Andy Hinton

Ailsa 3 Ventures Ltd. (Ailsa3 ) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2004 by Andy Hinton and Nick Wyatt. The firm is headquartered in Leeds, Great Britain.

Credential Environmental Ltd. provides recycling and waste management services. The firm produces used tyre derived products that are used in following applications; tyre derived fuel and aggregate or gravel substitutes often called ar or utdar. Its services include waste tyre collections and waste tyre reprocessing. The firm's products are used in engineering schemes that include landfill drainage, coastal defense, inshore reef systems and road surfacing products. The company was founded in August 2000 and is headquartered in Newton Aycliffe, the United Kingdom.

VCU Europa Ltd. designs, manufactures, and installs vertical composting unit composting plants. Its services include planning, waste management licensing, turn-key design and build, maintenance support contracts, composting support contracts and compost quality and marketing. The company was founded on September 8, 2011 and is headquartered in Leeds, the United Kingdom.

Ailsa 3 Developments Ltd. provides capital investment services. It invests on rental and development properties. The company was founded on February 15, 2013 and is headquartered in Leeds, the United Kingdom.

Sterecycle is a waste management business focused on recycling and green energy. It has its own patented technologies that are capable of recycling and recovering the typical household waste stream. Since June 2008 it has been operating a full scale plant in Yorkshire. This is the World's 1st full scale commercial autoclave plant to treat residual household waste. The plant is processing 'black-bag' waste from 3 local authorities under a contract for up to 10 years: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. Whilst autoclaving has been used for a number of years for sterilizing small batches of medical waste, it has pioneered its use at industrial scale and for recycling municipal solid waste. In addition, the facility uses its own unique autoclaving system which is highly energy efficient and integrated with a green energy plant is self-sustaining with a beneficial carbon footprint. Its technology is protected by a series of granted patents and patent applications. Its business model is to build, own and operate waste recycling plants, processing residual waste as a substitute for landfill. It is a well funded business, backed by blue chip investors including Goldman Sachs, Fidelity International and Impax Asset Management.

VCU in Vessel Composting (IVC) technology has been successfully used for over 10 year throughout the world to treat a wide variety of organic wastes. From the installation of the first prototype unit in the mid 1990s, treating catering waste at the Long bay Correction Centre in Malabar Sydney, the technology was readily adopted as a viable recycling alternative to conventional disposal routes. A year later, the first full size VCU was installed at the University of New South Wales to treat up to 2 tones/day of catering waste.