What is the Green Compass Scheme

PAS 402 has been reviewed and PAS 402:2025 will be in place on 28th February.

The success of the Green Compass Scheme  has meant that this certification is increasingly becoming a mainstream requirement for the customers of the waste management industry throughout the UK. Under the scheme, each waste management company must report their recovery rates for all of the waste streams that they accept and process. These rates form an integral part of the publicly available PAS 402 report. Disposal to landfill tonnage is recorded, which increases the motivation for re-use as opposed to one-way disposal. All these figures are then independently verified by the annual UKAS Accredited inspection.

Companies who are Green Compass members are the elite of the waste management industry and in general, work within the parameters of international quality standards to demonstrate best practice and endeavour to continuously improve processes, delivery and customer satisfaction.

Green Compass Scheme membership is applicable to waste management organisations that process all waste streams, either through a transfer station or treatment facility.