New regulations will soon require your workplace or educational setting to separate from your non-recyclable/general waste. In this guide, we’ll explain what to do to prepare. You have until 31 March 2025 if you have ten or more full-time equivalent employees, or until 31 March 2027 deadline for fewer than ten. In this step, we’ll cover:
The benefits of recycling
How to comply with the new legislation
Checklist: what your educational setting needs to do
Before we get into the details, let’s take a quick look at the background and how recycling can help your educational setting.
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‘Waste’ means any substance or object to be discarded. This includes household materials for disposal (rubbish, in other words!) and recycling. New regulations mean that similar materials produced by businesses and other organisations with educational settings now need to be separated for recycling. If you use part of your home – perhaps as a childminder providing an early years setting – then any waste from that part also counts as business waste.
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The Waste Hierarchy for the education sector
Preventing waste in the first place is always the best option.
1 min readViewThe benefits of recycling in the education sector
As a business or workplace that’s an educational setting, you’re considered to have a ‘Duty of Care’ to ensure that the waste your organisation generates is produced, stored, transported and disposed of without harming the environment.
3 min readViewHow to comply with the new education workplace recycling legislation
Having looked at the business case for recycling, it’s time to delve into the details of what the new legislation means for your organisation. Businesses and relevant non-domestic premises, such as educational settings, will need to separate dry recycling (except plastic film) and food waste for recycling by 31 March 2025. If you’re a smaller workplace/educational setting, with fewer than ten full-time employees, you’ve got until 31 March 2027, but it’s a good idea to take the opportunity to comply early – one less thing to worry about!
3 min readViewChecklist: what your educational establishment needs to do to comply
What your business needs to do to comply
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