Simple guidelines to encourage recycling

We are an independent fast food takeaway with a fairly high turnover of young employees. Despite my best efforts, employees are failing to segregate out waste for recycling, claiming that they are too busy and find the system confusing. Can you suggest some simple guidelines?

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We are an independent fast food takeaway with a fairly high turnover of young employees. Despite my best efforts, employees are failing to segregate out waste for recycling, claiming that they are too busy and find the system confusing. Can you suggest some simple guidelines?

A

As a business you have a statutory duty of care for waste which includes a duty to take the waste hierarchy into account. In practical terms, this means taking steps to move waste “up the hierarchy” from disposal to recovery, recycling and reuse. You also have a statutory duty to “pretreat” waste which is destined for landfill; this normally involves segregating out one or more waste streams for recycling.

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