Don’t let the jack-o’-lanterns haunt you – How to reduce pumpkin waste this Halloween

It’s the spooky time of the year again! Carving jack-o’-lanterns and decorating your house with these cute and mischievous pumpkins will surely bring more festivity to your neighbourhood. Kids will love it when they come around for trick-or-treating! Sadly,...

A Window Into Glass Recycling

A Window Into Glass Recycling Glass is one of the most recycled materials in the UK, second only to metal. Made from sand, soda ash and limestone, it is 100% recyclable and can be infinitely reprocessed without losing...

How to Reuse Your Top 5 Common Household Waste

How to Reuse Your Top 5 Common Household Waste As long as we consume and maintain our household, it’s inevitable that we produce domestic waste. But one thing we can do is to get maximum use from these...

Is the UK a waste contamination nation?

17%, or one-fifth, of all UK waste that’s collected and sent for reprocessing cannot be recycled due to contamination, according to historical WRAP data. Contamination is caused by a number of poor recycling habits, such as items...

Are you EPR ready?

Several news articles have recently been published suggesting that many companies are unprepared for the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) which is set to significantly impact producers or importers of packaged goods from October 2023. Our simple guide explains...

Women at Yorwaste – How They Change Perceptions of a Job in Waste Industry

There are three, not two things, in life that are certain: death, taxes and waste. Having 8 billion people in our world means we create an unimaginable amount of waste, and the need of a huge workforce who knows...

Why can’t all plastic be recycled? — Your guide to maximising plastic recycling

Plastic production in the UK 1.6 million tonnes of plastic is produced in the UK each year, mostly using crude oil but sometimes it’s made from the sugars in corn or other plant-starches. This figure accounts for all of...

Legal Waste Disposal – Guide for New Businesses

You’ve got everything planned out perfectly for your lovely new business when something not-so-exciting popped up in your mind: What do I do with all the waste in the bins? It can be a chore to implement the legal...

How to reduce waste at Christmas

At Yorwaste, we’re as committed to reducing waste as we are recycling it. Christmas is a time for mass consumption – the value of seasonal sales is forecasted to be £82 billion in December 2022, the highest in Europe. With...

10 Ways to Manage Commercial Waste in Retail

Looking to reduce waste in the retail sector? We have you covered. When it comes to retail waste, packaging is one of the main culprits, ranging from cardboard to single-use plastics. That goes without mentioning things like food waste...