Offices
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Guidance for the office sector
Change sectorWelcome to our Office sector Recycling Guide!
In this guide, we’ll take you through five steps to implementing recycling in your . It doesn't matter whether you're a travel agents, accountants, or library, if your workplace is new to recycling, work your way from Step 1. Or you can jump to a particular page if you're after specific advice.
The tips in this step-by-step guide will help you to:
Optimise: get the most from your current waste collection service.
Plan: design a recycling system that works for your workplace, service users, visitors and employees.
Reduce costs: recycling is often cheaper than disposal!
Get compliant: ensure your workplace complies with the new regulations.
Content overview
About our Recycling Guide for the Office sector
There are a number of sources of information and guidance available to the office sector to help you with managing these other waste streams:
Why your Office needs to recycle
New regulations will soon require your business to separate from your general waste, and in this guide we’ll explain what to do to prepare before the 31 March 2025 deadline for businesses with 10 or more full time equivalent employees, or the 31 March 2027 deadline for all businesses.
Planning the recycling needs of your Office
If you’re completely new to workplace recycling, this step will help you work out what waste your business generates and what you might need from a recycling service.
Calculating the cost of waste collection from the Office sector
If you’ve completed the waste audit as covered in Step 2, you’ll have collected detailed information about the amount and type of waste your business produces. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your business and receive suggested changes that could help your business recycle more and save money.
Setting up recycling for the Office sector
If you’ve carried out a waste audit and used the business waste calculator, you should now have a better understanding of the types of waste your business generates and options to recycle more. You’ve hopefully also created a waste action plan, and now it’s time to put it into action!
Monitoring recycling services in Office settings
Once you have your workplace recycling set up and you’ve got your employees on board, it’s worth regularly monitoring and reviewing how it’s going. By doing so, you can share successes with your team and customers and look out for opportunities to improve.