Shanks Group plc provides recycling and energy recovery solutions to public and private sectors in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company is involved in the collection, transfer, recycling, and treatment of non-hazardous solid waste, including industrial and commercial, construction and demolition, and municipal waste; industrial cleaning, transportation, treatment, and disposal of contaminated soils, as well as remediation of contaminated land; anaerobic digestion and tunnel composting of source segregated organic waste streams; biological and physio-chemical treatment of waste water and the pyrolysis of paint waste; and supply of industrial cleaning services to oil and gas and petrochemical industries. It also engages in landfill disposal activities, including contaminated soils; the generation of power from landfill gas; manufacture of recycled commodities that are used as substitutes for virgin materials in paper/card, plastic, metals, and non-ferrous production; production of organic fertilizers, soil, and aggregates for agricultural, commercial, and industrial applications; undertaking long-term municipal waste treatment contracts; and mineral extraction business. The company was formerly known as Shanks & McEwan and changed its name Shanks Group plc in 1999. Shanks Group plc was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.

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