Segregating Construction Waste: How Separate Skips Cut Your Costs On most building sites, everything goes into one skip. Brick, plasterboard, timber, packaging and the odd paint tin all end up together. It is quick, but it is usually the most expensive way to get rid of waste. The cost of disposal depends heavily on what […]
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Old gas bottles turn up in almost every garage, shed and site clear-out: a patio heater bottle, a barbecue cylinder, camping gas cartridges, or a welding cylinder nobody remembers renting. They can’t go in your bin, a skip or general waste. If a cylinder is crushed or heated, even one that seems empty, it can
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If you’re digging out soil on a building site, sooner or later someone will ask for WAC results. WAC stands for Waste Acceptance Criteria. It’s a set of lab tests that tells a landfill whether it’s allowed to take your waste, and at which type of site. Getting WAC right can make a large difference
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The cost of business waste collection depends on four things: the size of your bin, how often it’s emptied, the type of waste, and your location. A small business on a fortnightly collection will pay far less than a restaurant needing daily food-waste pickups — but right-sizing your bins and separating recycling almost always brings
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The three standard commercial wheelie bins are 240 litres (about 4–5 bin bags), 660 litres (about 10–12 bags) and 1100 litres (about 18–20 bags). The right one depends on how much waste your business produces between collections — too small and it overflows, too big and you pay for empty space. Commercial bin sizes at
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Liquid paint, solvents and most trade chemicals are classed as hazardous (special) waste. They must not go in a skip, a general bin or down the drain — they have to be collected by a licensed hazardous-waste carrier and moved under a consignment note. Getting it wrong risks prosecution, contamination and refused collections. What counts
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When you clear an office, IT and electrical equipment can’t just be skipped — it’s WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and must be recycled through the proper route, while any device that stored data needs secure data destruction to stay GDPR-compliant. General waste can go via skips or a clearance, ideally with reuse first.
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A Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP) is a document that sets out how waste on a construction project will be reduced, reused, recycled and disposed of. In England it is no longer a legal requirement — the SWMP Regulations were revoked in December 2013 — but SWMPs are still widely used as best practice and
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Can business put waste in a household bin? UK trade waste law No. By law, any waste produced by a business is “commercial waste” and cannot be put out in a household bin or collected by a council’s household kerbside service — even for a small firm working from home. Every business has a
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A roll-on roll-off (RoRo) skip is a large open or enclosed container which is typically 20 or 40 cubic yards and delivered and collected by a hook-loader lorry. They’re built for high volumes of bulky waste on commercial and industrial sites, holding roughly 200 bin bags (20-yard) to 400+ bin bags (40-yard). RoRo skip sizes
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