Richard Biffa

Richard Biffa (Born December 23, 1939, Harrow, England)
Waste management entrepreneur and founder director of the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors. Involvement with developing the Waste management sector post war. Pioneer in the privatisation of domestic waste collection in the 1980s.
Member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management.
Best known for the introduction of the waste skip into the UK in the 1960s. Joined family company, Richard Biffa Ltd, clinker contractors, in Wembley in 1958. The company was started in 1919 by his grandfather, Richard Henry Biffa, and was engaged in the removal of ashes and clinker from the London power stations. These residues were largely used in the construction industry and many of the World War 2 landing fields were built using clinker as a sub base. Clinker was also used to manufacture breeze blocks which were used at that time to build the internal walls of houses. They were the forerunners of Thermalite blocks. In 1960, Richard Biffa Jr started up the company's Waste management division and introduced a containerised system (skips) for collecting industrial and commercial waste from factories and commercial premises. In 1981 Biffa Waste Services purchased the Hoveringham Gravels waste business from Tarmac Group. This transformed the company overnight into a national operation with branches as far north as Teeside and Southampton in the south. Today Biffa Waste Services is one of the largest waste management and recycling groups in the UK.
Via the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors, Richard Biffa became involved in helping to transform a fragmented and unregulated industry into a professional and environmentally caring sector.
Father: Richard Frank Biffa 1907-1988
Grandfather: Richard Henry Biffa 1882-1955

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