Sackers pitches in on soccer club recycling effort

Ipswich, United Kingdom-based Sackers Ltd. and Nuneaton, U.K.-based Vertas Environmental say they have teamed up to deliver recycling services to Ipswich Town Football Club (ITFC) in southern England.

Sackers and Vertas Environmental jointly they won a contract in January 2020 to provide and service about 40 commercial wheeled bins for the mixed collection and recycling of cardboard, food waste and general waste, as well as a glass recycling service, throughout the football (soccer) season.

Sackers says it has the technology to recycle more than 90 percent of the discarded commercial materials it collects, “so are well placed to help Ipswich Town Football Club to reach recycling targets.”

“Everyone is aware of the environmental impact waste is having on the world,” says Ian Surtees, CEO of Vertas Group Limited, parent of Vertas Environmental. “Working with Sackers gives us the ability to deliver sustainable solutions through our facility management.”

Remarks Nigel Slinn, commercial director at Sackers, “It’s great to be able to continue to support a club close to all of our hearts. We have a recycling target of over 90 percent of all wastes we manage through our waste facility and using our vast network of contacts along with our industry knowledge, we continue to innovate and source alternative solutions that will benefit both the customer and the environment.”

“It is essential that we recycle as much as possible, and at ITFC we want to lead by example and will be installing new mixed recycling bins around the stadium to make the whole process as easy as possible,” states Richard Kerry, Ipswich Town stadium manager.

Adds Rosie Richardson, the club’s director of sales, “We were the first carbon neutral football club, and we are constantly looking at ways to ensure we operate ethically. We’re a true blue club,” she says, referring to the team’s colors, “but want to go ‘green’ in terms of waste management; reinforcing the already established links between Vertas and Sackers is allowing us to meet such objectives.”