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Prepare Your Business for 2025’s New Recycling Waste Legislation
On the 31st of March 2025, new recycling legislation for businesses will come into effect across England. This legislation aims to reduce the environmental impact of the commercial sector and promote sustainability.
Under the new legislation, businesses with 10 employees or more will be required to separate their dry recycling and food waste from their general waste according to their waste collectors' arrangements.
The following materials need to be segregated:
- Glass - such as empty drink bottles and rinsed food jars
- Metal - including drink cans, food tins, empty aerosols, aluminium foil, trays, and tubes
- Plastic - for example, rinsed empty food containers and bottles
- Paper and cardboard
- Cartons - for food, drinks, and other liquids
- Food waste
- Black bin waste (residual waste)
Impacted companies should contact their waste collectors to confirm what arrangements need to be made.
Micro-firms with fewer than 10 full-time employees will have until 31st March 2027 to comply.
For more information, including links to the legislation and the Defra-funded WRAP Business of Recycling website, which offers guidance and resources for businesses on implementing waste management changes, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/simpler-recycling-workplace-recycling-in-england.
