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Simpler Recycling: The Workplace Recycling Rules Every Business Must Follow

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Under England’s Simpler Recycling rules, businesses must separate their waste into three streams — dry recycling, food waste and general (residual) waste — and arrange separate collections for them. Workplaces with 10 or more employees have had to comply since 31 March 2025; micro-firms with fewer than 10 employees have until 31 March 2027. What […]

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Waste Management for Gyms & Leisure Centres

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Waste Management for Gyms & Leisure Centres Gyms, health clubs and leisure centres have a waste profile most people never think about — until the bins are overflowing on a Monday morning after a busy weekend. Between high footfall, food and drink sales, changing rooms, and a surprising amount of hazardous and electrical waste, a

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Digital Waste Tracking: What Replaces Paper Transfer Notes

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Digital Waste Tracking Is Coming: What Replaces Paper Waste Transfer Notes The paper Waste Transfer Note has been the backbone of UK waste compliance since the 1990s. That’s about to change. From October 2026, a new mandatory government system — Digital Waste Tracking — begins replacing paper transfer notes and hazardous waste consignment notes with

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What Welfare Facilities Are Legally Required on a Construction Site?

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What Welfare Facilities Are Legally Required on a Construction Site? Site welfare isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s the law. Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), every construction site in Great Britain must provide adequate welfare facilities for workers from day one, before work starts. Get it wrong and you’re not just

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How Many Portable Toilets Do You Need? A Ratio Guide for Sites & Events

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How Many Portable Toilets Do You Need? A Ratio Guide for Sites & Events Whether you’re running a construction site or planning an outdoor event, “how many portable toilets do we actually need?” is a question with real consequences. Too few and you’ve got queues, complaints and — on a site — a compliance problem;

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Securing Your Site: Heras Fencing, Hoarding & Perimeter Options

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Securing Your Site: Heras Fencing, Hoarding & Perimeter Options An unsecured construction site is a liability in every sense — legally, financially and morally. You have a duty to keep the public out and the site safe, theft and trespass cost the construction industry heavily every year, and an accident involving a member of the

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Waste Reporting & ESG: What Main Contractors Now Expect

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Waste Reporting & ESG: What Main Contractors Now Expect From Their Supply Chain There was a time when a subcontractor’s waste responsibilities ended when the skip was collected. Get the waste off site, keep a transfer note, job done. That’s no longer where the bar sits. Main contractors, developers and larger clients are under growing

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How Contractors Assess Subcontractor Waste Compliance

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How Contractors Assess Subcontractor Waste Compliance (and How to Win More Tenders Because of It) When a main contractor decides who to put on a project, price and capability matter — but they’re no longer the whole story. Increasingly, contractors are vetting the compliance credentials of the subcontractors they work with, and waste management is

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What Is a Registered Waste Carrier & Why It Matters

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What Is a Registered Waste Carrier, and Why Does It Matter? If you’ve ever paid someone to take waste away — a house clearance, builder’s rubble, old office furniture — you’ve relied on a waste carrier, whether you realised it or not. And whether that carrier was registered matters far more than most people appreciate.

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Waste Disposal for Garages & MOT Centres: Oil, Tyres, Batteries & Filters

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Waste Disposal for Garages & MOT Centres: Oil, Tyres, Batteries & Filters Vehicle workshops produce more regulated waste streams per square metre than almost any other small business. Between waste oil, tyres, lead-acid batteries, filters, brake fluid, coolant, aerosols and oily rags, a typical independent garage handles half a dozen hazardous streams every week —

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