Commercial Waste Management in London
Reliable business waste collection for offices, shops, cafes, salons, landlords and small building firms. Book a one-off commercial clearance when you need to clear space fast, or set up ongoing scheduled collections — weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Written collection records and duty-of-care paperwork included as standard, with no long lock-in contract.
One-off collections from £95 • scheduled collections tailored to your volume • out-of-hours & weekend slots
How it works
Tell us your waste & frequency
Call, email or WhatsApp a photo. Tell us what your business produces and whether you need a one-off clearance or regular pickups.
We quote a schedule or price
You get a fixed one-off price by the load, or a tailored quote for weekly, fortnightly or monthly collections — with no long lock-in.
We collect, document & recycle
Our crew loads it all, issues your waste transfer note, and takes it to licensed sites — recycling as much as possible.
Why businesses choose us
Documented every time
We issue a written record and duty-of-care paperwork on every collection, so your files stay in order.
Flexible scheduling
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly collections tailored to how much waste you actually produce — and no long lock-in contract.
Out-of-hours slots
Early mornings, evenings and weekends are all possible, so a collection or strip-out never interrupts your trading.
Recycling-first
We sort loads and take cardboard, timber, metal and reusable items to licensed recycling facilities so as little as possible goes to landfill.
Commercial waste collection prices
Choose a one-off collection priced by the load, or set up an ongoing schedule quoted to your exact volume and frequency. Either way, waste transfer notes and duty-of-care paperwork are included as standard.
One-off collection
A minimum charge for quick pickups, then priced by the load for larger clearances:
- Quarter van£195
- Half van£320
- Full van£495
Ongoing scheduled collections
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly pickups, quoted to your exact volume and frequency. No fixed package and no long lock-in — you only pay for the waste you actually produce.
Call or WhatsApp with a rough idea of your bags, bins or volume per collection and we will build a schedule and price around it.
Waste transfer notes and duty-of-care paperwork included as standard.
One-off tiers shown for a Luton van. Congestion Charge (£18) applies only where a job is inside the central zone. See our full price list for smaller loads and single items. Final price confirmed on the day or from your photos — no hidden fees.
Business waste is not the same as household waste in the eyes of the law. If your premises generate rubbish through trading — a shop, an office, a cafe, a salon or a building job — you have a legal duty of care to store it safely and hand it only to a licensed carrier who can show where it went. That means you cannot legally put commercial waste out in a household bin, and if it is ever questioned you need to produce a waste transfer note proving it was disposed of correctly. Van Thats Quick handles all of that for you: we collect your commercial waste, issue the transfer note, and keep the paperwork side of duty of care simple.
The service suits a wide range of London businesses. Offices clearing out old desks, chairs, IT and archive boxes; retail units changing a fit-out or clearing packaging and stock; hospitality venues such as cafes and restaurants dealing with cardboard, crates and end-of-day waste; salons and small studios; trades and small building firms with timber, plasterboard and light rubble; and landlords or letting agents clearing a property between tenancies. Whether you need a single visit or a standing arrangement, we work around your opening hours with out-of-hours and weekend slots so trading never has to stop for a collection.
You choose how you use us. A one-off collection is ideal for a strip-out, an office move, a refit or a landlord void — we turn up, load everything by hand, and clear it in a single visit with no skip and no permit. An ongoing scheduled collection makes more sense when waste builds up steadily; we agree a weekly, fortnightly or monthly slot, quote it to your real volume, and keep it flexible with no long lock-in. If your business also produces heavier construction material, our builders' waste removal service handles rubble and site waste, our office clearance service covers full commercial strip-outs, and for everyday mixed loads our rubbish removal service is the fast on-demand option.
Commercial waste — your questions answered
Do you offer regular scheduled collections?
Yes. We run weekly, fortnightly and monthly collections for businesses across London, quoted to your actual volume and frequency. There is no long lock-in contract — if your needs change, so does the schedule. Tell us roughly how much waste you produce per pickup and we will build a plan around it.
Do you provide collection paperwork?
Yes. We issue written collection records and duty-of-care paperwork as standard on every commercial collection, showing what was taken and where it went, so you have a record for your files.
How much is a one-off business clearance?
One-off collections start from £95 as a minimum charge, then price by the load: a quarter van is £195, a half van £320 and a full Luton van £495. Send a photo on WhatsApp for a fixed quote before we arrive, with the waste transfer note included.
What types of business do you serve?
Offices, shops and retail units, cafes and restaurants, salons and studios, trades and small building firms, and landlords or letting agents clearing between tenancies. If your premises produce non-hazardous commercial waste, we can almost certainly collect it — as a one-off or on a regular schedule.
Areas We Serve
Serving businesses across every London borough and our Home Counties areas.
What the price includes — and what it doesn't
The most common complaint about clearance companies is a price that grows once the van is loaded. So here is the whole of ours, before you book, including the parts that cost extra.
Included in the price we quote
No line of this is billed separately afterwards.
- Labour — the crew, the carrying and the loading.
- The van, the fuel, ULEZ and the congestion charge — London charges are ours, not yours.
- Disposal and recycling of the load — the tipping cost is inside the price.
- Access from anywhere on the property — any room, up or down stairs, or out of the garden.
- VAT — the price you are shown is the price you pay.
- Waste transfer paperwork for your load, on request — so your duty of care is documented.
Priced separately, or not carried at all
Told to you up front, never discovered on the invoice.
- Upholstered seating and mattresses carry their own disposal fee, because the law forces them down a more expensive route than the rest of your load. The amount is on our pricing page before you book.
- Hazardous items — paint, chemicals, asbestos, tyres and gas bottles cannot travel in a general load and need a specialist route. We will tell you which one.
- Fridges, freezers and electricals have a separate WEEE route — flag them when you book so we arrive with the right van.
- Anything flammable, explosive, illegal, or alive — we cannot carry it, and we will say so before the day.
If there turns out to be more than we quoted for, you hear the new price before anything goes in the van — not once it is loaded, and not on the invoice. The same goes for access: tell us when you book if your street is permit-only or on a red route, or if the job is above the third floor with no lift, and we plan for it instead of pricing round it on the day.
What happens to your waste after we drive away
Most clearance companies stop this story at the word "recycled". Here is the actual route your load takes, including the part of it that nobody advertises.
It goes in by hand
Everything is carried out and loaded by the crew — from the room, the garden or the kerbside. What is in the load matters, because what is in it decides where it is legally allowed to go.
Sorted, not buried
The load goes to a licensed transfer station or recycling centre, where it is separated by material. It is not tipped straight into a hole in the ground.
Recovered by material
Metal, wood, cardboard, textiles and electricals are pulled out for recycling or recovery. Green waste is composted.
The bit nobody advertises
Upholstered furniture cannot be recycled at all. Since January 2023 the Environment Agency presumes every domestic sofa, armchair and padded dining chair contains persistent organic pollutants, so it must be kept apart from other waste and incinerated — never landfilled, never shredded for reuse. That law, not a markup, is why soft seating carries its own fee. Whatever is genuinely left after sorting goes to energy recovery.
- Metal
- Wood
- Cardboard & paper
- Textiles
- Electricals (WEEE)
- Green waste
We do not publish a recycling percentage. You will see "90% diverted from landfill" on a lot of clearance websites. The sorting happens at the transfer station, after our van has left, and we are not going to take credit for a figure we cannot evidence. What we can give you is the route your load takes and the paperwork for it — and if you want to check who handles it, ask us to identify the registered carrier for your collection and verify them on the Environment Agency public register before we load.
Proof, not adjectives
Anyone can type "trusted" and "reliable" onto a website. These are the things about us you can actually check.
We are a small London crew, not a national booking platform, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: we have 27 five-star reviews on Google and 3 on Yell. That is all of them. Every one is public, unedited and one tap away — which is worth rather more than a five-figure review count you have no way of reading.
Harlesden NW10Kerbside clearance, done the same dayBagged household waste, flattened cardboard and moulded packaging cleared off the pavement outside a terraced property — no skip, no permit, no waiting.Read the job →
Ealing W5A garden full of tree cuttingsPalm and cordyline cuttings and branches stacked along the pavement, loaded by hand and taken away for composting and recycling.Read the job →Set up your business waste collection
Book a one-off clearance or a flexible recurring schedule. Written collection records included, out-of-hours slots across every London borough.