How to Choose a Reliable Commercial Waste Partner for Your Business
Choosing the right commercial waste partner is essential for compliance and operations. Discover how to choose the best waste provider for your business.
Skip Hire Vs Waste Removal: Which is Better for Businesses?
Whether it’s an office refurbishment, fitting out a new space or simply just clearing out unwanted items, businesses can generate a lot of commercial waste. Handling waste incorrectly however, can lead to increased costs, delays and compliance issues. There are two options for businesses to dispose of commercial waste: skip hire and waste removal services. […]
What Are Your Business’s Legal Responsibilities for Waste?
As a business, you have a legal obligation to handle and dispose of your waste responsibly, though many UK businesses might not even realise this! “Duty of care” is a UK law that applies to every business, no matter how big or small. In this blog post, we will look at what duty of care […]
A Guide to Office Clearances
Whether you’re moving premises, downsizing, refurbishing your office, or you have end-of-lease requirements, you need to conduct an office clearance. It’s important to ensure that you’re doing it efficiently and responsibly, particularly if there are other moving parts or you’re dealing with a large volume of waste. In this article, we’ll cover why you should […]
Retail Waste Removal: Keeping Shops Clean and Efficient in Busy Periods
Retailers are used to dealing with waste, but during busy periods, it can really ramp up and become overwhelming. For example, Black Friday creates 700,000 tonnes of cardboard and plastic packaging waste in the UK – and some of which remains on retail premises. So, how does commercial waste removal help keep shops clean and […]
How to Dispose of Garden Waste
As the seasons change, your garden does too. And whether you’re clearing a whole garden and starting from scratch or you’re doing the annual tidy up before winter, garden waste can really build up and need removing. There are lots of ways to get rid of garden waste. But depending on how much you’ve got […]
Uplifting the Leeds Community – A Busy 2024 and an Exciting Start to 2025
December was such a busy yet wonderful month for us, filled with so many experiences we truly cherished. We poured our hearts into giving back to the community and loved looking back on these memories. Most importantly, we’re incredibly grateful for our fantastic team, who went above and beyond during the festive season, keeping homes, streets and […]
Fuelling Warmth: The Waste Team’s Winter Giveaway for Pensioners
At The Waste Team, we are committed to making a positive impact on our community. Staying warm is a basic necessity during the winter months. A new Age UK analysis reveals that 2.5 million low-income older people will lose their Winter Fuel Payment due to new eligibility criteria, making winter heating costs difficult to manage. To help ease […]
The Waste Team Clears up Aftermath of Harehills Unrest to Help Local Community
At The Waste Team, we’re dedicated to making Leeds a cleaner and better place. Our community is very important to us, so we partner with various charities to help those around us. Whether we’re clearing out houses or knee-deep in God knows what, our team is always raring to get the job done. So when Harehills went ablaze with unrest […]
How Do You Dispose of Building Waste?
Everywhere you turn, there are new housing estates, workspaces or tower blocks. And don’t forget about the roadworks! Leeds is a bustling city, constantly undergoing new developments to meet city centre living and working demands. But as construction activity grows, building waste accelerates. The construction industry creates a third of the world’s overall waste and is responsible for 39% of […]