Commercial waste Aberdeen

General business waste collections in Aberdeen allow companies to dispose of non-recyclable items like polystyrene, coffee cups, foil, and kitchen rolls. General business waste in Aberdeen is transported to an incinerator in East Tullos.

Restaurants and cafes in Aberdeen that produce more than 5 kg of food waste each week must use a commercial food waste collection service offered by either the local council or private waste collection providers.

Scottish law requires businesses in Aberdeen to store and arrange collections for recyclable glass bottles, aluminium cans, paper, and cardboard. In the rows below, we explore the specifics of these recycling services in Aberdeen:

Glass bottles generated by Aberdeen’s whisky distilleries must be separately stored and collected by dedicated commercial glass recycling services. Glass collected in Aberdeen is transported to Scotland’s only glass recycling facility in Renfrewshire.

The Port of Aberdeen is Scotland’s largest and an important logistics hub. Aberdeen’s logistics firms protect goods in transit with corrugated cardboard. These firms use local commercial cardboard recycling services to manage high volumes of packaging waste.

Aberdeen is a manufacturing hub for equipment used in the oil and gas industry, including drilling rigs, subsea equipment, and pipelines. Advanced manufacturing requires carefully managing and disposing of hazardous solvents and other byproducts.