Bioplastics – The Answer, or Part of the Problem?
In a zero carbon, more sustainable future, we will need to be less reliant on extracting petroleum from the ground and processing it into plastics. Yet on the other hand, plastics are incredibly versatile and useful. Could bioplastics be the answer? Plastics are part and parcel of modern life. They protect products from contamination or […]
Energy From Waste – A Better Alternative To Landfill
If you’ve been to a local authority waste recycling centre recently you’ll have noticed a skip labelled ‘energy from waste’. This is where you put anything that won’t go into the segregated bins for metal, wood, cardboard and so on. Where does the waste go after being placed in the ‘energy from waste’ skip? Is […]
Hiring a Skip: We’re Operating During the Pandemic
You Can Still Hire a Skip Under Current Lockdown Rules Wellington Waste Management are continuing to operate in accordance with government guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re being extremely diligent with our hygiene and safety measures to ensure our service can help reduce the spread of the virus and give our customers peace of mind. […]
Top Tips: What to Consider Before Hiring a Skip
Looking to Hire a Skip? At Wellington Waste Management, we understand that people have concerns about how to dispose of waste. We’ve provided our list of top tips to make hiring a skip as simple and easy as possible. 1. Don’t Underestimate the Size of Skip you Need People often hire a skip that is […]
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 […]
