In 1999, SITA UK won a 25-year waste management contract for Surrey County Council.

[7] SITA UK is now a recycling and resource management company and provider of services to local authorities and businesses.

[8] In 2013 municipal biodegradable waste diversion targets put pressure on local authorities to find alternatives to landfill.

[9] The company is developing landfill replacement facilities other technologies, including anaerobic digestion, in-vessel composting, mechanical biological treatment and both conventional energy-from-waste and gasification.

Enriching Nature is a programme supporting biodiversity conservation projects within ten miles of any landfill site in England.