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Powerday

recycling and waste management firm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ65091771
Source-derived summary

Powerday is a London based recycling and waste management firm. Mick Crossan owns 85% of the company. They are the current sponsors of the London Irish rugby club. Crossan is also the majority shareholder and club president of the rugby club. They are also the current sponsors of Enfield Town FC.

In 2010, Powerday were awarded the waste contract for Heathrow Airport. They have handled 87,000 tonnes of waste from the site and in 2015, the contract was renewed.

In 2015, they invested £10 million into a new material recovery facility (MRF) in Enfield, London. In 2017, they exported 170,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to energy company, Geminor in Sweden. The unusable plastic waste goes to valuable fuel to power Stockholm.

Powerday and I-recycle provide a commercial waste service by water transportation.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Powerday” is recycling and waste management firm. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Powerday, recycling and waste, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Powerday, recycling and waste is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “recycling and waste management firm” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65091771. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2015 and 2017.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Powerday primary sources, Powerday archive and Powerday research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Powerday” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.