WASTE - A HIDDEN COST TO YOUR BUSINESS
Donarbon’s waste management service can help you reduce your waste costs, by providing a varied and flexible service that will feed straight into your bottom line profit.Waste not only has obvious financial costs, but also environmental costs and costs to your businesses reputation.
- The Landfill Tax: Levied on every tonne of waste dumped in landfill. In the 2007 budget, the chancellor announced that the increase in landfill tax will be £8 per tonne per year. The tax currently stands at £32 per tonne and it will rise to £40 per tonne from 1st April 2009. Your company will pay this tax on every tonne of waste you send to landfill. Recycled waste attracts no tax, so recycling is now a better option financially and environmentally.
- Environmental Management Systems: Recycling your waste to meet your Corporate Social Responsibility requirements.
- Prosecution: Failure to comply with your Duty of Care, with other pieces of waste legislation, or the illegal dumping of waste could lead to public disclosure of prosecution, fines and the subsequent environmental clean-up costs.
- Environmental Protection Legislation: Recycling your waste may help you comply with other environmental protection legislation, such as the Climate Change Bill, at minimal cost.
- Waste Cost: A waste companies costs are made up of 3 main elements, the cost of bin provision; the bin emptying cost and the final waste treatment or disposal cost + the associated on-costs that go with these elements. Reducing any of these will reduce your overall waste cost.
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