Commercial Waste and Recycling
City of Doncaster Council offer Waste collection and disposal services for Commercial customers based in Doncaster.
New customers
The Commercial Waste Team will carry out a non obligatory waste audit at your premises. We will then provide you with a personalised quotation.
You will be guaranteed a reliable, flexible and compliant service.
Why choose City of Doncaster Council for your waste collections
- The service is guaranteed to be compliant.
- There are no long term contracts.
- Our fleet is dedicated to servicing Doncaster residents and businesses, this allows us to offer a reactive and flexible service.
- There are no hidden costs, the price quoted is an all inclusive cost.
- Our team have extensive waste industry knowledge and can tailor a service to your needs.
Contact our team to receive a quote today using our form below:
NEW CUSTOMER COMMERCIAL WASTE enquiry FORM
Existing customers
If you are a current customer with an enquiry relating to your service, contact us using the form below.
Please ensure you keep your contact details up to date as we send out important updates via email and phone.
IMPORTANT UPDATE – SIMPLER RECYCLING 2025
From 1 April 2025, new government legislation becomes enforceable.
On 21 October 2023, the UK Government introduced the new Simpler Recycling legislation to reform waste collections and recycling across England.
This new regulation aims to:
- reduce confusion over recyclable and non-recyclable materials
- standardise recycling practices for homes, workplaces, and schools
- reduce sending waste to landfill
- tackle illegal waste activities
- promote a more sustainable and environmentally conscious society
From 1 April 2025, all businesses and non-domestic properties with 10 or more employees must separate the following waste streams from general waste:
Glass, cardboard, paper, plastic, metals and food.
Food waste must be presented separately from other recyclables.
Businesses with less than 10 employees will be subject to the same terms, however they will have until March 2027 to implement the changes.
Doncaster Council can provide a solution to collect all waste streams above, ensuring your business remains compliant.
Our team will contact you via email with more information regarding the services we can provide.
Please ensure that your contact details are kept up to date to ensure you receive important updates from our Team.
Your waste - your responsibility (DUTY OF CARE)
If you produce, carry, import, keep, treat or dispose of waste you have a legal 'duty of care' to make sure your waste is handled safely and only passed to people authorised to receive it. As a business you are legally required to provide details of the type of waste you are disposing of and to ensure that the company who collects, transports and disposes of it is registered to do so. Our collection contractor, SUEZ Environment Ltd, is registered with the Environment Agency as a waste carrier and we will provide you with an annual waste transfer note (duty of care) to help you to fulfil your legal obligations.
General Waste collection service
We work with businesses to reduce general waste and increase recycling rates where possible.
'Other wastes' listed below should not be placed in your general waste bin.
Recycling collection Service
We will advise how you can apply the waste hierarchy to increase recycling rates.
Recycling containers currently include the following materials:
- Paper (shredded paper to be contained in an old envelope, paper bag or similar)
- Cardboard (No cores)
- Tins
- Cans
- Foil
- Empty aerosols
- Plastic bottles regardless of type (lids to be taken off and placed in the same bin unless manufactured attached)
- plastic pots, tubs and trays
- liquid cartons (tetra pak, pure-pak) e.g. soup, juice carton
Food Waste
City of Doncaster Council do not currently offer a separate food waste collection for Commercial Customers.
Food waste is collected within our general waste bins.
The facility that handle your general waste has a dedicated process to recycle food waste via anaerobic digestion.
From 31 March 2025 all businesses in the UK will by law, have to segregate their food waste for a separate collection.
City of Doncaster Council will assist you with these changes.
Please read our section on 'Simpler Recycling' to find out more about upcoming legislation.
Other Waste
We can not collect the following materials directly however we could direct you to local trusted service providers who will manage this waste compliantly.
- Hazardous
- Liquid
- Inert(Construction and Demolition)
- WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), e.g.
- Cooling Equipment (fridges/freezers)
- Vapes
- Lightbulbs
- Batteries - Green waste (natural garden waste, like grass cuttings and leaves, but not food)
- Composite (Clothes and Shoes)
- Tyres
- Medical
- Animal By-products
Where does my waste go?
Please visit the BDR webpage to find out more.
Once recycling is collected, it is tipped at the Councils' Waste Transfer Station in Doncaster. Here it is bulked and re-loaded to be taken to a Materials Recycling Facility in the UK where the items are processed and recycled.
All materials are recycled where possible, less than 1% of material collected is delivered to landfill. This option is used as a last resort.
We have produced a business waste handbook to help businesses manage their waste effectively and save money which can be downloaded below:
- Business-Waste-Handbook
- Download (1.75MB - PDF)
Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions of the collections service can be downloaded below:
- Terms and Conditions - Commercial Waste
- Download (32KB -
Downloads & Resources
- ABPR Waste Food Disposal Leaflet-1
- Download (416KB - PDF)
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