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BACKGROUND 022015ANNUAL REPORT With a joint responsibility to engage with end-user customers and consumers to provide material in a format that would facilitate recovery i.e. the segregation of paper cups at source CLES experience working upstream manufacturers distributors caterers and SWSs experience working downstream facilities management companies cleaning companies waste management providers material reprocessors meant that for the first time there was complete engagement across the entire material lifecycle from which a robust transparent and long-term solution to paper cup recovery and recycling could be delivered. 2013 saw the emergence of two UK reprocessing facilities that could separate the plastic lining from the paper of which paper cups are comprised and therefore were able to realise the value from both materials. This meant that paper cup recycling now became viable and resulted in a joint venture between Closed Loop Environmental Solutions CLES and Simply Waste Solutions SWS to address the problem. CLES has long been a pioneer of sustainability in the hospitality and food service industry working with customers upstream to specify material inputs predominantly disposable food service packaging around which to design and implement programmes that optimised commercial and environmental performance. SWS is a forward thinking and rapidly growing waste collection provider independent of waste sorting or reprocessing infrastructure and therefore shared this common objective to deliver customers the best commercial and environmental outcome which they could achieve through the provision of a highly efficient logistics solution. Since the demise in 2010 of the UKs previous cup recycling scheme there had been a significant gap in the market fundamentally a need for a service that would guarantee that all cups recovered after use would be recycled in the UK and then incorporated into the manufacture of new products. Subsequent attempts to re-launch cup recycling initiatives had failed predominantly due to the absence of the required local reprocessing facilities and of efficient and flexible logistics solutions to collect and bulk the required volume of material and to ultimately ensure that the solution was commercially viable. BACKGROUND