Waste disposal pricing

[UKAndyM]

Hi all, I'm just curious what people are paying for waste disposal and what I should be expecting to pay for a 110 sqm high street shared office used by up to 10 people.

I would expect waste to be mostly limited to waste from a small kitchen, general office supplies like used marker pens, paper, ink cartridges etc. and paper hand towels from restrooms.

Thanks

 

[SillyBill]

Think we spend about £700/month on waste collection. That includes hire of the containers. Weekly collections of 10 cubic yard for recyclables and bi-weekly collections of 10 cubic yard bins for general waste.

 

[UKAndyM]

Thanks. That’s a lot of coffee pods ?

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

I have a skip when I need it ( not skipping) for £250

 

[BusterBloodvessel]

Sounds like you just need a “biffa bin” with weekly or fortnightly lifts. We pay about £12 + vat per lift.

 

[IanSuth]

we used to have a local firm who took paper for free (woodside recycling - who also did confidential for a charge as well), also people we got toner from would take back old (think they may have to under weee) that reduced us down to just general rubbish.

Purple sacks bought off council at £1.50 each and we got through 1 a week, that was for 3 of us. Sister company downstairs used to get through 3 sacks a week for their 12 people

 

[Martin Patfield]

Woodside Recycling - christ, company I work for had them for cardboard recycling collections from us before I joined in mid 2018.
Then covid hit with lockdown and can't get a peep out of them since.

 

[IanSuth]

Woodside Recycling - christ, company I work for had them for cardboard recycling collections from us before I joined in mid 2018.
Then covid hit with lockdown and can't get a peep out of them since.

We stopped them beginning of lockdown and I am not in office anymore

I will be within a couple of hundred meters of their base in a few weeks so will see if they are still around.

 

[UKAndyM]

Is anybody actually managing zero waste? I am considering all of our options at the moment and as the business is new (only me in the office right now) and I'm just about ready to start advertising the coworking space then now would be a good time to put in these policies.

From my own use in the last month or so I have two mesh paper baskets of general waste which is mainly made up of paper and a few plastic bottles from my Greggs addiction and some junk mail. 1-2 sacks a week sounds like it would be sufficient if my waste is typical.

As a shared office I could ask each business to dispose of their own waste but that's probably not a great marketing point.

 

[IanSuth]

Is anybody actually managing zero waste? I am considering all of our options at the moment and as the business is new (only me in the office right now) and I'm just about ready to start advertising the coworking space then now would be a good time to put in these policies.

From my own use in the last month or so I have two mesh paper baskets of general waste which is mainly made up of paper and a few plastic bottles from my Greggs addiction and some junk mail. 1-2 sacks a week sounds like it would be sufficient if my waste is typical.

As a shared office I could ask each business to dispose of their own waste but that's probably not a great marketing point.

Recycling bins in the kitchen split however your local authority deal with waste and market yourselves as a fully recycling minimal waste office, might pitch you different to other coworking spaces. If you are lucky your local BID or council will do recycling collection as well

 

[SillyBill]

Woodside Recycling - christ, company I work for had them for cardboard recycling collections from us before I joined in mid 2018.
Then covid hit with lockdown and can't get a peep out of them since.

Small world, we used them too for many years up until a couple of years ago. The service was never brilliant but it was very cheap and you got what you paid for, happy enough on those terms. Then it went to non-existent and waste was piling up all over the site. We pay a lot more now and I don't regret that, the bins are collected every week on the same day, lot to be said for that!