Recycle paper, card and glass and reduce waste costs

Croydon Council's Paper and Card recycling scheme for businesses

The basic elements of the scheme are:

• no minimum collection amount
• at least once a week pick up
• all colours and types of paper and card collected
• paper and card is collected in green bags
• larger volumes of paper and card collected from 1100l bins

The price for the service is very competitive:

• £1.05 per green bag (cheaper than the non-recycling equivalent)
• £2.65 per week to include hire of 360l bin
• £5.00 per week to include hire of 660l bin
• £5.50 per week for collection from 1100l bins* (if bin owned by school)
• OR £7.70 per week to include hire of 1100l bin

If you do not currently recycle, signing up to this service will almost certainly save your business money provided you make the necessary changes to your existing waste collection contract. For example, if you currently use two 1100l bins for your ordinary mixed waste, but about half of your waste is recyclable paper and card, you will need to switch one bin over to recycling and make changes to your existing contract. In this way you will pay the recycling price above for that bin, instead of your current ordinary waste charge.

If you are interested in taking up this service, please phone either 020 8255 2704 (Mark) or 020 8255 2792 (Sue).

Glass Recycling

Croydon Council also run a glass recycling service. To qualify for the scheme a business needs to dispose of at least 100 glass bottles a week:

• All types of glass bottles are accepted for the recycling service (excluding ash trays, ceramics, glasses or any of the lower grade glass from windows/door frames etc).
• Initially, one 240 litre euro container is provided for the use of the customer.
• However, further containers can be requested once it is clear that additional capacity is required

The price is substantially cheaper than the non-recycled equivalent:

• The weekly cost for using this service is £3.00
• Should a customer require an extra container/collection, the cost will increase to £3.50, for between two and five bins. Above five bins the additional cost is negotiable.

If you start recycling, you should significantly reduce the amount of ordinary waste you dispose, and the associated collection costs. If you adjust your current ordinary waste contract, (assuming it is calculated on volume) you should save money overall.

To find out more, please call either 020 8255 2792 (Sue) or 020 8255 2704 (Mark) or email recycling@envibe.co.uk.

Additional Information

ENVIBE have produced a key database of recycling companies who operate within Croydon. To find out how to recycle various forms of waste, click here to download our Excel spreedsheet.

In addition, the following websites contain further information on recycling issues: