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Waste Management Audit

A Waste Management Audit is a comprehensive inspection designed to assess how your organisation handles, stores, and disposes of waste in line with environmental regulations and best practices. Completing a waste management audit demonstrates your business’s commitment to sustainability, legal compliance, and proactive risk management – trusted by clients, partners, and regulators across all sectors. With effective waste management, you reduce environmental impact, avoid costly penalties, and build a reputation for responsibility and operational excellence. Compliancy Group guides you through every step – making waste management compliance clear, practical, and a genuine business advantage.

Why Choose Compliancy Group?

We understand the complexities of waste regulations and sustainable business practices. Our team brings hands-on experience with waste audits, environmental compliance, and sector-specific requirements.

No one-size-fits-all here. Whether you need an initial audit, policy development, ongoing monitoring, or compliance advice, our services are fully customised to your operations. We offer flexible support packages—from essential guidance to comprehensive on-site consultancy.

We work exclusively with UKAS-accredited certification bodies and maintain a 100% pass rate for compliance assessments. Our clients trust us to deliver results that stand up to audit and regulatory scrutiny—helping you achieve, maintain, and leverage waste management compliance for business growth.

Compliance shouldn’t slow you down. We help you build more sustainable operations, reduce risk, and improve efficiency—so you can focus on your core business.

You’ll work directly with our expert team, including leadership involvement from our CEO. We pride ourselves on responsive communication, clear guidance, and ongoing support throughout your compliance journey.

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Waste Management Audit Benefits for Your Business

Demonstrate compliance to secure contracts and meet stakeholder expectations.

Show your commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability.

Minimise the risk of non-compliance, fines, and reputational damage.

Enhance your standing as a responsible and trusted organisation.

Regular audits and compliance checks foster a culture of ongoing sustainability and operational excellence.

Unlock New Opportunities

Boost Credibility

Strengthen Reputation

Strengthen Reputation

Drive Continuous Improvement

Benefits of Compliancy Group Services

From initial audit to ongoing support, our team ensures you’re always prepared and confident.

We streamline compliance processes, freeing up your team to focus on core business activities.

Services are tailored to your specific business needs, not generic templates.

Ongoing support, training, and regulatory updates keep your business compliant long after inspection.

Our 100% compliance pass rate and exclusive partnerships with UKAS-accredited bodies mean you’re in safe hands.

Expert Guidance at Every Step

Time & Resource Savings

Customised Solutions

Relevant Certifications & Accreditations

FAQ's - Waste Management Audit

But by understanding what waste is produced and where, your organisation will be better equipped to handle and reduce waste, saving you money and helping your company become more sustainable. That's where a waste audit can help. A waste audit is a systematic review of all waste that is generated within a workplace.
The frequency of pre-acceptance waste audits varies based on the type of waste producer and how much healthcare waste they generate each year. In UK, large healthcare waste producers need to complete audits every year.
All businesses must identify hazardous waste and ensure that it is stored appropriately separately from other types of waste and that it is handled and collected by specialist registered waste carriers. Failure to comply with these regulations may result in prosecution and fines.
This duty of care requires waste producers, carriers, and handlers to take all reasonable steps to ensure that waste is managed properly to prevent harm to the environment and human health.
The benefits of completing a waste audit will vary depending on your company goals, but some benefits include: Gathering specific data for waste reporting. Evaluating the effectiveness of the system already in place. Finding ways to save money on waste costs.
Pre-acceptance audits itemise the waste generated at a location and detail how it is segregated to ensure appropriate disposal methods, recycling procedures, and treatment options.
Simpler Recycling 2025 legislation (England) Discover how the new Simpler Recycling legislation, effective 31st March 2025, will transform recycling in England by standardising the collection of waste, and introducing separate collections for recyclable material.
Local authorities as Waste Collection Authorities (WCAs) are responsible for arranging the collection of household and commercial waste in their area. Household waste from domestic properties is collected free of charge with the exception of certain items.
Professional waste auditors can assess all the trash your company produces and whether the people handling it are doing so effectively. Waste auditors can also help company owners better understand their own waste management systems by taking them through current waste disposal methods.
Importance of Auditing It is to ensure that financial information is represented fairly and accurately. Also, audits are performed to ensure that financial statements are prepared in accordance with the relevant accounting standards.