Compliance and Documentation
Your Supplier's Paperwork Becomes Your Problem
Since 31 March 2025, workplaces in England with 10 or more full time equivalent staff have had to present dry recyclables, food waste and general waste separated for collection, under the Simpler Recycling rules. The threshold counts across your whole business, not per site, so five London offices with two people in each are still in scope. Firms under ten staff have until 31 March 2027.
Sanitary waste sits under separate rules again. It is classed as offensive waste and cannot go into general waste or down the drain, so it needs a licensed carrier.
Confidential paperwork carries two duties at once: UK GDPR for the data, and duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for the waste itself.