Small business from home - business waste/recycling

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How much does anyone pay for it to be collected by a company?

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We use Biffa;

Waste Type: General Waste
Container Description: Wheelie Bin x 2
Price per lift: £17.71
Daily Rental: £0.15
Visits Per Week: 1
Cost per Quarter: £643.81

zenmaster

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

Opinion

zenmaster wrote: »

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

Taking this straight from our Biffa account;

"This is a summary of all your sites, including how many sites generate the wastestream and the quantity generated for the previous month."

100% General Waste
0.972 tonnes across
1 sites

Savvy_Sue

zenmaster wrote: »

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

Technically, you shouldn't be putting non-domestic waste in your home bins. And I'm not sure what the OP is researching ...

However, if the OP is thinking of offering waste collection services, then the firs thing to research is waste carrier licences.

FWIW, at work we have food collection, general waste, glass, paper and card, tins, plastic. Sorting it correctly is a non-trivial operation. Oh, and then we use separate services for any dead electricals, chairs etc.

paddyrg

Commercial city centre property we have a daily round and pay around 60p/bag - we split waste into non- and mixed- recyclables.

System

zenmaster wrote: »

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

Hardly any

Does your council allow that? most will fine you up to £5000!

DKLS

zenmaster wrote: »

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

All mine goes in the chimnea, but all my business waste is paper nothing else.

Pennywise

zenmaster wrote: »

Seriously?

How much waste do you generate?

All ours goes in the council bins.

Our local council threatened a fine because they demanded to see business waste transfer notes (i.e. confirmation that it's taken away by licenced waste carriers). It took us a lot of time and complaints to the council leaders and local councillors to get them to back down. This was when I worked from home and my business was minimal part time, but they were obviously checking against business listing directories. We only avoided action against us because the computers, printers, etc., that we used in the business were also our "home" computers for personal use. As an entirely office/computer based business, we had nothing else. We shredded paper ourselves and put it into our own compost bin. The council were very aggressive, clearly on the prowl for either a fine or for us to use their "paid for" service.

It's not just the non-recyclable that has to be personal/household only. They also insist that recyclables are also only personal/household, so you're not allowed to put business paper/envelopes in the paper recycling boxes.

The way the council work is that they assume you're guilty if you don't have proper waste transfer notes, and they expect to see them for general waste, recyclables and for disposal of office equipment, printer cartridges etc. The old idea of "innocent until proven guilty" is an alien concept to local councils on the hunt for fine revenue.

pooch

berbastrike wrote: »

Hardly any

Does your council allow that? most will fine you up to £5000!

They'll only fine you if they catch you.
So you need to be sensible - as long as it really is 'hardly any' and the material you are disposing of is not hazardous (and preferably of domestic nature, such as paper) then they probably won't catch you.

We have about 10 businesses that operate from home in our street (that I know of!) and none have commercial waste disposal services.

Most, as you, create 'hardly any' waste, and what is created goes in with the domestic stuff - none have had any problems that I know of, none have received any fine, let alone one of £5k

Usually our council just refuses to take it if they don't think it's part of their duty.

There is one guy who operates a gardening/landscaping business, and he does sometimes have some rubbish (usually for bigger jobs he includes the price of a skip in the price, which is placed at the client's premises)
For smaller jobs, he collects his garden waste by trailer, and he told me he gets charged £25 per trailer load to dispose of it legitimately. (plus his time & expense going to the dump)

There's another guy who often has quite a bit of metal around. I think he supplies custom made gates, railings, shutters, etc. He takes his rubbish to the local metal merchant and gets paid for it as scrap metal!

If you do want commercial waste collection, here are the approximate rates

Recyclables - separated (glass, tins, paper, plastic, etc)
£6.50 per collection (any amount). Each material is considered a separate collection.
Weekly or fortnightly

Food - by negotiation (daily or weekly)


Non-recyclables (varies by bin size) Non-hazardous waste only.

e.g. 240l bin (typical domestic size) - £6.50
1100l bin (dumpster size - about 15-20 bags) - £17.00
Other bin sizes avaliable. Collection frequency as agreed. One off collections also possible.

All of the above collection services are for your own waste only. i.e. not if you are running your own waste collection service.

phill99

Opinion wrote: »

We use Biffa;

Waste Type: General Waste
Container Description: Wheelie Bin x 2
Price per lift: £17.71
Daily Rental: £0.15
Visits Per Week: 1
Cost per Quarter: £643.81

So you are paying £2600 a year? They saw you coming! You should be paying less than half of that.