How can recycling help your business?
If you run a business, then you more than likely create waste. it is the responsibility of you and your employees to do more to reduce the amount of waste you throw away. It is no lie that recycling is a massive part of all our lives now and, if it isn’t, then it probably […]
Wipe the wet wipes out of our lives
Wet wipes according to the dictionary… ‘A small disposable cloth treated with a cleansing agent, used especially for personal hygiene’. I use these wet wipes with no thought or consideration to what they are made of. I use them to clean my bathroom, remove my make up and when my Grandson comes to visit I […]
Does a Small bit of Recycling Make a Big Difference?
My new year resolution for 2019 is to start taking my recycling a little bit more seriously. I know that the UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of waste every year, one tonne by the way is about the weight of a small car. In less than two hours, the waste we produce would […]
Waste Handling Regulations Apply to all Businesses – Including Yours!
Waste handling regulations are not just an issue for businesses like ours that specialise in managing commercial waste. If you own or operate a business you have a legal responsibility under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for any waste your business creates. Even if you use a specialist waste handling contractor, they are, essentially, acting […]
We’re Dreaming of a Green Christmas
What are you hoping to receive this Christmas? No doubt we’ve all got items we’d love to find under the tree on Christmas morning. One thing that would bring cheer to everyone at Wellington Waste is for Christmas 2018 to be one where the UK becomes more considerate about waste and recycling. No, we’re not […]
Waste Carrier Licences – It’s Your Responsibility to Know
Businesses and individuals often fail to appreciate their lasting duty of care when it comes to waste. There’s a misconception that if they pay a company to take the waste away, compliance with environmental and waste management regulations becomes somebody else’s responsibility. In fact, your duty of care continues, whether you are a business or […]
What Happens to Waste that Can’t be Recycled?
As a waste management company our ambition is, one day, to see nothing at all going into landfill. For this to happen there will need to be some upstream changes to the way that goods are manufactured and packaged. In the meantime, we have a mission to make sure that as little as possible of […]
What Can and Can’t be Recycled Still Causes Confusion
Many people are confused about what can and can’t be recycled. Some of the confusion comes from the sheer range of materials we use in everyday life and some of it probably comes from the different rules councils apply for what can be put out for collection. A popular holiday destination such as the South […]
Is Waste Somebody Else’s Problem?
Faced with the colossal scale of waste sent needlessly to landfill, or the plastic choking our oceans, it’s possibly too easy to say ‘what can I do? However careful I am with sorting my waste and recycling it’s going to make very little difference.’ The problem, of course, is that too many people think like […]
Our Weighbridge Makes your Building Waste Simpler to Manage
If you don’t have enough to fill a skip, disposing of business waste, particularly if it involves building materials and hardcore, can be a nuisance. First of all, not all local authority waste recycling centres will allow trade waste. Where they do, the process of dealing with it can be time consuming. You may have […]
What Would ‘50 Trips to the Tip’ Really Cost You? The benefits of hiring a skip
Somebody once claimed that they could make 50 trips to the tip for the same cost as hiring a skip. Were they right? Let’s assume that a round trip to the waste recycling facility (to name it more accurately) is a distance of 9 miles. Somewhere like Somerset it’s quite likely significantly more than this. […]
What Does an Untidy Site Say About a Construction Company?
An overflowing skip piled high with waste is a familiar sight on many building sites. And when the skip is full more waste piles up alongside. What does this tell people about the firm doing the building work? And what happens to the waste that isn’t contained? Sections of polythene sheet or old cement bags […]
