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Transport and Storage
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Why your Transport or Storage business should recycle

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There are many benefits of recycling for businesses 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 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. 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 Transport and Storage sector

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

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  • The benefits of reducing food waste in the Transport and Storage sector

    Reducing food waste can decrease general waste and save your organisation money. 

    According to WRAP, food waste was estimated at 10.7 million tonnes in the UK in 2021. This estimate covers waste from households, alongside industry sectors including hospitality and food service (HaFS), food manufacture, retail and the farming sector.  

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  • The benefits of recycling for the Transport and Storage sector

    There are lots of great business reasons to recycle.

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  • How the Transport and Storage 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. This is set out in Article 5 of the Waste & Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997. 

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  • Checklist: what your Transport or Storage business needs to do to comply with existing legislation

    What your business needs to do to comply with current waste regulations.

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