Some simple tweaks to your approach to shopping, cooking, and food waste disposal can potentially cut your food-related carbon footprint by almost two-thirds and it can be a healthy, fun, and inexpensive way to make a very real difference to our precious environment and to promoting ethical products. What is low carbon food? Low carbon […]
Avoca-DOH! Our slightly sarcastic listicle shows you which products to avoid, and how to shop better. British households are wasting millions of pounds every year because they’ve bought fresh products which have gone bad by the time they get round to eating them. According to one British food waste and recycling company, it doesn’t have […]
Charity shop treasure…or just trash? Is your donation worth a fortune, or is it costing charities to get rid of your rubbish? Donating unwanted items to charity is a great way to support well-deserved causes while having a clear out, but is your unloved junk even making it to the shop floor? The waste collection […]
The greenest cities in the world (and the least) – which international cities top the list for recycling and which don’t make the grade The need for recycling has, by now, been fairly well cemented into the minds of the general public. Citizens the world over are aware of what can and cannot be given […]
According to a recent study by the Office for National Statistics, around 14.9% of adults in the UK consider themselves to be smokers, meaning that the safe disposal of cigarette butts and similar was products is vital if we want to protect the planet for future generations. While the safe disposal of cigarette waste lies […]
Only 1 in 50 clean their bins – Britain’s stinky streets That’s wheelie grim Shocking results of a survey by a waste collection company show that just 1 in 50 – that’s 2% – of all people regularly clean their wheelie bins – leaving unsavoury bacteria to multiply. Our household bins aren’t often given much thought, it […]
Time to clean up our makeup habits We’re flushing away or binning an astonishing 11 billion wet wipes every year which can take up to 100 years to biodegrade. BusinessWaste.co.uk, waste management specialists, are concerned about the volume of waste being created by the number of makeup wipes and says that women and men across […]
We crumple them, shove them in coat pockets and find them forgotten in shopping bags every day – the humble receipt may not seem like a big problem, but waste collection company BusineseWaste.co.uk says paper receipts should be banned to stop them heading to landfill. Over 11.2 billion paper till receipts are printed each year […]
For when you want to sesh with the squad but still respect the environment Want to have a drink AND do something good for the environment? While celebrating the hideous goo you find at the bottom of bins? Boy, have you come to the right place, because two of the UK’s leading waste collection experts […]
Why not switch to a plastic-free alternative? Enough plastic waste to circle the globe twice is the annual result of us cleaning our teeth with toothpaste from tubes that can’t be recycled. With the global toothpaste industry worth tens of billions per year, one waste and recycling company thinks it’s high time its house was […]
Plastic Resin Identification Codes There are several different types of plastic, and some facilities will require the plastic to be separated before collection. This is due to the fact that each type of plastic is processed and recycled in a slightly different way. These are the different plastic resin identification codes and symbols: Code 1: […]
Why are you still sending Christmas cards? It’s time to ban this outdated, wasteful festive pastime It’s the most wonderful time of the year, trim the tree, stuff the turkey, and reach out to loved ones, but you’re unwittingly wasting literally tonnes of paper through wasteful Christmas cards. According to Britain’s fastest growing waste collection […]
The waste company has been named one of UK’s fastest growing companies. Yorkshire-based waste collection company Business Waste is celebrating its inclusion in the prestigious list published in this weekend’s Sunday Times. The company appears at no.59 in the paper’s 24th annual Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 list marking the fastest-growing companies in […]
Food waste generated by Britain’s hospitality sector each year amounts to a staggering 920,000 tonnes of food waste, of which 75% is avoidable if we look to recycle food waste properly. As a result, BusinessWaste.co.uk is calling for the hospitality industry to be compelled by law to make arrangements to recycle food waste, as Britain’s […]
What are the benefits of recycling? It goes without saying that there are numerous benefits to recycling. Firstly, it allows products to be reused as opposed to being improperly disposed of in a landfill. Landfills emit dangerous pollutants into the air, causing damage to the planet and the ozone layer. Secondly, recycling helps to protect […]
Also, please don’t use someone’s garden as a toilet With public toilets as well as loos in pubs and shops being closed during the Covid-19 outbreak, there’s been an outbreak of what can only be described as “fly peeing”. In the true nature of ‘if you got to go, you got to go’, waste management […]
What happens to confidential waste while working from home? With employees working from home because of the Covid-19 outbreak, how safe is the information they’re accessing and disposing of now it’s out of the office? According to one specialist waste handling organisation, remote working means new headaches for companies and their data security. UK waste […]
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Charity shops lift the lid on some of the strange stuff they’ve received The staid and dependable world of charity shops hides stock rooms filled to bursting point with the horror and the turmoil of strange donations. While most of us see quiet shops filled with quality second hand clothing, bric-a-brac and a million copies […]
Schools are missing out on valuable income which could be generated from waste cardboard and commercial waste collections– as well as teaching their pupils a valuable lesson about the importance of recycling. The 24,000 or so primary and high schools in the UK go through plenty of cardboard throughout the year, often in the form […]
Open fridges – seen in supermarkets up and down the country – should be banned due to their environmental impact. Thousands of these open fridges are in supermarkets in the UK and millions worldwide. Now environmental experts BusinessWaste.co.uk has urged for them to be banned. A common sight for shoppers, these fridges are used to […]
A waste transfer note (WTN) is a legally required piece of documentation which must be completed when waste changes hands.
SIt’s something most of us won’t give a second thought while wrapping our presents during the festive period – but is there a more sinister consequence to using Sellotape, and should it be banned for the good of the environment? The UK’s waste management service, BusinessWaste.co.uk, has delved into this sticky subject as Christmas – […]
The community-run football team is now sponsored by BusinessWaste.co.uk, a leading waste management firm who operate nationwide, and StemProtect.co.uk, a stem cell storage facility with 75,000 families entrusting their precious stem cells to its protection. Budding sports stars train on at Ben Rhydding on Sundays at 8:45 am – come rain or shine, its dedicated […]
Below are a number of dog poo posters. You can prevent people from leaving their dog poop by displaying a poster in your local community. Here are some examples. Please note we do not provide or sell any posters these are just examples of what you can create. Poop free zone. No dog pooping. The […]
There is plenty of information online and elsewhere that espouses the benefits of recycling. It saves on energy, it encourages us to reuse things, it cuts down on waste sent to landfills… and on it goes. But what about disadvantages? It would be foolish to assume there are none, but this is not an area […]
Each year, over 10,000 door or car keys end up in rubbish tips as a result of forgetful owners, leading some to attempt to retrieve them with potentially dangerous consequences. Research by leading the Uks waste management agency, has revealed that citizens across the UK are losing their keys every day – and that a […]
One very important feature of the new GDPR legislation that came into effect on 25 May 2018 is the correct disposal of confidential waste. Under the new law, every company who has clients within the EU is now responsible for the appropriate disposal of GDPR waste, including items such as hard drives, old computers, memory […]
Refuse operators live in fear of accidentally killing a rough sleeper The UK homeless crisis means that refuse collectors are now living with the fear that they could accidentally kill a person sleeping in a commercial wheeled bin as they attempt to stay warm for the night. That’s a fear expressed by a Yorkshire-based waste […]
Burning bins doesn’t get you high. In fact, it might just make you dead Bins are burning, and a rash of local news stories from around the UK all point to the same conclusion – Britain’s stupidest urban myth which claims the fumes from burning wheelie bins gets you high is back with a vengeance. […]
Charities losing out as criminals leave their own bins in town centres Local and national charities are being cheated out of income by an ambitious criminal who has started leaving fake clothes banks in towns and cities. Fresh from scams involving convincing-looking plastic charity bags being pushed through people’s doors, the fraudsters are now thinking […]
Call to redistribute tens of thousands of publications to sick and needy Every week, tens of thousands of unsold comics and magazines are returned from shops to retailers, who send them to be pulped, it’s been revealed. Instead of this destruction, one national waste and recycling company suggests that they are redistributed at cost to […]
Waste businesses vie for electronic goods to release a small fortune in precious metals There’s a new buzzword in the waste and recycling industry, and it’s “urban mining” – the act of reclaiming electronic goods to cash in on the precious metals inside. With commodity prices still at high levels as investors turn away from […]
Red tape wrapping its way around the environment leads to fines and fly-tipping Who’s watching your rubbish bins? That’s the question that’s being asked as phantom bin stuffers are avoiding tip fees and council fines by stuffing their rubbish into other people’s bins. It’s an anti-social behaviour that many in the recycling industry warned would […]
Landfill tax is paid by any business that wants to dispose of any waste in landfill. Find out what landfill tax is, how it works, and landfill tax rates.
Landfill: The facts The UK was warned that it could run out of landfill capacity within eight years if current rates were continued. While the proportion of waste recycled hasn’t changed a great deal in the last five years – it has, in fact, stalled at around 44% – we’re not quite three years away […]
We’ll admit it – we’re all little kids at heart and we love working with our bin lorries. In fact, any six-year-old with express wonderment and curiosity when faced with one of these monsters of the road, and (cough) many years later the huge majority of us are none the wiser – how exactly does […]
Massive waste as majority put food scraps into the bin A huge majority of Britons have never knowingly composted food or garden waste, a new survey has revealed. Figures obtained by a major UK waste and recycling company finds that most British households throw compostable waste straight into the bin, even if council collection facilities […]
From high-value metals to ‘shabby chic’ – light-fingered staff and visitors to blame Levels of theft from rubbish tips and recycling centres has reached “astonishing” levels, one national waste management and recycling company says. According to BusinessWaste.co.uk, both site staff and visiting members of the public are equally to blame, with many staff thefts made […]
What is offensive waste? Offensive waste. It’s not when you open a bin and you hear a voice shouting ″Knickers!″ back at you. That being our one and only attempt at end-of-the-pier humour on these pages, and we think it best to stop now. Offensive waste is refuse that falls generally into the same category […]
Recent news reports have highlighted the fact that charity shops are staggering under the weight of donated copies of the ‘mummy porn’ blockbuster series Fifty Shades Of Grey. Apparently, people are buying the books, finding out that they’re the most unbelievable piles of tosh, and giving them away. We don’t blame them, to be honest, […]