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. Before we get into the details, let’s take a quick look at the background and how recycling can help your business.
Good to know ‘Waste’ means any substance or object to be discarded. This includes household materials for disposal (rubbish, in other words!) and recycling. New regulations mean that similar materials produced by businesses now need to be separated for recycling. If you use part of your home to run your business, any waste from that part of it also counts as business waste.
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The Waste Hierarchy for the Office sector
Preventing waste in the first place is always the best option.
1 min readViewThe benefits of recycling for the Office sector
As a business, you’re considered to have a ‘Duty of Care’ to ensure that the waste your business generates is produced, stored, transported and disposed of without harming the environment. This is set out in the Environmental Protection Act 1990, but new legislation takes this a step further by making business recycling a legal requirement.
3 min readViewHow the Office sector can comply with the new business recycling legislation
Having looked at the business case for recycling, it’s time to delve into the details of what the new legislation means for your business.
3 min readViewChecklist: what your Office needs to do to comply
What your business needs to do to comply:
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