Albion\’s ABC\’s of Waste Management – B

B – Business Waste

In Scotland, the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 came into force on 1 January 2014. These establish a legal duty on every business, regardless of size, to separate metal, plastic, paper, card and glass for recycling, as well as banning these separated materials from being sent to landfill or incinerators.

What are the new duties?

Currently, the regulations are:

• Businesses to present dry recyclables for separate collection
• Businesses except rural businesses which produce over 5kg of food waste per week to present that food waste for separate collection from 2016
• The use of macerators to dispose of food waste in the sewer system were banned from 1 January 2016, except for domestic premises and food producers in rural areas
• Waste contractors to provide collection and treatment services which enable compliance and deliver high quality recycling
• A ban on dry recyclables collected separately for recycling going to incineration or landfill
• All new incinerators must ensure that metals and dense plastics have been removed from residual municipal waste prior to incineration
• A ban on biodegradable municipal waste going to landfill by the end of 2020

  

For more information, please follow the link: Waste Scotland Regulations (2012)

Source: The Environmentalist and NetRegs

Many local authorities and waste collection companies have had to ensure that their business customers are compliant with this obligation and as such conduct waste analysis audits. Albion Environmental Ltd are able to assist in this area and in fact have a specialist trained team to develop and undertake bespoke analysis https://www.albion-environmental.co.uk/waste-analysis