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Manufacturing Waste Management in North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire is home to a number of businesses within the manufacturing sector, providing the local economy with a valuable source of employment. From food processing to fabricated metals, many factories and manufacturing plants will produce large quantities of waste, which should be properly managed and recycled where possible.
Common by-products of factory processes include food, liquids, cardboard, solvents, wood and scrap metal. Incorrectly disposing of manufacturing waste can lead to fines as laid out in Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Additional regulations also apply to hazardous waste, as well as packaging waste regulations. To mitigate these issues and solve your waste management problems, Yorwaste has the equipment, skills and processes in place to properly dispose of your manufacturing waste. From dry mixed recycling to turning your food waste into fuel, Yorwaste has a recycling, reusing or disposal service to suit every material.
Our team will create a manufacturing waste audit of your site and present a solution best suited to the needs of your business. Helping you to reduce your carbon footprint, protect the environment and pay back to the local community along the way.
Why choose Yorwaste?
- Local
- Cost-Effective
- Personal
At Yorwaste, we believe waste disposal should be hassle-free.
From a simple set up with exceptional customer service as standard. It’s waste management just the way you want it.
With thousands of local businesses on board, from restaurants to retailers, it’s easy to see why Yorwaste is North Yorkshire’s leading waste collection and recycling partner.
Manufacturing Waste Services We Offer
General Waste
General waste we collect goes to Allerton Waste Recovery Park, generating electricity to power 40,000 homes across Yorkshire yearly.
Dry Mixed Recycling
We always encourage our customers to recycle when they can. We aim to push our recycling rate up by diverting more waste from recovery to recycling. Recommended to restaurants, pubs and hotels.
Glass Waste
Glass is 100% recyclable and can bea infinitely processed without losing any of its original quality.
Recommended to businesses such as hotels and pubs which might create a lot of glass waste.
Food Waste
Food waste we collect will go through anaerobic digestion – microorganisms can be used to break down your waste organically. It is a greener and more cost-effective solution than general waste recovery.
Bins and Bin Bags
Our trusty wheelie bins come in many sizes made with recyclable plastic or metal. Lock lids are available.
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Skips and ROLs
Our skips and Roll On Roll Offs are for anyone who produces waste in large volumes and helps keep them compact. Helps you save space and minimise disruptions to your location.
Recommended to manufacturers, suppliers, construction businesses and hotels with large amounts of waste.
Enquiry
One of our friendly team will get in touch to discuss your commercial waste needs and assess how we can help.
Assessment
For larger businesses, we provide a free waste audit to get a deeper insight into your commercial recycling challenges, identifying which of your waste streams are suitable for recycling.
Collection
We deliver dedicated bins to help you separate and store your waste. Then, we begin regular collections at a time and frequency that fits your business.
Transportation
Your recyclable waste is transported to one of our Material Recycling Facilities in North Yorkshire, where it can be properly processed and treated.
Recycling
As much of your waste as possible is converted back into raw materials that can be turned into brand-new products.
Disposal
Finally, we convert any eligible waste into a source of energy through anaerobic digestion, incineration and other recovery processes.
Your Waste Journey
Committed to Being Green
- Yorwaste is committed to a cleaner, green future and is 100% compliant with all local and national regulations.
- Through our ‘Waste No More’ integrated waste management approach, our guiding principle is to provide customers with sustainable, innovative and economical waste management solutions.
- We’ll work with you to find a schedule to suit your business, improving fuel efficiencies when out on the road.
Where does the waste go?
Initially, your waste will be transported to a local waste transfer station. Here, recyclable waste may be separated for onward transport to reprocessors, to be made into new products. Unrecyclable waste will be bulked up for transport to the county’s Energy from Waste facility, to be used as fuel to generate electricity.
We partner with Allerton Waste Recovery Park to ensure as much non-recyclable waste as possible is turned into energy for the local North Yorkshire area. We put the waste hierarchy at the very heart of our business, and do all we can to increase waste reduction, reuse and recycling where possible.
From community initiatives, such as Reuse Santa and Get Re-Cycling, to our team of recycling experts working closely with businesses to help their overall waste management strategies and maximise their recycling efforts.
The energy from recovered waste in Yorkshire currently powers around 40,000 homes in the Yorkshire area. By incinerating non-recyclable waste, we’re able to convert rubbish into energy!
The ash that is produced during this process is also recycled to create materials for the construction industry, further closing the gap in waste production in the Yorkshire area. It’s even estimated that 2.5% of the UK’s energy is powered by recycled materials, so why not join the cause and be an advocate for environmentally friendly waste management?
Legal Compliance
Waste guidance for commercial and industrial premises states that businesses must separate all their waste before it’s collected.
These requirements are largely governed by the Simpler Recycling regulations in England.
You must ensure that all business waste is collected and disposed of legally, and in line with your Duty of Care.
Yorwaste is proud to support manufacturing in North Yorkshire with expert waste management strategies that follow all the latest guidance.
FAQs
What are the methods of manufacturing waste collection?
The method of collection will depend on the type of manufacturing waste that you are looking to dispose of. For example, if your manufacturing processes result in a large quantity of wood waste being produced then your manufacturing waste service would be tailored towards this.
How can factories dispose of their manufacturing waste?
Factories have multiple types of manufacturing and business waste to dispose of across the manufacturing cycle. This includes mixed recycling of hard plastics, waste disposal of soft plastics, cardboard packaging, recycling of wooden pallets and metals.
In some cases, factories will have office-related waste to dispose of too which may require specific collection needs. For example, files and documents may require confidential waste disposal.
What type of waste is typically generated by manufacturing?
Manufacturing waste can be divided into a number of different categories including liquid waste, dry mixed recycling and wood waste. Some manufacturing waste is classed as hazardous by the government and requires specific licencing is held by the company transporting the waste to the disposal site.
How much waste does the manufacturing industry produce?
In 2018, the commercial and industrial industry generated 43.9 million tonnes of waste. Of this figure, 37.2 million tonnes (85%) was produced in England.
Estimates from 2020 suggest that this number for England has dropped to 33.8 million tonnes. Early figures for 2021 show that 63.2% of UK packaging waste was recycled, similar to 2020.
The European Environment Agency estimates that 2500 million tonnes of waste was generated in the EU-28 and Norway in 2010. Of this figure, 11% has been attributed to manufacturing waste.
Despite ambitious targets, manufacturing waste remains a key contributor to such climate issues as air pollution, climate change and soil and water contamination.
Which industry produces more waste?
The UK government doesn’t provide a granular breakdown of waste production on an industry by industry basis. However, they do provide bigger picture figures for waste generation in the UK.
The latest figures show that Commercial and Industrial sectors contributed 19% of all waste generation in the UK (Defra, 2022). For comparison, CD&E (construction, demolition, excavation) industries contributed 62%. Meanwhile, household waste accounts for 12% of waste and 7% is attributed to ‘Other’.
How can businesses reduce their manufacturing waste?
Businesses can take a number of steps on an organisation-wide basis to reduce their manufacturing waste. This includes: reducing your use of packaging (replacing them with recyclable materials where possible), properly organising and labelling your waste, where possible.
Recycling all waste products as much as possible can also help improve your environmental impact in the long run, not to mention potentially saving your business money.
How can manufacturers reduce E waste?
Manufacturers can reduce their electronic waste by prioritising recyclable materials in their production lines, implementing trade-in incentives, designing for E waste earlier on and providing in-house recycling systems such as Yorwaste.
What waste management services do you provide for the manufacturing sector?
Yorwaste can help manufacturers with the following award-winning services: commercial cardboard recycling, skip hire, North Yorkshire waste collection and disposal, commercial wood waste recycling, confidential waste disposal and shredding, waste management and recycling in North Yorkshire and commercial liquid waste disposal.
Why should manufacturers choose Yorwaste?
As accredited affiliates of CIWM, Yorwaste can ensure that the waste produced by your manufacturing processes is efficiently managed, recycled and reused where possible. For example, waste oils can be taken to recycling plants, plastics can be melted down for reuse and scrap metals can be processed to make new components.
Testimonials
Working with Yorwaste is good from a legislative point of view. When there are changes like Simpler Recycling, they'll help us make sure we know what we need to know, and also what they're doing about it, so that we know we're still compliant.
Yorwaste are going to be growing with us. We talked about future developments and how we can improve our efficiencies. We worked together and developed the idea of traversing roller crushers across all our waste streams.
Our Success Stories
Mixed Waste & Recycling
Growing from a humble maker of poultry crates in 1934 to one of the UK's largest suppliers of pre-owned modular buildings
- £20thousand
savings made
- 9
waste streams managed
- 500+
skips or hooks exchanges completed
- £20thousand
Food & Commercial Waste Collection
A UK-based company that offers processing and packaging services for various sectors.
- 1.4million kg
waste collected
- 1.4million kg
Food & Commercial Waste Collection
Thirsk School is a local high school with an ambition for recycling.
- 4Tonnes
of food waste removed from general waste annually
- 5Tonnes
of potential C02 saved annually
- 23%
cost reduction on general waste collection annually
- 4Tonnes
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