Sustainability Manifesto
Our annual sustainability report
Our Latest Sustainability Manifesto
Powerday is happy to share our 2025/26 Sustainability Manifesto a transparent account of our progress, priorities, and plans for the year ahead. This year’s publication marks an important evolution in how we report, plan, and deliver on our sustainability commitments.
In 2024, we made the strategic decision to align our carbon reporting with our financial year (August–July), bringing it in line with both our social value reporting and wider business planning. This shift enables clearer performance tracking, greater consistency across our reporting frameworks, and more meaningful year-on-year comparison of our sustainability impact.
As part of this transition, we have also realigned the timing of our annual Manifesto and objective-setting process to match the new reporting period. This has presented an opportunity to take a deeper look at the foundations of our sustainability strategy.
Our
Plans
The manifesto sets out our updated sustainability priorities through our newly refreshed strategy and four core pillars – Business Excellence, Climate Resilience, Sustainable Growth and Empowering Communities. These pillars replace our previous five-pillar framework and reflect the findings of our 2025 materiality assessment and internal pillar review, ensuring our strategy is aligned with what matters most to our clients, our people, and the communities we serve.
Message From Our CEO
Edward Crossan, Chief Executive Officer says:
“We have a very ambitious growth strategy to build upon our previous success, and central to this is our commitment to sustainability and circular thinking. By working closely with our supply chain and our clients, we are actively developing closed-loop recycling solutions and have managed to recycle 46,897 tonnes of waste through closed loop options to date.
Our Digital and AI Working Group is monitoring emerging technologies to ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation and are well prepared for the evolving impacts of AI. Embedding circular thinking across our operations allows us to reduce environmental impact, unlock new value and drive long-term scalable growth.”
Newly Defined Sustainability Commitments
Powerday remains committed to leading with integrity, reducing our environmental impact, and creating positive outcomes for our clients, people, and communities. Our sustainability commitments are built around transparent carbon reporting – now independently verified across all scopes (pages 12–13, 36–37) – continued progress on our pathway to net zero, investment in fleet decarbonisation and renewable energy (pages 14–15), and the expansion of closed-loop recycling solutions that support a more circular economy (pages 22–25). We also remain dedicated to generating social value across London through community programmes, youth opportunities, and the Powerday Foundation (pages 16–21), while strengthening business excellence through robust governance, client experience, and employee development (pages 26–33). These commitments guide every aspect of our refreshed sustainability strategy and form the basis of the priorities we are delivering throughout this transitional reporting period.
Message from our Chairman
Mick Crossan, Chairman says:
This year marks an important step in how we track and report on our sustainability journey. We have now aligned our Manifesto with our financial year, running from August to July, rather than by calendar year.
This change gives us a clearer link between our business performance and our sustainability progress. To bridge the transition, we published an interim Manifesto earlier in 2025 – and now, with this full-year edition, we set out our achievements and priorities for the financial year ahead.
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“We were pleased to have awarded this contract to Powerday. They have delivered their services efficiently and reliably, achieved high recycling rates and 100% recovery, meeting our requirements throughout the project. They have been easy to deal with, reasonable and fair. We have been particularly impressed with their account management and waste reporting capabilities.”
Dave France, Project Director, Ecoworld Ballymore