Trade waste is the everyday name, used by councils and businesses, for commercial waste: rubbish produced by a trade or business on its premises. The law calls it commercial waste. The duty of care, the registered-carrier rule and the ban on using household bins all apply to it.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: What Is Trade Waste?.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Digital waste tracking
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Materials recovery facility
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms