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2025 Landfill Tax Increase

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How will Landfill Tax affect Business Waste Management in 2025?

In 2025, landfill tax will increase by over 20% which is a significant surge compared with previous years and will affect businesses of all kinds across the UK. This article identifies the 2025 increase in landfill tax and how this will affect your business.

Part of the new Simpler Recycling legislation and designed to reduce the volume of waste entering landfill sites across the UK, Landfill Tax is an environmental tax levied on the disposal of both household and commercial waste in UK landfills. It was introduced to encourage waste reduction, recycling, and responsible waste management practices.

How much is Landfill Tax Increasing by, in 2025?

  • Lower rate - less polluting waste such as construction and demolition waste, including concrete, bricks and soil.

  • Standard rate - most household and business waste

The government plans to increase the standard rate of landfill tax from £103.70 to £126.15 per tonne and the lower rate from £3.30 to £4.05 per tonne.

What is the Purpose of Landfill Tax?

The main purpose of landfill tax is to reduce the volume of waste entering landfills. By imposing a financial burden to businesses disposing of general waste, recycling becomes a cheaper waste management solution which can shift behaviours and practices towards more sustainable waste management. This legislation is influenced by the waste management hierarchy which has 6 steps - prevent, reduce, reuse, recycle, recover and if all else fails - dispose. The 2025 landfill tax increase is just one part of a series of changes to business waste legislation working towards a cleaner and greener future.

2025 Landfill Tax Increase | J&B Recycling
J&B Recycling offers end-to-end waste management solutions. Our focus is maximising recycling and minimising waste to landfill. In the majority of cases we offer a "Zero Waste to Landfill" solution.

How much Landfill Tax will I be charged?

Your charges for landfill tax are integrated into your business waste management costs and will be charged by the operator handling your business waste. The fees are calculated by the types of waste your business generates, the size of the bin(s) at your business premises and the frequency of waste collection. As we move through 2025, the more waste you generate, and in particular the less you recycle, the more landfill tax you will have to pay.

How Can I Reduce Landfill Tax Costs?

One way to keep Landfill Tax costs to your business to a minimum is by working towards reducing the volume of general waste your business is producing. J&B Recycling can conduct a waste audit for your business to identify areas for improvement to reduce waste, improve recycling, save money on waste management, become more sustainable and meet corporate recycling targets.

Office workers discussing how they can reduce business waste

LANDFILL TAX 2025

Preventing Business Waste

You can help prevent business waste by avoiding products with excessive packaging, discouraging single-use plastics, reusing cardboard boxes, reducing office printing and repairing your electronics instead of discarding them.

Simpler Recycling 2025 legalisation includes the requirement to segregate business waste

LANDFILL TAX 2025

Reducing Business Waste

You should then minimise unavoidable waste. Practical steps you can take, which will become a requirement for business in 2025 in line with the Simpler Recycling legislation, are to start segregating your refuse into food waste, general waste and dry and mixed recyclables. Other changes like enforcing double sided printing, going paperless, providing reusable coffee cups and water bottles and refillable containers can also help.

No matter what type of waste you have, J&B Recycling is your trusted partner for responsible waste management. Whether you need to dispose of dry mixed recycling, general waste, glass, food waste, or hazardous waste, we offer end to end waste management solutions for your business. Our comprehensive bin selection ensures that we have the right container for whatever waste you need to manage. With our regular collection schedules, you can efficiently and effectively take care of your waste disposal needs.

Contact us to find out how we can assist with your business waste management.

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