Reece Dalgas

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

The UK waste sector needs 16,000+ new workers just to hit net zero targets.

The hiring infrastructure to find them? Broken.
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[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

This is the engagement strategy from Week 10: connect sector news to the hiring and workforce angle.

Not promotional. Sector-literate. Tag operators when their news is directly relevant.

#WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Begin tagging operators where content is relevant.

@Biffa announced new collection routes for Simpler Recycling.

WasteGrid's angle: those routes need drivers, operatives, and route planners — are they hiring on a platform that understands the sector?

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

As capacity expands toward 2028 and the Emissions Trading Scheme applies, EfW operations become more technically demanding, not less.

Engineers. Emissions specialists. Process technicians. All in short supply.

#EnergyFromWaste #WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Sector fact of the week: The UK's 55-plus Energy from Waste facilities generate enough electricity to power approximately 1.3 million homes.

That's from residual waste — material that cannot be recycled.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

The career range: HGV driver. Weighbridge clerk. Site manager. Data analyst. Environmental scientist. Commercial director.

From operative to boardroom in one regulated essential industry.

WasteGrid is the platform that makes this visible.

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Energy. Water. Transport. Waste.

Four sectors that every person in the UK depends on every day. All regulated. All skilled-labour intensive. All receiving government investment.

One of them doesn't get talked about as a career destination.

#WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

The waste sector manages 220 million tonnes of material per year.

It employs hundreds of thousands of people. It underpins the UK's net zero commitments. It's in the middle of its biggest regulatory transformation in decades.

Essential infrastructure. By any measure.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

With Simpler Recycling increasing separated food waste volumes, more digestate means more agricultural outlets needed.

This is a growing niche that WasteGrid and @WeAreBiogas are both built for.

#AnaerobicDigestion #Biogas #WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Digestate agronomist: a role most people haven't heard of.

Food waste goes into the AD plant. Digestate comes out. This person makes sure farmers can actually use it.

NVZ compliance. Spreading approvals. PAS 110 certification. Farmer relationship management.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

16,000 more for net zero.

This is industrial employment policy. Not environmental policy.

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

#CircularEconomy #WasteManagement #GreenJobs #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Scotland's circular economy: 56,000 jobs.

£4 billion in economic value.

That's Scotland alone.

UK-wide, the circular economy is one of the largest and fastest-growing employment sectors in the country.

40,000 new jobs from ESA's £15bn investment pipeline.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Both require accurate data. Both expose gaps in how operators currently manage waste records.

Is your compliance team resourced for both?

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

#DWTS #pEPR #WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Two waste sector compliance deadlines that operators need to track together:

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

DWTS — Digital Waste Tracking System. Live October 2026.

Electronic replacement for paper Waste Transfer Notes.

pEPR data reporting — Large producers submit Jan to Jun 2026 packaging data by 1 August 2026.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

They work every week.

In all weather. On all shifts.

For every person in the country.

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

#WasteManagement #WasteGrid #UKWaste

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Sector fact of the week: The UK generates approximately 220 million tonnes of waste per year.

That's more than 3 tonnes per person.

Managing it requires hundreds of thousands of people.

Drivers, operators, engineers, scientists, compliance managers, data analysts.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

#WasteManagement #MRF #WasteGrid #CircularEconomy

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

MRF operative: the role recycling depends on.

12% average contamination rate in mixed recyclables.

Every percentage point of contamination is material that gets rejected, downgraded or landfilled.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

The people on the sorting lines are the last quality checkpoint before the recyclate goes to market.

Automated MRFs are reducing manual sorting — but creating demand for equipment operators, quality technicians, and line supervisors.

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Most operators haven't started planning.

https://t.co/OCuTST9KEw

#SimplerRecycling #PlasticFilm #WasteManagement #WasteGrid

[Reece Dalgas @WasteGridUk]

Plastic film collection: mandatory from 31 March 2027.

Carrier bags, bread bags, cereal bags, pallet wrap, bubble wrap — all need separate collection in England.

That's new infrastructure, new sorting capability, new reprocessor relationships. And new jobs to staff it all