Guidance for
Food manufacturing
Step 5

Monitoring recycling services in food and drink manufacturing businesses

Once you have your workplace recycling set up and you’ve got your employees on board, it’s worth regularly monitoring and reviewing how it’s going. By doing so, you can share successes with your team and customers and look out for opportunities to improve. In this step, we’ll look at how to:

  • Monitor your recycling performance

  • Seek feedback from your employees

  • Manage your waste contract

  • Make improvements to your recycling efforts

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  • Monitoring recycling performance for the food and drinks manufacturing sector

    There are a number of things you can do to work out how successful your recycling efforts are.

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  • Get feedback from employees in the food and drinks manufacturing sector

    To understand how well your new recycling service is working, it’s useful to obtain feedback from employees in different roles and departments, as well as facility staff or cleaners. You could send a short staff survey or install a feedback box near your recycling bins, as well as having a discussion in team meetings.

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  • Managing your food manufacturing recycling and waste contract

    Staying in touch with your recycling service provider is an important part of ensuring your recycling service is going to plan. This is often referred to as contract management.

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  • Making improvements to recycling services in the food or drinks manufacturing sector

    As you start to recycle more, the amount of general waste you produce should also reduce. This means you should be able to reduce your number of general waste bins or have them emptied less often. This could save you money!

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