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Newbury is a small but idyllic town in the English county of Berkshire. Despite its size, Newbury is a popular tourist destination that prides itself on its picture-perfect market town image, so keeping the town and surrounding areas clean and tidy is of high importance to local residents and businesses alike. Hills Waste Solutions is proud to be a part of this effort, making waste management easy for our customers in Newbury.
Newbury is made even more picturesque due to its location along the River Kennet and proximity to the Avon Canal waterway. Surrounded by the North Wessex Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the town offers a wide choice of outdoor activities for both residents and visitors. In the surrounding countryside there are a number of historic attractions to entertain visitors, including the Beacon Hill Iron Age Fort and spectacular Highclere Castle, the filming location of the well-known Downton Abbey TV series.
Today, Newbury and its immediate surroundings constitute the major commercial and retail centre of West Berkshire. Newbury is part of the eastern M4 corridor with its thriving industrial, technological and research business sectors. Among these, Newbury is home to the UK headquarters of Vodafone, which has for the past 25 years been the town’s largest employer.
Sustainable, local waste disposal in Newbury
Newbury prioritises effective waste management to maintain its clean and green image. The town generates various types of waste, including household, commercial, and industrial waste. The disposal process is overseen by West Berkshire Council, ensuring responsible waste collection and recycling.
Recyclable material in Newbury is collected on a fortnightly basis from two boxes; one for glass, cans and textiles, and one for paper and magazines. In 2002, the West Berkshire council adopted a 20-year waste strategy which set out a long-term vision for the management of waste, aiming to increase its recycling rate from 11% to 40% by 2022. The most recent published recycling rates from 2020 far exceeded this target, with West Berkshire Council’s recycling rate standing at 49%, compared to only 36% in the neighbouring council of Reading.
In addition, since declaring a Climate Emergency in 2019, the council has set additional waste reduction targets as part of its Environment Strategies and Environment Strategy Delivery Plan. These targets include reusing, recycling and composting at least 60 percent of municipal waste the council handles by 2030 and reviewing the potential to collect more plastic waste. In 2022, the council implemented separate weekly food waste collections. This residential food waste is composted and turned into a PAS100 certified soil conditioner which is made available for local farmers and landscapers to purchase.
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Unlike residential homes, which are provided with waste collection services covered by the payment of council tax, businesses in West Berkshire must contract licensed waste carriers to dispose of their waste responsibly and in compliance with the law. It is the legal responsibility of each business in Newbury to ensure they engage in responsible waste management practices that are compliant with their legal duty of care. Failure to provide evidence of proper waste management could result in penalties or legal action.
At Hills Waste Solutions, we are proud to provide our waste management services to local business communities, collecting, recycling, and disposing of business waste across West Berkshire, and more widely across the West Country. As part of The Hills Group, an independent business renowned for the values of reliability, responsibility, and personal service, we’re proud to still be delivering on these values throughout the business communities we serve in Newbury.
The safe and responsible treatment of commercial and residential waste in Newbury by Hills Waste Solutions helps to safeguard public health, the environment, and the city’s valuable natural resources. We are honoured to be a dedicated waste management service provider working in the area to offer dependable and sustainable services that support local businesses.
To provide these services in the Newbury area, our fleet of modern waste collection vehicles transport the waste to one of our facilities where bulky waste, general waste and recyclable materials are processed for onward treatment. Mixed dry recyclables are bulked up and transferred to a materials recycling facility (MRF) where the materials are processed further for recycling. Some non-recyclable waste also goes to a mechanical and biological treatment (MBT) centre to be turned into fuel.
Offering Newbury businesses total peace of mind
Do you have zero-waste targets? Want to contribute to the creation of the circular economy? With Hills Waste Solutions you’re in good hands. We’re experts in helping business customers across the public and private sectors in Newbury to achieve their sustainability targets. We collect and dispose of most types of waste, recycling as much as possible. We’re also conscious of our own environmental footprint, continually working to ensure we minimise our impact. Read more about our approach to sustainability here.
On top of our environmental expertise that provides confidence to the businesses we work with, we also take matters related to both compliance and health and safety extremely seriously, working to keep our employees, customers, communities and environments safe. Find out more about our compliance policies here.
Efficient commercial waste removal services in Newbury
Hills Waste offers flexible and reliable collection services for all types of commercial and industrial waste in Newbury. We collect a wide range of waste types including general waste, food waste and glass, as well as wood, metal and hazardous waste. Whether your business operates within construction, retail hospitality or within the education sector, we can help.
Here are some of the most common types of waste collection services we offer in Newbury: