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Guidance for the office sector
Change sectorWelcome to our workplace Recycling Guide for the Office sector!
This guide is aimed at the person who is responsible for managing the waste at your business. For large organisations with multiple sites, for example a provider of flexible workspaces, you may have a dedicated Waste Manager. For most of the office sector, this may be the responsibility of the business owner or manager.
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 is complying with current waste regulations
Content overview
About our Recycling Guide for the Office sector
There are a number of sources of information and guidance available to the office sector to help you with managing these other waste streams:
Why your Office should recycle
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.
Planning the recycling needs of your Office
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 cost of waste collection from the Office sector
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 the Office sector
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 Office settings
Once you have your business 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.