SITA UK, a British waste management company, serves over 12 million people and handles more than 9 million tonnes of domestic, commercial and industrial waste through a network of recycling, composting, energy from waste and landfill facilities.

The company is a growing producer of energy, generating, electricity from landfill gas as well as the combustion of waste and recently became the UK's first producer of biomethane transport fuel made from landfill gas.SITA UK's landfill sites account for about three per cent of the UK's renewable energy generation.

In 2013 municipal biodegradeable waste diversion targets put pressure on local authorities to find alternatives to landfill.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.