The council can provide a commercial waste collection service to any trade or business within the St Edmundsbury District area.

Collection can be carried out using wheeled bins of the following sizes:

• 240 litres
• 360 litres
• 660 litres
• 1100 litres
• 1280 litres

To request details and prices visit our online quotation form

For the smaller business (for example shops and offices) a sack collection can be carried out for which pre-paid sacks are available for purchase from any of the council offices.

A skip emptying facility is now available to commercial properties. If you are interested in using this service please phone 01284 757314 or email waste.management@stedsbc.gov.uk

Please note - This service does not cater for hazardous wastes. If in doubt please contact our office on the telephone number, or email address above.

For non-hazardous wastes the council can offer special one-off collections. For details and prices please contact 01284 757314 or email waste.management@stedsbc.gov.uk

Commercial spillages

St Edmundsbury is unable to offer a spillage response service on commercial premises but will respond to such spillages on the public highway. In the event of a spillage which may result in liquids or wastes entering the sewers or storm drainage systems, you should immediately report the incident to the Environment Agency on telephone number 08708 506 506 (website http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/)

Pretreatment regulations

Pretreatment regulations were imposed on 30 October 2007 relating to the landfilling of waste from commercial properties. These regulations do not affect trade customers of a Local Authority run service, however we would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the regulations.

Under the pre-treatment regulations, no landfill site will be able to accept non-municipal waste (that is waste not collected by a local authority) unless it has been pre-treated. Pretreatment is defined as waste that has had an element of the recyclable material separated prior to landfill.  For example, a small business will be required to separate out some recyclable material (such as cardboard) and arrange for this to be collected in addition to the collection of it’s normal residual waste, or arrange for a contractor to sort the waste on their behalf prior to landfill.

If your waste is collected by a local authority it is classed as municipal waste and your business is exempt from the regulations.  However, we do have targets for increasing recycling of municipal waste and we are considering the possibility of offering recycling services to all our customers in the future.

If you cannot find answers to your questions try the  frequently asked questions page or contact us by email at waste.management@stedsbc.gov.uk or by telephone on 01284 757320.