Commercial waste

Commercial waste is anything your business throws out, from an office bin bag to a restaurant food caddy. We arrange collection through licensed carriers. We do not run the trucks. The price on your quote is the carrier's rate plus our margin, shown to you before you sign.

Bins arrive as part of the service, so there is nothing to buy. If your current contract already prices well for your streams and your lift frequency, we tell you and you stay put.

What counts as commercial waste

Any waste from a commercial activity is business waste (GOV.UK, updated 5 February 2025). That includes the part of your home you run the business from. From that point section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 applies to you.

The streams we arrange

Mixed recycling takes paper, card, plastic and metal in one bin.

Glass goes separately, clear and brown and green together.

Food waste is the stream restaurants and cafés cannot design around.

Cardboard on its own suits high-volume retail and warehousing.

Confidential paper shredding is secure destruction, on site or off site.

Bins and containers

The 1100 litre wheelie bin is the UK's standard commercial container, and a 240 litre is household-sized for smaller businesses. A 660 litre is the mid-sized wheeled bin for alleyway or side access, and an FEL holds up to 600kg. Capacities and lift frequencies are on commercial bins.

What it costs

Almost nobody in this market publishes a price, so here is one that is public. Cherwell District Council charges £19.75 per lift for a 1100 litre general waste bin. That is its published trade waste tariff for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, general waste only. It is one council's rate, not our price and not a national average.

Your own number moves with postcode, streams, bin size and lift frequency. General waste costs more than recycling because landfill tax sits underneath it. The standard rate is £130.75 per tonne from 1 April 2026 (HMRC, updated 26 November 2025). One bin for everything is what pushes the bill up. Watch the twelve-month price lock as well, because the uplift after it ends lands quietly. That is what business waste renewal is for.

Your duty of care

Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 sets a duty of care in England and Wales. It names dealers and brokers expressly, so it covers us as well (legislation.gov.uk, in force, checked 10 August 2026). In practice you store waste securely and complete a waste transfer note for each load leaving your premises. Keep a copy for two years, and check your carrier is registered before you hand anything over (GOV.UK, updated 5 February 2025).

Our waste broker registration is WASTE BROKER REGISTRATION No. — Kev to supply. Look it up free on the Environment Agency's public register of waste carriers, brokers and dealers. Check whoever else is quoting you while you are there.

Simpler Recycling

Simpler Recycling makes English workplaces separate dry recyclables, food waste and residual waste. It has applied to workplaces with 10 or more full-time equivalent employees since 31 March 2025. Under 10 FTE, the deadline is 31 March 2027, counted business-wide rather than site by site (GOV.UK, updated 3 October 2025). Scotland and Northern Ireland run their own regimes.