The Materia Environment team is led by Hugues-Gerald Barthelemy who has over 30 year's of experience in the waste management industry.

In 2012, Hugues set out on a new course to find a better way to reduce the amount of industrial plastic waste being incinerated. He felt through waste process optimization and efficient processing facilities, organizations who produce large volumes of industrial plastic waste - such as the pharmaceutical industry - could be helped to increase the amount of tonnage of plastic waste that would avoid incineration, and instead become a useful secondary product.

Using his international and national network, Hugues has developed Materia to a point where we save thousands of tonnes of industrial plastic waste from incineration, and instead it is processed for re-use as a secondary raw material.

Over the years, Materia has gotten a reputation for efficiency, innovation and reliability. More recently, Materia has pioneered traceability and reporting on ever ounce of plastic waste that we recycle for our clients. In an era of regulatory reporting on sustainability goals and carbon emissions, our robust system of traceability is an asset to all of our client companies facilities managers and CSR teams. They receive a monthly report on exactly what sorts of plastics we have recycled for them, how much and how it has been reused. Invaluable.