Commercial waste Oxford
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Disposing of business waste in Oxfordshire doesn’t need to be complicated. Whether you require commercial waste bins for general waste, mixed recycling, cardboard, or glass, our waste experts are here to help.
Follow these three simple steps to arrange your commercial waste collection:
Enter your postcode above, tell us what types of waste and recycling bins your business needs, and how often you’d like them collected.
Our experts will quickly prepare a bespoke, competitive quote for your Oxford business with everything you need to get started right away.
Once you’re happy with your quote, your waste collection will be set up quickly and efficiently, giving you hassle-free, reliable waste disposal service.
We provide reliable commercial waste collection services across Oxford. Get your bespoke quote today by entering your postcode above. Explore our most popular waste collection services below:
We help arrange reliable general waste collection services in Oxford, making it easy for businesses to dispose of non-recyclable items like polystyrene, food-contaminated packaging, and plastic packaging. With our support, you can connect with trusted providers to ensure your waste is managed responsibly.
In Oxford, commercial mixed recycling collection makes it simple for businesses to manage recyclables like cardboard, glass, aluminium cans, and plastic bottles. Just place everything in one bin, and the provider will handle the sorting and recycling.
Oxfordshire promotes commercial food waste recycling with composting sites in Chipping Norton and Ardley and anaerobic digestion facilities in Yarton, Farringdon, and Wallingford. Our commercial food waste collection services transports organic waste to these facilities.
Commercial cardboard waste created by retail shopping centres, like the Westgate in Oxford city centre, benefit from cardboard recycling services that help minimise the space taken by cardboard waste and deliver cardboard to local cardboard manufacturers that can repurpose the waste.
We assist in arranging clinical waste collection services in Oxford, ensuring the safe and compliant handling of items such as sharps, medical equipment, and other hazardous materials. These services adhere to UK regulations for proper clinical waste management.
Breweries, including the Little Ox brewery in Freeland, recycle large quantities of glass due to the nature of their business. They benefit from commercial glass recycling collection services, including the Select Environmental glass recycling program promoted by Oxford University.
Oxford is a bustling city with a wide variety of businesses, each contributing to the need for efficient waste management solutions. We offer commercial waste and recycling collections to the following sectors in Oxford.
Oxford hosts various offices, from academic institutions to tech startups, generating waste like paper, cardboard, and electronics. Office waste collections in Oxford handle sensitive materials like confidential waste documents, ensuring compliance with data protection and environmental standards.
Oxford’s lively pub scene, including iconic spots like The Eagle and Child, produces waste like glass bottles, food scraps, and recyclables. Specialised pub waste collection services in Oxford ensure proper disposal of glass and other materials while efficiently managing food waste and packaging.
Oxford University, with its 15,000 staff and 43 independent colleges, dominates Oxford’s economy. We offer commercial waste management to the education section from primary schools up to universities. Explore our expert guide on waste minimisation in schools.
In Oxfordshire, five wards are represented by individual district councils, each responsible for household waste collections.
Some councils offer a paid-for commercial waste collection service, while others do not. Here’s a breakdown of the council-operated commercial waste services in Oxfordshire:
Oxfordshire district council | Offers commercial waste collections? | Link to service |
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Cherwell | Offers general waste, mixed recycling, glass, and commercial food waste collection services to businesses in North Oxford | Cherwell business waste service |
Oxford City | No council service is offered, but the council directs you to the council-owned contractor ODS. | ODS Commercial Waste |
West Oxfordshire | Offers general waste, dry mixed recycling, glass, and food waste collections to businesses in West Oxford | West Oxfordshire commercial waste and recycling |
South Oxfordshire | Offers no business waste collection services. | N/A |
Vale of the White Horse | Offers no business waste collection services. | N/A |
💡The commercial waste collection costs charged by local council services are typically uncompetitive.
Our experts provide all the necessary information to help you dispose of commercial waste in Oxford.
Oxfordshire County Council operates several public waste and recycling centres across the county. However, these do not accept commercial waste, with the exception of the recycling centre at Redbridge, Abingdon.
The commercial waste facility at the recycling centre operates independently from the household waste service.
Alternatively, here is the location of private Waste Transfer Stations in Oxfordshire that offer commercial waste disposal:
⚠️ Businesses transporting waste must be registered with a waste carrier licence.
The waste transfer stations listed above will issue a waste transfer note for any business waste you bring, enabling your company to demonstrate compliance with commercial waste regulations.
Our waste management service relies on trusted, licensed waste carriers to empty your bins or containers. By working with a range of local providers, we can offer a flexible waste management service tailored to the needs of all types of businesses.
In this section, we’ll highlight the top licensed business waste collection providers in Oxford:
Grundon is a family-owned waste management provider founded in 1929. It operates across Southern England and offers a comprehensive suite of waste collection services to Oxfordshire companies from its depot in Wallingford.
Simply Waste provides regular commercial waste bin collections for general business waste and recycling throughout Oxfordshire. Its fleet is at a depot on the Grange Farm Industrial Estate in Little Chesterton, near Bicester.
ODS is an independent company wholly owned by the Oxford City Council. ODS is a contractor for several council contracts, including business waste. ODS offers regular collections of general business waste, food waste, and dry mixed recycling.
Biffa, the UK’s largest waste management company, has a significant presence in Oxfordshire. From a depot in Abingdon, Biffa provides domestic waste services across South Oxfordshire and the Vale of the White Horse, alongside commercial recycling and waste collections.
Veolia is a global leader in environmental services, specialising in water, waste, and decarbonisation. Veolia has a corporate office in Abingdon, and its waste management division offers competitive and reliable business waste collections across Oxfordshire.
Select Environmental Services offers bespoke commercial waste collection, recycling and sanitary waste collection services across Berkshire, Oxford, and Northampton. Select provides waste collections to some of Oxford’s biggest organisations, including the University of Oxford.
Looking for commercial waste collection for other business locations near Oxford? We also provide services in the following areas: