About Us
A world where all waste is treated as a resource
Dsposal is a waste management technology company on a mission to make managing waste easier, more transparent, and compliant for everyone. We build software that waste managers and waste producers actually want to use.
Founded 2016
Innovate UK funded
Resource Hot 100
Our Purpose
What we do
We build excellent tech to help waste managers and waste producers handle their waste legally, efficiently, safely and in a way which protects the environment, and paves the way for a future where waste is treated as the resource that it is.
Our compliance-focused software delivers real-time views of compliance status, bringing transparency and clarity to waste management operations across the UK.
Our Origin
Where we started
Dsposal was founded in 2016 by Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore following an epic 8,700-mile cycle tour of North America. Tom had spent six years in the waste sector and spent much of the trip thinking about how tech could solve the challenges he’d faced as a sales coordinator of a hazardous waste company — and that’s where the idea for Dsposal was born.
Sophie brought her decade of experience in supply chains and the food sector, and her extraordinary organisational skills. Since launching in March 2018, we’ve worked with Defra, won funding from Innovate UK, sit on numerous advisory boards, and are founding members of the Waste Compliance Taskforce.
We’ve built a reputation in the industry as passionate problem solvers.
The People
Our team
A small, dedicated team with big ambitions for the waste and resources sector.
Why We Exist
Our mission
Waste crime — fly-tipping, misclassification, illegal export, illegal burning and operating illegal waste sites — is estimated to cost the UK economy in excess of £1 billion a year and cause significant environmental damage.
We believe that by making it easier to do the right thing with our waste, we can keep it in the legitimate system. Through digital transformation we can gather and share quality data on waste and empower people to make better decisions.
Transparency & compliance
Real-time views of compliance status bringing transparency and clarity to waste management.
Digital transformation
Next-generation software built with industry experts. Digital transformation, not just digitising paperwork.
Data-driven decisions
Quality data on waste to empower better decisions and transform materials flowing through our economies.
Our Principles
What we value
Our values are our ‘why’. They define how we work as a company and guide us as individuals.
Because, there is no away.
- There is no such thing as throwing waste “away”. It goes somewhere.
- There is a global waste crisis and this problem isn’t going “away” by itself. We’re aware of the problem, it’s on our watch, we need to take responsibility to solve it.
- There is no getting “away” from this problem.
Resources are limited. Act like it.
- Earth’s materials are finite; we need to understand that.
- Time is a limited resource; don’t waste it.
- Money is a limited resource; make it work hard.
- Our customers, suppliers and colleagues are precious; value them.
Cultivate the compost.
- The business we build and the culture we develop must create a nourishing environment that encourages personal, professional and economic growth.
- A quality compost helps to retain goodness and feeds into a virtuous nutrient cycle. By cultivating a great compost we enable not just ourselves to flourish, but also others in our ecosystem.
- The act of composting takes ‘waste’ and turns it into something useful and valuable; always look for ways to add value, be resourceful and see the potential in ‘waste’.