Transport and Storage
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Guidance for the transport and storage sector
Change sectorWelcome to our Recycling Guide for the Transport and Storage sector!
In this guide, we’ll take you through five steps to implementing recycling in your workplace, and below is an outline of what we’ll be explaining. Whether you operate an airport, bus station, haulage company or any other type of transport, logistics or storage organisation, if your workplace is new to recycling, work your way through from Step 1. If you’re after advice on a particular stage, click on the links below to jump to the relevant section. The tips in this step-by-step guide will help you to:
- Optimise: get the most from your current waste collection service
- Plan: design a recycling system that works for your organisation and employees
- Reduce costs: recycling is often cheaper than disposal!
- Get compliant: ensure your workplace complies with the new regulations
Covered in this guide
- About our Transport and Storage sector Recycling Guide
- Why your Transport or Storage business needs to recycle
- Planning your Transport and Storage business recycling needs
- Calculating the collection cost of waste from your Transport and Storage business
- Setting up recycling for your Transport and Storage business
- Monitoring recycling services in your Transport and Storage business
Content overview
About our Transport and Storage sector Recycling Guide
There’s plenty of information and guidance out there for the transport and storage sector to help you manage other types of waste.
Why your Transport or Storage business needs to recycle
New regulations will soon require your workplace to separate from your general waste, and 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 for fewer than ten.
Planning your Transport and Storage business recycling needs
If you’re completely new to workplace recycling, this step will help you work out what waste your business generates and what you might need from a recycling service.
Calculating the collection cost of waste from your Transport and Storage business
If you’ve completed the waste audit as covered in Step 2, you’ll have collected detailed information about the amount and type of waste your organisation produces. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your workplace and receive suggested changes that could help your organisation recycle more and save money.
Setting up recycling for your Transport and Storage business
If you’ve carried out a waste audit and used the business waste calculator, you should now have a better understanding of the types of waste your workplace generates and options to recycle more. You’ve hopefully also created a Waste Action Plan, and now it’s time to put it into action! In this step, we’ll look at how to:
Monitoring recycling services in your Transport and Storage business
Once you have your workplace recycling set up and you’ve got your employees on board and passengers or customers participating, 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.