Calculating the collection cost of waste from your food and drinks manufacturing business

Waste Calculator

Making small changes could help your food or drink business to recycle more and save money. Our Waste Calculator tool estimates the amount of waste collected from your business and suggests an alternative, more environmentally friendly option to show where this might be possible.

Before you start

To get the most accurate result, you’ll need to know:

• How many bins you have

• What size they are

• How often they’re collected

• The total collection cost

Get a calculation for your business

Tell us which sector and region your business is in, and this tool will provide estimated costs and recommendations. Your selections will be saved in your browser to save you time in the future.

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 food or drink business produces. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your business and receive suggested changes that could help your business recycle more and save money.

Good to know

The calculator has been designed to generate a recycling service solution tailored to your business preferences, so it needs data on how you currently manage your waste. The more detail you can provide about your current waste service, the more relevant and accurate the results will be. If you don’t have time to conduct a waste audit, just use the waste composition information built into the waste calculator, which is based on existing research data.

The calculator and its costs, waste composition and outputs only relate to household-like materials and does not include sharps, clinical waste, offensive or hazardous waste such as ABPs.