Calculating the collection cost of your Health and Social Care waste

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 workplace produces. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your workplace and receive suggested changes that could help your workplace recycle more and save money.

Good to know

The calculator has been designed to generate a recycling service solution tailored to your workplace preferences, so it needs data on how you currently manage your waste. By adding as much detail as possible about your current waste service, the more relevant and accurate the results will be. If you don’t have time to conduct a waste audit, just use the waste composition information built into the waste calculator, which is based on existing research data.

The calculator and its costs, waste composition and outputs only relate to household like materials and does not include sharps, clinical waste or hazardous wastes.

You can use the Trust Waste Carbon Reduction Tool and associated waste planning tool guidance document from the NHS England Clinical Waste Strategy 2023 to calculate the cost and carbon associated with these other waste streams.