What we offer

Retail waste management that drives sustainability and efficiency

Retail waste management solutions that optimize collection, increase recycling, and reduce emissions across your retail operations.

Complete retail waste management
Circularity consulting expertise
Certified recycled materials
Secure destruction services

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Looking for a circular partner in retail waste management?

Retail offers more choices and convenience than ever, but at a cost. More packaging, more production waste, more deliveries driving emissions, and more used products to manage. While sustainability is on the agenda, there’s still more to do.

What’s included?

With decades of experience, we help businesses from global chains to e-commerce and food brands reduce waste, boost recycling, and cut emissions while meeting legislation and sustainability goals.

Collection and recycling of packaging and returns
Reverse logistics for e-commerce
Secure destruction of promotional items and electronics
Hazardous waste handling
Circular consulting for packaging and processes
Full traceability for compliance and reporting

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Why choose Stena Recycling to take care of your retail waste?

Working with Stena Recycling means partnering with a team that understands retail inside out. We don’t just manage waste, we create value. Our expertise ensures compliance, reduces climate impact, and strengthens your brand. We’ve helped tens of thousands of businesses, including international retailers, logistics companies, and e-commerce brands operate more sustainably.

We offer a complete range of retail waste management services, from containers for proper sorting and optimized waste collection to industrial-level recycling and secure destruction of confidential materials and electronics. We also provide high-quality recycled raw materials for new products and help you set sustainability goals and KPIs, with full traceability and data for your environmental reports. And it’s not just physical waste, we support circular solutions that make your entire business more sustainable.

From plastic waste to a flowering garden

As the amount of plastic packaging waste grows, we must come up with increasingly innovative ideas to take care of it safely and sustainably. See how Stena Recycling, Castorama and Deko Eko came up with the idea of turning plastic packaging waste into sustainable flower pots.

Customer cases

Transforming packaging waste into a flourishing product

In Poland, the French retailer of DIY and garden supplies, Castorama, came up with a new way of using their waste plastic packaging together with Stena Recycling and Polish upcycling e-commerce platform Deko Eko. All waste plastic packaging was collected, sorted and then recycled into new raw materials, which were then used to make stylish Eco Logical flower pots for a more positive impact on gardens and the planet.

Turning process waste into planting soil

Through an innovative collaboration together with Blomsterlandet and paper producer Ahlstrom-Munksjö, Stena Recycling has developed a climate-smart planting soil made from 100% recycled material. Peat, which is usually found in planting soil, is replaced by fiber mulch, which is a waste from the paper industry. The collaboration has created a more circular product, which is better for the planet and will make gardens bloom.

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Circular solutions for retail recycling and reuse

A complete range of innovative services and advanced recycling processes designed specifically for the retail sector. From managing electronic waste to optimizing material reuse, these solutions help retailers reduce environmental impact, improve resource efficiency, and achieve sustainability goals.

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Waste collection and Recycling

Whatever the materials, whatever the quantity, we have the processes in place to deliver advanced and efficient recycling on an industrial level. We also offer flexible, reliable and cost-effective waste collection and sustainable transport solutions.

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Total waste management

At Stena Recycling, we can take care of your waste – no matter how great the volume or complex the material. Our total waste management offer is tailored to your needs and includes waste collection, sorting and recycling as well as training, labeling and reporting.

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About Stena Circular Consulting

Our experts can help implement sustainable solutions that deliver the greatest economic and environmental value for your business. Together, we can design and develop products, process flows and business models to reduce your climate impact and help you on the way to full circularity.

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Confidential services

Our service for confidential information guarantees the safe destruction of materials or end-of-life products that carry sensitive information. Once destroyed this information can never be re-created, but the material – paper, electronic waste, etc. can be recycled.

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Need help with retail recycling?

Turn unsold or returned products into value. Our experts make collection, sorting, and recycling simple and efficient, so you can focus on what matters. Your customers and your business.

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Consumers want the sustainable choice

We wanted to find out what today’s consumers expect from the manufacturing industry when it comes to sustainable products. So, we carried out a survey of 5,000 people in five different countries.

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80% want manufacturers to use recycled materials in their products.

Circular Voice 2022

70% think it’s important that the products they buy can be recycled.

Circular Voice 2022

40% decided against buying products that didn’t meet their sustainability expectations.

Circular Voice 2022

Current sustainability trends in the retail industry

As pressure for greater sustainability continues to rise from both consumers and lawmakers, businesses are stepping up to meet the challenge. In the retail industry, companies are looking for practical ways to build a more sustainable profile. They want a single trusted partner who can handle all waste-related services, from collection and recycling to managing confidential information securely.

They aim to cut CO₂ emissions and reduce dependence on the planet’s natural resources. Minimizing waste and increasing the use of recycled raw materials in products is a priority, along with reducing packaging overall. When packaging is necessary, it should be recyclable. Finally, businesses are demanding greater transparency and traceability throughout the entire value chain, ensuring that sustainability is not just a promise but a measurable reality.

For your business and the environment

With the growth of e-commerce, there is now a wealth of confidential information such as personal data, customer data and confidential agreements stored in end-of-life electronics and customer databases that needs to be taken care of securely and responsibly. With our confidential service, we ensure the safe handling and secure destruction of confidential or sensitive material. When you choose Stena Recycling as your circular partner, we work together so you can run your operation more sustainably, while taking care of your waste materials in a way that benefits your business and the environment.

Want to buy recycled raw materials?

Stena Metal International together with Stena Recycling’s markets across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Poland, materials are processed, inspected, and customized for top quality. Many metals come from Stena Recycling’s shredding and granulation facilities, where recycled metal quality is continuously assured.

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Want to make your business more circular?

Stena Circular Consulting’s services cover key aspects of the circular economy, specializing in circular product design, zero waste initiatives, circular system design, and integrating circularity into clients’ strategies while ensuring regulatory compliance.

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