{"id":12227,"date":"2026-10-10T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/people-in-wales-dont-recycle-at-work-like-they-do-at-home\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:38:12","slug":"people-in-wales-dont-recycle-at-work-like-they-do-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/fr\/people-in-wales-dont-recycle-at-work-like-they-do-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Wales don’t recycle at work like they do at home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Businesses in Wales are required to sort waste into the same recycling categories that households are expected to do<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was still “lots of room for improvement” when it comes to how much we recycle at work compared with our habits at home, according to an expert<\/p>\n

Figures suggest only 61% of people in Wales recycle often at their workplace, with one in five saying they do not recall seeing the appropriate facilities to do so<\/p>\n

Providing more bins or clearer labelling are some of the ways in which businesses could make a difference, said waste reduction charity Wrap<\/p>\n

But one business had already seen a “significant improvement” at their offices after removing staff’s personal bins, a move that was initially met with resistance<\/p>\n

When recruitment firm Acorn by Synergie first moved into their offices on the outskirts of Newport in 2003, they were producing six large wheelie bins’ worth of rubbish a week<\/p>\n

It now has just one weekly collection thanks to increased recycling, including food waste, which was their biggest adaptation, following the introduction of the Welsh government’s Workplace Recycling Law in 2024<\/p>\n

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Mark Rudge says increased recycling costs are offset by less rubbish going to landfill collections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The main thing that we changed was removing desk bins and individual bins,” said director Mark Rudge<\/p>\n

“We had quite a bit of resistance to that. Individuals liked having their own little waster station<\/p>\n

“But we put central recycling areas within each zone of the business, and eventually, people get the hang of that<\/p>\n

“A lot of home recycling is extremely similar, so people brought those good habits to the workplace.”<\/p>\n

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Ann-Marie Derrick says she is now surprised when she goes to other offices who don’t have separate recycling bins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Office worker Ann-Marie Derrick admitted fellow staff members had found it a pain to begin with, but it had now become “second nature”<\/p>\n

“Anybody new coming to the office is just straight away onboard and I think we’re probably quite proud as a team about how much recycling we do.”<\/p>\n

The company’s environmental manager Anthony Lee said it had taken a few months for staff to fully mirror their home recycling habits at the workplace, and that there had been a “significant improvement in compliance”<\/p>\n

Not all workers and business have adapted to the same degree<\/p>\n

WRAP’s annual tracker survey indicated that although 94% of people in Wales say they recycle at home, only 61% do so “very often at work” with that figure dropping to below half for students at college or university<\/p>\n

Only 30% of respondents said they had seen lots of recycling facilities at their workplace, despite the new requirements, while 20% said they could not recall seeing any<\/p>\n

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Vale of Glamorgan Council’s recycling facility was designed to deal with the anticipated increase in the volume of recycling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It’s still a relatively new thing to have recycling bins when we’re away from home,” said Angela Spiteri, senior marketing manager at WRAP<\/p>\n

“It’s a very positive step in the right direction for Wales, but it’s not perfect and there’s a lot of things we can do to improve.”<\/p>\n

She said there was a responsibility on businesses to ensure that was possible, “providing the right bins and facilities for people to make that easier”<\/p>\n

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Angela says unclear signage from businesses can be a factor in making it more difficult for people recycle correctly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I don’t recycle as much when I am out and about, I just bin it,” admits Gerwyn Pugh, 56, from Barry<\/p>\n

“It’s routine [at home], but out and about every bin takes a bit more time to work out.”<\/p>\n

James Jenkins, 30, said he often took rubbish home with him given the limited options where he works<\/p>\n

“We only recycle cardboard because that’s our only waste<\/p>\n

“The more industrialised businesses need to do more, because they’ll have more of an impact than smaller businesses.”<\/p>\n

Natalie James, 47, said she recycled “probably about the same” at work and at home<\/p>\n

“Because I work at a hospital we’ve got the recycling categories everywhere, so we have to.”<\/p>\n

Although businesses in Wales are now required to sort their waste into six categories, collection arrangements can vary from area to area<\/p>\n

In the Vale of Glamorgan, businesses use a mix of council and private services, and the local authority said the change has resulted in a “higher quality of recycling”<\/p>\n

Carys Stephens, the council’s waste project officer, said there had been a “fantastic response from businesses.”<\/p>\n

“There’s obviously going to be some that are critical of the idea, and they’re worried about extra costs and effort that goes into segregated recycling<\/p>\n

“But we’ve been doing segregated recycling for a couple of years now, and most people just take it in their stride.”<\/p>\n

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A recycling centre in Barry deals with recycled household waste, as well as local businesses who pay for the council’s collection service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Wales’ workplace recycling rates are “reasonably high”, said consultant Rebecca Colley-Jones, “there’s lots of room for improvement”<\/p>\n

“It is a new system, so there’s always a period of settling down.”<\/p>\n

She said that she was sure “we would see that 61% rise”<\/p>\n

“Often they can be tourism or hospitality businesses, so they’re having to educate their customers what to do.”<\/p>\n

Colley-Jones said individuals also needed to personally take more care<\/p>\n

“Our home is our castle, we’re responsible for the waste and people are under a little bit of pressure, perhaps from their neighbours to look like they’re recycling<\/p>\n

“Whereas you don’t have that in the workplace<\/p>\n

“When people come to work, they come to work, they don’t necessarily thing recycling is part of their job description<\/p>\n

She added: “It’s trying to get people to understand that they also need to be buying into the culture of an organisation, and also the culture of Wales as a country. We are the second<\/a>–best recycler in the world<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

She added that the changes had inevitably led to some costs for businesses, and varying collection arrangements can sometimes be “confusing”<\/p>\n

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Vale of Glamorgan council say they offer three tiers of collection service for businesses, depending on their size and the volume of recyclable waste they produce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Natural Revernment, said so far no workplace had been prosecuted for failing to follow the new regulations<\/p>\n

A spokesperson added that 56% of businesses were found to be compliant in the first two years of the new rules, but it had provided “advice and support” and the majority of non-compliant companies “had taken steps” to address their issues<\/p>\n

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