Commercial Waste Guides for London Businesses
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Commercial Waste Guides for London Businesses
Seven guides, each answering one question a London business actually asks before it sorts out its waste. They’re written by the people who collect it, checked against the GOV.UK source, and dated so you can see when we last looked.
Pick the one that matches your question. If you’d rather just get a price, the collection service is one page back.
Get a collection quoteStart with the commercial waste basics
What is classed as commercial waste?
If a business activity produced it, it’s commercial waste, whatever it looks like. The definition, the examples, and the home-business cases that catch people out. → Read the definition guide
What does commercial waste collection cost?
No tariff, because the honest answer depends on the premises. What moves the price, what a quote should include, and a worksheet for laying two quotes side by side. → Read the cost guide
Contracts, carriers and duty of care
Do you need a commercial waste contract?
The law doesn’t say “contract”. It says you must have an authorised carrier and keep records. What that means in practice, and what an agreement should actually cover. → Read the contract guide
Who can legally carry commercial waste?
Registered carriers, and in some cases you. How to check a carrier on the Environment Agency register in under a minute, and what to do if they aren’t on it. → Read the carrier guide
What does a waste transfer note prove?
The one document every business must hold for every load. What has to be on it, how long you keep it, and how an annual note covers a year of collections. → Read the transfer note guide
Changes to business waste records
What digital waste tracking changes
Waste records are moving online, phased in by who you are. Who has to register, what changes for a business that only produces waste, and why old published dates can be wrong. Checked monthly. → Read the digital waste tracking guide
London collection and presentation rules
Check when waste can be put out
Most boroughs restrict when commercial waste can go on the pavement. The verified windows, each linked to the council’s own page, with the date we last checked. → Check the presentation-times guide
Choose a guide by the job you need to do
I am setting up commercial waste collection
Start with what counts as commercial waste, then whether you need a contract. Those two settle what you’re obliged to do. The cost guide tells you what you’re about to be quoted for.
I am checking an existing supplier
Two checks. Are they on the carrier register, and do you hold a valid transfer note for what they’ve taken? If either answer is no, you have a problem that’s yours, not theirs.
I am comparing costs
The cost guide has the worksheet. Fill it in for each quote before you look at the headline rate; the headline rate is the least useful number on the page.
I am checking my paperwork
Transfer notes for what you must hold today, digital waste tracking for what’s changing.
Using an AI assistant for any of this
Four guides on making an AI do the legwork: choosing a provider, reading a photo of a pile, getting rules answered with a source, and a library of prompts to paste. With the checks that stop a confident wrong answer. → The AI guides
Need collection rather than guidance?
If you’ve read enough and want a price, send the postcode and a photo through the collection page or ring 0207 101 4003.
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