Waste Basics

Have you used a trade waste service before

Trade waste is waste for your business not your domestic activities.

We work to find the right waste services contract partner for your needs. We excel at customer service, while waste management companies focus on logistics and route planning. Because they don’t have service costs, and we can run them efficiently, we remain cost competitive, and you benefit.

In order to make things simple, we only offer general waste and food waste collection services through our onboarding tool.

Our business model is simple. Work with partners to help them fill up their current routes. We pair you up with a service provider who will be your contracted service provider for waste collection and disposal services. In helping our partners fill their bin lorry route, we are making them more efficient. This efficiency saving means cheaper costs, which we can pass on to you.

However, while our partners will deal with your waste collection, we will deal with all your queries and questions. Our job is to make sure that your contract runs as smoothly as possible. If you have a problem with your collections then it is our job to fix this for you so you can get on with more important things, like running your business.

Currently, the partners we work with only offer weekly collections. This helps them keep costs down by making route planning predictable so we can pass these cost savings on to you. We will always try to have your bins collected on a schedule suited to your business.

This is a document that businesses that produce waste are legally required to have. Otherwise known as a Waste Transfer Note, it protects UK businesses under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Without it, our partner cannot legally collect your waste and you cannot have your waste collected. A signed Waste Transfer Note helps reduce fly tipping and other environmental pollution. We make sure our partners take their obligations to protect our environment seriously.

This really depends on what type of waste and how much. We offer complete transparency on pricing to give you peace of mind. Bear in mind that each bin collected has a weight limit. Processing additional waste costs more and therefore will cost you more. It is worth noting that it is often cheaper for businesses that produce more than a few kilograms of food waste to have a dedicated food bin. This will reduce the weight of waste in the (more expensive) general waste bin and reduce risk of overweight charges. In Scotland it is a requirement to place your food waste into a dedicated food waste bin if you produce more than 5KG of food waste.

We operate across the UK! We have a partner network that operates across the UK, which enables us to pair you up with a service provider with collection routes in your area. Whether you are in the heart of the city or in the countryside, we will make sure your waste is picked up and disposed of it in an environmentally conscious way.

We can provide waste bins in sizes of 240L (small), 660L (medium), and 1100L (large).

A 240L general waste bin (about the size of your regular household wheelie bin) will hold 3-5 bin bags and has a total weight limit of 15KG.

A 660L general waste bin will hold 10-12 bin bags and has a total weight limit of only 40KG.

An 1100L general waste bin will hold 15-18 bin bags and has a total weight limit of 70KG.

A 240L food bin (about the size of your regular household wheelie bin) will hold 3-5 clear eco bin bags and has a total weight limit of 100KG.

A waste stream is simply the ‘type’ of waste. Waste is streamed to help with processing. This is another reason why it is a great idea to have a food bin separate from your general waste bin if you are a restaurant, café, pub or food processor. In this example a cafe would produce two waste streams; general and food.

As mentioned above, if you have more than a few kilograms of food waste it is better for the environment, better for your bin collection worker and often better for your wallet to have a separate food bin.

In Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales (from October 2023) businesses are legally required to have a dedicated food waste bin collection service if they produce over 5kg of food per week. In these regions it is against the law to mix your food waste with your general refuse.

It is highly likely that this law will also be introduced in England soon.

DMR, or dry mixed recycling, is any combination of paper, cardboard, metal cans and plastic. Glass should go in a separate glass bin. Since January 2015, it has been a legal requirement for all UK waste to be separated as long as this is technically, environmentally and economically practicable.

While Waste Basics does not offer DMR and glass currently through our online portal, you can still order these services via our partner when they onboard you. They will be set up and commissioned to start at the same time as your online order.

Waste Basics Limited, Company number: 14400860
Registered Office: 1 Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, England, EX1 1QT
Registered in England And Wales