Shanks Group PLC. The Group's principal activity is the provision of waste management services. It offers a wide and often innovative range of waste management solutions within its various collection and transfer, incineration, transport, recycling/recovery, and treatment and disposal services. The Group is one of the generators of electricity from landfill gas and it also produces a range of fuel-from-waste products. It operates in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Netherlands. During 2002, the Group acquired Van Der Heiden, Argyll & Bute Waste Management Services, Tol, and Compostering Hoek of Holland.