Commercial Recycling Guides for London Businesses

Plain-English help for the questions that sit between a recycling rule and a collection that works. We cover the deadline, what goes where, why streams get contaminated and what to tell a collector.

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Which commercial recycling guide should a London business use first?

Pick the page that matches the decision in front of you. The guides don’t repeat the service pages or each other. Each covers one job, then sends you to the service page for that collection.

Simpler Recycling guide for London micro-firms

Use Simpler Recycling for small businesses in 2027 if you need to know whether current guidance’s 31 March 2027 deadline applies and what to get ready. It covers the full-time-equivalent test and which streams to keep apart, then gives a short order of jobs.

Source: GOV.UK, Simpler recycling: workplace recycling in England

Last checked: 4 September 2026

Accepted-material guide for London commercial recycling

Use what goes in commercial recycling if staff need a practical list of what goes where. It explains the difference between the material groups the rules name and the accepted-materials list you agree with your collector.

Contamination guide for London business recycling

Use commercial recycling contamination if a clean stream keeps getting the wrong things in it. It works back from the mistake to the cause: the label, where the bin sits, or what staff were told.

Setup checker for London commercial recycling

Use the commercial recycling setup checker when you need to brief a collector. It gives you a plain list of streams, rough volumes, access facts and open questions. It doesn’t work out a price or tell you whether you’re compliant.

AI guides for London commercial recycling decisions

Use the AI guides for commercial recycling decisions if you want an AI assistant to help you choose a recycling company or to answer a recycling question you can actually check. Each page carries prompts to paste, a real answer the assistant gave, and what that answer got wrong.

How do commercial recycling guides connect to London services?

Every guide ends at one service page. A material question goes to the stream that collects that material. A whole-site setup question goes to the main commercial recycling page.

London dry mixed recycling guidance points to the DMR service page

Questions about clean, mixed dry packaging go to dry mixed recycling collection in London. There’s one DMR page here, and the guides send you to it rather than repeating it.

London cardboard guidance points to the card and paper service page

Questions about big box volumes, keeping card dry, or paper on its own point to commercial cardboard and paper recycling in London.

London glass guidance points to the dedicated glass service page

Questions about bottles, jars, bin size and safe handling point to commercial glass recycling in London. Glass doesn’t go in DMR, and none of the guides suggest otherwise.

Why are the London commercial recycling guides released in stages?

We could write a page for every recycling question there is, but a run of pages that only skim a topic doesn’t help anyone. So each guide goes up on its own, and only once people are actually finding and using it do we decide whether the next one is worth writing.

A London recycling guide needs a question the other pages don’t answer

A guide only gets written if it answers a question the other pages don’t, and it can’t repeat a live service page.

A London recycling guide has to earn its place before the next one

Once a guide is live, we check whether anyone finds it and carries on to the service page. If not, we fix or fold it before writing the next one.

A London recycling guide should strengthen a service page

A guide isn’t there to stand on its own. It should send readers on to the service page where the actual decision about a collection gets made.

What is the next step after reading a commercial recycling guide?

If you can now say which streams you’ve got, roughly how much, and how a collector gets to it, the next step is a quote for your site. Run the setup checker first, or go straight to the contact page.

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