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Interzero and Resourcify, the digital platform for waste management and recycling, have entered into a partnership. Customers of Interzero will thus be provided with the digital waste management service of the Resourcify platform.
The new joint service is called "Zero Waste Manager". Interzero thus offers its customers a integrated digital solution to organise your waste management efficiently. Recycling partners from the company's network receive their orders via the platform and then report the performance data back there.
So that improve the organisation and implementation of recycling processes for customers. In many cases, waste is still managed using the simplest means of data management and without digitally linking the partners. Through Data analyses in the platform, customers can clearly see where Reduce waste, increase recycling rates and close the cycle of valuable resources. The "Zero Waste Manager" is therefore a tool that provides customers' operations and sustainability teams with data handling and closed-loop solutions from a single source.
"Our partnership combines the decades of experience of Interzero's circular experts with Resourcify's cutting-edge technology and creates new synergies. We will help Interzero's customers to digitise waste management, collection, documents and payments. Together with our industry-leading reporting tool and our expertise in optimisation, we are creating one of the most attractive new digital offerings in the European recycling market. For us, the partnership means a growth potential of more than 100 per cent. To date, we have managed waste worth over 100 million euros annually. With the partnership with Interzero, we will double this value in the future - and that's just across Germany."
Gary LewisCEO of Resourcify
Expansion of the network
The partnership strengthens Resourcify The Interzero Group is strengthening its position as the leading technological platform for waste management and recycling in Europe and, with Interzero, is joining forces with one of Europe's largest, well-developed waste disposal networks. With the partnership Resourcify aims to double the volume of financial recyclables managed on its platform.
By gaining access to Resourcify's technology, Interzero is taking an additional step in the Digitisation of own processes. The use of the digital platform leads to an increase in efficiency through automated invoicing and payment processes as well as in the processing of complaints.
"The partnership gives us the speed we need to grow and expand into new markets. With Resourcify and the Zero Waste Manager, we are excited to usher in a new era of digitally optimised recycling for our customers across Europe. With this partnership, we are creating a productive connection between the market leader in the circular economy and the fastest-growing start-up in the industry. Together, we can increase our reach and drive the market forward by revolutionising it through consistently data-based processes."
Sebastiaan KrolCEO of Interzero Circular Solutions
Practical experience
Companies have been using the "Zero Waste Manager" since the end of 2022. The burger restaurant chain Five Guys is one of the first customers. Waste management at all 35 restaurants in Germany is now handled via the platform. Pia Dörner, Project Manager Operations, explains: "The Zero Waste Manager has given us at Five Guys a reliable, digital platform that enables us to minimise our waste through Systematic recording and digital data linking allows us to efficiently organise the collection logistics and recycling of our transport packaging waste in particular. and organise it transparently. This means we always have an overview of waste streams, waste and containers and can provide auditable evidence of our resource-conserving approach. "
With the "Zero Waste Manager", the two companies are also taking a new approach to data management for customers and waste disposal partners within the platform. The partnership manifests itself in a White label platform, which is operated by a newly founded subsidiary of Resourcify GmbH and separated from Resourcify's existing platform in terms of data technology is.
As part of the partnership and the development of the "Zero Waste Manager", Interzero has also made a strategic investment of 5 per cent in Resourcify - without co-determination or data rights. The transaction was advised by the commercial law firm Dentons on behalf of Interzero and by YPOG on behalf of Resourcify.
Source: Interzero
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