The new service has been funded by the Waste and Resources Action Programme as part of a concerted effort to help SMEs recycle more waste.
ECT, the UK's largest community-based recycling company, will collect glass from around 150 pubs, clubs and restaurants in Warwickshire on the new scheme. Both mixed glass and colour-separated collections will be offered, with businesses given a financial incentive to separate their glass into green, brown or clear streams.
WRAP is also funding recycling schemes targetting SMEs in Scotland and in London, which will also target small businesses in the hospitality sector.
Scotland
Scottish community group Moray Waste Busters will be providing a collection and recycling service for food waste from small catering businesses in Forres, near Inverness. The trial will evaluate how to segregate catering waste and process it in the organisation's in-vessel composting plant at Forres.
Further south in Edinburgh, WRAP has funded social enterprise group LEEP Recycling to trial various ways of promoting its existing recycling scheme for small businesses. LEEP will test the marketing of its “Our Boxes Mean Business” recycling scheme through the use of mail shots, taxi advertising and press adverts.
London
In London, officer paper recycling business Paper Round will be providing a collection service for paper, cardboard and glass for hotels in the centre of the capital. Around 25 hotels will be recruited in the trial, which will assess the provision of multi-material collection services.
Liz Morrish, SME recycling project manager at WRAP, said: “We are really pleased to be able to fund these trials focusing on the hospitality industry. The trials are innovative and will evaluate new approaches to recycling for pubs, hotels and restaurants.
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“We look forward to developing good practice from the results of these trials and to working closely with the hospitality industry to make recycling more convenient and cost effective for them,” she added.
WRAP also recently launched a trial working with small businesses in the window replacement and glazing sector in Liverpool and Manchester (see letsrecycle.com story).
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