Companies that recycle in the office show that they are environmentally friendly and are thinking green. Normally, waste and recyclables will be kept separately to each other, for example, a bin for general waste, a bin for waste paper, and a bin for ink cartridges, etc.
The general items that an office will recycling include:
- Paper
- Printer cartridges
- Plastic coffee cups
- Computers
- IT Equipment
- Cardboard
- Packaging
All companies, may they be big or small must have a paper trail for their waste and are subject to an audit from the Environmental Agency at any given time; the paper trail is also a crucial part of ISO accreditation.
Here is how the paper trail works:
The company who generates the waste are defined as the waste/recycling producer. Generally they will have a waste or recycling collection company defined as the ‘carrier’; some collections companies only collect a single waste stream some collect a variety of streams, to be capable of legally collecting waste or recyclables the company must have a Waste Carriers License.
When the collection company (carrier) have collected from the office/factory the producer will be given a Waste Transfer Note to say what they have collected, this is the first part of the paper trail that the waste or recyclables will obtain on their route from company to collector to recycling plant to landfill and must be kept on record by all parties involved.
The collector will then collect a Waste Transfer Note from either the recycling plant or landfill site who they pass it onto that verifies that the waste has been either recycled or landfilled correctly and safely within the law.
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