Commercial waste Aberdeen
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In Aberdeen, council-provided commercial waste and recycling services are limited. Instead, local firms rely on collections provided by local waste companies.
We start our guide to business waste in Aberdeen by summarising the most popular local commercial waste collection services:
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.
Our experts are on hand to gather quotes from a range of trusted commercial waste collection providers in Aberdeen. Get bespoke quotes for the types and frequency of waste collection your business needs – start by entering your postcode above.
Our experts present the top three trusted local commercial waste providers in Aberdeen:
Biffa operates a state-of-the-art recycling facility on the Badentoy Industrial Estate, just south of Aberdeen. Biffa offers a full suite of commercial waste and recycling collections in Aberdeen and transports waste to this facility.
EIS Waste is a waste firm headquartered in Aberdeen. They specialise in bespoke commercial waste collection and recycling services, including confidential waste storage and disposal. EIS’s regular waste collections extend across Aberdeenshire.
Despite the devolved legal requirement for Aberdeen’s businesses to arrange separate recycling collections, Aberdeen City Council only offers collections of:
The council sells and rents commercial waste bins in a range of sizes.
Aberdeen City Council also offers a one-off collection of non-hazardous bulky items. For more information, visit Aberdeen City Council – Business Waste.
Businesses in Aberdeen that hold a waste carrier licence can transport their waste to a commercial waste disposal facility.
In this section, we’ll summarise the best commercial waste disposal options in Aberdeen.
Aberdeenshire Council has three public recycling centres near Aberdeen that accept commercial waste, located at:
Commercial waste disposed of at these sites must be paid for using a card machine at the site. The latest price list is available on the Aberdeenshire Council website here.
💡 Visit our page on what is classified as commercial waste to understand which types of waste are free and which need to be paid for.