With the increase of landfill taxes every year, waste recycling is an ever-growing issue for both cost and environmental reasons. Network Waste Solutions takes a pro-active approach in ensuring that your company is recycling as much waste as possible, helping you to not only save the environment, but make significant cost savings for your company.
Why recycle?
If you took your annual waste tonnage amount and do a simple calculation, you will see how much money your waste to landfill will increase over the next five years based on previous increases.
Landfill tax is currently increasing at a rate of £8.00 per tonne per annum. This coupled with the £2 per tonne per annum increase levied by the disposal location, means an annual increase on landfill disposal of £10.00 per tonne.
For example: -
In 2009, your company disposed of 7500 tonnes of general waste at £40.00 per tonne (landfill tax rate 2009), this would equate to £300,000 for that year. However, in 2014, the same amount of waste charged at £90.00 per tonne (estimated cost at current rate of increase) would equate to £675,000 for that year, which would beg the question – can your company afford an increase of £375,000 by 2014?
Not only will you benefit financially, but the environment will benefit in the long-term. By recycling your waste, you are: -
- Saving Energy – Products produced using raw materials consumes more energy than ones produced with recycled materials.
- Producing Less Emissions - By using less energy, we help the environment by producing less harmful by-products and emissions (such as CO2).
- Saving Natural Resources – Waste recycling saves natural resources. Raw materials that would be used to produce a recycled product are preserved, as well as the natural resources that indirectly produce a product, such as fuel for producing energy.
And of course, your company will also be portraying the right image to new and existing customers by recycling your waste. You will be seen by your industry as a company who is taking action on environmental issues, ensuring for a brighter, cleaner future.
What can we do about it?
Network Waste Solutions are specialists in waste recycling, and can help you by providing many solutions to help you recycle. Unlike some waste disposal companies, we are not tied to using our own landfill sites, and can fully utilise our large network of transfer stations and recycling centres nationwide. Our waste disposal centres typically recycles at least 70% of general waste, with many recycling as much as 80%.
It is possible to cut costs even more by implementing an efficient waste segregation plan. Our team of site auditors can visit your site, and suggest waste segregation options that are suitable for your waste disposal needs. You can find out more about waste segregation by visiting the waste segregation section.
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