Commercial Waste

Business Rates do not cover the cost of waste collection from business premises. Businesses should arrange their refuse collection with a registered waste contractor.

Please click on the links below to find out more about the responsibilities of businesses with regards to the disposal of their waste, and the waste collection service delivered through the council's partnership with Veolia.

• Commercial Waste Collection Service
• Special Commercial Waste Collections
• Collection Arrangements
• Commercial Waste Spillage
• Duty of Care

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Commercial Waste Collection Service

Businesses can arrange waste collection contracts with any appropriate and fully licensed firm.

Haringey Council and Veolia are working in partnership to provide a full range of waste collection and disposal services for business customers.

Services include:

• Refuse collections, using a range of containers to suit the needs of individual businesses. Sacks can be issued where bin storage is a problem.
• Compactors for those companies with large amounts of waste.
• Removal of one-off loads or items - please see the special commercial waste collections section.

Veolia Haringey can provide resources to ensure that companies store commercial waste safely, which include:

• Commercial Sack Service
• Steel Containers
• Wheeled Bins
• Steel Paladin Containers.

To request a commercial waste collection service through this service, please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk

What is the cost for this service?

For full information on prices, please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk

What will you collect?

There are some types of waste which require special treatment, for example asbestos, clinical waste and some chemicals. If you wish to dispose of these items or you have any questions about items you wish to dispose of please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk

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Special Commercial Waste Collections

Special or one-off collections of commercial waste can be arranged.

If you would like to arrange a special collection please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk

Please note that there is a charge for this service.

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Collection Arrangements

Regardless of who provides your commercial waste collections, you may need to observe local timed collection arrangements. If these apply on your road, then you are only permitted to put your waste out during the allocated periods in the morning and evening. For more information, and to check if there are timed collection arrangements on your road, please see the commercial timed collections page.

On other streets there are no timed collections in place, so you do not need to put your waste out at specific times. However, to help keep the streets tidy, please make sure your waste is left in a sensible place outside your own premises, where it is not causing a hazard or obstruction to pedestrians or vehicles.

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Commercial Waste Spillage

If you have a commercial waste collection and there has been a spillage, please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk

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Duty of Care

All businesses have a legal duty under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to ensure that waste is disposed of responsibly. Businesses that produce waste must take all reasonable steps to keep it safe. If it is given to someone else the business must be sure that they are authorised to take it and can transport, process or dispose of it safely and legally.

Duty of Care regulations state that businesses must:

Keep waste packaged safely and securely

• The waste must be packaged in suitable containers so that it cannot fall out, blow away or escape from the receptacle.
• It must be secured against unauthorised removal as far as is reasonably practical.
• Security should be sufficient to prevent the breaking open of containers and removal of waste by vandals, thieves, animals, accident or weather.

Ensure that anyone taking their waste is authorised to do so

Businesses must ensure that the organisation collecting their waste is fully licensed by the Environment Agency. They will be authorised to remove waste and transport and dispose of it safely.

Give a Waste Transfer Note to the person that removes it

• The business must provide a written description of the waste to the person who removes it. This is known as a waste transfer note and must be completed by both persons involved in the transfer.

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