Commerical waste collection

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1. How many registered businesses are there within your LA?
2. How many of those business are classified as SMEs (Small and medium enterprises)?
3. Do you provide commercial waste/recycling collection services to businesses in your LA and if not why not?
4. Do you operate commercial waste/recycling collections under a commercial contract with terms and conditions that are individually negotiated with businesses (commercial waste producers)?
5. Please provide a blank example copy of your contract, including any terms and conditions of commercial service supply?
6. Does this contract typically involve a minimum term? If yes, please state the typical minimum term, e.g.12 months?
7. What is the total number of businesses in your LA to which you currently supply a commercial waste or recycling services to?
8. Do you provide a waste/recycling service to any business outside of your LA, and if so, to what additional LA area do you supply these services into?
9. For each additional LA area such service are supplied into, as identified in Q5, then if applicable, please state how many business in those areas your supply?
10. Do you make a profit margin/surplus on commercial waste collections and if so, what is that profit margin?
11. Do you have staff/officers employed (either in whole or part) in a commercial waste sales capacity, in the course of their duties? If yes, then please also supply the number of employees and job titles, as well as the details of any other duties they perform, e.g. enforcement.
12. Please provide the percentage (or a genuine estimate of the percentage) of commercial waste customers that require you to collect commercial waste, on their understanding that, they simply cannot obtain this same service from any other service provided in the area?

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Brighton and Hove City Council

1. How many registered businesses are there within your LA?
We have 9728 separate business rates

2. How many of those business are classified as SMEs (Small and medium enterprises)? N/A

3. Do you provide commercial waste/recycling collection services to businesses in your LA and if not why not? No – we are currently planning to set up a commercial waste collection service.

4. Do you operate commercial waste/recycling collections under a commercial contract with terms and conditions that are individually negotiated with businesses (commercial waste producers)?
No

5. Please provide a blank example copy of your contract, including any terms and conditions of commercial service supply?N/A

6. Does this contract typically involve a minimum term? If yes, please state the typical minimum term, e.g.12 months? N/A

7. What is the total number of businesses in your LA to which you currently supply a commercial waste or recycling services to? N/A

8. Do you provide a waste/recycling service to any business outside of your LA, and if so, to what additional LA area do you supply these services into?
No

9. For each additional LA area such service are supplied into, as identified in Q5, then if applicable, please state how many business in those areas your supply?
N/A

10. Do you make a profit margin/surplus on commercial waste collections and if so, what is that profit margin?
N/A

11. Do you have staff/officers employed (either in whole or part) in a commercial waste sales capacity, in the course of their duties? If yes, then please also supply the number of employees and job titles, as well as the details of any other duties they perform, e.g. enforcement.
N/A

12. Please provide the percentage (or a genuine estimate of the percentage) of commercial waste customers that require you to collect commercial waste, on their understanding that, they simply cannot obtain this same service from any other service provided in the area?”
N/A

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