Commercial waste and recycling

As a business you have a legal duty of care to make sure that you do the right thing with your waste. All waste should be handled, stored and disposed of safely, within the law and without causing harm to the environment.

Legislative changes from the Simpler Recycling Reforms, being implemented by the Government, will affect the way your business manages its waste. By law from 31st March 2025, all businesses with at least 10 full time equivalent employees will be required to recycle their dry mixed items, such as glass, metal, plastics, paper, and card, and will no longer be able to put these items in a general waste bin.

Businesses will also be required to separate out any food waste from their general waste. If your business produces any amount of food waste – including your employees lunch leftovers even if you don’t have a canteen – then you will need to separate it from general waste and arrange a collection. Food waste includes tea bags, fruit cores, coffee grinds and plate scrapings.

Why choose us

We take pride in working with Nottingham City Council to provide dependable business waste and recycling collections to 1600 individual businesses across Derby. Whether you need regular business waste and recycling collections to comply with the new Simpler Recycling legislation, one-off clearances, or confidential shredding we take care of it for you, ensuring you have the best local and environmentally friendly waste management service. No waste goes to landfill.

We don’t just collect your business waste and recycling though. We provide an end-to-end service that takes as much of the hassle away from you as possible. Through the new Simpler Recycling legislation, you’ll also boost your recycling and environmental performance as part of the process.

There’s no shortage of business waste management companies out there – so why trust us with your business waste collections? Here are a few reasons why our customers choose to work with us:

• Simplicity– we provide everything under one contract and give you one single point of contact for all your issues.
• Clarity– Our invoices are easy to understand with no hidden charges for excess waste or container rental.
• Dependability– We regularly achieve service delivery levels of over 99% across over 10,000 collections carried out around the East Midlands every week.
• Accountability– As a business, you have a legal duty of care to make sure that any waste you produce is handled safely and within the law. We hold ISO9001 Quality Management. ISO 18001 for Health & Safety and ISO14001 Environmental Management standards and are externally audited to maintain compliance.

We are confident that we will be able to meet your requirements and put in place a collection programme that fits in with your needs and provides value for money. As a Council run service, we don’t have shareholders, allowing us to invest back into local services for local people.

What services we offer

Commercial waste

We offer a competitive business waste collection for all types of businesses.

Recycling collections

Recycling is 20 to 50% cheaper than the equivalent waste disposal, easy with our reliable teams and means your business is doing the right thing for the environment.

Food waste

We are not directly running a food waste collection service; however, we are working with a third party to offer a food waste collection. Although a different contractor will undertake the collections, all the administration and invoicing can be kept together through us.

Have a question or want to get started with collections?

Contact us by email, commercial.services@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or call 01332 647344.