Initiating an effective waste policy and systems can improve your environmental credentials and ensure that you deal with your waste properly. Reducing your waste, recycling it properly and reusing where possible will benefit your organisation and the environment.

Initiating a recycling scheme involves two basic steps. Setting up the infrastructure for the collection and storage of materials also arranging for a collector to regularly pick up materials for recycling. The first step will require some thought during the design phase regarding the best way to collect and store materials. Often materials are collected in recycling containers placed in central locations. Recycling containers should be accessible to all and clearly marked.