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We need to ban christmas cards

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 It’s time to ban this outdated, wasteful festive pastime It’s the most wonderful time of the year, trim the tree, stuff the turkey, and reach out to loved ones, but you’re unwittingly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 […]

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BusinessWaste.co.uk makes prestigious Sunday Times Fast Track list

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 […]

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Britain’s Hospitality Sector Generates 920K Tonnes of Food Waste Annually

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 […]

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Britain’s Schools Responsible for 80K Tonnes of Food Waste Annually

Britain’s Food Waste Crisis: Food waste generated by primary and secondary schools during one academic year amounts to a staggering 80,382 tonnes of food waste, and almost half of this is reported to be fruit and vegetables. As a result, BusinessWaste.co.uk is calling for local councils to be compelled by law to make arrangements to […]

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What is recycling

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 […]

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Fly peeing – UK littered with bottles of urine due to public toilet closures

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 […]

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Working from home: Are you breaking confidentiality waste disposal laws?

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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Ten million hand sanitiser bottles heading to landfill

It’s time to clean up our binning habits With the world’s focus firmly fixed on the Covid-19 virus pandemic, maintaining perfect hygiene has been at the forefront of everyone’s minds. However, a national waste company notes that while people are following the advice of healthcare officials, the resulting waste may not be doing much good […]

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Extra household waste collections – Private home waste collection

Do you have an overflowing household waste bin? If you have reached the stage where you’ve had enough of mounting, uncollected household waste or other waste including commercial business waste, you should consider our one-off, Adhoc, private waste collection service. For a fixed fee, we can make your waste disposal headache disappear. More working and […]

Published 7th January 2022 by Mark Hall. Last modified 9th June 2026