Business Recycling

South Bedfordshire District Council does not run a trade waste or recycling collection service. Businesses, regardless of their size, must make arrangements with a waste management company to have their waste and recycling collected.

For all your business waste and recycling visit http://www.remade.mapergy.org/

All businesses in the UK must comply with Section 34 of the 'Duty Of Care' provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The act requires you as a business to take reasonable measures to prevent unauthorised deposit, treatment and disposal of your waste. This means that if you operate a business you must:

• Ensure that a person or company that collects your waste holds a current waste carriers licence.
• Describe the waste you are having collected, how it is packed - whether loose or in a container, and if it is in a container, what type (a container can be a plastic sack)
• Hold a waste transfer note, issued by the carrier detailing the waste collected for disposal (the waste transfer note can be issued for each collection or issued annually)
• Know where your waste will finally be disposed of and retain your waste transfer note for 2 years.
• If you dispose of your own waste you must be able to say where and how.

Reviewed 24 April 2008