John Scanlon
John Scanlon
CEO
Suez recycling and recovery UK

John is Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, which is a recycling and energy recovery company employing over 5,600 people in the UK operating from over 320 sites, including 11 EfW plants managing c2.5 million tonnes and an installed gross capacity of over 200MW. In addition, SUEZ has 20 internally operated landfill gas generation schemes and 17 operated by third party operators with a total installed capacity of over 50MW. The Company provides services to one in three people in the UK and its vision is ‘to live in a world where there is no more waste!’ John’s industrial leadership and strategic vision has been forged over his 30-year career with SUEZ, since joining in 1991 as one of the company’s first employees in the UK. He has been an integral part of the executive committee since 2003. John has held a variety of operational and business development roles within SUEZ, which lead to becoming Chief Operating Officer of Operations in 2015, and prior to that Chief Operating Officer of the Processing division.