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Guidance for
Food manufacturing
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Why your Food or Drink Manufacturing business should recycle

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There are many benefits of recycling for businesses.

Before we get into the details of how to recycle, 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. 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 food and drink manufacturing sector

    Preventing waste in the first place is always the best option.

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  • The benefits of reducing food waste in the food and drink manufacturing sector

    According to WRAP, the UK generated around 10.7 million tonnes of food waste in 2021. This estimate covers waste produced by households, as well as by the hospitality & food service (HaFS), food manufacture, retail and farm sectors.

    3 min read
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  • The benefits of recycling in the food and drink manufacturing sector

    There are lots of great business reasons to recycle.

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  • How the food and drink manufacturing sector can comply with existing waste legislation

    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.

    3 min read
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  • Checklist: how to ensure your manufacturing business is compliant with current waste regulations

    What your business needs to do to de compliant with current waste regulations.

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