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General Waste Collection and Recovery for Businesses

Wastecare collects and recycles over 1,000 different waste streams for more than 20,000 businesses across every industry. We help collect and facilitate commercial general waste collection services alongside any hazardous waste management on your behalf.

We take care of the everyday waste produced by your businesses while making sure that any hazardous waste is properly identified, segregated and managed in line with uk waste regulations.

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How is General Waste Collected and Recovered?

Wastecare’s commercial general waste recovery process is straightforward for businesses of any size. Simply get an instant quote via our quote calculator, speak to your customer care team and we will let you know in advance any value we can recover from your waste stream.

Once a quote and rebate is agreed we will organise a collection suited to your general waste stream, using our nationwide network of over 150 collection vehicles. Through the myWaste portal your business can access upcoming collections and monitor your recycling performance.

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What are the Types of General Waste we Manage?

Our general waste management service for businesses include a wide range of everyday commercial waste streams for businesses of all sectors which include offices, public sector organisations, healthcare, agriculture, logistics, facilities management, retail, hospitality, catering, construction, manufacturing and more. Below are the types of waste streams we collect, manage, treat, recover and recycle:

Packaging & plastic

Food waste

Aqueous waste

WEEE

Batteries

Chemicals & solvent waste

Cooking oil

Industrial containers

Packaging & plastic

Food waste

Aqueous waste

WEEE

Batteries

Chemicals & solvent waste

Cooking oil

Industrial containers

General or non hazardous waste is simply waste that has not been classed as hazardous, we will help you to identify, collect and manage your waste responsibly. Many businesses generate small amounts of hazardous waste such as batteries, chemicals, aerosols, fluorescent tubing and more. Identifying and segregating these items is something we will assist with and is an essential part of managing commercial waste responsibly.

How is General Waste Managed and Treated?

Once collected the general waste is taken to our specialist treatment and recycling facility, where it is sorted and treated safely in line with the latest waste regulations. Waste streams can be recovered including plastics, metals and many others and we pay a rebate back to you on any value recovered from your waste. It’s a cost effective approach which reduces the overall cost of commercial general waste management and cuts down on the amount of waste sent to landfill.

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Get an instant quote using our calculator on thousands of waste streams, all based on a matrix of transparent pricing

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A member of our CustomerCare Team will be in touch to provide support and answer any questionsregarding your waste

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We will let you know in advance any value we can recover from your waste, along with the rebatesyou can expect

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When the quote is accepted, we will organise a local collection solution suited to your waste, via our network of over 150 vehicles

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You’ll be notified when your collection is assigned to a vehicle, receiving real-time updates on the day

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Your waste transfer and waste consignment notes will be sent to you on the day of collection

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You will also have access to our myWaste app, where you can view all your documents and invoices digitally, view upcoming collections, and monitor your company’s recycling percentages and carbon saving

How Wastecare Comply with Hazardous Waste Regulations when Managing Segregated Hazardous Waste from General Waste Collections.

Wastecare is a registered licensed waste carrier holding the waste carriers licences, environmental permits and accreditations, including ISO 9001, ISO 45001, needed to manage segregated hazardous waste safely and legally. When hazardous items are identified alongside a general waste collection, they are kept separate, documented and moved on to specialist treatment in full compliance with UK hazardous waste regulations and the wider waste duty of care.

Complying with these regulations matters because it protects your business from enforcement action and unlimited fines for breaching duty of care, protects human health and the environment from harmful substances, and ensures every waste stream, hazardous or general, is treated or recycled through the correct, licensed route. Our commercial hazardous waste collection service works alongside your general waste collection to give your business one compliant, accountable solution for all of your waste.

It is illegal to mix hazardous waste with non-hazardous waste, or with a different type of hazardous waste, so it must always be stored and collected separately.
To identify hazardous waste, it will generally exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:

Ignitability – combusts or burns easily.
Corrosivity – can cause damage or corrode substances it comes into contact with.
Reactivity – may violently react or explode when it comes into contact with air, water or other substances.
Toxicity – contains or releases dangerous toxins.