Licensed clinical waste collection for Berkshire businesses in Reading, Slough and beyond, with compliant treatment and complete compliance paperwork.
Licensed clinical waste collection for businesses, with full Duty of Care paperwork on every collection.
Berkshire's healthcare runs along the M4 corridor. In the west, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. In the east, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust operates Wexham Park Hospital near Slough and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot. Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides community and mental health services across the county.
Since April 2026, the county's NHS planning has sat with NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board, which brought east and west Berkshire together under one board. Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne adds a specialist secure hospital to the local picture.
Berkshire is also a science and business county. The University of Reading runs a School of Pharmacy, and its Thames Valley Science Park at Shinfield hosts research companies. Slough Trading Estate is home to a large mix of firms, some with laboratory or occupational health needs. Add busy GP, dental, care home and aesthetics sectors, and the county produces a wide range of clinical waste.
Mixed producers need clear rules. Berkshire businesses must segregate waste using HTM 07-01 colour codes, and we match each stream to compliant treatment and provide the consignment notes that prove their Duty of Care.
From sharps in a single treatment room to infectious, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical waste across a multi-site estate, every stream is collected compliantly and backed by the right paperwork.
One accountable partner for clinical, hazardous and specialist waste, backed by more than 25 years of regulated waste experience.
Collections for clinics, practices, care providers, labs and workplaces. We never collect from households.
Sharps, infectious, offensive, cytotoxic, pharmaceutical, anatomical, dental and laboratory waste, collected under one arrangement.
Hazardous waste consignment notes and Duty of Care records for every collection, ready for inspection.
Independently verified to meet high standards of social and environmental performance.
Tell us what you produce, how it is stored and where your sites are. We will confirm the right streams, collection routes and paperwork.
Clinical waste producers across Berkshire include clinical practices, care providers and science-led businesses. These are the sectors we support most.
Firms at the Thames Valley Science Park, on Slough Trading Estate and in Reading business parks produce laboratory waste, expired medicines and contaminated sharps. We agree waste codes with your team so each stream reaches the right treatment route.
Primary care across Reading, Slough, Bracknell and Newbury produces sharps, amalgam, infectious waste and offensive hygiene waste. We set collection frequency for each surgery and record every collection with the right consignment note.
Care and nursing homes across the east of the county handle residents' medicines, sharps and continence waste. We collect from the colour-coded containers your staff fill and keep tidy records for inspections.
Berkshire's large employers often run in-house occupational health, vaccination or first aid rooms. Those sites produce small but regular volumes of sharps and infectious waste that still need licensed collection and full documentation.
A simple setup with compliance built in from the first collection.
Share your waste streams, rough volumes and site details so we can match each stream to the right collection and treatment route.
Keep each stream in its own compliant, correctly labelled container in a secure storage area, ready for collection.
Collections are planned around your site, access and volumes, from a single practice to a multi-site estate.
Every collection comes with a hazardous waste consignment note and the records you need to show Duty of Care.
We serve businesses across the RG and SL postcode areas, from West Berkshire to the Buckinghamshire border, including:
Working near the county boundary? Call 0800 804 8612 and we will confirm the collection options for your site.
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Decades of hands-on waste management expertise across regulated services.
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Services designed around UK regulations, documentation, and Duty of Care.
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Every Berkshire organisation that generates clinical or healthcare waste must arrange a licensed collection. That includes GP and dental practices in Reading and Slough, care homes, pharmacies, vets, aesthetics clinics, occupational health rooms and research labs at sites such as the Thames Valley Science Park. The Duty of Care applies whatever your volume.
Follow the HTM 07-01 colour codes. Use yellow for infectious waste that must be incinerated and orange for infectious waste suitable for alternative treatment. Offensive hygiene waste goes in yellow and black. Purple lids take cytotoxic medicines, blue lids take other medicines, red holds anatomical waste and white holds dental amalgam. Clear labels at each bin help staff get it right.
Each hazardous collection needs its own hazardous waste consignment note, and non-hazardous streams need a waste transfer note. Store consignment notes for three years or more. They prove you met your Duty of Care. We issue the right documents with every collection, so your records are ready for an inspection.
Yes. We support laboratories and research businesses in Reading, Shinfield and Slough with collections of laboratory waste, cultures, contaminated plastics, sharps and out-of-date medicines. We review your waste codes at set-up and agree a collection plan for each stream, so everything goes to the correct treatment route.
We agree a regular collection pattern with you, set by your volumes and the storage space on site. Your site should have its own colour-coded containers that meet HTM 07-01, each correctly labelled, and a secure storage area. We provide licensed collection and keep your consignment notes and Duty of Care records in order. If you open a new site or add a service, we review the plan with you.
No. This service covers business clinical waste only. Residents should contact their local council for household clinical waste, for example Reading Borough Council, Slough Borough Council or Wokingham Borough Council. A GP or pharmacist can also explain how to dispose of sharps used at home.
Set up compliant clinical waste collection for your Berkshire practice, care home or lab. Call 0800 804 8612 today.
