As a business, you can arrange for your local council to collect your waste – both recyclable and non-recyclable; but it might be cheaper to set up an arrangement with a waste company directly, depending on what your council charges for your particular type of waste. Just remember that it is your responsibility to make sure the collector is licensed to manage the kind of stuff you are giving them. With 350 million printer cartridges discarded annually worldwide, and each one taking up to 1,000 years to decompose, it is vital to know where your waste ends up.
Letsrecycle.com has an extensive national directory of commercial recycling companies, which you can search by company or category.
The list includes Paper Round, which collects paper, cardboard, toners, cans, plastic bottles, glass, fluorescent tubes, IT equipment and furniture across London, Essex, Brighton, East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent. It also supplies recycling bins and sells recycled paper, envelopes and remanufactured toner cartridges. The company itself has strong green credentials, with links to environmental charities, and the waste it collects is turned into quality material for use by manufacturers.
Another top provider is First Mile, which recycles everything from batteries to printer toners to stationery. It promises that non-recyclable waste is sent for incineration to only generate green energy. Printer cartridges, for example, are either used to manufacture new products, such as coat-hangers, are refilled and resold (up to five times) if in good condition, or failing that are sent to an energy-from-waste facility.
For paper and computer recycling, check out Shredall, which shreds paper and turns it into toilet tissue, and with IT equipment removes ferrous and non-ferrous metals and recycles copper-rich materials, printed circuit boards and plastics. It operates in London, Scotland, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.
As a business, you can arrange for your local council to collect your waste – both recyclable and non-recyclable; but it might be cheaper to set up an arrangement with a waste company directly, depending on what your council charges for your particular type of waste. Just remember that it is your responsibility to make sure the collector is licensed to manage the kind of stuff you are giving them. With 350 million printer cartridges discarded annually worldwide, and each one taking up to 1,000 years to decompose, it is vital to know where your waste ends up.
Letsrecycle.com has an extensive national directory of commercial recycling companies, which you can search by company or category.
The list includes Paper Round, which collects paper, cardboard, toners, cans, plastic bottles, glass, fluorescent tubes, IT equipment and furniture across London, Essex, Brighton, East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent. It also supplies recycling bins and sells recycled paper, envelopes and remanufactured toner cartridges. The company itself has strong green credentials, with links to environmental charities, and the waste it collects is turned into quality material for use by manufacturers.
Another top provider is First Mile, which recycles everything from batteries to printer toners to stationery. It promises that non-recyclable waste is sent for incineration to only generate green energy. Printer cartridges, for example, are either used to manufacture new products, such as coat-hangers, are refilled and resold (up to five times) if in good condition, or failing that are sent to an energy-from-waste facility.
For paper and computer recycling, check out Shredall, which shreds paper and turns it into toilet tissue, and with IT equipment removes ferrous and non-ferrous metals and recycles copper-rich materials, printed circuit boards and plastics. It operates in London, Scotland, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.