Commercial and Industrial
Help for your business at each step of the journey.
Welcome to our workplace Recycling Guide for the commercial and industrial sectors! In this guide, we’ll take you through five steps to implementing recycling in your business or organisation – below is an outline of what we’ll be explaining. It doesn’t matter what industry you work in, if your business is new to recycling, work your way through from Step 1. If you’re after advice on a particular stage, click the links below to jump to the relevant section. 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
Covered in this guide
- About the Commercial and Industrial Recycling Guide
- Why your Commercial and Industrial sector needs to recycle
- Planning your Commercial and Industrial recycling needs
- Calculating the collection cost of your Commercial and Industrial waste
- Setting up recycling for your Commercial and Industrial settings
- Monitoring your recycling service in Commercial and Industrial settings
Content overview
About the Commercial and Industrial Recycling Guide
Welcome to our workplace Recycling Guide for the commercial and industrial sector!
This guide is for the person responsible for managing waste at your workplace or site.
Why your Commercial and Industrial sector needs to 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 organisation.
Planning your Commercial and Industrial 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 Commercial and Industrial 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 organisation. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your organisation and receive suggested changes that could help your organisation recycle more and save money.
Setting up recycling for your Commercial and Industrial settings
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 organisation 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 your recycling service in Commercial and Industrial settings
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, clients and visitors look out for opportunities to improve.