May Al-Kharouni

And they were like, we're just bidding it.

and buying new assets.

So I got chatting to them.

I was like, that's crazy.

You're going to give them to nonprofits, charities or people that need it.

And obviously, at the time, I'm going back probably about seven years when this happened.

They were like, you know, no, we have nothing in place.

Sustainability wasn't really a thing.

There was no pressure on banks, obviously, to do the right thing.

And it's too much hassle for them, right?

You know, their job is basically get the stuff out, get everyone in.

And I'm talking to them.

It cost them around £50,000 per person to make the move.

And literally, we went across the road and we kept the buildings.

And we had 300 people in the building.

So I just thought that was kind of commercial madness and why did no one ever digitalise waste and connect these enterprises to people who needed it, like charities and small businesses?

So in essence, what happened was it was the time Airbnb and Uber were just becoming famous in the UK.

And I just thought, surely we could be like the largest waste company carrying no waste.

Right.

So that's basically how it started.