Prepare for Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)’s 2025 ‘Simpler Recycling’ Laws by implementing streamlined waste management solutions

Ensure your school or business complies with upcoming regulations coming into effect March 2025. Use official Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) signage to standardise recycling, improve waste segregation, and support sustainability goals

• Streamline recycling processes by aligning your waste management solutions with Simpler Recycling regulations, designed to ‘improve recycling rates and standardise recycling practices’
• Display clear recycling signage to advise employees, students and visitors how to separate waste correctly
• Follow DEFRA recommendations to implement Simpler Recycling, aiming to eliminate wasteful practices harming the environment
• Demonstrate a commitment to enhance recycling efforts on your site and implement clear waste management processes
• Add colour coding labelling to your bins in line with DEFRA’s guidance to ‘easily identify which bin is for what waste stream', ensuring efficient and accurate waste separation
• Make sure your business is compliant with the UK's Waste Regulation 2011, requiring all UK businesses to separate paper, plastic, glass and metals from general waste
• Improve your sustainability credentials - demonstrate your business commitment to sustainability by reducing contamination and improving recycling rates