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Why your Hospitality business should recycle

Checklist: what your Hospitality business or organisation needs to do to be compliant with current waste regulations

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What your business or organisation needs to do to be compliant with current waste regulations:

  • Keep waste to a minimum – prevention is always best, so remember eliminating waste where possible, and reuse and repair if you can. Food businesses have a greater potential to reduce their costs by taking action to minimise food loss.

  • Sort and store waste safely and securely – sort different types of waste to avoid contamination, using clearly labelled containers with covers to stop waste blowing away and getting wet.

  • Complete a waste transfer note for each load of waste that leaves your business, or a document with the same information, such as an invoice. You’ll need to keep this for two years. 

  • Use a registered waste carrier – visit the Public Register of Waste Carriers, Brokers and Dealers to check if a provider is registered.

  • Make sure it’s disposed of legally – if the company you use disposes of your waste illegally, such as ‘fly tipping’, you could be held responsible.

  • Separately collect your food waste if you produce more than 5kg of food waste per week and make arrangements with a waste collector to have it collected for recycling.