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Guidance for the hospitality sector
Change sectorWelcome to our Hospitality workplace Recycling Guide!
In this guide, we’ll take you through five steps to implementing recycling in your workplace. Whether you’re a large hotel, café, pub, a contract caterer, run a canteen or quick service restaurant, if your workplace is new to recycling, work your way through 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 business and employees
Reduce costs: recycling is often cheaper than disposal!
Get compliant: ensure your business complies with the new regulations
Covered in this guide
- About the Hospitality Recycling Guide
- Why your Hospitality business needs to recycle
- Planning your Hospitality business recycling needs
- Calculating the collection cost of your Hospitality organisation's waste
- Setting up recycling for your Hospitality business
- Monitoring recycling services in Hospitality businesses
Content overview
About the Hospitality Recycling Guide
Welcome to our Hospitality workplace Recycling Guide!
This guide is for the person responsible for managing waste at your workplace or site. If you’re a large organisation with multiple sites, such as a hotel group, you may have a dedicated Waste Manager. If you’re a smaller hospitality business, this may be the responsibility of the business owner or manager.
Why your Hospitality business 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 your Hospitality business recycling needs
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 collection cost of your Hospitality organisation's 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 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 your Hospitality business
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 Hospitality businesses
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.