About us

About us

Novus Environmental are a leading provider of specialist waste management services. The company serves a diverse customer base across multiple industry sectors, including healthcare, veterinary, pharmaceutical, Education, manufacturing, Research & Development and chemical as well as various government agencies & local authorities.

We offer a wide range of sustainable waste treatment, recycling and disposal solutions that are designed to increase levels of compliance, reduce costs and protect the environment.

We put a great emphasis on our culture and putting our customers and staff at the forefront of our business. We always ensure we always offer the highest level of service and cost effectiveness to our customers as long-standing, productive partnerships mean far more to us than short term gains.

With over 50 years of collective experience, our management team are experts in the field of specialist waste management. Their expertise includes compliance, sustainability governance and delivering customer waste reduction / optimisation plans and cost-efficient solutions.

Our Heritage

Our roots can traced back to 2008, when our parent company Vetspeed Ltd diversified into the specialist waste sector having secured unique licencing at our 7 acre site near Cambridge.

Novus quickly established itself as a leading player in the specialist waste sector, initially operating as a clinical waste service provider to the veterinary industry, before expanding into the healthcare and secure destruction markets working on behalf of various government agencies, local authorities and the NHS.

The business experienced rapid growth through the following years and invested heavily in people, innovation and site infrastructure to ensure we maintained best practice and continued adding value to our customers by further evolving sustainable & cost-effective waste processing methods.

In more recent years we have successfully integrated and expanded into other market sectors and continue to experience significant growth along with unrivalled investment from our parent company IVC Evidensia, who have a global presence and the very highest of corporate standards to adhere too.

Compliance

Waste management includes all actions taken to handle waste from its origins to its disposal. At the heart of our service is compliance to UK and EU regulations. Our portfolio of accreditations, permits and licences allows us to transfer and treat a wide range of waste streams.

ADR trained drivers and compliant fleet

To ensure we have the capability to collect a diverse range of wastes 
in a professional manner

• We manage our fleet of vehicles using a perpetual review system.
• Our vehicles conform to the latest legislation including ADR.
• We employ only trained and ADR qualified drivers.
• Drivers are subject to regular disclosure and driving licence checks.

Secure Site

To ensure the security of our sites staff are on the premises 24 hours a day. In addition, barriers and gated entrances provide extra security. As a consequence we fully vet all staff, they are subject to disclosure and regular driving licence checks. We also ask them to sign a confidentiality agreement as a condition of their employment.

Onsite waste treatment facilities

Our onsite Rotoclave® provides an improved sterilisation process when compared to the stationary autoclave process.

We offer onsite incineration or sterilisation processes. Our incineration process is clean and safe as we employ the best available pollution control and abatement technologies.

The organisations we serve

We deal with a broad range of customers across the UK including:

• Hospitals
• Clinics
• Local authorities
• Zoological institutes
• Government bodies
• Environment Agency

• Research and development
• Care services
• Food suppliers
• Transport and distribution companies
• UK Border Force
• Trading Standards authorities