phs Group

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Company Name: phs Group

Headquarters: Caerphilly, South Wales.

Website: www.phs.co.uk

Headcount: More than 3,000 people

Profile: The phs Group is the leading hygiene services provider in the UK, Ireland and Spain.

With more than 90,000 customers in over 300,000 locations, supporting everything from restaurants to offices, and hospitals to schools, phs group meets the needs of more than 100 million people.

phs Group provides washroom, healthcare and floorcare hygiene services along with a range of specialist services, making its customers' premises safer and healthier places, while meeting the changing needs of society.

Carrying out more than 20,000 service visits per day across its business, phs Group has a team of more than 3,000 people who are trained and equipped to take care of working environments.

phs Groups has developed a parented waste-to-energy process called LifeCycle which divertes hygiene waste products away from the landfill and instead, process them to be used as an alternative fuel source.

LifeCycle has created a solution to one of the most pressing sustainability challenges while drawing on the principles of the circular economy.

phs Group hygiene customers will have their hygiene waste products being processed at the company's LifeCycle plant, with a target to divert 35,000 tonnes of hygiene waste away from landfill in 2018.

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