Guidance for
Education
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Why your educational establishment should recycle

There are many benefits of recycling for organisations and other non-household premises.

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.

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 education sector

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

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  • The benefits of recycling in the education sector

    There are lots of great business reasons to recycle.

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  • How to comply with existing waste legislation

    As an organisation or educational establishment, you’re considered to have a ‘Duty of Care’ to ensure that the waste your organisation generates is produced, stored, transported and disposed of without harming the environment. This is set out in Article 5 of the Waste & Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.

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  • Checklist: what your organisation needs to do to be compliant with current waste regulations

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

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