Business Collections - Mull & Iona Environmentally Sensitive Solutions

Business Recycling Collections

Cans and plastic recycling collection for businesses.

We offer a pay as you go recycling service to business’s on Mull. This scheme operates with the support of Argyll and Bute Council. Where a business reduces either the number or size of their general bin, or the frequency of uplift, they may be able to reduce their overall waste disposal charges.

Recycle Bins Distributed

All businesses, including holiday home providers, are legally obliged to recycle.

We can collect fortnightly throughout the island and can offer weekly or fortnightly collection in Tobermory. Our collection service is flexible and we can arrange frequency of your collection to fit your needs. If you don’t need a collection during the quieter winter months we can suspend collections to offer a more seasonal service and you get billed quarterly only for collections done.

We provide 240L bins for this service. Previously we provided bins for cans and another for plastic but now cans and plastics can be mixed in the same bin.

Costs are £3 per bin collection. Reduction for charities.

Some plastics such as polystyrene are very difficult to recycle due to the dangerous and volatile chemicals they release.

Nearly 23 tonnes plastic, 202 tonnes card/paper, 108 tonnes of glass and 18 tonnes of cans were sent away on Mull and Iona last year.

Last year in the UK we recycled around 3.5 billion aliminium cans - that is enough to stretch around the entire world 10 times.

Less in landfill and more recycling equals more money and resources for other amenities on Mull.

Every piece of plastic ever created still exists somewhere on the planet today. It's belived to take a minimum of 500 years to decompose.

If cans and/or plastics aren't rinsed out before going to recycle the whole batch can be contaminted and rejected, costing money and wasting everyone's time.

Estimates suggest only 30% of waste is recycled in Mull and Iona.

At least 5 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the oceans each year. By 2050 there will be a greater weight of plastic than fish, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.