This guide is for the person responsible for managing waste at your workplace or business. If you’re a large organisations with multiple sites, such as a flexible workspace provider, you may have a dedicated Waste Manager. For most of the office sector, this may be the responsibility of the business owner or manager.
The and service sector is diverse and can include individual or shared office workspace. This guidance may also be useful if you’re a manager responsible for similar types of workplace, such as libraries and museums, public administration, telecommunications and computing services, financial and insurance services, legal and real estate services, travel agencies, veterinary activities and betting shops.
Good to know:
There are a number of sources of information and guidance available to the office sector to help you with managing these other waste streams:
- WRAP’s Business Resource Efficiency Guide
- The Better Buildings Partnership – a collaboration of leading property owners working to improve the sustainability of commercial buildings, including reducing carbon emissions through action on energy, water and waste
- The Managing Agents Partnership – a collaboration of UK property managers working to improve sustainable management of commercial real estate
This guide only deals with non-hazardous municipal waste – the sorts of waste materials also produced in the home. We won’t be covering how to manage or other specialist waste that your workplace or business may produce.