Tony Watkins
Managing Director
Cyclamax Resource Parks

Anthony Watkins has spent 19 years in the Waste Management and Recycling Field. He has a degree in Minerals Estate Management and an MBA from Warwick Business School. For the first six years he worked for Biffa Waste Services and in this time he was the project manager for the Isle of Wight Integrated Waste Management Local Authority Tender, which the company won and is now in its 13th year of operation. Anthony then joined Severnside Recycling, part of the multi national paper and packaging group DS Smith Holdings as Business Strategist in 1997.
His role was to develop and bring to market new innovative products and services to meet the new requirements of the company’s customers and take account of existing and forthcoming legislation. After developing such things as more flexible collection service, multi material collections and the recycling audit process, Anthony was promoted to Commercial Director of the Company in 2000. In that role he was responsible for the development of a new waste facilities management business which captured the waste and recycling services of such companies as Tesco, Somerfield / Coop, Arcadia, Next and Primark amongst others. This experience led him to believe that a new set of waste management infrastructure was required to meet the challenges of sustainable waste management specifically in the commercial waste sector. This idea developed into the premise for the Cyclamax business which is to develop facilities which are called Resource Parks. Resource Parks act as gateways between sustainable waste management and renewable energy production with the aim of reducing landfill to a minimum whilst recovering the embedded value and energy from waste.
The company now has permission to build its first Resource Park located in Avonmouth; two other applications running with determination expected by the end of the year and were also awarded the lead developer / occupier status on the Largest Sustainable Industries Park in Europe being brought forward by the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation on Dagenham Dock.
Anthony has a specific interest in the opportunities for the integration of Resource Parks within large developments where they can act as enablers to development.