Recycle or reduce waste in a business

Avoiding, recycling and disposing of your waste properly will:

  • reduce your environmental impact
  • keep valuable materials out of landfill
  • recover materials to support the economy
  • protect natural resources.

This section provides guidance on some of the best ways to achieve this.

Materials efficiency
Materials efficiency is about producing a product or service using less input materials or producing more product or service for the same amount of material.
E-waste
After e-waste was banned from landfill in 2019, all businesses must now assess their processes for handling and managing e-waste.
Conducting compost demonstration trials
This provides guidance on developing on-farm demonstration trials in agriculture and horticulture for compost products.
Single-use plastics ban
Information on regulations, reuse solutions, business resources, success stories, and how to manage the ban.