Commercial recycling
Recycling could cut the cost to your company's annual waste bill. Waste separated for recycling is charged at a lower rate to the charges for waste that has to be landfilled.
What can you recycle with us?
Cardboard
Loose flat packed uncontaminated cardboard can be collected free of charge as part of your commercial waste contract, as long as the cardboard has been separated from other waste. (Please remove any polystyrene, plastic, foam pellets, food, carpet tubes, potato sacks, thin card, paper, cardboard in bags, wooden boxes, plastic trays or egg boxes..)
Glass, tins and cans
Wheeled 360l bins at £3.75 per lift or 1100 litre bins at £5.80 per lift can be provided for mixed glass, tin and can collections which is recycled .
The following items can be put in your bins
Yes please
- bottles and jars
- cans and tins
- empty aerosol cans
- aluminium foil eg wrap and trays
- small items of metal kitchenware eg pots and pans, baking trays etc
- metal lids
No thanks
- mirrors
- paint tins
- plate glass
- Pyrex
- sharp metal objects eg cutlery, knives etc
Paper
Pre-paid clear sacks can be bought for recycling paper (20 bags per roll at £10.00 per roll).
Yes please
- catalogues
- envelopes
- junk mail
- magazines
- newspaper
- shredded paper
- office paper
- Yellow Pages
- greetings cards
No thanks
- cartons
- crisp packets
- food contaminated paper/cardboard for example pizza boxes
- kitchen paper
- paper towels
- tissues
- wallpaper
Food waste
If your business produces food waste you will be given a green 360 litre bin with an orange lid. We do not allow food waste in the general bin. Liners for the caddies can be bought from this department at a cost of £3.00 per roll of 20. These liners are made from plastic. Do not use any other type of plastic liner as your waste will not be collected. Liners can be ordered using our online request form.
Yes please
- fruit and vegetable peelings
- meat
- fish
- egg shells
- tea bags
- cooked food
- pasta
- rice
- cereals
- stale bread
- small bones up to and including chicken carcass etc
- we are able to accept raw food in small quantities, meat and fish because of the system we now use.
No thanks
- plastics
- large bones
- card
- cardboard
- kitchen paper
Plastic
Unfortunately due to changes in reprocessing plastics we are no longer able to offer this service to commercial customers please contact us if you need further information.