Waste Disposal in Bromley

Bromley Council works closely with private waste companies to ensure that the most essential regular household waste collections take place, the collection service can take general waste, food waste and mixed recycling like paper recycling, plastic, glass and tins, amongst other items. You can find all the details of what waste is collected and when these collections take place on the council’s website. Household waste and recycling centres can be found at Waldo Road and Churchfields Road if you have generated waste from your homes and wish to dispose of your waste yourself.

Besides the services that the council has to offer and the option of disposing of the waste yourself, there are a range of private waste collection companies that operate in the Bromley area that can carry out a range of services including house clearances, garden clearances, office clearances and builders waste disposal services.

Here at Wayst, our concern is for our customers, our employees, and the environment, which is why we only offer waste operators that provide a reliable range of waste clearance services for both homes and businesses. We are actively managing our partners to ensure they are dedicated to reusing & recycling as much waste as possible. As part of our mission to make waste disposal more environmentally friendly, we can arrange a range of services to the public to help clear their households or businesses of any type of waste, in any quantity. Some of which are removing and recycling hazardous waste (paint, sharps, batteries etc, recycling (paper, glass, cardboard, food waste etc, removal and destruction of confidential waste (paper, media, hard drives, data) and clearing offices whether from a single chair or multi floors of full of furniture and accumulated junk.

Once we receive a request for a waste removal from our customers, we then arrange to find the best suited waste company and organise a time and date that works best for you to start the process. We manage the process from ensuring the vehicles and crew that come to collect the waste from your location are on time and professional all the way to holding the waste disposal company accountable to where your waste is transported to in order for it to be sorted and segregated. We also ensure that all associated paperwork that is legally required to be produced is done so.

We offer all your traditional recycling services at Wayst, such as man and van type clearances as well as skip and RORO hire and alongside this, we can cater to the needs of individuals and businesses that have more complex waste streams such as hazardous waste products like batteries and paint as well as printer and IT recycling. Every year in the UK we see over 90 million electronic devices being replaced, most of which are discarded, all of which can be very harmful to our environment if not disposed of properly.

We are passionate about improving the waste and customer journeys to ensure customer satisfaction is continuously improving and sustainable initiatives are evolving to treat our environment better. We offer thorough collection and disposal services that aim to recycle or resume a range of waste types from simple waste such as paper and cardboard to more complex waste such as laptops, monitors and servers. Recycled waste can often be put back in the market for example recycled electronic waste is often used to produce jewellery, newer electronics and many other types of products.

When managing the collection and disposal of confidential waste the data or information within the documents/electronic device must be handled correctly in order to meet data protection legislation, if not it can be distributed worldwide very quickly and easily and end up in the wrong hands. It is always advisable to use a reputable hard drive wiping/shredding company to destroy your confidential waste.

The following items are considered as confidential waste and need to be treated as such:

- Bank statements
- Contracts
- Tax documents
- Internal manuals
- Hard drives/networking equipment/servers
- Tapes/CD’s/SD cards
- Any other document that reveals personal/company/employee/client data

Typically the confidential waste processes start before the waste company gets involved, we advise to keep locked containers onsite to store confidential items and documents before they are transferred over to the reputable firm. Your waste should always be taken to secure shredding facilities where there is 24-hour CCTV to monitor the process from delivery to destruction. Once this service is complete you will be sent a certificate of destruction and a recording (if requested) of the process to confirm that the files have been destroyed.

At Wayst we offer confidential waste disposal services including paper shredding, media shredding, hard drive destruction and data destruction. We ensure all top quality and management standards are followed and include all required documentation including data destruction certificates and inventory reports.

Bromley produces over 47,000 tonnes of hazardous waste annually, which is less than other areas in London but that does not mean that we can neglect the way we handle this waste, as the hazardous items are a threat to the public's health and the environment if disposed of incorrectly. Hazardous waste disposals in the Bromley area are all regulated by the environmental agency and fall under your responsibility to organise a reputable and trusted waste company to work on your behalf.

Collecting hazardous waste streams such as asbestos, oils, diesel and chemicals like pesticides are a specialist task and require specialist processes to ensure the safe disposal. If the hazardous waste is being disposed of from a commercial premises then the collection must be accompanied by not only a waste transfer note but a consignment note too.

At Wayst we have 14 different services available for the removal of hazardous waste and you can request a quote to find out how much the disposal will cost by following our easy to use platform of contacting one of our friendly team.

Clinical waste is commonly defined as a type of waste that has the potential to cause infection or disease. This kind of waste is mostly found at medical facilities, but some items can also be found in your home. Improper disposal of clinical waste can put your local community and the regular public at risk of injury, which is why we aim to dispose of as much medical waste as possible in a safe manner with your help.

Everybody who has waste and intends to dispose of it has a legal ‘Duty of Care’ according to The Environmental Protection Act 1990. This means you should keep waste to a minimum, sort and store waste safely, complete a waste transfer note every time you dispose of waste, check your waste carrier is registered to dispose of waste and ensure the waste carrier disposes of the waste legally. New waste regulations were implemented in the UK from 2015 that requires businesses to separate recyclable material such as paper, plastic, and glass from the other waste.

If you are a business and want to dispose of your own waste, then you need to register as a waste carrier on the government website and in some cases apply for a licence.