Building
Communities
FCC Environment
is immersed in a
pilot project known as
“Building”; a joint initiative
with WREN to help local
populations chose projects
in disadvantaged
communities that require
funding.
Townships in the UK benefit from 200 mi-
llion euros thanks to funding tax proceeds
from FCC’s landfill sites.
The British landfill site tax, implemented in
1996, has proven to be a very efficient me-
chanism for transferring waste from landfill
sites to more sustainable options, such as
recycling and recovery.
When the tax was first introduced, the Go-
vernment allowed landfill site managers,
such as FCC Environment, to recover a
small percentage to be earmarked for pro-
jects that fulfilled certain conditions in the
communities within ten miles from the lan-
dfill site.
Known as the Landfill Communities Fund
(LCF), since 1996, the program has already
invested more than 1 billion euros and
completed more than 32,000 projects, fo-
cusing on improving community infrastruc-
tures, conservation, and biodiversity. The
program is supervised by an independent
governmental regulator, ENTRUST and the
projects must comply with a series of strict
rules.
Because of the strong funding crush sin-
ce the start of the economic recession in
2009, several British conservation and re-
generation community organizations have
started to resort to LCF as a major source
of funds which are crucial for completing
their projects aimed at improving the quality
of life.
FCC Environment was one of the first landfill
site managers that started to participate in
LCF; setting up, to this purpose, the Waste
Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN),
non-profit, distributive, environmental and
independent organization for managing
the sums recovered from landfill site taxes.
WREN is now the largest environmental or-
ganization of this program and since 1998
