert over 99% of all the waste we process...
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Team Kenny Smashes Our Fundraising Target At Rough Runners!
They did it! A bunch of brave fundraisers from the Kenny Waste Management team took on a tough obstacle course, and beat it! As part of our fundraising programme for local cancer charity The Christie, a group of hardy Kenny Waste...
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Behind the wheel at Kenny Waste Management
Do you have a driving ambition? If you’re considering a career behind the wheel, here’s a bit more about driving for us at Kenny Waste Management – from someone who really knows. Peter Hughes has been a driver at Kenny...
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Access your CO2 emission stats online
There’s no easy one-size-fits-all calculation to come up with a carbon emissions figure for your company’s waste. In order to come up with a final carbon emissions total, you need to know your waste streams, the weight of each stream,...
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“We can bring it back!” How Ratty and friends are campaigning for Britain’s wildlife
We’ve recently started working in partnership with the fantastic Cheshire Wildlife Trust, and have so much respect for the incredible work they do to preserve and protect our natural heritage. The Trust’s new national campaign, #WilderFuture, has created a really though-provoking...
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Giving blood and climbing hills: Driving Change in action
At Kenny Waste Management, the team has been busy fundraising for our 2019 charities – and there are more ways to donate than giving money, as they’ve been finding out… Everyone who works with us is encouraged to give blood...
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Create for Nature on BBC’s Countryfile
On Sunday, one of the local projects close to our hearts will get the chance to showcase its fantastic work on national television. BBC1’s Countryfile visited the Create For Nature project in Cheshire, which Kenny Waste Management has been supporting. We wrote about Create...
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Working with the Woodland Trust to offset carbon emissions
It’s time to get out the spades. On 6 March, a team of five eager volunteers from Kenny Waste Management will be helping the Woodland Trust plant trees in the Trust’s Smithills Estate near Bolton. The Woodland Trust is holding a...
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Graham Houghton – sadly missed but not forgotten
The last few weeks have been a sad time for us at Kenny Waste Management. One of our drivers Graham Houghton, sadly passed away last month. Graham was found by members of the public following his heart attack, and was...
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Kenny Waste Management’s chosen charities for 2019
Each year at Kenny Waste Management, we choose one or two local charities to support. This year we’re getting behind two fantastic Manchester-based organisations: The Christie charity and Tackle4MCR. Sadly, all of us come into contact with cancer at some...
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Kenny Waste Management to contribute to the Parliamentary Review
Kenny Waste Management has been invited to write for the Parliamentary Review, an independent publication that promotes best practice and knowledge engagement within industries. It’s a great honour to be one of the few organisations invited to contribute to the...
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From unwanted wood to must-have furniture
At Kenny Waste Management, we’re always looking out for innovative ways to recycle and re-use waste. How’s this for a brilliant repurposing idea: unwanted wood reborn as hand-crafted, custom-made furniture? We’re working with the Cheshire Wildlife Trust to support their Create...
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Helping Families at Christmas: Kenny Waste Management supports two fantastic local charities
Christmas is almost here, and for most of us, it’s a time to relax and enjoy ourselves. However, for some families, Christmas can be the most stressful and difficult time of the year – and at Kenny Waste Management, we...
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Driving Change: Kenny Waste Management Launches Its Social Enterprise
Last month, Kenny Waste Management launched Driving Change, our social enterprise programme. We’ve actually been running the scheme since late 2017; however, now we’re launching Driving Change as a stand-alone social enterprise. VIDEO OF THE LAUNCH EVENT We invited customers...
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Working with the Woodland Trust
We’re delighted to announce an exciting new partnership between Kenny Waste Management and the Woodland Trust. Our Technical Director and Driving Change leader, Paul Eagleton, met with Chris Waterfield from the Woodland Trust earlier this month. They’ve come up with...
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We’re manufacturing our own skips in Manchester
We’ve got a new venture at Kenny Waste Management: we’ve started to make our own skips! Instead of buying them from a supplier, we’re now manufacturing super-robust, Kenny-branded skips ourselves. It was time to refresh our stock of skips, which...
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Kenny Waste Management supports a trainee manager with his community challenge
Earlier this month, we heard from Jack Hall at construction firm Willmott Dixon. Based in their Manchester branch, trainee manager Jack is responsible for delivering a “Trainee Challenge” project, and needed some help from Kenny Waste Management. Every year, management trainees...
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Social Value in Action
When Redrow Homes asked for our help for a community project they were supporting, we were only to pleased to get involved. Wrexham Early Years Centre offer educational services to children with learning difficulties. Rhian Hughes commented " We would like to say...
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Helping clean up our community
When Paul Higgins from Rowlinson Construction approached us to help them with a community clean up for their client Mosscare St Vincents Housing we were only too pleased to help. In doing the community clean up, the team had a very productive day. The...
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Tighter controls on waste management are proposed – and Kenny Waste Management backs them
Waste management and recycling (or rather, the lack of) have been making headlines this summer. As a waste company at the forefront of best practice, we were pleased to read of proposed measures to tackle waste (mis)management issues. A cross-sector...
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