Commercial Waste Management in Malton

In Malton, we cater to the needs of a variety of sectors – from hospitality to manufacturing – as we provide a broad range of services throughout the town. Sectors we serve in Malton include: pubs, retail outlets, offices, restaurants, and manufacturing businesses.

In Malton, we handle the following: wood waste, food waste, liquid waste, commercial cardboard, glass recycling and confidential waste.

In Malton we provide the following waste management services: total waste management, dry mixed recycling management, wood waste recycling, food waste management, liquid waste disposal management, commercial waste disposal, commercial bin refuse collection, cardboard recycling waste collection, glass recycling collection, confidential waste disposal, skip hire, waste transfer station, commercial recycling North Yorkshire.

Malton and the surrounding area’s household waste was managed by Ryedale District Council, which was once the country’s leading authority when it came to recycling, reusing or composting household waste. In 2013/14 the district sent 52.7% of its household waste to be reused, instead of dumped in landfills.

Since then the District had been consistently performing above the national average, showing just how well locals have taken to cutting down on their waste. The district’s outstanding environmental efforts were no doubt partly due to local environmental groups, such as Ryedale Environmental Group, which has a local branch in Malton and Norton.

Malton’s domestic waste is now managed by North Yorkshire Council.

The Malton and Norton Environmental Action Group made the news in 2019 when they hit the ground running with two separate campaigns aimed at improving the environment on a local scale as well as a larger scale. Refill Malton is a local arm of the national initiative aimed at reducing the use of single-use materials, such as plastic bottles and carrier bags. Local businesses have been asked to encourage customers to bring their own bags and boxes in to take away goods, and also provide them with access to taps to fill drinking bottles.

The second initiative in Malton is focused on ‘re-wilding’ certain areas of the town. This scheme involves sowing native meadow flowers in green spaces around the town centre to create areas of natural beauty within the settlement which can contribute to Malton economically, mentally and environmentally.

Circular Malton, an environmental pilot project by the Local Enterprise Partnership for York, is a plan to galvanise the businesses and organisations in the local community to re-think how they can reshape the local economy and environment, so as to keep resources within the local community and to simultaneously cut down on waste. A few of the ideas that have been suggested include the use of an anaerobic digester to turn the food waste coming from local schools, farms and food manufacturers into energy that can go straight back into the local power grid.

Local organisations such as Wold Top Brewery, Malton Cookery School and The Food Lovers Festival have already committed to supporting this pilot project, showing how cooperative Malton locals are concerning their environment.

One of Malton’s great waste-reduction successes is the Ryedale Free Fridge. This volunteer, not-for-profit organisation prevented nearly 12 tonnes of food going to waste in one year alone and has simultaneously fed 8,000 people in the process. The Free Fridge was the first of its kind in North Yorkshire and has inspired other projects to start in Filey, Hunmanby and Norton.