Service 02
Waste
solutions
Managing industrial waste is about more than finding a buyer. It requires knowing the recovery channels, mastering logistics, customs regulations and environmental criteria, and weighing the available options to choose the best solution, not just the easiest one.
Our approach
Trading partner for more than 25 materials
Valo acts as a trading partner for more than 25 materials. Our approach rests on a clear principle: everything that can be treated in Switzerland is treated in Switzerland. When no local channel exists, we select foreign partners against strict CSR criteria, distances, processes, traceability, and handle all administrative and customs aspects with a high standard of documentation.
In every case, we favour material recovery over energy recovery, and actively work on developing alternative solutions where none exist yet.
Traded materials
Some twenty industrial streams
Among the materials we manage: paper and cardboard, glass, plastics, non-ferrous metals, wood, ferrous metals, and some twenty other industrial streams.
- Paper-cardboard
- Glass
- Plastics
- Non-ferrous metals
- Wood
- Ferrous metals
Our operational capacity
Mastering the trading of complex materials opens access to high value-added markets.
- 870+
- shipments delivered within Switzerland (2024-2025)
- 500+
- shipments to European destinations
A scale that reflects both our logistics expertise and our regulatory management capacity.
Case in practice
Reuse before recycling
In the food and pharmaceutical packaging sectors, production cardboard boxes usually have only one life before being recycled. Valo has entered into a partnership with Carton Vert, a reuse channel: boxes are collected, palletised and put back into circulation, without recycling.
Reuse takes precedence over recycling, and material recovery takes precedence over energy recovery.
