Commercial waste services at Braintree District Council

We offer a waste collection service to businesses within our district, including schools and charities. This currently includes collections for general waste, mixed recycling, paper and cardboard, food waste and glass.

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Commercial waste collections are not included in business rates and therefore need to be set up as a separate service with the help from our commercial waste team.

We have a dedicated, professional and reliable commercial waste team who are available to contact 9:00 to 17:00 from Monday to Friday.

We can offer customers a dedicated service whilst offering expertise, tailoring to your business' commercial waste requirements.

As a local government authority, we do not charge VAT on commercial waste goods and services. 

All prices are inclusive of your waste container, waste collections and your duty of care waste transfer note.

You can complete our online form for your free, no obligation quote and one of our team will contact you within seven working days.

We can help you reduce, reuse and recycle your waste to save you money, offering you a range of containers which are secure, neat and unobtrusive in a tailored package.

Environment Act 2021 Legislation

The Environment Act 2021 (also known as Simpler Recycling) will come into effect for commercial businesses from 1 April 2025. Visit our Simpler Recycling pages to find information on how this will improve recycling across England.

View the Environment Act 2021 Legislation

Container sizes

We offer a variety of container sizes for your waste:

• 23 litre (food waste only)
• 2-wheeled 140 litre (food waste only)
• 2-wheeled 240 litre bin which holds around 2 to 3 sacks (refuse and food)
• 2-wheeled 360 litre bin which holds around 4 to 5 sacks (refuse, glass, DMR, paper and cardboard)
• 4-wheeled 770 litre eurobin which holds around 8 to 9 sacks (refuse DMR, paper and cardboard)
• 4-wheeled 1,100 litre which holds around 12 to 14 sacks (refuse, glass, DMR, paper and cardboard)

Collection sacks and sticker prices

We offer collection sacks and recycling stickers:

• blue sacks, price on request (20 sacks per roll)
• recycling sacks. price on request (20 sacks per roll)
• trade recycling stickers, price on request (20 stickers, each sticker can used for 10kg of cardboard)

These prices are inclusive of collections.